I remember this episode, "Uneasy Lies The Crown". It was clever that Lieutenant Columbo remembered that Dr. Corman admitted he wasn't good at chemistry. Once again, attention to detail.

@stephenwoehr6500

2 жыл бұрын

When I first saw the title before the show began, I wondered how that fit into it. When Columbo fingered Dr. Corman, I about died of laughter.

@andrewkatz7079

2 жыл бұрын

45

@donnscopman8102

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@paradoxdea

2 жыл бұрын

That's what it takes to be a great detective.

@kimmccabe1422

2 жыл бұрын

Either was Columbo lol. He was tricking the perp..

"Forget it! Just forget it, will ya?.....There's no need. Just leave it be." Columbo is so relieved because if they had looked, the tooth wouldn't have been stained blue. He got his confession seconds before they discovered his bluff!

@FFKonoko

Жыл бұрын

Would have been a few more, having his father there slowly extracting it would have been a steady pressure. The demonstration convinced him and he already knew the truth so he broke.

@midwayinn1043

Жыл бұрын

@@FFKonoko so irl porcelain won't turn blue with water and digitalis?

@JackFoxtrotEDM

Жыл бұрын

@@midwayinn1043 No. It won’t. He was using it to bluff. It wasn’t digitalis he used in the demonstration.

@midwayinn1043

Жыл бұрын

@@JackFoxtrotEDM Thanks👍

@domvasta

Жыл бұрын

@@midwayinn1043 no, but modern GCMS can detect digoxin (active ingredient in digitalis) at pg/L levels, so a lethal dose, even in a corpse, would still show, and you could do tissue sampling to show that it initially diffused from the tooth, rather than the stomach, which it would have if he had been poisoned conventionally.

This was the first episode of Columbo I ever saw. I was too young to get the whole idea, but the scene where Columbo figures out the poison was coated, and this part where he tricks the culprit, was ingrained in my brain long before I ever realized it was Columbo. My stupid 5yo brain somehow superimposed Joe Pesci in place. Peter Falk will always be my gateway to detective fiction!

@Killgore316

2 жыл бұрын

Joe Pesci would make a great Columbo though

@trifontrifonov4297

2 жыл бұрын

I think if somehow Joe Pesci heard that story he would be honoured of being mistaken for Falk at his best.

@parasharkchari

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just picturing this scene going on with Pesci... "What do you mean I'm bananas? Like how am I bananas? What, am I some sort of fruit to you? I'm here to feed your gaggle of monkeys? Am I just here to amuse you as I dance around in my yellowness shouting that it's peanut butter jelly time? Come on! Tell me! How am I bananas, huh?"

@SallySallySallySally

2 жыл бұрын

@@parasharkchari LOL. Your comment wins the internet here!

@skibum6681

2 жыл бұрын

Yj

You know when it's arrest time when columbo has his brown paper bag with him😁

@danfrank6978

5 ай бұрын

This episode required double bagging.

@NbSkaz

2 ай бұрын

LMAO 100%

This for me was one of the best episodes of the Columbo remakes. The dentist kills the man who was seeing his wife by poisoning him with an overdose of digitalis, the same heart medicine his wife was on, and from her own prescription supply which he stole. That way he could blame it on his wife who was about to divorce him over his gambling addiction among other things. His mistake was adding the poison to the drink bottle after he was dead. Columbo could tell the poison was not in the drink glass when he drank from it thus exonerating his wife. Which left the dentist himself as the prime suspect.

I'd bet no other actor in TV history handled more props or did so with this level of expertise than Peter Falk.

@watson956

2 жыл бұрын

Falk must have had a blast rehearsing and performing the chemistry set scene !

@kaboom-zf2bl

Жыл бұрын

Richard Dean Anderson ... McGyver

@cameroni7798

Жыл бұрын

@@kaboom-zf2bl That's a good one. Perhaps they're in different categories, but still, a good suggestion.

@NbSkaz

2 ай бұрын

Plus he had no depth perception.

This was one of the best Columbo Mysteries. He always found the biggest weakness and/or source of vanity to trap his suspects. This one was classic, as even I knew that he was bluffing but because the killer didn't know his stuff... however.. his retort to his wife at the end.. on some level he really believed that and that is worse...

3:13 The look from the father to his son, his smile. Priceless.

@eddherring4972

Жыл бұрын

Wesley called his father-in-law dad. His daughter is Wesley’s wife. That’s why we get that subtle ‘gotcha’ smile.

