Fade Into Murder in 12 Minutes | Episode Recap | Columbo

The star of a TV detective series (William Shatner) murders his producer-lover and then tries to beat Columbo at his own game.
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Season 6, Episode 1, Fade Into Murder,
An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer , a former lover and current blackmailer.
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[@Jermbot15]

"Why don't we stop pretending I'm brilliant and you're simple." Nice.

[@knowsmebyname]

But very hard to do. Even when you know you are being played, if it's skillful and complimentary, it's tough not to play along.

[@patrickjohnson5658]

When they send him to prison, it will be the cell next to the one where the surgeon who used the dissolving stitches to try to kill his patient is held. "Captain what are you doing here?!" "I could ask you the same question Spock"

[@jasonboche]

Spock nearly got away with it. Columbo got his man in the last 15 seconds of the episode.

[@jack-russellmama8284]

Great reference!!! Bravo!!!

[@michirican]

😅 awesome

[@jpoptop]

Fascinating

[@edge918]

Yes Patrick! Excellent call 🖖

[@davidmarshall5596]

One of the best episodes with William Shatner & the lieutenant trading compliments & playing cat & mouse 😊👍

[@Del_S]

"Spock wasn't kidding, you can't get anything past him."

[@miaouew]

"Why don't we stop pretending that I'm brilliant and you're simple for one moment"

[@rawbacon]

Shatner's overacting was perfect for this character.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Tip to all murderers: don't start talking too much to Colombo, don't take initiative to establish an alibi yourself BEFORE Colombo have started his investigation, just a small advice from a KZbin viewer

[@asecretone]

Just call a lawyer. Tell Columbo to kick rocks.

[@witzelasper2821]

Here's another tip ..just leave after you do the job ...simple ...don't hang around

[@Profile__1]

You're right. Treat Columbo like a dangerous SCP entity. Do not engage the entity. Do not converse with the entity. Do not directly look at the entity. Do not listen to whatever the entity says.

[@patrickjohnson5658]

@@asecretone Sometimes even when they have a lawyer they don't take his advice. I am thinking in particular of the episode with Jack Cassidy as the murderer "Publish Or Perish"

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

@John Tierney - true, tip-2 to murderers: don't leave you fingerprints behind when you commit the perfect crime

[@glitchdrno3450]

"I'm going to lower my hands now" immediately gets shot

[@jasonboche]

You have to know your murder.

[@beacee]

Shatner was always Shatner lol.

[@christopherkraft1327]

I really like this episode, especially when Captain Kirk interacts with Mr Chekhov!!! Warp speed!!! 🖖

[@kevinobrien9626]

At one Trek reunion, Shatner could not remember Koenig's name. He was 'a guy who was on set a handful of times a long time ago.'

[@edge918]

There will never be another Peter Falk 🤗💙💚❤️💗🧡💛💜

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Just spent 50 UK Pounds for ALL episodes! I am binge watching them!

[@jasonboche]

Approve...

[@MrMferg240]

money well spent.

[@edge918]

michael Johnson I bought the box set also. I absolutely love Columbo💚💗❤️

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Beautiful

[@nicosmind3]

Money well spent!

[@georgeh5075]

He should have said "Well Lt, we have some free time on set, and during my lunch breaks I like to fiddle with the props."

[@Shindragan]

The bullets were real and not blanks, so they werent part of the props.

[@NorthernIrelandConflictVideos]

love this episode

[@Cheezitnator]

Shatner must've had fun playing the murderer.

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Columbo is alive and well on youtube

[@asecretone]

Endlessly fascinating.

[@martinfinn1550]

If he went to prison for this he obviously didn't spend much time there. He must have beamed out of the prison and back to the future. Three years later he was once again captain of the Enterprise investigating another mystery in outer space.

[@kkarx]

Great episode with rather week point at the end but the investigation is fun and so is Falk and Shatner.

[@timothysullivan84]

That's one of the Shat's better wigs.

[@mogensschmidt2498]

1. me and my mom are watching everyday 15.55 exsept saturday adn sunday its kinda our thing but in a good way

[@johnpender358]

Bad English guy. It should be, my mom and i. Not me and my mom.

[@jacklofstrom6289]

Shatner was brilliant in this episode.

[@thefilmsett]

He really wasn't he overacts in everything

[@joiedevie3901]

Without question a great plot and great ending. And one of the creepiest confessions of all of his rogues gallery.

[@L0wki]

brilliant episode.

[@norcal715]

One of my favorite episodes.

[@robinshaw5122]

Love this show!

[@kevinobrien9626]

Shatner's attire at the end recalls Roger Moore's early '80s Bond. Indeed, in this light, I can almost hear some of the dialogue being delivered by Moore. A great idea, a great starting point ... alas, many years too late.

[@Deadbuck73]

All these trek references… and I thought Kirk was going to start claiming to be a rocket man when he started whispering with the ski mask on!

[@jericomagsombol8883]

never knew Colombo solved a case in the Enterprise

[@michelemarcolin2548]

How does Columbo know at what distance the lady was shot? There is no way of saying. So this is one of the inconsistencies in this episode. That the guy panicked is merely an assumption: he could have decided to kill her in cold blood.

