'A Case of Immunity' in 13 Minutes | Columbo

Columbo clashes with a suave Middle Eastern diplomat while on a murder case.
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Season 05, Episode 03, A Case of Immunity,
The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder, but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.
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[@MrSamuelArthurRobertAllen]

Yep this was one of his best ones. The part were he hid behind diplomatic immunity then asked Columbo for his mercy as a prisoner. Classic columbo

[@unclephil3902]

Just been revoked "headshot"

[@42luke93]

I like this episode a lot because every ending is usually always the same, but this one has a sharp twist, and I loved it!

[@benjamin8459]

Imagine Colombo being alive after this, amazing.

[@doug6259]

This killer is a real piece of work. I like how his bravado backfires in the end though and Columbo just happens to have a confession handy.

[@RTG1031]

Very Blue Peter

[@curiouswind9196]

Arabs be like

[@jmaxxtv9912]

One thing I've learned in all the years I've watched this show is that, if you're a murderer, contact lenses are nothing but trouble. Great episode! 👍

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

Ah yes. Columbo used them to nab Robert Culp in the episode where he killed his client's wife. 😉

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

60's and 70's is when a larger portion of the population were trying them. Heck, we were just getting away from smoking in bed and used to having seatbelts.

[@Mr101beers]

Any type of corrective eye wear seems to become evidence. Contacts, not wearing contacts, Glasses, Wrong Glasses or even just returning a pair of glasses can lead to murder.

[@shabbysuzannah3702]

I can watch Columbo over and over - I just loved him 🇬🇧

[@donarthiazi2443]

Absolutely my British cousin. Watching Columbo shuffle around and annoy people til they're ready to scream NEVER gets old. And I really liked the episode where he traveled to London and solved a case there.

[@TheWriterWalker]

I ordered the box set. Gave me heavenly hours of delight over the course of a few months.

[@user-cw5vz8el6f]

Хочу українською мовою.

[@redcloudlight2071]

Me too lol I can watch him all day..even the same episode.😅

[@arthurlevine1840]

Good lord - poor Sal Mineo, this 1975 episode was practically a dress rehearsal for the actual mugging that ended his young life the very next year in 1976, stabbed through the heart in the parking alley behind his apartment after exiting his car.

[@maciejguzek3442]

killer got minimum 51 years in jail, but got out after 12

[@arthurlevine1840]

@@maciejguzek3442 Disgusting. At that rate, under the right circumstances kinda makes it worthwhile to go ahead and do the killing.

[@silentwitness4843]

Oh no. Terrible.

[@cityguard4847]

@@maciejguzek344251 and gets out in 12? The law has failed

[@jynxed66six54]

@@cityguard4847 its called parole, it means that professionals judged him ready to return to society. despite what psychos like you might think, the point of prison is to get criminals out, not keep them in.

[@bobuncle8704]

I never fail to get a great laugh at the ending. One of the best of the whole series

[@davidalexander3320]

When you watch this episode keep an eye out for Jeff Goldblum at the start of his career in the group of protesters

[@logicalchaos9008]

This episode got me hooked on Columbo for life.

[@gedstrom]

Lesson: When you have gotten away with something, don't brag about it to ANYONE!

[@MustangMike012]

Great ending. They set him up perfectly. He was a scared man.

[@artmallory970]

Not surprising, in his country they will lop his head off...

[@MIKIEEYEZ1975]

Peter Falk was one hell of an Actor!! One of the very best for 40+ years!!!

[@joannelivingstone6656]

I love watching Columbo even as a child and because of this TV series I actually solved a reallife crime involving robbery a few years ago. I love watching him to this day and I have just resently bought the entire 10 Season DVD box set so I can watch it whenever I want.

[@ARmirzaful]

This series is amazing...but more amazing when you can apply it. Congratulations on solving the case!

[@freeroamflock]

How did you solve it?

[@jimr880]

I never get tired of watching Columbo. Of course, if someone can find a stash of "lost episodes" (hopefully vintage 1970s) it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

[@ObsidianHunter99]

Loved that Columbo got to roleplay as James Bond in this episode for a little bit

[@bernhardwall6876]

For a brief period of time, I lived in Ottawa, Canada's national Capital. I found a number of embassies while I saw there: Sweden, the Czech Republic, a Middle-Eastern country which I don't quite remember, and of course the United States (which was just across from Parliament Hill, so that was no great challenge). In 1997, I was there on Canada Day, sitting on the Parliament Hill lawn while watching the CBC's annual Canada Day special. As I looked across the street, I could see people from the embassy enjoying the show. I wish I could have been able to spend some time in some of those embassies.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

He had the confession document ready to be signed. 😂

[@jagjitsinghmanku2283]

😂 Not just one copy but 3 !!!!