@deebunny178

9 ай бұрын

​@eddherring4972 Makes sense. I wondered why he would be happy his son is going to prison. 😅

@abinashmishra329

4 ай бұрын

Some things money cannot buy. For everything else, there is MasterCard

However he does it, the Lieutenant always gets a confession!!! 🤯

@robinstevens7651

2 жыл бұрын

Maigret does too☺

@mikebasil4832

2 жыл бұрын

This one was surprisingly the simplest outcome for a Columbo episode that I can remember. Peter Falk of course made it work as always.

@malbig2344

2 жыл бұрын

Really....

@diamonddog13

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't hear an actual confession here though.

@akmi1931

4 ай бұрын

@@diamonddog13no but it’s as good as a confession when you stop an autopsy out of fear of what you’ll see.

I've watched every single episode of Columbo. No matter how many times I see any of his episodes, like this one, I laugh in anticipation and enjoy the moment like I did when I first saw them.

Slick. Real slick. I like it. He KNEW he was guilty; Frank could only guess.

What made Columbo such a great show wasn't trying to find out who did it. It was watching Columbo figure it out and paint the murderer into a corner.

3:30 That smirk his F-I-L gave was awesome! And then the wink to Columbo at 6:14 was the icing on the cake.

@hat-desu

Жыл бұрын

Timed right with the background music cue in case you miss it visually, too The small details in these are so excellent

I was fooled right till the end. I totally assumed Columbo was pulling out a smoking gun, rather than just using his finger as a pretend gun.

@nolanboles8492

2 жыл бұрын

I figured it was a trick--I mean, you can't really make a case with a child's child's chemistry set!--but I had forgotten his "evidence " was so flimsy only someone who had failed chemistry would be fooled by it. Clever bit of storytelling.

@michellemckillop5712

2 жыл бұрын

@@nolanboles8492 this is bull for another reason. If Columbo were telling the truth , that blue ink would’ve seeped through the dead man’s tooth and into his mouth AT the time of death. Sort of like what happens when you eat colored sugary candy. Hence, the coroners and everyone else who saw the dead body initially would’ve noticed the blue ink and the investigation would’ve begun with that. The dentist is a moron.

The series M.A.S.H. did a similar thing to catch a barracks thief: the prime suspect was told that the stolen items had been dusted with an invisible powder that would stain the culprits fingers purple. The young man hid his hands...

0:03 Working in background for a while I absolutely LOVE background acting like this. What kills me is the way they were acting you'd think they were louder than the murderer. Awesome!!!!!!!!

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

The people walking or the groups of two just chatting?

@henrymayo6349

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeathnoteBB See those two chatting? Usually when you're in background you'll mouth "peas and carrots" to your new friend. Plus another thing you won't be able to stop seeing...... Make a count of how many times you see the same person walk back and forth. Doesn't matter if it's in this show or any other, you'll have the same group of people get ping ponged back and forth. And had I said nothing you would have never noticed.

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

@@henrymayo6349 1. i meant who was being so loud they’d completely overtake the doctor yelling down the hallway 2. Yeah… i grasp the concept of extras. I’ve studied things like this before lol. No need to be so patronizing to people.

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

@@henrymayo6349 And don’t get me wrong, I find it an interesting topic and most people don’t notice, but yeah, that’s the point? You’re not supposed to notice. Acting like you invented the concept or personally introduced it to me is what ticked me off

@RochRich.

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeathnoteBB Guy wasn't being patronising. Guy misunderstood your vague comment and gave an explanation. What ticks me off is how much you're overreacting.

Now that I'm a defense lawyer, I look back at these Columbo episodes and find the flaws that would kill a case. Still, I find enjoyment in so many of these episodes. It has a very comfortable clam chowder, burger and fries kind of feel.

@patrickjohnson5658

2 жыл бұрын

True. I think according to the writers who write Columbo episodes, they don't write them so he has to gain a conviction in court against the murderers. They write them to make for a good TV show from his fans point of view where they can see Columbo follow up clues and catch the onscreen killer who kills near the beginning of every episode.

@qv2539

2 жыл бұрын

Gentlemen, it's just entertainment. 😁

@steveb9325

2 жыл бұрын

No one likes Lawyers. Lol

@zelori3636

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveb9325 That's just you.

@lemming3001

2 жыл бұрын

Usually the evidence Columbo brings up is flimsy at best, but usually his perk is so broken from his constant mind games they just confess at the end.

This is a professional detective series. My pleasure to watch on TV.

I will always love how confident the murderer is like “wow this guy is such a fool, he can’t find me out” before they absolutely get demolished.

