I was the Magic Consultant on this episode and designed the look of that guillotine. I am in the credits.

@danielchae1452

Ай бұрын

There's a magic trick in this episode that Columbo ends up figuring out (with the help of a young magician) and I've always been curious how did the writers come up with it. Did the have a magic consultant during the writing of the episode as well?

@deecook8393

Ай бұрын

Very cool!!

@brucesinclair8663

Ай бұрын

@@danielchae1452 That was moi!

The psychic actor's portrayal really sells that he was a professional hack, I love it.

@iluvdissheet

Ай бұрын

So good 🤌🏾

@Mokkari77

Ай бұрын

Anthony Andrews. He starred in the 1981 miniseries Brideshead Revisited with Jeremy Irons.

@lornaweis7759

Ай бұрын

Also, in Ivanhoe with Sam Neill.

@dogberry20

Ай бұрын

And The Scarlett Pimpernel (1982) with Ian McKellen.

@carolgarland3282

Ай бұрын

And in the series Danger UXB.

I just love how the magician’s whole story got dismantled bit by bit. 😂😂😂

I much prefer the original run to the revival, but this episode is classic Columbo. The killer attempts to steer the lieutenant away by "helping," but only manages to tighten the rope around his own neck.

"...and when we do, maybe you can help us by reading his mind" 😅 That is both an excellent and utterly ridiculous line. So many ways to appreciate Columbo...

If I could read Columbo's mind listening to this guy rambling himself into a rabbit hole you can bet his BS meter is reading a solid 10. What a great show. Peter Faulk = Academy Award.

This psychic guy looked and sounded very familiar to me, so I looked into it and discovered he played Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, a TV movie based on the book of the same name. The film also includes Ian McKellan, long before he portrayed Gandalf.

@snorpenbass4196

Ай бұрын

He also played Ivanhoe in the 1983 TV movie - which is the only modern movie to have gotten medieval peasant clothes right (brightly colorful!).

@gailwilkinson8848

Ай бұрын

He is Anthony Andrews,, he was in UXB in 1976

@wayneharper2168

Ай бұрын

He also starred in the movie The holcraft covenant.

@TinyDancer250

Ай бұрын

Anthony Andrews

@soniavadnjal7553

Ай бұрын

Anthony Andrews. Played Sebastian Flyte in the tv series Brideshead Revisited.

Columbo vs Shawn from Psych would be like the immovable object vs the unstoppable force

The first Columbo episode in almost 11 years since 1978's "The Conspirators"; the first episode aired on ABC.

@ianmangham4570

Ай бұрын

Anthony Andrews Danger UXB 🇬🇧 🎬

@WilliamLucas-hy8mx

Ай бұрын

Clive Revill was beautiful AF in that episode

@martinfinn1550

Ай бұрын

Personally I never cared much for the conspirators episode. A new Zealand actor, Clive Revill, supposedly playing an Irish rebel from Belfast in Northern Ireland, but with a fake Southern Irish accent.

@ianmangham4570

Ай бұрын

@@martinfinn1550 Still a great accent he pulled off ,you looking for an Olivier award lmno

@martinfinn1550

Ай бұрын

@@ianmangham4570 You missed my point. Maybe if he was trying for a Southern Irish accent it would be fine. But the Belfast accent is completely different. Maybe the Columbo producers didn't know that or care. They just assumed in America nobody would notice, and everybody in Ireland talked with the same accent, north or south.

Every psychic is an actor who found a better paying gig!

Funnily enough, you can certainly undo a 'phillips' head screw with a 'blade' screwdriver by simply putting it between 2 of the slots instead of 4. You won't get as much purpose, but certainly possible...

@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286

Ай бұрын

Can do in a pinch, but why do it if you have a Phillips-head readily available?

@artmallory970

Ай бұрын

@@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286 Fair point. My OP was that that was far from 'concrete' evidence. In most ep's of Columbo, he relied on the suspect talking themselves into a confession or giving up certain evidence. Still a great series...

@ResettisReplicas

Ай бұрын

Unless the blade is too big to fit in there.

@tomasomaonaigh7659

Ай бұрын

OK Sherlock.

@Suthek

Ай бұрын

@@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286 Because, ironically, depending on the quality of the screw it's actually the better choice. Low quality PH-Screws have a tendency to get stripped easily. In those instances you can get much better traction with a slit screwdriver.

Anthony Andrews , Minus his teddy bear!

0:59 "...as tangible as brick." Yeah, somebody stepped on a Lego right there. You should move a bit to your right so it doesn't cloud your reading.

His bad eye is really obvious when he is explaining the slotted screwdriver. Another thing you would not have noticed on the original broadcast of the show.

My grandparents played this most of the time. I think it's the reason I can figure out who dunnit in like 70% of all mystery movies.

The way Columbo let him make a fool of himself😅😅😅

Anthony Andrews is one of the best actors ever.

Thx..!!!

This dude was terrific in Under the Volcano playing opposite Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset.

Antony Daniels was superb in this episode as Psychic Tony Blake one of his best performances also David Learner as Max Dyson is superb too And One More thing Peter Falk is on top form My Favourite episodes

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

C-3P0 wasn't in this episode.

The Englishman had played Sebastian on the PBS series, Brideshead, a successful series.

