Times When Columbo Used the Murderer's Tricks Against Them | Compilation | Columbo

[@Davtwan]

One of Columbo's traits is how fast he picks up on things (but acting like he doesn't understand). A couple of his suspects even complimented on how he's a quick learner at the latter half of episodes.

[@KBJade39]

I love the ending when Colombo is introducing the undercover detectives for the set up scene. So extra

[@Malrottian]

I've always believed that Columbo was just describing how the set up worked and the director was in the middle of a mental breakdown and imagined it that way.

[@Davtwan]

Alex would have known better if his ego and overconfidence didn't get in the way. There are plenty of officers that have to go undercover, so they know a thing or two about acting.

[@davidstankiewicz2049]

What episode was that? Would be wonderful to watch.

[@KBJade39]

@@davidstankiewicz2049 Season 8 Murder, Smoke And Shadows I do mean 20:27 on this vid

[@doctordeej]

When I was undertaking detective training many years ago, one of the instructors, a Detective Sergeant of many years experience, claimed that Columbo was the most realistic police series ever. We all thought ‘what?’. Then he went not o explain that pretty much all police detective work was about asking questions, the right questions. And after many years of investigations I can honestly say - he was 100% correct. I even told a lecture theatre full of criminology students today the same thing. Of course, not many knew who Columbo was. Suffice to say, they do now.

[@Domesthenes]

I kind of wonder what a modern-day take on Columbo would look like. Who would you get to play him, would the show strive to be as accurate as this, and would there be more of a focus on "action" as opposed to the slow-burn of the original show?

[@h3rpad3rpacifilis]

@Domesthenes I think all they have to do is keep it simple. Modern detectives always have some kind of superhuman gimmick, which is the complete opposite as to how Columbo operates. He's just a regular guy who has a lot of life experience, and very perceptive to emotional and social cues. The pacing is very slow for modern audiences for sure, but I think cutting it to around 20-30 minutes is very doable and all they really need, considering a lot of the time is spent kinda just poking and prodding the suspect's patience.

[@chrisklecker]

I think it would still work even given the technology. Remember the show is about police work, not really a murder mystery. In the end, they can do what Law and Order does, just spin it for the Columbo universe. There are some episodes that especially work today like Murder Under Glass, How to Dial a Murder, Try and Catch Me, and so on. These episodes were not about anything technical, they were all about piecing together the puzzle.

[@robert9016]

@@DomesthenesTimothee Chalamet is… Columbo 😂

[@Aethelhald]

@@Domesthenes Nobody could ever live up to Peter Falk as Columbo so I wouldn't even like them to try. However, as AI advances, I would love to see a cartoon version of Columbo with an AI voice re-creation. I'd love to see him in our modern world, being introduced to a smartphone for the first time.

[@kathleenschuman6131]

Peter Falk developed the character much more than the writers had in mind. What a perfect combination that turned out to be. He was flawless.

[@jrewing1512]

The part where Columbo wipes the floor with that arrogant movie director was pricless.

[@keithjones7390]

That caviar was to die for!

[@kenw.1112]

CAVIAR IS DISCUSTING AND GROSS!!

[@mikebasil4832]

Robert Culp sure knew how to play a cold-blooded killer.

[@psmith2714]

He played a spy in I Spy so he had practice.

[@SnowDaulphin]

Peter Falk must have thought so.

[@karlbassett8485]

When Mad Magazine spoofed Columbo they based the likeness of the killer on Robert Culp, and the character was "Dr Robert Culpable".

[@stevenj9970]

The best detective show ever made...........Thank you, Peter!

[@alaricblair5514]

EVER...

[@davidaston5773]

Thank you Peter Falk. NEVER be another one like you.... Just one more thing 💖

[@thelastdictator482]

Columbo repeatedly saying, "Mr Fisher," to young Fisher Stevens feels like Peter Falk harassing a young actor in the most Columbo way possible. Columbo was such a good show that you not only had the murder answered up front, but even watching how he eventually catches them doesn't spoil it because it's all about the journey of watching a bedraggled good cop torment rich arrogant jerks.

[@jeremybelcher1727]

The fact that his real name is Steven Fisher makes it better lol!

[@badcompany-w6s]

I have a hard time remembering things. So I started carrying one of those note pads in my shirt pocket. Everyone at work has started calling me Columbo. LOL!

[@20catsRPG]

They should call you Pinocchio instead, for being a liar.

[@DoofXMachina]

​@@20catsRPG mfers be calling everything fake

[@qualityman1965]

Robert culp looks exactly like one of my former bosses. He was one control freak, I will never forget.

[@michaelbezoski3096]

To the Master I bow. As others have said, "The best detective show ever made". Perfect description of the brilliant Columbo (did an absolute justice to his writers)!!!!! No one but Peter Falk could play the character so perfectly well.! Thank you so much. A great actor in every movie he played and starred in.

