Finale of "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" | Columbo

[@mikeoleary5444]

"A good trick, Lieutenant. Clearly, that kid is blind!"

[@doug6259]

It occured to me that both times George Hamilton was caught by Columbo, a dog was involved in the solution.

[@mumblesbadly7708]

The dogs can sense that he isn’t a dog lover.

[@Futur3sGamer]

Oh yh, good call

[@shaz2761]

It's a running joke. They were gonna do that every time he guest starred

[@rita8684]

george went ,,,,,,a dog,,,,,,,,,remind me when he busted Patrick McGoohan......over a bite of cheese lol.....george went a dog,,,,,,,pat went ,1 bite of chesse lol..😊😊😊

[@bernadettecros855]

Indeed❤

[@patmcbride9853]

"This better be worth my time." "How about 20 to life?"

[@brainyclassmates4372]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michaeljohnson5365]

I find it very funny how Columbo follows the suspect around as if to say that he knows who did it but needs evidence and then nails the suspect!

[@wayneyadams]

Caught by hedges and a dog, only Columbo would notice that. I'm not sure it would be enough to convict him, but it is still great detective work.

[@lukacunningham342]

“Nails the suspect”? Was that pun intended?

[@jimschuler8830]

It's simply amazing the motion tracking security cameras had back them.

[@darrengriffin8609]

Give over you pedant.

[@ericssmith2014]

“You see sir, the camera pans to follow you as you cross the room, like in a TV show. And that’s what’s bothering me, sir. Who hires a camera operator, maybe even a focus-puller, to run a security camera? It makes no sense, there’s no need for the production values. Unless! Unless you knew this footage was your alibi, sir. You knew because you planned the crime.”

[@Wooden_Badger]

@@ericssmith2014 underrated comment!

[@slotman777]

We miss you Peter Falk and Columbo 😢👍such a great show

[@michaelmartinez1345]

Nobody gets away with murder with detectives like Columbo around... Not even George Hamilton...

[@KravKernow]

I like that Colombo is cool about the dog scratching his car.

[@keithjones7390]

The scratches wouldn't look out of place on Columbo's car! 😮

[@garyjones2561]

"How should I remember every dog I see?" 🤣 Well you're gonna remember this one buddy.

[@LTamazil]

It's so cute that the kid is wearing a shirt that says, "gotcha!" on it.

[@melodiefrances3898]

I love how he always totally gets on their nerves 😂😂😂

[@Bladerunner4924764]

Easier to slip up that way. Contradict a previous statement. Columbo is a genius.

[@rawbacon]

George Hamilton has been around forever, I'm surprised to see he's only 83.

[@Stinking82]

Haha I swear I thought of exactly the same thing. This was filmed in 1991 and he looks at least 65 here

[@jamespaul2587]

​@Stinking82 it was probably the excessive tanning he was into

[@SpottedSharks]

Hamilton was the bad guy in the original series run.

[@Bladerunner4924764]

Well, he is a vampire after all.

[@zaxonov]

When I watched this episode, I didn't see the 'Gotcha' written on the kid's T Shirt.

[@jjwhyte14]

Wow! You should be a detective yourself. 😊

[@davidmarshall5596]

Another excellent bit of detective work by the Lieutenant 😊🎉

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

The way the killers realised that Colombo was pretending to act stupid to catch them out and to incriminate themselves by admitting to the murder.. Colombo is a lot smarter than he lets on.

[@denisplante2193]

One of the best episode !!

[@blairbrown4812]

2:50 Precise moment you realize your death warrant has been signed. By *YOU!*

[@austinpittman1599]

That ending song is a bop.

[@sirrom5155]

Lou Tennant is my all time favorite tv character! I have watched every episode. I have never visited Columbo but it seems nice.