Columbo with his clasdic 'Brown paper bag of incriminating evidence'. In th8s episode we get to see "the boys down at the lab" 😂😅

And this is why you keep your mouth shut and get a lawyer.

@patrickjohnson5658

2 жыл бұрын

A lawyer wouldn't be much good in this case as the murderer was caught on camera earlier on in this episode committing the murder..

@jt4369

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it. I'm a defense lawyer and you'd be stunned how many people are allergic to good advice.

@jt4369

2 жыл бұрын

@Fiona Satrap You know? I like the cut of your jib…lol.

Wow what a cunning detective Columbo really is, another slick truth extraction leaving the patient bloodied and reeling in agony.

Another case the great detective could get his teeth into! 🙄 It was a novel way of committing a murder, and he might have got away with it, had it been an ordinary detective on the case!

@13muller9

2 жыл бұрын

Ordinary detective like inspector Clouso of Pink Panter?!!!!

@stainlesssteelfox1

2 жыл бұрын

Columbo can always extract a confession, filling in the details and crowning it with a incisive reveal that drills through the suspect's alibi and results in them spitting out an admission of guilt.

@lclarke7156

2 жыл бұрын

@@stainlesssteelfox1 great play on words!

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

Between this and B99, dentists are great at murder!

Excellent acting, great story, classic Columbo!

Columbo never has enough evidence to convict, but the killers always crumble and confess.

I would never have admitted to it until seeing the proof.

Columbo is a GENIUS at solving homicide cases!

Columbo's voice always sounds like it's coming from an old TV speaker.

@donl1846

2 жыл бұрын

While he is using an old tube amp........

I am so glad these were movies not real life because despite the arrest, none of these would stand up in Court because defence would easily shred that trick.

His dad looks so smug to see him arrested for murder.

When will these killers ever learn? Better Call Saul!

@jack002tuber

2 жыл бұрын

Justice for you

@michellemckillop5712

2 жыл бұрын

Who’s Saul?

I hope he's coming back as a real investigator.

THE DOCTER JUST STANDING THERE 100% LOST......lol.....calls columbo bananas ........ha ha ha ha......

Rest in powerful peace Peter Falk 🙏 16 September 1927 ~ 23 June 2011⚘

This is one of my favourite episodes certainly in my top 3. I like Columbo Cries Wolf because of the fact that for 95% of that episode Columbo is wrong. I suppose rounding out my top 3 would be Swan Song because of Johnny Cash. I also love Patrick McGoohan’s Oscar Finch and Jack Cassidy never turned a dud performance. Thinking about it, Columbo is obviously Peter Falk and his flawless portrayal but there are so many superb guest stars supporting him, I think every episode is superb.

Love this episode & even loved they explained about those pills with all the different colours and beeds. In UK remember seeing them as a kid and being fascinated by them buy lucky not stupid enough to eat them. This is one of my fav later episodes. Always thought if only the guy hadn't said "Just leave it" Columbo wad very lucky with his bluff but then again we know Columbo knew him well enough that he knew he could get away with the bluff. Another reason I like the episode is they have the old coffee machines I used to see here in the 80s & shows the reason they used to scare me. What would happen if they failed and just didn't stop pouring the drink :)

Makes you wonder how the hell they did all the stuff without the Internet… 😂

@rita8684

11 ай бұрын

it was easy like facebook and microsoft and amazon,,,,,,,it all started in and was done in some garage........😀😀😀😀😀

He’s not just a detective! He runs his own mobile forensic chemistry lab too! 😂😂😂

Love the Gilbert Chemistry set. Brings back memories, though mine was not that high end.

That chemistry kit! My older brother had one and I always wanted to play with it but nooo he was very protective of it and when I got older I couldn't find one like it.

Désormais ce dentiste a une bonne raison d'avoir une dent contre le Lieutenant (expression Française: "avoir une dent contre quelqu'un"). Merci pour la vidéo.

This ending scene just proves that Columbo is just faking stupidity and is actually a fullblown genius with him having faked the test, to him pretending to scratch his head and go “Laundry detergent? Why I be!” 😂 *i fricking love him*

Ok we're all thinking it: the villain here is clearly Minho of Shinee's great uncle

marvelous. thank u

This Ep - aired this past week. Thought, I watched it more than 50 times. .

I'm not a lawyer, but as clever as Columbo's bluff was, it smells of entrapment.