[@randomjunk1977]

Columbo went to a lot of extra effort to REALLY rub it in Fisher Stevens' face on that second one.

[@hemmojito]

Absolutely loved it☺

[@sshza2143]

21:35, we worth it😳😂🍻that🍻look😁✌😎

[@daniel_sc1024]

I'm not searching, I'm looking. 🤣🤣

[@StickFigureStudios]

I have long maintained that the best Columbo "Gotcha!" moments are the ones that involved the detective using the killer's own methods or expertise against them. It's a delicious irony. "Double Exposure" is arguably the best example of that and Culp's performance is fantastic. His facial expressions as it dawns on him what Columbo did are priceless.

[@CB-dg4gg]

11:01 that was some Solid Snake stealth behind that plant.

[@HaramXL]

😂😂😂

[@HaramXL]

What he would've given for a cardboard box 😂

[@aaronk534]

I love the old tech. Takes rooms and trunks of equipment thats all on our phones now or hanging on a keychain.

[@AstalThe9]

Ill be honest, I have never seen Columbo or grew up with him, but he seems an awesome guy. Would not want to meet him when hes working though!

[@sshza2143]

oh...and one more thing...your comment...🙌😁🍻✌😎

[@rfletch62]

Columbo as the ringmaster. Priceless.

[@theodorewatkins7284]

Everyone thought I was weird when I used to watch this show in the 70s. I'm 63 years old now and find myself caught up in watching reruns. Just for the clothing, the cars language, everything about colombo, and peter falk, I loved it incredible show. Oh yes and the beautiful women. Susan placechette laying on the boat.😉

[@kd17Burger]

It was a ratings hit and a critical hit during the 70's Why would anyone think you weird for watching this show ?

[@SRDhain]

I've seen these many times as I've had the series on box set(s) (each season on a different set), for years & they were shown on channel 5 in the U.K. on Sundays, for years on end. Even though you know exactly what goes down in each one (or maybe because of this), they're great for winding down with. Sometimes you notice new things, too. I noticed that the guy playing Milt at 9:34 , was also in an episode of Kojak around that same time period; he looked exactly the same. He played a blackmailer and had more screen time. At 21:32 , this actress goes on to play William Shatner's adopted daughter in the episode where Shatner's character murders her friend, who tries to help her ambitions as a writer.

[@phdtobe]

The number of greedy idiots who try to blackmail the murderers in Columbo episodes just crack me up. How can they fool themselves into thinking the murderer won’t also try to kill them?!!! 😂😂😂

[@sshza2143]

right,😏 i thought culp was gonna choke him out right there.😃 watta dingus🤦‍♂and continues to work for him🙄😁🍻✌😎

[@paulrandig]

And they ALWAYS forget to mention that they deposited their proof with several notaries. So if anything happens to them, the thruth would immediately be revealed.

[@yewhanlim8916]

Almost as bad as trying to blackmail a vigilante called Batman. It is not going to work out well.

[@florencepierce1864]

Peter Falk developed his character BEAUTIFULLY. Just ONE More Thing ... Sir. Chef's Kiss, Columbo! 👩‍🍳😘

[@SALTYH2O]

Robert Culp can kidnap me anytime 😂

[@EdRushing-te3sc]

Robert Culp was excellent in every project. His early days in Outer Limits is legendary.

[@karenpato1]

When the gum starts sticking to the shoe.

[@sshza2143]

uh oh,😳 columbo🏆😁🍻✌😎

[@dewforpolitics]

Could you imagine Columbo working with Grand Admiral Thrawn? They would be unstoppable sleuths.

[@tmp-3mtempest79]

"There's just one thing that's been botherin' me, maybe you could clear it up. If you weren't there, then how DID that happen? It was so... ARTFULLY done!" - Grand Detective Thrawn Columbo

[@maverikmiller6746]

11:15 I googled a bit and there is no "single tube caliber converter" for a handgun. The only thing came up was a "conversion kit". That is a hard large hand carry that includes the whole top slide part of the gun and a complete new magazine (these are %70 of the all parts of the gun). Also if the gun was fired there would be residue of burnt gunpowder all over the internals and externals (around the ejection port) of the gun. It has nothing to do with an "internal converter cylinder".

[@Futur3sGamer]

Excellent

[@mikebasil4832]

The final scene between Peter Falk and Fisher Stevens is among the most excellent.

[@michiel5379]

I always found a big plothole with the 1st one the fact that the murderer could have removed that converter at any point in time, instead he left that critical piece of evidence in his office... 🤔🧐

[@casda1972]

Why keep it in the office at all??