[@deadturret4049]

Nice

[@barbados3592]

columbo is exactly why you DONT TALK TO THE POLICE 😂😂😂

[@Profile__1]

Funny enough, Columbo is a great show to watch if you ever want to see how your rights protect you. Pretty much every single time Columbo catches them, with minor exceptions here or there, it's because he lies about evidence to get their confession OR because they say too much during their talks with him. I'd be willing to say that at least 80% of the suspects would've gotten off scot-free had they just gone "Talk to my lawyer."

[@BarbaraMalacarne]

One of the best episode

[@donarthiazi2443]

Strange that George Hamilton had a tan on this episode 😂😂

[@Bladerunner4924764]

That tan is George's costar, it comes out with him in every picture he's ever made. Gets equal billing in the credits: "George Hamilton and his tan". Are you kidding? He even had that tan in "Love at first bite"... where he played a vampire!

[@robhaskins]

For some reason George Hamilton used to annoy me so much-but I love him on Columbo.

[@kuribro443]

Guys I think Columbo saw the tape.

[@Tjthemedic]

Nice clip! Though, you keep on mislabelling the episode for season 10 clips.

[@davidnicholson6680]

I love how people always think they can dodge Columbo. He is a Police Detective investigating a murder. Sit down and listen.

[@fab92n15]

So great Episode

[@mrsbluesky8415]

George Hamilton played a pretty good villain but he seemed a bit wooden. Maybe his character was supposed to be this way. Still enjoyed it because Columbo is just fun to watch.

[@marlo_stanfield4410]

True I think the victim in this episode is telling him something like that.. I don't know if it was wooden but definitely something like that.. So I guess it was the character. When he played the psychiatrist he was completely different

[@kazamshah4543]

It was his second bite of the cherry. And he STILL did a lousy job!!! Terrible actor.

[@jax9574]

@@kazamshah4543 He did well in his first Columbo, he was really good there, cold and calculating

[@piggypooo]

Craig Mammalton! What a legend!

[@RussellFlowers]

Season 10, not season 3. That "relatively modern" VCR was giving me fits trying to reconcile it with 1974!

[@perry1055]

It was much better detective TV show than CSI series...

[@tomtransport]

Nice try Columbo but anybody with medical training can tell that dog is blind.

[@dihydrotestosterone]

I know what you did.... 😂😂😂

[@calvinjackson8110]

I'm like most everyone else. I miss Columbo (Peter Falk).

[@bird271828]

If Columbo is on to you, you might as well confess.

[@joanie3452]

So true.

[@Boxing_Gamer]

They all make the mistake of even talking to him. In most cases they've gone free had they kept their trap closed.

[@georgedavidson957]

always funny that the murderer thinks they can run away from Columbo.

[@frederickcour1]

Legendary

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

The Lieutenant wasn't hedging his bets on this one!

[@edwardhannah8507]

😎 YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!

[@wayneyadams]

When I see George Hamilton, all I can think of is Don Diego Vega from "Zorro: The Gay Blade" (1981). I don't usually like movies with prancing flamboyant gay men, but this was so over the top funny that is among my favorite comedies. I recommend it to anyone who is a George Hamilton fan. Don Diego: "There is something wrong with your bowels." Charlotte: "My bowels?" Don Diego: "Your bowels, a, e, i, o, u."

[@r0bw00d]

"I, of course, can't do that sir, given that I only have the one eye, but you get the picture."

[@accousticdecay]

BLOOPER ALERT! I have seen many surveillance systems, but never one anywhere near this vintage that follows a person moving around like this one did. Oops.

[@NiceTryLaoChe]

It uses the same tech as the doors from Star Trek. Those can tell when you're going to walk through them, and when you're going to walk up to them then turn around to say something dramatically.

[@tomf4889]

I thought that was going to be his one last thing.

[@accousticdecay]

@@NiceTryLaoChe Nice try but this is supposed to be real... in reality we don't beam down to a planet, either. Tech did not exist in off-the-shelf security cameras. It's a bona-fide blooper.

[@chrisklecker]

You can always time your walking with the camera.