[@williamboyle3268]

Best show ever made period...

[@christopherkraft1327]

This was a great episode from 1975!!! I still enjoy it today!!! 👍👍

[@evangelinereyes7030]

No one can replace colombo. Greatest of all time.

[@EricNTammy304]

This is one of my favorite "fever dream episodes" from the 70s, like "Mind Over Mayhem," where it's so contrived it's comical.

[@f0urstr1ng]

This is one of the truly class episodes that makes you sit through the lesser quality ones without any grudge

[@onemorething123]

This wasn't my favorite episode, but it was nice seeing Peter Falk in a tuxedo 😊

[@sirrom5155]

the best part of this episode is the authentic accents by the actors who you could tell clearly spent a long time in Suaria

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

😂 Is that near Wakanda?

[@FrostSylph]

@@GillAgainsIsland12 nah it's on the coast a little north of thymiscera and east of Atlantis.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

@@FrostSylph Ok, thanks. Never was too good with geography. Especially the mythical variety.

[@jagjitsinghmanku2283]

😂😂😂

[@Mirpuria]

Suaria... Ahhh yes the tiny emirate near the north pole.

[@feraounepatrice3826]

Peter Falk was a great actor

[@sorrenable]

Excellent episode 👍💯☺️

[@kallas4099]

Amo demais esta série

[@mkassis713]

Tambem adoro !!!

[@Sergio54321]

Such a good episode!

[@mangs856]

Love these episode recaps!

[@mkassis713]

I really like this episode , thanks for posting.

[@huckdz8582]

.بلغة.للفرنسية

[@jrussellcase]

Is that Hector Elizondo? I'm too lazy to go look it up. 😄

[@mkassis713]

Yes, it is !!!

[@timgraysontv]

I used to play basketball with him

[@Alienmojo]

I love this episode more and more each time I see it. :)

[@art.demirjian9721]

Colombo detective movies are like classical music to my ears...:

[@SteveSmith-os5bs]

This was my favorite episode in the whole series.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Why are you putting clips on that I've already seen dozens of times? Oh, it's because I watch them every time.

[@HAn-ie2zp]

Such a great episode

[@darkone666]

Love this episode

[@lisawilliams2013]

Not a fave of mine, though I love Hector Elizondo. I think Sal Mineo was in this too? Completely unrelated, but Columbo cleaned up nicely, didn’t he??? (In tuxedos, that is! ❤)

[@ZumbaMarx]

Sal Mineo did indeed play Habib

[@SciTrekMan]

Yes, Sal Mineo was in this episode; his character (Rachman Habib) was also murdered by the protagonist. Ironically, he was murdered exactly four months to the day after this episode originally aired.

[@rrickarr]

Columbo in a tuxedo!

[@master-kq3nw]

Super episode

[@FCN933]

11:01 I see a smirk like Al Capone with his fat lips around a nice soothing cigar :)

[@clhound]

End the end he preferred America justice over the cold kiss of a bone saw.

[@naheedafshan4508]

Best episode and acting 👌 👏

[@asullivan4047]

Entertaining viewing the special guest stars 😊

[@julianp2868]

You just gotta love this guy

[@misterholmes221]

What is scary is the fear he had of his own government. It must be terrible. So much so he rather on the spot, admit it. Just so the US will handle him. Crazy.

[@giogio51592]

i mean, it's either serving time in an american prison for murder, or, probably, most likely, getting beheaded back home for conspiracy against the state

[@f1b0nacc1sequence7]

@@giogio51592 Given that the murder was committed as part of a broader conspiracy against his own government, I suspect that he would not be so fortunate to get a beheading if they (his own government) decided to deal with him.

[@juerv1]

Every time Columbo pulls out the confession in triplicate in this episode, I fall off my chair. :)

[@gregrambo606]

The basic Columbo technique was always fun to watch: Columbo pesters the hell out of you until you lose your cool. It was satisfying to see a smug, smarmy murderer like Elizondo get his comeuppance in this episode.