[@johnfinnegan8474]

Presumably because he didn't have time to dispose of it anywhere else as nobody was allowed to leave the building without being searched. In other episodes Columbo always seems to be there when killers are trying dispose of the evidence. Like the one where the old lady is trying to dispose of her murdered nephews car keys into the ocean but somehow Columbo appears right beside her.

[@patrickjohnson5658]

But he did try to remove it at that particular point in time. He had no idea Columbo was hiding in the darkness, or that he had made subliminal cuts in the movie he was watching of him looking around his office. In another episode where he ran a private detective agency, Columbo caught him searching his car for a contact lens that supposedly fell out of the the murder victims eye when he was driving with her body in the back of his car to dump it.

[@gophersmith]

I think it was a plot hole. If Dr. Keppel had placed the converter anywhere but his office, Columbo's subliminal cuts would have had no effect.

[@casda1972]

I get the immediate hiding following the murder (although no-one actually searched him) - but at the end we are days or weeks away from the murder - why is it still hidden in the lamp? The only reason is to support the final gotcha.

[@PrimarchMatterion]

"Roger" who came in to help the Doc. That was the Dude that was the Rancor trainer in Return of the Jedi.

[@benberkhof4265]

Still weird that Culp never removed the converter

[@martinfinn1550]

Maybe like Columbo admitted to him he would never have thought of looking for a calibration converter, never mind one hidden in a lamp. So he probably thought it was a perfect hiding place for it nobody would ever think of looking in.

[@TJay41]

The man’s ego trapped him, he thought he was so much smarter than everyone else, especially Columbo, but that’s here he messed up, he underestimated Columbos thinking ability dumb move

[@patrickjohnson5658]

Columbo was looking for a gun not a converter. So it would seem to me it was not urgent that Culp removed the converter from the lamp with any haste, and it could have been safely left there until the lightbulb eventually burned out and needed to be changed.

[@kerchydaproductions6384]

My grandfather kinda acts like Colombo, especially if I’m trying to hide something from him. He acts just like Colombo safe to say I haven’t really hidden that much stuff from my grandfather because he can sniff it out like a bandit due to all that military training he’s had since he’s a retired Vietnam vet. He’s a bit younger than Peter Falk and by a bit I mean a lot younger than him Mr. Falk was born in 1927 where as my grandfather was born 1948 but I swear he walks like him and has his mannerisms and candor sometimes it’s almost eerie

[@leesullivan98]

the new show, Elsbeth is a throw back of Colombo check it out😊

[@Maja_J]

Its not Colombo was't autisticspectrum exentric he was great observator and detectiv and use his look as weapon almost all villians in show dont take him serious because of that and its work really well for him.

[@lisawilliams2013]

I like Poker Face, which was more directly inspired by Columbo. It’s edgier, protagonist more flawed, but it’s fun. Even the show’s credits are a throwback to older episodes of Columbo!

[@TheInquisitiveMug]

@4:28 Noooo, not Charlie's landlord!

[@CB-dg4gg]

14:45 it was more fun when Lillard

[@20catsRPG]

Except the second case is irrelevant. Watch the restaurant scene. The secretary can only confirm he took a phone call from Fisher, and he can explain that in a number of ways. Also, she was the one who asked to go on holiday, as she put it 'on a long paid vacation, maybe a cruise' - he didn't offer it as a bribe, he merely agreed and he can just say it was because he wanted to treat his secretary for all the long years she worked for him. He will walk, they got nothing on him.

[@patrickjohnson5658]

In Columbo episodes the viewers are the judge and the jury and we know he is guilty of murder and Columbo got the right man. There are no lawyers or court trials in Columbo shows. That's all that really counts at the end of the day.

[@DaveMillman]

11:10 he probably meant to say "Caliber converter" as in a cylinder that could be inserted into a 45 cal pistol to allow it to fire 22 cal rounds.

[@maverikmiller6746]

I am not sure if this is real. I haven't google it, but I have a feeling it does not exists.

[@robhaver8704]

but that creates another issue, as the bullet that killed was determined as a 22kaliber and the guns in the display were both 45', so either Colombo knew about a possible 'converter' or he had no reason at all to excamn the 45 kaliber handguns.

[@cottagechskitty]

Blackmailers are killed on "Columbo". Almost every time. Assistants too

[@joggingscissors632]

Makes me miss the days when white collar murderers used handkerchiefs to wipe fingerprints.........like gentlemen. Sigh

[@SnowDaulphin]

He tricks Milos (Robert Conrad) with the recording of a dead man. Doesn’t incriminate the murderer but it flips him off.

[@nettiewolverinethunderbird8341]

Did he say Belusha?? Its Beluga..the cutest whales ever

[@francisspratley7212]

The last one about the young movie maker was beautifully written and acted and photoshopped.🎥⭐👁️👏🏽

[@francisspratley7212]

I meant photographed.

