Columbo Catches his Wife's Murderer | Columbo

A woman attempts to get back at Columbo by murdering his wife, after blaming Columbo for her own husband’s death.
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Season 2 Episode 3 "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo": Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison.
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[@ScottALanter]

People who come to my house cannot stand when I watch Columbo because at the beginning of every episode, I say, "Oh, this is a good one." Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo is on right now on Great American Family channel. And, yes, this is a good one.

[@annap6992]

I watched it today too 👍👍♥️

[@s9s2754]

Columbo

[@bobsloan694]

loved Columbo on TV now watching on you tube. This was a great twist, loved the Slap you Basterd!

[@timcrook2231]

👍

[@tiffanyb.7596]

Only true Columbo fans understand “this is a good one!“ 😊

[@banannakis6723]

It's sad how delusional she is that she thinks he would just blindly accept a jar from a woman who is a suspect in a current murder he's investigating. She is also the widow of a man he put behind bars for murder. The same husband died behind bars and he knows that she was seeing a doctor for her mental well-being. Of course, he's gonna turn around and take it to the boys down at the lab.

[@kitrichardson5573]

The way he acted when he was pretending to have been poisoned was one of the great scenes in television history and certainly in his career. Utterly amazing I’ve watched it multiple times.

[@tombriggs9259]

Columbo should have said, "Hey, I don't even live here!" - as a homage to Artie Jessop.

[@michaelmartinez1345]

Good one!!! And that was the Crooked Lieing 'Police Commisioner' (Richard Kiley), That Artie Jessup (Val Avery) , nailed him in that completely fake setting that the commisioner thought he (Artie Jessup) was living at.... One of his best 'GOTCHAs' , of all time...

[@dawnrhoads8794]

Was that the Friend In Deed one?

[@tombriggs9259]

@@dawnrhoads8794 Yes

[@michaelmartinez1345]

@@dawnrhoads8794 Yes Indeed !!!

[@steowens8243]

I can verify that sir, i don't live here, Sgt Brady lives here, this is his table, his kitchen

[@StarrChild.]

It's a shame this didn't include the scene at the end with Columbo talking to his wife on this phone. Its a very sweet scene

[@RussellFlowers]

*slaps Columbo* "That's another charge, ma'am, assaulting a police officer."

[@Adrian-mq5ld]

I though she slapped his glass eye off his face lol

[@booboolips6053]

Assaulting a police officer added to the murder charge.

[@KevinKeys-KK]

I think technically it's 2 premeditated counts, 2 counts of attempted by poison, 1 being an officer and physical assault of said officer.

[@solarissv777]

​@@KevinKeys-KKI wonder if this pretty collection could put a capital punishment on the table (back in those days)?

[@jovetj]

@@KevinKeys-KK physical assault = battery. Not assault.

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

⁠@@jovetj Some states do not have the crime of battery; it is covered under assault. In Texas for example she would be charged with assault. Not battery.

[@michelguy5569]

One of the better plot twist I know on all TV shows !

[@TheRealGSmith]

You may wanna watch more shows then ;)

[@joeybonin7691]

She just didn't understand what he did for a living, and how good at it he was.

[@williamfleckles]

It's the raincoat that throws them all off. He's in LA! When does it rain there?

[@jrewing1512]

Columbo doesn't play about his wife.

[@Romulan2469]

But he sure does make up a lot of stories about her to the suspects, my wife this, my wife that lol!

[@Cat_Woods]

@@Romulan2469 That woman had so many hobbies!

[@Romulan2469]

@@Cat_Woods To be frank I don't think she ever existed.

[@PositiveIndifference]

This is one of the better "Movie Collection" episodes.

[@JS-tj6mf]

Helen Shaver-an absolutely beautiful actress playing the part of a calculating and very deadly woman consumed with revenge. I think that’s what I like so much about this episode. Also, what a treat to see Roscoe Lee Browne with that very sophisticated voice of his. Yes, a very memorable episode.