[@evanflowforever6615]

Columbo reminds us that intelligence is found more in a question than a statement. Shhhhhhhh

[@paperclip9558]

"diplomatic immunity" "It's just been revoked" Gotcha

[@stevengalloway8052]

"Diplomatic Immunity," huh? Well, its just been revoked by Columbo! 😆

[@antonioszytulskyj8165]

Hector Elizondo, hotel manager in "pretty woman"

[@user-co1ex9yn3m]

このドラマも最後の終わり方が絶妙でしたね。

[@joeybaggs4059]

Jeff Goldblum's first appearance. He's one of the protesters. Two scenes.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

Wow. Good observation. I hadn't noticed that before. To return the favor, maybe you weren't aware that a very young Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in the Columbo episode The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case. And her mother Janet Lee Curtis starred in another.

[@joeybaggs4059]

I am a disabled Marine. Fortunately, I have a lot of time to view one of my favorite actors Mr.Peter Falk. (rip) I've watched the episode you kindly mention more than the avg fan. (IMHO) I have every Columbo file except for two episodes. Jeanette Helen Morrison is known professionally as Janet Leigh. As you said. "A very young Jamie Lee Curtis," Forgotten Lady is one of the two I never enjoyed watching, and the only episode the murderer gets away with whacking her husband. I will admit the ending was sad; the reality is so many loved ones perish from a disease like Alzheimer's, or Peter Falk, who died from Dementia. This episode is the worst IMO..."Last Salute to the Commodore" was a boat with intoxicating scenes of a woman screaming and screaming every time they film her drinking. Her acting was outstanding if you can understand her screams.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

@@joeybaggs4059 Totally agree sir. And thank you for your service. “Last Salute to the Commodore” was disappointing. It did have an unexpected twist though. When I first saw it, it seemed almost certain that Robert Vaughan was the murderer, as he was in a previous episode. It was the only episode where the killer wasn’t revealed until the very end. And even that was a surprise. If I’m not mistaken, that actor appeared in several other Columbo episodes in various minor and supporting roles. And the commodore also appeared in a previous episode as the aviation crash inspector in “Swan Song”.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

Oh, I take that back. We also didn’t know for sure who the killer was until the end in the episode with Martin Landau, who also played his twin brother.

[@TairnKA]

One of my favorite endings.

[@johnfinnegan8474]

I see a problem here. The murder was committed inside the Suarian embassy which is considered Suarian soil. Therefore couldn't the US justice department say to the King, as the murder was committed inside your embassy by your first secretary to another Suarian citizen, you deal with it. Its not our problem. He didn't kill a US citizen.

[@user-pg3hs1wb6j]

The second murder (Rahman Khabib) was outside the embassy, so he can be persecuted for it.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

@@user-pg3hs1wb6j PROSECUTED...

[@cityguard4847]

Well, the second murder was in US soil. But I don’t think he cared too much. He would sooner beg and plead for an American punishment than one waiting at home.

[@martinfinn1550]

This episode reminds me a bit like one of the 90's episode where the killer could either surrender to Columbo, or the mob Boss would hunt him down for killing his brother I think it was. He had a choice, surrender to Columbo and US justice, and if he decided to repudiate the confession he just signed, the King of Suaria who appointed him as ambassador to the US could recall him back to Suaria where he would face Suarian justice.

[@shirleypatten6212]

George Wendt, Strange Bedfellows.

[@SciTrekMan]

NORM!!

[@josephineclay235]

Help ! 😂 columbo! 😢 help !

[@bornyesterday21]

It's hard to believe Habib's glasses stayed on his face.

[@curtzeek8818]

This is from season 5 but it is episode 2.

[@djdon60]

loves Hector Elizondo, in this. Glad, they didn't cast Gino Conforti.😀

[@bradleyparker5823]

Funny stepping on his towel oopsis sorry

[@patrickjohnson5658]

I considered this as just a fair episode in the original 70's Columbo episodes. Not the worst episode but definitely not anywhere near the best either. As soon as I heard the name Sal Mineo I remembered he was one of the intelligent apes called Dr Milo who escaped earth's nuclear destruction in the 2nd planet of the apes movie, and travelled back in time to 1970's Los Angeles, where the roles are reversed and humans are the masters, and apes the animals who can't speak.

[@thinkforyourself2109]

Columbo was the closer before the tv show The Closer. He tricks them into a confession.

[@nymalous3428]

Is that Hector Elizondo?

[@vf4111]

Cold coffee??

[@garywebster3585]

You can't really appreciate this episode unless you speak Hollywood Arabic and listen from right to left.

[@pauldavies5611]

Suarian justice. I wonder if they prong out your eyes, or something like that.

[@silentwitness4843]

Not funny.....

[@josephineclay235]

A case of immunity

[@rosario508]

I heard it said that Peter Falk hates this episode. Can anyone speak to that?

[@armondtanz]

Wow i was literally gonna type 'the cheesiest episode ever' . The thumbs up at the end from the kid in military costume who supposed to be a leader of his country?? Was a shocker?