[@Iliaas]

Maybe gun powder residue near the machine? Been a while since I've seen this episode tbf but knowing the distance doesn't sound that far-fetched

[@thefilmsett]

That's why he said is hard to hit something exact in a panic

[@FourOf92000]

the absence of powder burns and the speed of the bullet at impact

[@kevinobrien9626]

The size of the room, the eyewitness report, and where the body fell were also factors?

[@asullivan4047]

Entertaining viewing special guest stars 😊

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Captain Kirk and Spock came back to Earth and became Murderers

[@artytoons]

2:33 Chekov as a LAPD detective, too.

[@NorthernIrelandConflictVideos]

too many ads!!!!!!

[@alexmuenster2102]

2:40 You just couldn't have given us a few seconds more - and a better look at the face of Walter Koenig, in an episode together with William Shatner?

[@randymillhouse791]

"Scotty, I suggest you ..... beam... me.... ABOARD NOW!"

[@kevinobrien9626]

1:38. Nothing has ever been more transparent than Shatner's 'disguised' voice.

[@pressureworks]

TJ Hooker really turned bad after leaving the police force.

[@L0wki]

yeah but soon he will command a spaceship.

[@jackjacky8105]

when columbo talks about his wife you're in trouble

[@FireryNight]

Columbo starring william shatner, sponsored by Rugs'r'us based out of WIGan.

[@ifishcatfish]

why do they IMMEDIATELY admit guilt? That sh1t would never hold in court..

[@paulwalker1793]

Love this episode. I love Columbo. But he'll always be captain Kirk to me. The one and only .

[@maurogozzo139]

Love Colombo🎉🎉🎉😊

[@mikemiller8975]

Capt kirk ❤😊 and columbo😊

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

02:37 is that Chekov?

[@zuperdee]

Yes, it is.

[@artytoons]

1:35 Timothy Carey as the pistol-whipped deli proprietor.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

1:57-2:00

[@kevinobrien9626]

Shatner once again horning in on Nimoy's turf (directing, recording an album, writing a book, guest-murdering on COLUMBO). He was, no doubt, trying to show Nimoy up, as Dr. Barry was perhaps the most unsympathetic murderer in the series. Shatner was gonna be all sympathetic, tuggin' on our little heartstrings when he was busted. (This agenda was all in the past when Shatner returned to play Ward Fowler. His contempt for the Right Wing was so pervasive that he forgot to be the least bit likeable).

[@kc0lif]

the young woman is shera danese

[@twocvbloke]

William Shatner AND Walter Koenig, must have been some big spenders in the accounts department to get those two together, had to spread the cost with Nimoy in a different episode though, cos Trek alumni are expensive... :P

[@Cha-y412]

Ward Fowler ( William Shatner) must of bought the Nelson Brenner ( Patrick McGoohan) house because it is the exact same home as in the episode called Identity Crisis.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

Is it? If you're right then you have amazing powers of observation.

[@Cha-y412]

@@GillAgainsIsland12 Yes .I am. Watch both episodes and judge for yourself.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

@@Cha-y412 I will. Fantastic observation.

[@ricaard]

"COLUMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" 😡

[@arainmk]

Air tight not iron clad

[@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande]

Faded Faded away Fade in to Murder So that's whats also due

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Superstars 😮🎉💤

[@andraspongracz5996]

I liked how Columbo dismantled all the false evidence and all the forged alibi the murderer created. However, the actual evidence that finally proved beyond any doubt who the murderer was is straightforward and boring. It was a routine lab work that found the fingerprint of the bullet. Any cop would have solved the case the same way. So Columbo's brilliant ideas and observations to see through the act were completely unnecessary.

[@Wizardof]

There are two other star trek actors inthis show at least...

[@thefilmsett]

He has been murdering acting for years

[@vijaybansod186]

Will broke the law.

[@master-kq3nw]

william.shatner appear 2 times in columbo

[@BrockLee3]

NO! That ending is just too amateurish. I would expect an ending like that in a play written by a High School drama class. It was just too easy. Columbo episodes are usually VERY smart, because the killers are very smart. Let's analyze the killer in this episode: Shatner's character knew to get the guy drunk and drugged, record the game, go kill the girl, shoot a heart from 30 feet away, come back, play the recorded game, set the watch back, wake the guy up so Shatner can make him THINK he was out for only a few minutes...which gives Shatner an alibi (this part is brilliant). Then, he knows to plant a thread from his patsy's sweater...but, he DOESN'T take the shell-casing with him in order to destroy/dispose of it? Or, at least...DOESN'T clean his finger-prints off the shell-casing after handling the gun AGAIN? NO!!! They had to write that ONE mistake into the show; but, the mistake was too big, and it make the character look dumb...meaning, Columbo's victory was quite dumb and empty.

[@ryonalionthunder]

@@kevinobrien9626what are you talking about? That’s exactly what happened. Did you not pay attention? Why do you think he changed the time on his watch and back?