[@thinkforyourself2109]

Forensics can never replace good old-fashioned Sherlock Holmes-style deduction.

[@manjackson2772]

But they can nail those deductions to the wall.

[@siobhanconneely4199]

The way he talks like Charlie from "POKER FACE".🎉

[@artchem1]

MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE BY COLUMBO aka.....THE GREAT AND BELOVED PETER FALK 💖😭🔱✡🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟☄🕯🥀

[@nicholasm5465]

We have a visitor in the cockpit - this is Joey Hammond!

[@TheClausHouse]

LOOK AT THE HEDGES!!!

[@brancracker]

Had to double-take the episode in the description because Falk looks older here. It’s S10, not 3

[@poplaysgames6540]

2m12s, must be the first example of 'enhance' in a cop show. 🤣 (Also, the surveillance cameras in the 70s apparently had motion tracking.)

[@dildonius]

This episode wasn’t from the 1970s. This is from the 1990s, maybe the late-1980s. They made episodes of Columbo all the way up to 2003.

[@RJSRdg]

@@dildonius First aired Feb 20 1991

[@dildonius]

@@RJSRdg That’s about when I figured. The fact that they’re watching a VHS tape should have been the dead giveaway. Those definitely weren’t a thing in the early and mid 1970s.

[@artmallory970]

@@dildonius Also the car he drove was an '86 Benz

[@dildonius]

@@artmallory970 I can forgive people for not recognizing the era when certain cars are from, but the second he pulled out a VHS cassette tape everyone (or at least every adult who was born in the 20th century) should know right away “OK, this one isn’t from the original 1970s show.” And the quality of the picture/clearness of the film should also be a giveaway. As should the rate at which Peter Falk had physically aged, and at which his voice had aged. Falk’s voice in the revival show always had a sort of “grandpa-ness” to it that got more and more pronounced as the years ticked on. Like you can almost hear his grandpa jowls lol. Just part of the aging process once you advance beyond your middle-aged period.

[@JayT89277]

He would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for that meddling kid and his dog.

[@toraritte-]

The kids t-shirt is pretty funny given the context.

[@jamesyoungblood6231]

Columbo only proved that Mr. Anders car was at the scene of the crime and that his alibi doesn't hold up. Even with that, Columbo can't actually show Mr. Anders was actually at Bud Clark's house at the time of the murder.

[@toddkes5890]

His alibi doesn't hold up, the provided tape has been tampered with, and he lied about being at Bud Clark's house. At this point a police detective would be asking if Mr Anders had ever had anyone else drive his car to Bud Clark's house and interviewing them, plus they would be very suspicious about any evidence Mr Anders provides. Mr Anders knew that with the fabrications found, it would only be a matter of time and additional charges for interfering in an investigation and providing false witness.

[@dchegu]

Tbf, the 70s columbo episode which starred George Hamilton was also quite weak in the ending. Dramatic but can be easily rebutted in court. Just like this episode.

[@aceckrot]

This is probably enough evidence to secure an arrest warrant; it's then up to the DA to prove that Mr. Anders is guilty of murdering Bud Clark.

[@markusbrauns4274]

There are always loopholes in the law, you just have to find them, and know when to use them.

[@paulrandig]

He can't even prove that Mr. Anders' car was at the scene of the murder. He can only prove that it was at the same place as the dog was. And that could have been at the shopping mall or any place.

[@kathconserv]

This is one of the newer episodes, and it wasn’t bad

[@ProudPapaJD]

Bruce Rivers is not going to be happy with his self snitching at the end!

[@bobogilvie7820]

Hahaha fair point. Bruce Rivers . He's the criminal lawyer. Spot on proud papa , spot on.

[@rafikz77]

Did Hamilton play 2 villains in Columbo or was that the same character many years later lol

[@MrGevander]

"Man's best friend." Well, not EVERY dog... and not EVERY man's best friend.