[@milano888]

The best cast the best directors the best writers the best sets and designers the best sound and music they will never make shows like Columbo ever again.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

TV Cinema, they are Movie Quality productions. Sho of Film. They are probably very expensive to film compared to Wonder Woman, CHIPs or the A team.

[@michaeljohnson5365]

I think the episode with Leonard Nimoy as the evil doctor as being the best Columbo episode

[@master-kq3nw]

for me the best episode any old port in storm

[@bansheekh]

One of the very few where he lets his anger show. I jumped when he slammed the carafe (I think that’s what it was) down on the desk.

[@mhoppy6639]

@@bansheekhthat was wonderful. Truly marvellous when he actually revealed the passion for his work physically. Nimoy was good as well. Pretty sinister.

[@mhoppy6639]

I like the window on the 70s that some of these provide. Good eg is the ransom for a dead man, featuring Lee Grant, where Colombo asked “how do you do it. Work for a woman.? Columbo’s pretty enlightened but it’s interesting how abnormal this situation seemed to screenwriters at the time😂 And there’s a pretty unsavoury episode the “nightlife” one where the perp is clearly in a very abusive relationship, accidentally kills her partner and gets no allowances at all from the system. And this one was early 90s! However on the whole falk’s genius shines through in _every_ episode that’s why I love it. And the first one was a Spielberg direction I think.

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Columbo is alive and well on youtube

[@timcrook2231]

@@michaeljohnson5365 👍

[@johnburn8031]

Isn't Columbo's wife too busy flying a star ship? 😉

[@RJSRdg]

"There's been a woman going around claiming to be my wife. But it isn't her." - Columbo

[@Leadeshipcoach]

🤣👍

[@petermeyer6873]

"Isn't Columbo's wife too busy flying a star ship?" Right after she fell for J.R.?

[@johnburn8031]

@@petermeyer6873 I don't get it 🤷🏻‍♂

[@petermeyer6873]

@@johnburn8031 She was in Dallas for some episodes.

[@gregorymoore2877]

"Oh, and there is just one more thing..." If only Peter Falk could have presented at an Apple keynote. 🤔

[@thecursor1]

For a guy who always seems so detached, he really did seem a little miffed that this woman actually had the gall to target Mrs. Columbo

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Detached? He brings up his wife & nephews ALL the time!

[@ahannan9]

@@kathyflorcruz552yeh folks always overlook the obvious to work their angle

[@BigDaddy-je2nq]

He could’ve wore a mask but then he’d just be the Robert Pattinson Batman

[@SWLion26]

So many good episodes, but this ranks at or near the top. Whatever calculations murderers made against Lieutenant Columbo, he was a lot smarter than they could ever imagine.

[@KSMvidcast]

Such a criminally under-rated show. As a kid I was bored. Going back and watching the show as an adult I can appreciate the genius of this fantastic series. Peter Falk was the icing on this beautiful and clever cake.

[@RandyJ85]

Surprised she was the only person that tried to avenge an arrest from Columbo... The way he caught them so smartly must of pissed them off 😅

[@finncullen]

Avenge herself upon Columbo. If she was trying to avenge Columbo that means she was getting revenge on someone who had killed Columbo.

[@RandyJ85]

@@finncullen you're right. I meant avenge a columbo arrest.

[@silvershocknicktail6638]

Boom, Ian McShane outta nowhere. Love that guy.

[@stevenanderson7461]

Silverschocknicktail6638 Ian Mcshane was brilliant as Lovejoy

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Never realized that was him until I saw this!

[@silvershocknicktail6638]

@@stevenanderson7461 He's brilliant in everything I see him in, TBH. Deadwood, John Wick, Babylon 5 (no, really)

[@jackhartford521]

🎶This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!🎶

[@dunngyllite7883]

This is literally a once in a lifetime - comment.

[@jackhartford521]

@@dunngyllite7883 Listen here you better stop making sense. 😂

[@darthck5066]

@@dunngyllite7883same as it ever was!

[@o21211671]

How did I get here?

[@kasebmohamed5468]

A reference from my favorite Talking Heads album under a video of one of my favorite Columbo final scenes, couldn't get better!!!