[@kevinobrien9626]

I liked the ending, but I will bear this perspective in mind on my next viewing. They did have a lot of balls in the air (winking at the camera with meta-jokes about 'a TV detective holding a show hostage,' and 'if he leaves, there is no show,' exactly what they were saying about Falk), and trying to make the murderer sympathetic (Shatner, of course, had no doubt he had the range to pull this off). So maybe they skimped on the ending a little bit.

[@kevinobrien9626]

Remind me, how did they determine this was the murder weapon? What made them look in the prop room? Further, how does the game tape fakery REALLY provide an alibi? Whether it was 'actually' 9:15 PM, or a later hour that simply 'seemed to be' 9:15 PM, what's the difference? Even in the counterfeit timeline, the guy conked out in the third inning and was unable to verify anything that happened after that.

[@ryonalionthunder]

@@kevinobrien9626 if i might take the opportunity to put on my wornout Columbo coat… Well, sir, the reason to look through the props was that when the killers disguise was found. Ah, that’s the red ski mask and blue parka that were cut to ribbons, sir. I wouldn’t bore you with the specifics on the coat, but the masks had actors makeup on it. Various kinds in fact. Now that took us to the wardrobe department, figuring that if the killer was from the set that would be where one would obtain a mask covered in makeup from. Turns out that was right and some of the wardrobe was missing. Now what do you suppose the odds are our killer sourced his murder weapon from the set as well, sir? We checked on the props department and while there’s many standard ways to identify a gun that aren’t really worth going into this late in the season. After all, the common viewer knows the basics. We can tell it’s been fired recently on account of the smell, the type of bullet found in the victim matched the type of firearm in the props department. Circumstantial things that warrant a trip to the lab where further nvestigation can even insure what bullet was fired by what gun through markings left on the bullet by the barrel. Course, knowing we had the gun that was used in the murder doesn’t do us much good if the gun can’t be tied to anyone. You’d need something like a caught thread, or fingerprints. Ah! But our killer has an airtight alibi, as we actually say, sir. You see the murder took place at exactly 20:50. And our witness claims at that exact time the killer was watching the game with him. Ya see, he’d just lost ten bucks on a bet at that time. Now, he might’ve zonked out before and after that, but unless our killer could turn back time there’s just no way he could have made it all the way to our victim in time to murder her. Why, it would take at least an hour and a half to do all that and get back, sir. Oh, just one more thing… The ending where the clever tv detective forgets to clear his prints and that’s what gets him caught? Well, I just can’t figure how that would be a satisfying conclusion in any other episode, sir, but perhaps it was a reference to our own issues in recording where the actor flubs a detail consistently in the 3rd act. Forgets a line perhaps. Then that might make it okay to have the killer forget something for once too in that context. After all, one is based on the other. A little inside joke.

[@kevinobrien9626]

@@ryonalionthunder Of course, Columbo's prints are all over those goddamn bullets, sir, when he holds them up at the end, a fact that a competent defense lawyer would raise in court. I guess I will never understand the alibi question. In reality, the guy conked out at the 3-2 pitch and Shatner left to commit the murder. In the set up, the guy thinks he fell asleep during the 3-2 pitch, woke up just after the 3-2 pitch, then promptly conked out for good. It's practically the same exact thing happening twice. What would stop Shatner from leaving at that exact moment and committing a second murder? NOTHING, because the guy is out cold in the fake timeline, exactly as he was in the real timeline.

[@kevinobrien9626]

The alibi is dumb; it is meaningless. The guy conks out in mid-game. He is unable to verify what happened after that inning.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Superman

[@master-kq3nw]

shera danese firsat appeareance i think peter falk meet her in this episode

[@Blueboy0316]

Batman isnt the world's greatest detective. There i said it. (Not that i expect many to dissent, especially if you're watching this)

[@user-qs7bs6cf6x]

エンタープライズ号の船長として宇宙で活躍していると思ったら、地球で人殺していたのか。残念。

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

😇speak in tounges.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Mine

[@pauldavies5611]

This was the episode I least liked. I can’t stand Shatner.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Those two speak in tounges from now on.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Superwoman 🦸‍♀️

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

I'm royal navy boxing champion.

[@fuklnord]

Why are you lying

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

I'm royal navey boxing champion.

[@wayneyadams]

2:45 So she had her hands up when she was shot, plenty of thieves are vicious killers who wouldn't think twice about shooting a defenseless woman in the back while her hands were up. It was a contrived excuse to drive the plot forward. 8:00 Oops, Columbo! Artillery men don't shoot handguns, they shoot artillery, you know cannons, mortar, things like that, an artillery man would not be an expert marksman.

[@scheikundeiscool4086]

Military personall all go trough basic training. You can be a makrsmen and be in the artilery unit.

[@wayneyadams]

@@scheikundeiscool4086 That is NOT what was implied by the statement, and you know that!!!! The implication was that he was a marksman because he was in the artillery unit!!!!!! There's always one clown in every group who has to put in his two cents, and you are that one.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

Mine

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

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