@davidalexander3320

Жыл бұрын

Not entrapment at all. Entrapment is when a police officer tricks or coerces someone into committing a crime so they can be prosecuted for it. Columbo didn't coerce him to commit murder or any other crime.

@JohnDrummondPhoto

Жыл бұрын

@@davidalexander3320 OK, it's not entrapment. But it could be considered a coerced confession since it was made in response to Columbo's lie. The defense could thus ask the court to rule the confession as inadmissible: if convicted, it could be grounds for an appeal. It's great for TV. But it's legally problematic IMO. And that's before considering that Columbo never Mirandized the guy.

@grf15

4 ай бұрын

Nope, wrong again. It is perfectly acceptable for the police to lie to a suspect. He didn't have to read the Miranda rights, the suspect wasn't under arrest, nor was he until AFTER he disclosed he was the guilty party. Then you read him his rights. Everything he said before is perfectly admissible, there were four witnesses. @@JohnDrummondPhoto

Of course in modern days this would be a bit too flimsy to hold up in court, but I always loved Columbo. RIP Peter Faulk.

@keithmartin1328

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of his evidence was flimsy 😅. But your right, I did enjoy Columbo, mainly the 70s episodes.

@keirgomcginlay2044

2 жыл бұрын

I don't quite understand people's fixation on 'in court' with Columbo. This isn't the case he would put to the DA. There's the general though this gets them the arrest and all the warrants they need to scour this guy's life and history and build an iron case for court. Murder trials can take years after all.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

2 жыл бұрын

@@keirgomcginlay2044 Well, just saying that in reality where we live virtually none of these cases would have held water. Most DAs probably would not even allow a lot of them to go to trial for lack of any actual evidence. Don't get me wrong, I love Columbo and I think Peter Falk is one of the best character actors of all time (check him out in "Murder by Death" too).

@keirgomcginlay2044

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustWasted3HoursHere Funnily enough, I just recently watched that film ^^ And I do understand, I'm just saying that I don't think they go to trial based on the end of the episode. I think they're just able to arrest the guy and get to work getting all the necessary evidence for a trial together. Also the artistic liscence of all crime fiction. 'This would actually take at minimum weeks to get through, but that would kill the pacing.' =p EDIT: Additionally, this actually gets touched on when a man confesses to a murder to spare his mentally ailing friend, and they talk about the months it will take to straighten out.

@CorelUser

3 ай бұрын

He did say "What I did was no worse than what you planned to do" in front of a room of witnesses...

im not sure if this could be considered entrapment....but one heck of idea.!!!

I prefer it when he finds the evidence and wins that way, not when he tricks them. I'm not opposed to tricking as a general rule, but the outsmarting through detective work is why one tunes into Columbo.

Great Épisode 😊

I love how the suspects usually confess to make it easy for columbo.

Love this show

NOW COME ON...THATS STRETCHING CREDULITY! BUT GENIOUS

Awesome science kit. They sure don't make them like that anymore. The more we 'progress', the more we regress.

Watching Columbo every day i am 63 something that many people may have missed its when COLUMBO said "i have digitalis here that Dr Johnson gave me" is that the DOCTOR was so surprised that if the dentist could read body language would instantly know that Columbo was actually lying

Love the camera angle on that conversation during the chemistry set part, Columbo was panned slightly down, and the killer you were looking up at him. Felt like you were standing in a circle with them. And the picture, so real, so rich. Even at 144p it's clear, a F1 video at this setting you can't see the cars in above shots and most of it is blurry squares. This father must have had a life time of wanting this, that was cold, he actually enjoyed him being found guilty.

I don’t understand why they always confess! Wait for the proof 😂

@truthlifefishing1730

2 жыл бұрын

Damned writers

@markseslstorytellerchannel3418

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is a valid point...however, it should be noted, these are amateurs and not professional killers . . . and as such make rookie mistakes.

@keirgomcginlay2044

2 жыл бұрын

Guilt is also hard to bear. From a logical perspective you can see how to get around it... if you aren't suffering a storm of emotions at the time.

@michellemckillop5712

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the husband was a moron bc even though Columbo had enough circumstantial evidence, that blue dye would have leaked all over the dead cheater’s mouth at the point of death. Therefore, none of this nonsense and no need to exhume the body in the first place!