Re the screwdrivers, here's a thing. When my first girlfriend and I moved into our flat i was trying to fix something, and I asked her to pass me a screwdriver. "Do you want a plus or a minus?" she asked. Now, I'd never thought of them like that before, but get one of each and look at them end-on, and you'll see them in a new light!

Unfortunately this episode had one of the stupidest endings to a _Columbo_ episode. Add the obnoxious kid in the magic shop as a cherry on top.

Anthony Andrews also portrayed the evil incestuous brother Robert Mariell in "Haunted". An awesome movie!

A magician and entertaining psychic must also be an escape artist. Columbo should have asked how ge got in not out. As a professional locksmith it's quite easy.

7:15 - The collar is interesting. I have been trying to think of an explanation that could be used in court. I would say that the collar had evidence of the victim's blood in it, due to a previous accident. The victim could have had an accident, where blood of his dripped on to the collar at some point. Blood dries in, and there it is on the collar.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

That's why you don't come up with ideas until you have more information. There's more to the collar than just the blood.

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Please fix the description. You misspelled Columbo's name as "Clumbo".

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

Hm, combine the C and L and reverse them to get a D...By Jove, Watson! I know who did it!

Why would a single man buy 3 pounds of corned beef? Was he going to eat nothing but corned beef and cabbage for a week? Did he have a secret family? It doesn't add up!

@artmallory970

Ай бұрын

It was 3 pounds, & he could have been planning on eating it over the next few days/week...

@logicalchaos9008

Ай бұрын

@artmallory970 I corrected my mistake.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

Church was still a thing back then. Perhaps his next Sunday would've had a fellowship meal.

Frosty

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What is his name? Not colombo

@lotovsvs

Ай бұрын

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@byh388

Ай бұрын

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@lotovsvs

Ай бұрын

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@gailwilkinson8848

Ай бұрын

Anthony Andrews he was in UXB 1976

@byh388

Ай бұрын

@@gailwilkinson8848 🥰

I do miss the days when we all dressed to impress and had self respect.

@superubergoober

Ай бұрын

i prefer the days where people can dress how they feel most comfortable and happy as opposed to impressing people theyll never see again. why older people tend to abstain from personal freedom ill never understand

@martinfinn1550

Ай бұрын

@@superubergoober Personal freedom is relative, they didn't see it that way. If some people had their way they would go walking the streets stark naked on a hot day.

@devonrule1412

Ай бұрын

Columbo is famously disheveled and unfashionable in a way that often leads his snobbish clients to underestimate him.

@superubergoober

Ай бұрын

@@martinfinn1550 of course its relative, but so is everything else. the fact that older people still harp on the new generations for wearing light, comfortable clothing is foolish. the only thing that matters is if youve got your bits covered, saying people dont have self respect for wearing clothes they find comfortable is being overly sensitive

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5:05 - Now the screwdriver. The victim could have been experimenting with his equipment. He could have been trying out different screwdrivers to see which can do the job best. Trial and Error, and sadly he made a bad error in this case. Just because he had a different screwdriver in his hand, doesn't mean anything suspicious. He was simply testing them out, when the incident occurred.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

You've never used a screwdriver, I see.

@johnking5174

Ай бұрын

@@r0bw00d Remember this is what a lawyer would do. I am just giving explanations of what they would propose as an alternative.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

@@johnking5174 So my observation is correct. Got it.

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If I was facing corned beef and cabbage, I'd be looking for the nearest guillotine too. My emigrated kid sister in New York had a grim St Patrick's Day this year - all the Yanks around here put on a big Corned Beef And Cabbage meal, because they were convinced That's what Irish people eat (she didn't know how to tell them that *nobody* in Ireland eats corned beef and cabbage, which sounds disgusting).

@rnash999

Ай бұрын

It is good though. Seasoned beef and cabbage with some potatoes is not a bad meal.

@stephaniecorporandy7018

Ай бұрын

I love corned beef and cabbage. It's supposed to be good luck to eat it on New Years Day. I don't tempt fate eat it every NYD.

@martinfinn1550

Ай бұрын

The Irish traditional meal as far as I am aware is cabbage and bacon served with plenty of potatoes and copious amounts of butter.

2:10 - Right, let me have a go at trying to dismantle Columbo's argument. First the food the victim bought on the day he was killed. Suicidal people can have drastic changes in mood. The victim could have been happy enough when he went to get the food. But when he arrived back, having time to think, depression quickly set in, which caused him to consider killing himself. Bipolar episodes can cause people to have drastic mood swings.

@kenle2

Ай бұрын

It's one indication that this was a set-up. Columbo, like most perceptive cops, looks for cumulative evidence.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

Unless the victim had a history or mood swings or a diagnosis of bipolarism (which he obviously didn't, else this scene would be different), then you're chasing leads where there are none.

I'm not falling for this. If you're going to present Columbo, you should present whole episodes or at least take the scenes to the end. This is cheating your viewers. I won't trust you again.

@soniavadnjal7553

Ай бұрын

No need to fall. Copyright doesn't allow showing the entire film. Only highlights. They appear on yt from time to time. I don't mind. I still enjoy watching Falk/Columbo, even for a few minutes.

@r0bw00d

Ай бұрын

Keep watching until the scene is over and then read the end card. Perhaps then you'll see what's going on.