[@CheoWalker]

This all started because the receptionist at police HQ did a poor job. They should never give a police officer vacation status over an external phone call.

[@greenmtnman7714]

This makes me want to go buy some orange marmalade.

[@bansheekh]

Watch Paddington and/or Paddington 2 and you’ll run head to the store.

[@stephenmontgomery-smith8884]

My favorite brand of orange marmalade is Bonne Maman.

[@werdna9006]

Helen Shaver - the woman just oozes sexiness. And a great actress as well.

[@johnfinnegan8474]

Poisoning has been a woman's choice of murdering going back to the 19th century and before. They were not strong enough to kill a man outright using brute force, but they could slip poison into his food. Columbo already knew or at least strongly suspected she intended to kill himself and his wife, so he had the marmalade tested for poison at the police lab as soon as she gave it to him. So she basically incriminated herself, even if she had never spoken a single word to Columbo.

[@rawbacon]

She killed Colonel Flagg.

[@revk8611]

He is the wind

[@SammyRenard]

That was the first columbo I'd watched as a kid

[@isleofredemption]

This has to be one of the more difficult Gotcha’s to set up for Columbo- that faux funeral. As a tabletop gamer, I know how hard it is to set more than one person in the same place at once.

[@VimyGlide]

"as a tabletop gamer" on a columbo video is a WILD crossover

[@lisanealy1703]

Columbo said he and his wife never had kids, but in one earlier episode, he said his wife and kids were away on vacation.

[@balok63a40]

I sure hope that somebody got fired for that blunder!

[@jasonkloos6348]

There were also several actors who played multiple murderers. The consistency was always loose. Doesn't detract from a single story told.

[@robhaskins]

I love Roscoe Lee Browne-such an elegant actor.

[@omarkhan9966]

great voice.

[@bansheekh]

Is it wrong I kind of want that purple and green blouse? So very 80s.

[@xkguy]

This is the same actress who played the scientist and Fred Ward's love interest in Tremors 3. I can still hear her saying 'pre-Cambrian'. Playmate of 1973 iirc...

[@royrayburn1503]

Ian Mc Shane. Wonderful actor.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

I you seek revenge, dig two graves. pretty elaborate script to get her to confess, a fake funeral..... even her attending that, why? So his wife is not dead, good.

[@chrysostom8987]

Tubi has lot of full episodes of columbo and I wach them all but this one is one of my many favorite ones because the lady thought 🤔 that she killed his wife and him too without knowing 😭 different oh well she gets what she asked for.

[@dunbarf2413]

Columbo: " Mrs. Demetri wants to me my wife" Doctor: "That would not be a good idea" Columbo "What do you mean not a good idea?" Doctor: " I mean NOT a good idea. Also noticed Columbo put the marmalade on the untoasted side of his toast...never seen that before.

[@drewg213]

That part with the psychiatrist who can't tell Columbo anything is fascinating. The Tarasoff case that established the Duty to Warn if a mental health provider believes their client to be an acute danger to someone didn't happen until 1976; this episode was shot in the early 70's, which was before the ability/duty to talk to the police and potential victim was legally established.

[@MustangMike012]

I just watched this episode on Sundance. It’s a good one. Good ending.

[@mondobondo49]

Colonel Flagg got shot!

[@revk8611]

And he is the wind

[@bahrom942]

When Columbo was dying of poison I felt quite sad as the time when I watched Sherlock Holmes character dies!

[@oxcart4172]

A brilliant episode of a brilliant series i think Helen Shaver was fantistic in this.

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Wilson Fisk's voice actor - omg, hell yeah

[@spiderdog07]

😯I recognized the voice but couldn't figure out why

[@keithjones7390]

She was hoping Columbo was going to come to a sticky end eating that marmalade 😮

[@JimzAuto]

Colombo’s wife was formerly married to ‘Wilson’ from the ‘Home Improvement’ TV show :)

[@paulkweiner6577]

One of the underrated Hollywood beauties-Helen Slater !