Try cloning, recycling, rebooting, re-whatever. There was and will always be only ~~~~~~~~ONE COLOMBO~~~~~~~~

Never underestimate the genius Peter falk alias lieutenant columbo. & of course excellent script 👌

I was about to make a remark about the confession being obtained under false pretense, but there is nothing saying that an officer ~can’t~ lie in order to get a confession. They just can’t force one out of you or use intimidation tactics or coerce The dentist felt his deception unravel and volunteered the confession on his own. Though I will say that this one felt a little over the top. Usually Columbo will have a firm grasp of what happened and use that to exploit a suspects poor judgment or overconfidence, but here it was more about luck

"Do you know anything about chemistry?" "Nope." "So...I can say whatever I want and you'll just believe it?" "Yup."

😂 IS this the Inventor of BLUETOOTH !?

I frickin love Colombo.

Oh Colombo, you fox! You ol fox !!1!!´😅

"oh man are you bananas"

If LAPD had Columbo in real life around 1994, Johnnie Cochrane wouldn't have been able to save OJ.

A good example of why never never never talk to police.

Walter White: Say my na- Columbo: Just one more thing...

I'm always suspicious of people who look too neat and slick...

knowledge is power !!!

Convicted just because he lost his nerve. Should have kept his mouth shut and he’d walk free. Not a word without my lawyer. What a fool.

"Laundry bluing. Is that a fact?" This coupled with "You're bananas" is hilarious.

Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would also get this guy.

I remember when we used laundry blue.

The antagonist played Lefty Williams in Eight Men Out.

5:20 the thing i take away from all this, is that if you get caught stick to the one story and dontconfess unless you actually cansee proof. Colombo catches all hismurderes by tricking them lol

The stuff Gilbert sold to children was wild.

I'm starting to think that there are hidden episodes of Columbo where he latches onto the killer and all the evidence points to that killer and they did it .. and Columbo arrests them...and the episode doesn't air ..

Falk says "warder" for "water," a classic New Jersey/New York pronunciation.

Sacré bon lieutenant colombo toujours à la pointe d'arrêter les meurtriers.

His own father (he called him 'Dad') lets a lie stand when his son is under investigation - really? And his wife acts insulted when she was having an affair that her husband knew about - really? And, as ever in Columbo episodes, the killer confesses without keeping schtum and asking for a lawyer, and when confronted with an amateur chemistry experiment. There's so much wrong with this, it hurts. As ever with Columbo, it all rests on the killer confessing everything when bluffed, whereas a real killer would not confess at all and would wait for court.

By the looks of it, I think it's starch and iodine used. The "water" looks very brown/orange

He never actually confesses. And there's no actual proof. As long as he keeps his mouth shut from this point on, he walks for sure.

The episodes with Robert culp are the best. The earlier Columbos are so much better to me. The 70s easily 80s

must be a good poker player

Colombo and the Right one.

I like the earlier year episodes a lot more

Love the mystery movie theme composed by Henry Mancini. However as a child it did kind of scare me. The silhouette of that man carrying a flashlight walking towards the camera. And the eerie sound of the theme playing.

l Love coLumbo ❤❤🙏

Hah! I was like - yeah, very little is going to stain porcelain, I'm not buying it.

Should of called his bluff .

Do bluffs stand up in court, even with confession? I thought even with confession there has to be evidence?

@Ozzy_2014

2 жыл бұрын

That would be a matter for the defense.

@arthuralford

2 жыл бұрын

The police can say anything in an interrogation, true or false. It's legal. But the problem here is, unless there's more evidence that proves he committed murder, it's a shaky case

@rosario508

2 жыл бұрын

I’m no lawyer but I would think a confession in front of witnesses combined with the circumstantial evidence would do the trick.

@robinstevens7651

2 жыл бұрын

No in reality? No. But it should. Absolutely.

@robinstevens7651

2 жыл бұрын

If you watch a tv show like Law & Order (original) then you will get an idea of how difficult it is to use proof in a case.

Love ya Columbo! ❤ 😂

gilbert chemistry set. invaluable.

This is why you don't talk to the cops, kids. No matter what they say they have.

If I were a detective and knew a guy aced his wife’s lover, I’d let him go

the accused doc broke the rule ... trust, but verify (after all, columbo could have made up the story about the tooth and the stain).

The guy playing the dad is the colonel from 12 o'Clock High! I'm certain of it!

Christ on a Crutch, what the hell happened to entertainment media? I remember watching stuff like this as a kid (early 2000s) on daytime TV and being enthralled not by the plots obviously, but by how well the characters all played their roles, their enthusiasm and dedication. And then prime time would roll around and we'd all gather to watch men get kicked in the balls and eat bugs on big brother friday night live.

Remember the old days when kids could buy chemistry sets with all sorts of interesting compounds in them?