[@curiouswind9196]

Columbo doesn't ask who did it he asks how do I prove it to everyone else

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

ironic ... his closing words for his show ... and he didnt follow them ... the knowing look as they face each other too lol

[@YvonneBowe]

All of Columbo's cases collapsed in court.

[@alegriabenshitrit4646]

❤❤❤ columbo

[@crazyman8472]

A boy and his dog. 🐶

[@rabbiswhy]

Those eyebrows did so much.

[@shane87smith]

This is season 10 episode 2, not season 3. I was wondering b/c Columbo looks a lot older here

[@master-kq3nw]

George Hamilton second time in columbo

[@kazamshah4543]

Yeah, and he was STILL awful!!!!

[@master-kq3nw]

👍

[@sadev101]

does that dog have wolverine claws?

[@trevorochmonek9024]

I want to Listen the crime alert theme all the time at 5:25

[@christopherkraft1327]

However he did it, the Lieutenant nabs another murderer!!! 👍👍🙂

[@finbar481]

The paintwork on cars couldnt have been very good back then.

[@karrynemoron67]

Just one more thing...

[@greghester2720]

Anders; Bad dog bad!!

[@bilLaahi]

Expensive scratches

[@dudethebagman]

And did a court convict that man because of those scratches on a car?

[@Bladerunner4924764]

Enquiring minds want to know.

[@AmazingThor]

George Hamilton always plays an excellent a**hole 😊

[@Sinanfatma11]

Cool 😂

[@michirican]

Hamilton and Cassidy

[@mark27993]

Cassidy and Hamilton 😊

[@kevinwearing7720]

Doggone it.....he caught the murderer again

[@buckbuck9225]

That was a week episode

[@ajmittendorf]

Sorry, but the dog-claw marks indicate ONLY that the car had been to that house, not the guy. His wife or girlfriend or butler could have been driving the car.

[@kamath234]

Its season 10 ep 2

[@shaz2761]

In real life, police routinely parade little boys in front of murderers 😜

[@timcrook2231]

Tan tastic❤😮😢🎉😊

[@LegionIscariot]

I mean alot of time its really just nonsensical luck 😅

[@Sinanfatma11]

😂

[@AntiZi0ntaxpayer]

Not a strong closing of the case.

[@Cheezwizzz]

One of the weaker gotchas imho

[@rickrick5041]

They went for 75 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 Colombus 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 as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. They tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set. The mondo Columbus episodes were too short and the mondo 1950s TVs were too small to hold more than a 10 minute show even with Dylan Mulvaney. They didn’t have Claw Technology. Dylan Mulvaney did help. No harm no fowl. The proof is in the pudding.

[@patrickhamos2987]

pretty silly

[@OdyXeus7]

Love the show, but I don't think any of this is enough to prove anything tbh :D

[@rita8684]

people always write it will not stand up in court.....say that is the case,,,,,,you leaving the court room,,,,,you only be back to,,,,,,,just one more thing lol,,,,you go toilet ....columbo be there...lol

[@althalus3267]

Everything about George Hamilton looks fake.

[@EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv]

😂can gale and felicia lose their job here right now they keep cooking VILE food in the kitchen and it looks revolting they are spoiling my home here can they PLEASE lose their job here right now and go away and take their medication good medication and make sensible food that is tasteful and not horrid with a harmful smell PLEASE God good luck.

[@dougfowler1368]

As @JamesYoungblood6231 says it is weak but there could be more. Remember that the dog scratched the car so the dog could know him. The kid could also know him. True, he's pretty young, but Colombo is smart enough not to reveal that the kid happened to see the car there at the time of the murder, for the kid's sake as much as anything. Or, he could be trying to make the murderer think that there was an eyewitness to the dog scratching his car at the time of the murder. It could still be circumstantial but he didn't exactly arrest the guy either. Whatever else there is plus the fact the guy denied ever being there would at least be the start of a case. Or there's another scene that we just have to imagine.