Columbo Investigates a Fitness Guru | Columbo

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic (Robert Conrad) suspected of murdering his business partner.
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Season 4, Episode 1, Exercise in Fatality,
A fitness expert murders an associate who uncovered financial fraud in a health-spa chain.
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[@mattfoley6082]

Robert Conrad in real life was a heavy cigarette smoker. Kind of funny seeing him play a health fanatic.

[@TekkaSage]

Interestingly, he died of congestive heart failure at the age of 84 in 2020.

[@willdevenport6980]

@@mattfoley6082Conrad used to kill it on that show. Lot of pro athletes (baseball players especially) smoked in those days as well.

[@Colt8722]

Thank God I quit. Should have never started. Awful awful habit

[@joiedevie3901]

@@Colt8722 Yup. And now the studies seem conclusive that there is no such thing as a health dose of alcohol. But between the addiction, the commercial reach, and international market, neither industry is likely to go away any time in the next millennia.

[@Endeavour30]

@@joiedevie3901 Alcohol is much worse, the only drug where you have to justify not taking it.

[@Howie875]

I am actually old enough (63) to remember watching Robert Conrad in the first run on TV of The Wild, Wild West. Also remember watching this episode of Columbo with my late Dad back in 1974. Was hooked by Columbo way back then and I have seen all of the 1970's episodes many times. Never seems to get old.

[@katarinamills8530]

Peter Falk was very fit himself but he played his exhaustion so well!!Such an amazing episode...loved the hospital Scene!

[@uniktbrukernavn]

0:36 Columbo should've arrested him for those push ups. Forget about the murder for one second and go after the real crime.

[@kev3d]

He looked fit enough. I wonder if he was just exhausted from previous takes or didn't want to get sand in his face. Surely he knew how to do a proper push up?

[@tommym321]

Yeah those are some pretty weak sauce

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Any ex-military here? ;-)

[@SimonMester]

I doubt they need to be ex military to recognize if a pushup is proper or not :D Pushups are awesome if done with correct form tbh. @@mikhailiagacesa3406

[@polreamonn]

Maybe the water he was just swimming in?

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Its is really funny how Columbo spends most of the episodes following the murderer around and asks lots of questions and then nails the murderer after finding clues

[@mattfoley6082]

Even funnier when the murderers start off being friendly and helpful and gradually panic and get angry and rude at him.

[@joiedevie3901]

@@mattfoley6082 Conrad was definitely playing Milo "to his own type" toward the end of this episode. All one has to do is watch Battle of the Network Stars when Gabe Kaplan kicked Conrad's celebrated butt on the track after Conrad got all "Milo" in the program hosts' faces because of his team's ineligible baton pass on the relay that disqualified them from the win. He acted like some spoiled jock from junior high, and they let him pick the way to settle the argument by running solo against Gabe Kaplan, who headed the other team. Kaplan left him in the dust!!!

[@minutebooks3245]

Columbo wasn't really a whodunit. We see at the beginning who did and how. We just want to watch him figure it out. It was still entertaining even after giving almost everything away at the beginning. Well written and very well acted.

[@MrAitraining]

Good episode. This is one villain Columbo really wanted to nail. Showed some anger in the hospital scene but The victim in this couldn't say " you better kill me" any stronger by his threats to Robert Conrad in the beginning. A common victim mistake in columbo.

[@joiedevie3901]

Spot on. If the victim had been half as savvy as he purported, he would have gone Klingon on Milo and served his "vengeance cold" without the warning.

[@johnnyg2049]

The protectionist who tried to blackmail Bart Kepple was another, and he was the second victim.

[@123haninhk]

Robert Conrad was supposed to be 53 in this episode. He was so fit and looked so young.

[@mikeaball2142]

Bob was 39 at the time of this episode (1974).

[@123haninhk]

@@mikeaball2142 Oh, only his character then being 53

[@Omega1casablanca]

🌞 totally agreed 👌

[@maleta2011]

No way that dude was 39, did people age differently back then?

[@greenmtnman7714]

Hey "Columbo", this is not the episode in 10 minutes! It's just the one scene.

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Yep. False advertising.

[@cori055]

​@bootstrapperwilson7687 They've changed the title now thankfully!

[@christopherkraft1327]

The poor Lieutenant, trying to keep up with Milo Janus while he's running!!! Then there's the sand in his shoes!!! 👍👍🙂

[@joiedevie3901]

This is such an enjoyable episode at so many levels. It shows that Columbo could give Hercule Poirot a run for his "œufs" in the way he induces the means, motive and opportunity that Milo had to take Gene out. The writers also had fun with this one in the way they made footwear such a repeated trope of the plot: the scuff marks on the floor; Columbo's broken shoelace he fixes at Milo's poolside; the mom tying the laces for her son; and, of course, the forensics on the sneakers that were inversely tied that nailed Milo's muscle-bound butt. It always seemed that Columbo took a lot for granted that the murderer would "go along quietly" at the moment of revelation. A few close calls, but never where Columbo had back up just in case. One of the funniest moments in this episode is when Columbo asks for the information on the accountant and visibly gets annoyed by the computer and the office clerk processing his request. Usually, he is the one getting to annoy everyone else; this time the "shoe gets to be on the other foot!" 🤣🤣🤣 Yup, the writers definitely had foot ware on the mind in this one!!!