[@mandos6145]

Columbo, thwarts an attempt on his and his wive's lives the suspect in question "How dare you"

[@thatonepole]

Not Columbo's wife, right? RIGHT?

[@rafaelrobles6957]

Columbo great detective always catch the killer..love how he plays dumb great acting ❤❤

[@kamilfingr371]

And never was promoted or even decorated.

[@Finnador]

Odd, the only other show that I saw Helen Shaver (the murderess) in was 'The Emissary' episode of 'Ray Bradbury Theater'. And in that episode she's the one who dies.

[@ikaikamaleko8370]

Shes got spooky lookin eyes.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

How Columbo ate that slap I just don't understand. She'd have caught hands immediately.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

6:24 The tall blonde with the Mercedes convertible. That was "WEALTH" back then.

[@sheibanineda2488]

She plays the role so well you almost hate her😂

[@carolineg3182]

This is my favorite

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

I wouldn't commit a crime in the same Hemisphere as Columbo.

[@blockmasterscott]

What’s the name of the actor playing the doctor that Columbo is having dinner with? I remember seeing that dude all over tv shows in the 70s. That guy was everywhere! Almost as much as that little blonde boy with the glasses that always guest starred as a smart nerd on tv shows in that same time period.

[@Richard_Straker]

Roscoe Lee Browne

[@blockmasterscott]

@@Richard_Straker Oh thank you! I’m gonna Google him. Much appreciated!

[@bruno640]

Also played the wagon-master/cook, in "The Cowboys", with John Wayne. Kind of a James Earl Jones "lite", as pertaining to speech-pattern smoothness. Smooth as Mr. Jones sounded--but not quite as "Darth-Vaderish", lol! Mr. Browne had that softer, "whiskey-ish" tone instead, or at least I thought so?

[@KCCardCo]

Columbo's second slap.

[@stephenmeinhold5452]

columbo was quite groundbreaking as it portrayed women as being as ruthless and deadly as men.

[@ptertaintv]

Mrs demerit therapist sounds like the King Pin.

[@fenrislegacy]

I was today's old when I realized that Ian McShane was in this episode

[@terrilhargrovejones]

How many episodes with two people killed? 🤔🤔🤔

[@jmaxxtv9912]

Huge fan of the show, but I felt this one could have done without the redundant funeral. "Attempted Murder" would have already been established with physical evidence, no confession necessary. Neat premise, but went in the wrong direction.

[@faszikilawang8445]

Vivian was in Tremors2

[@kishinslayer2228]

LOL that's a hell of a crossover

[@latenightlogic]

Who’s the voice at about 20 seconds? He definitely did the narrating on the movie babe

[@EddieCaplan]

On the phone? That's Roscoe Lee Brown, the actor playing the doctor.

[@terrilhargrovejones]

I also think there were a couple of episodes where someone wasn't murdered...

[@jolawolska1451]

Jeden z najlepszych filmów.Colombo.👏👏❤️🇵🇱

[@aaronmehaffey6251]

Ian McShane? And he's NOT the murderer!?

[@muskerp]

wow a funeral is really expensive, let alone the impact on the mourners. it seems to be one of the least likely plots ever

[@TheOneWhoIsBuiltDifferent]

I'm new to the show, is Mrs. Columbo actually dead?

[@bansheekh]

No, she was fine.

[@PAlex-us4ov]

That's Colonel Flagg being shot!

[@bennygaweseb]

"Just routine"

[@malchalati]

Is that Winston from John Wick?

[@january3rd293]

It is!

[@ThomasGilligan-kq2lj]

Well enjoy your program, if your friends don't like it. Too bad.

[@pawsitivelyweird6691]

Misleading title. She didn't kill his wife.

[@power2084]

And this is why you never talk to police. "I invoke my 5th amendment right to remain silent".

[@martinfinn1550]

In this case it wouldn't have mattered. Once the marmalade she gave to Columbo tested positive for poison, she could be charged with intent to kill a police officer even if she never said a word to Columbo.

[@iss9875]

Tittle is false

[@bansheekh]

So was the title of the episode, RIP Mrs. Columbo.