[@FunkHead]

Legendary

[@Seyer40]

Was Fischer Stevens young director supposed to be a parody of Steven Spielberg?

[@Synthematix]

Is that Jack tramiel ?

[@TheFoggyjones]

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

[@EchoParkMovies]

0:07 Subliminal cuts

[@StefanTravis]

I wonder how many people still believe in subliminal suggestion, just because they saw it on Colombo.

[@adelalax3553]

Someone thinks money gives you power? To do what? To think you are better then other poor people gues what you put your pants one leg at a time also!

[@Muck006]

Just listen to all the Hollywood celebrities getting outraged by the election result ...

[@blueman1904]

The Culp guy was known to be Debra's father in Everybody loves Raymond.

[@NancySanders-om4ic]

He was in"I Spy," also and the Western series,"Track down."

[@MrRobby1]

The narrator of the subliminal picture movie sounds like William Shatner. I think it was and that it was uncredited in the credits. Is anybody agree or know if it's someone else?

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I believe Falk and Shatner were friends. They did two or three Columbo episodes together.

[@punkinuk1]

According to IMDb, it's Peter Walker

[@MrRobby1]

@@punkinuk1 could that be an alias that William Shatner uses??

[@punkinuk1]

@@MrRobby1 I never thought of that. Could be true, I suppose, but would William Shatner's ego allow him to do that, do you think?

[@MrRobby1]

@@punkinuk1 I've seen that episode so many times ( I've seen all of them so many times LOL) and every time I watch this one I hear William Shatner. And since they were friends and it was a very small off camera role it's possible he didn't want to give attention to his own name because Robert Culp and Peter Falk were the headliners. I don't know but that's just my opinion.

[@jeremyeddlemon]

13:08 Steve Jobs ???

[@neilkematch6598]

Columbo was annoying but, he was not boring.

[@Muck006]

Columbo TOOK HIS TIME and it was always "getting to the explanation through the backyard ... up the fire ladder ... in through the window at the roof. Personally I like that style, because the obvious straight line for the quick resolution is boring.

[@keithjones7390]

It was always interesting to see what Columbo was going to ask the suspect in his "Just one more thing" moment.

[@kurtsmith9564]

Never understood why they try to blackmail a murder, sonthey really expect them not to be murdered themselves?

[@valeriasorica1688]

Ieri și azi am căutat pe Amazon colecția completă a seriei Colombo. Din păcate nu am găsit cu traducere în limba italiană. De limba română nici nu poate fi vorba!😊...mai ștept și mai sper! Până atunci mă mulțumesc cu ce văd aici și la TV. Uneori mă gândesc cum ar fi decurs anchetele sale în lumea de azi?! 👏😇

[@derekbrou]

One of my favorite times when Columbo used the murderer's tricks against them was when that one murderer beat the victim to death over the course of several days, in kind of a no bells and whistles scenario, and so Columbo just did the same thing to them, seemingly taking a good amount of pleasure out of it and not letting them eat or go to the bathroom or nothing, and he's bleeding everywhere crying begging that he doesn't wanna die and he'll sign anything Columbo wants him to sign and then that detective Wilson character was like "gee sir I think this is a bit outside standard operating procedure, and the fact that you picked this guy randomly out of a crowd has me worried this might be a false confession" and Columbo's like "I don't give a g** d*** about no false confessions son, I always get my f**** man, I don't care who it's gotta be, some son of a b** going down for this one way or another" and then he shoots the guy dead straight up. They end up not really getting the confession since Columbo kills him before he signs the confession but it's a cool revenge plot for the gumshoe detective

[@cosmicspacething3474]

you talking about a different show?

[@albertchehade9916]

Dear lord! Is that ......celluloid? 😂🤣😂

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

Like most Columbo cases this would never hold up in a court of law.

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

@ I meant in real life. We all know the rich and the powerful get the best defense money can buy, and those lawyers would poke money holes in these cases. In this case, breaking into the office and inserting messages into an existing film would be thrown out court unless he had a judges order. It’s fun to watch these shows but in reality he would get very few convictions.

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

@ does he? The shows are very entertaining but as I said, he would get very few convictions in real life.

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

Furthermore, some of these high profile people would refuse to speak to him without a lawyer. Anyway, it’s a great show.

[@patrickjohnson5658]

@@KamillGran-ch5sb A few years ago I was reading a Columbo blog where it said the screen writer don't write Columbo for the courts, just for the viewers who already know who the killer is. That way they don't have to close all the legal loopholes the killer might use to evade justice for their crime. It is not a court drama like Perry Mason.

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

@ exactly, and a great show it is.

[@harshnaini]

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[@sshza2143]

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