[@TheWriterWalker]

😂 Joiedevie, what a great comment!

[@joiedevie3901]

@@TheWriterWalker MERCI !

[@TheWriterWalker]

@@joiedevie3901 Je vous en prie. Lol.

[@onemorething123]

Milo Janus being a jerk for making Columbo run after him. Robert Conrad played this guy to perfection. Even I wanted to smack the guy!

[@joiedevie3901]

And, of course, Conrad would dare you . . .

[@matteoromenghi]

It's carrot juice Lieutenant. 😄

[@leealves9417]

One of my favorite episodes

[@teamdrummond6915]

Robert Conrad: "I dare you to knock it off."

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Columbo is alive and well on youtube

[@LegionIscariot]

I hate trying to have a conversation with someone and they can't be bothered to stop what they are doing for a moment.

[@ProudPapaJD]

Hopefully you never meet my wife! 😂😂😂

[@mchaelallen]

The highlight of this episode was Gretchen Corbin in her 70's bikini scene. Heavy sigh...

[@kev3d]

She wasn't bad! Not bad at all.

[@katarinamills8530]

Exactly,what a Treasure!

[@kazamshah4543]

It was funny to see Falks face when that chick answered the door in her underwear. He was like, er....just one more question please. 😊😊😊😊

[@rawbacon]

I wonder if Columbo could beat Conrad in a foot race, we know Mr. Kotter can.

[@bloqk16]

It was remarkable with how a guy that displayed such grit, determination, and macho bravado [Conrad] had _feet of clay_ when it came to a sprint footrace.

[@joiedevie3901]

@@bloqk16 He was at least as much swagger was he was substance. It seems as if he actually thought he was going to win because he was such a completive athlete in real life. What he did not know was that Kaplan had been a track star in high school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

[@MWorsa]

“…I can’t swim, I don’t even like a deep tub.” - Columbo

[@bertsmith6778]

It had a lot of funny parts in it. I have this one as # 10 on my personal top ten. Now I'm hungry for Chinese.

[@christopherjones4858]

Has to be a subliminal cut 😂

[@THX-kw2jh]

Columbo just playing along with the suspect.

[@michellecruz8429]

The carrot juice part made me think of when I was a kid, my big sis gave me half of an English muffin; I thought it was buttered, and the butter tasted bad, but it was actually mayonnaise.

[@twocvbloke]

The "orange juice" moment keeps making me think of the "blue berries" skit in Taxi, in that yeah, it's an orange juice, but it's not orange juice... :P

[@garywebster3585]

Shoes laced up wrong, shoes without soles, shoes in bags at political fundraisers, shoes covered in paint, shoes at Gettysburg, Whats with the damned shoes.?

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Socks and feet usually

[@Richard_Straker]

Wrong title, this is just one scene.

[@calebjust1292]

love the background green screen at the beach when they first met

[@PrimarchX]

Is this the Rockford beach? 2354 Beach Boulevard in Malibu.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

Sometimes, Columbo villains are presented as mildly sympathetic, or at least likable. Not this guy. Milo Janus is a guy you really want the lieutenant to get.

[@laurenceschwartz8606]

Correct. He's arrogant and his crime was quite premeditated.

[@bradhirsch4845]

This is a really good episode. I'd watch the whole thing rather than this synopsis if you havent seen it. I like the lady character, the murder victim's ex-wife, who sits around and drinks wine all day. lol I like when they throw characters like that in there.

[@polreamonn]

And Robert Conrad would outlive Peter Faulk by 9 years.

[@master-kq3nw]

I love this episode

[@Sunil-cl9kv]

The pendant stays the same but his gold chain changes from the beach to the house. It’s shorter too.

[@Sunil-cl9kv]

The chain changes when he is walking around the office too.

[@nosuchthing8]

Hes not even doing full pushups

[@MyHatDefinesMe]

uh, sir, there's something wrong with this orange juice it's carrot juice, lieutenant oh

[@mariohanna5116]

Where can I find the full episodes

[@adgtheone]

Seems like the wrong video...whoever uploaded it mighta goofed...

[@bradhirsch4845]

And.....Robert Conrad was NOT 50 years old in this Columbo episode. He wasnt even 40.. I mean, the character is supposed to be 51 or something. Conrad was in his late 30s. lol Playing older, I guess.

[@bubsmp]

Those are the shittiest push ups I’ve seen in a while…..1…..go lower……..1…..1…..keep your head up…..1…..1……arms parallel……..1………1……..stop……back of the line.

[@KuenYauSumFot]

Non of those push-ups count 😂

[@KellyPerazzolo]

zero zero zero.....

[@KuenYauSumFot]

@@KellyPerazzolo definitely! Brought back horror flashbacks 😂

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

You mean none of them. Because they were not in proper form and Conrad was on a steeply upward inclined beach. So they were non-press ups.

[@KuenYauSumFot]

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 incline decline or standard, would’ve all counted as zero 😂

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Yep. That's why I wrote they were non-press ups.