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Not the best but I couldn't stop laughing at him standing on his clothing and ripping it lol. Yes i have very complex humour i know.

[@arthuralford]

No idea, but it was one of the weaker ones. For one, they chose a Puerto Rican and an Italian to play Arabs, though at the time this wouldn't have been unusual. The plot is as Colombo says mostly circumstantial, with little that could hold up in court. The only reason the murderer is caught is through his own bravado and confidence that he's not going to jail

[@donarthiazi2443]

​@@arthuralford Huh... the *plot* is circumstantial 😂😂😂

[@SciTrekMan]

@@armondtanz Kid? Barry Robins was 30 years old when he filmed this.

[@silentwitness4843]

Sal mineo.... Simply gorgeous

[@davidc9256]

Never turn your back on this guy

[@cuthwulf]

We need a middle eastern Shiek…I know just the guy: Hector Elizondo 😅

[@andrewmaher3084]

The King's cap badge is an Irish army cap badge. It's upside down. Says FF meaning finna fáil meaning soldiers of destiny and around It it says óglaigh na hEireann meaning Irish volunteers

[@SciTrekMan]

Personally, I would have let the King take him back to Suari!!

[@chrislork240]

No continuity, You are off my list.

[@biffgate-ii7od]

好まなざる人物にアラブ社会で指定されると→取り引き停止出入り禁止になるまあー 今の わたしかな、うん

[@Lorna8264]

How did the car get into the compound if it was driven by one of the protester?

[@SciTrekMan]

It wasn’t driven by a protester. The car belonged to the Surarian embassy and Habib was disguised as a protester when he drove it out of the compound to “make his escape.”

[@edtrine8692]

lol

[@swk38]

very confusing motive...

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

Who's the little guy in real life?

[@jean-michelcagnac]

..WITH SAL MINEO...💔💔💔💀💀

[@donarthiazi2443]

That little king says _"tomorrow you will be back in Suaria and subject to Suarian justice"?_ But isn't the embassy of any country considered to be that country itself? The Canadian embassy that's built in Oslo for example is just like it was sitting in Canada itself? Wouldn't the king be free & clear to do whatever he felt like doing to a criminal?

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

No. Embassies cannot violate the laws of the country they are located in.

[@donarthiazi2443]

@@GillAgainsIsland12 Thanks for the info. I thought an embassy was considered inviolate even to the host country. Good general knowledge to have filed 👍

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

@@donarthiazi2443 My pleasure.

[@vizzini2510]

Horrible editing! You cut it just short of the parting line from the king (prince?).

[@lukedsheehan455]

Pretty sure I saw him chatting with a woman in a luxurious Hotel lobby the other day

[@tazchanday2422]

What a dopey criminal, why do they always talk too much? no one is immune to justice, not even the untouchables, especially if its heard by the prince of the country . 😮

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

What is this outfit supposed to be????? Jordanian??!?!?!

[@pietroseneanupietrosenen-jd7fx]

😂🎉😊

[@pragmaticcat7619]

Just one more thing sir....

[@bender7565]

.....3 copies!

[@djrychlak4443]

Clips are better. This sort of reduction of entire episodes is not worthy of Columbo. Bad idea.

[@exitscreaming4637]

love Columbo but the ending was not believable and pretty lazy writing

[@johnfinnegan8474]

It could happen. There was a case in real life where a person enters a bank intending to rob it, slips a note behind the counter to the the bank teller on the back of an envelope, demanding cash. On the front of the envelope was printed his full name and address!

[@TahoeJones]

Great decision. American taxpayers got to pay. 😉🤣👎

[@user-pg3hs1wb6j]

@Jack Turner Remember that Rahman Khabib was killed outside embassy.

[@f1b0nacc1sequence7]

@@jackturner7048 The Suarian government was well within its rights to waive jurisdiction (though as others have pointed out, Rahman Khabib was killed on American soil, and thus jurisdiction for THAT crime belonged to the city of Los Angeles) and let the Americans handle it. I suspect this was done as a gesture of respect to Columbo more than anything else.

[@j.m4653]

I wish there will be a remake with Johnny Depp as columbo, no one can handle this character as good as him

[@TheFounderUtopia]

They're always happy to benefit from barbarism until they have to answer to that same system, lol.

[@DamoMcDermott]

Hes out of pretty woman

[@rixx46]

a good episode but the casting is SO problematic by today's standards it looks like an SNL parody.

[@aquaboy68]

Worst episode of columbo ever...IMO