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize. When you said Mrs., I just assumed..." ~ What Columbo says "Hmm... Omoshiroi..." ~ What Columbo means

[@r0bw00d]

I'll take your word for it, since I don't speak foreign.

[@sanddagger36]

I hope that wasn't a real slap I have no idea what the effects of impact with a glass eye are but I doubt they are good.

[@denzelw78]

Winston!

[@ИраГаврыляка]

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[@zeekwolfe6251]

The last seasons of Columbo were not very good. It was obvious that instead of big name villains like Ray Milland, John Cassavetes, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh or Leonard Nimoy etc., the producers started using small name villains, they were cheaper, you see. They cut corners elsewhere almost making the programs boring and unwatchable. My favorite episode is the one where Donald Pleasence, wine conoisseur, kills to stop his company from being sold from underneath him. Second favorite, John Cassavetes, orchestra conductor, loses a lapel flower during the murder. Episode also featured Myrna Loy. Last couple of years, cheap cheap cheap.......

[@skateboard_sandwich]

Got em.

[@bender7565]

I have seen many episodes MANY times. Last time I saw this one was on NBC, its 1st airing close to 50 years ago. Still not a fav but maybe I judged a bit too harshly.

[@RJSRdg]

Episode first aired 31/3/1990, so 34 years ago, aired on ABC.

[@evilpooky]

Love Joy. :)

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

I knew it wasn't his house. No Policeman would be stupid enough to invite a Suspect into their own home!

[@terrilhargrovejones]

Wait, WHAT??? 😢😢😢 I stopped watching because I didn't care for the newer episodes...

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

I often wondered back in the day of there really was a Mrs Columbo..... I mean who could actually put up living with Frank Columbo especially a wife..... guess that there was.... Peace

[@mchaelallen]

The actor's young wife featured in numerous Columbo episodes

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

@@mchaelallen didn't know that

[@chrysostom8987]

i was married in the 70 s 4 children in 6 years we changed apartments 18 times we was on welfare and food stamps he would take both and spend it with his girlfriends and friends i would take my children to go to my mother s house to eat so after 6 years I had him deported to Greece.

[@joerasmussen4029]

Does anybody here know what Columbo's real first name is, and it is not "Lieutenant."

[@tommyaindow6840]

Frank

[@paulmoran217]

I could never have had a bar-side drink with Columbo......in 10 minutes who would have deduced what I did in 1975, why I did it, who I did it to, the date, the time, the weather conditions at the time, the moon phase at the time, who was Top of the Pops.........like that!

[@wenniferjay903]

❤ this show❤

[@diligentsun1154]

HA!!! GOT 'eem!!! Ha! Got 'im!

[@mirellaristori1619]

Visto !

[@calvinsweet3400]

Delicious on an English muffin.

[@corochena]

Am I the only one who is not fond of the idea of mixing Columbo's family in the case?

[@johnman7388]

One episode front shows cigar with ash and back no ash

[@pietroseneanupietrosenen-jd7fx]

❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤

[@rickrick5041]

The shows went for 60 minutes but they had to condense them to under 10 minutes by taking out unnecessary and repetitive content because the old TVs couldn’t hold anything over 10 minutes. The mondo Columbus shows are very short always less than 10 minutes because of the primitive mondo TVs they had back then. The old old old TVs could not hold more than 10 minutes of show even without nipnagel or shnibuts rhetoric as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology Motorola involvement and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. Crackhead Barney oversees the southerly wing of the flies we fight as fly fighters. Caitin Clark scores best against them. The fly fighters tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set with Motorola involvement with flypaper control and Dylan Mulvaney CEO. The historically correct Crackhead Barney and a prominent associate of Dylan Mulvaney declined comment at that time but was very involved. So was Cat Clark on our side. Transgander influencer Dylan Mulvaney abandoned by Bud Lights and faced too much bullying and transphobia. Crackhead Barney is her team member in Chicago. The proof is in the pudding. It’s all part of the non racist Al Qawama discovering process