Just One More Thing

It’s the TV movie based on the play based on the short story that started everything- “Prescription: Murder,” the absolute, first Columbo. Find out where it all came from and who played Lt. Columbo well before Peter Falk took on the role! Well-versed guest Tilt Araiza (The Sitcom Club) joins Jon and RJ as they go […]

Have you ever thought about what kind of dessert you are? No? Perhaps that’s for the best, because the answer to that question drives sex therapist Lindsay Crouse (rice pudding) to murder her business partner/lover and develop a bit of a split personality in “Sex and the Married Detective.” It’s the third episode of Columbo‘s 80s-90s […]

In season eight’s “Sex and the Married Detective,” Columbo enters the world of sex therapy, courtesans and brass instruments to solve a murder involving a mysterious femme fatale with the exotic name of Lisa. “Hollywood” Steve Huey (Yacht Rock, VH1) joins Jon and RJ to unravel this mess.

“A Stitch in Crime” features Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Barry Mayfield, who commits two murders and purposefully botches a heart operation, all to get some revolutionary surgical technique out to the world before someone else does. Columbo has to work past his fear of hospitals and people’s open guts in order to figure out how to […]

Leonard Nimoy plays such an evil, evil man in season two’s “A Stitch in Crime.” He even gets Columbo angry! Zack Handlen (The AV Club) joins Jon and RJ to open this one up and see what’s inside.

In “Lovely But Lethal,” Vera Miles is Viveca Scott, a cosmetics magnate who needs a miracle product to keep her company from going under. When researcher Martin Sheen is discovered taking the formula to the competition, she murders him with the most deadly weapon known to mankind – a microscope. Throw in an alkie chemist, […]

Get out your creams and astringents, it’s time to jump into the cutthroat world of beauty products with season three’s “Lovely But Lethal.” Vera Miles kills Martin Sheen with science and there isn’t nearly enough Vincent Price. Joining Jon and RJ will be Elle Collins (Into It).

You get twice the Martin Landau for the price of one admission, as he plays murderous twin brothers in “Double Shock.” One’s a devil-may-care host of a TV cooking show, the other’s a staid banker with a crippling gambling addiction. It’s up to Columbo to figure out how they’re tag teaming their killings. Along the […]

Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your MURDER? In season two’s “Double Shock,” Martin Landau plays twin homicidal brothers who off their rich old uncle before he can get married to Julie Newmar. Writer Abed Gheith (Rick and Morty, Channel 101) will be helping Jon and RJ see double.

  In “Suitable For Framing,” Ross Martin is an art critic who kills his uncle in an elaborate plot to gain control of the old man’s valuable art collection. Jon did not like this. Returning guest Manning Krull and RJ did. It is sometimes odd and Don Ameche’s voice is like smooth, smooth velvet. Anyway, […]

On the next show, we’ll be discussing season one’s “Suitable for Framing,” in which Ross Martin offs his uncle to get control of the old man’s valuable art collection. Also, Vic Tayback as some sort of laid back post-hippie artist? Crazy, man. Manning Krull returns to the program to talk about the whole crazy thing. The episode […]

In “Make Me a Perfect Murder,” Trish Van Devere is a network TV up-and-comer who figures she’ll get her big break once her boss/special night friend is put in charge of the entire joint. That does not happen, so she shoots him dead and concocts a plan for escaping discovery with far too many moving parts. Fighting […]

On the next show, we’ll discuss “Make Me a Perfect Murder,” a season seven tale of television violence and unwanted neck rubs. Writers and critics Donna Bowman (The AV Club) and Noel Murray (The Dissolve, The AV Club) will be along for the ride. The episode is on Netflix instant and DVD.

Ruth Gordon is mystery novelist and playwright Abigail Mitchell, in season seven’s “Try and Catch Me.” When Mitchell’s beloved niece dies in a boating incident, she suspects murder. When the police fail to find evidence of foul play, she does the next natural thing- killing the niece’s husband by locking him in a vault. Everyone does that, […]

Next time, we’ll be talking about the season seven episode, “Try and Catch Me,” starring the beloved Ruth Gordon as a coldblooded killer, which isn’t quite so beloved. Joining us will be Myke Chilian (Uncle Grandpa, Rick & Morty). The episode is available on Netflix Watch Instantly and DVD, if you’d like to bone up. […]

“Undercover” is not a typical Columbo, by any stretch of the imagination. Columbo carries a gun. The mystery (such as it is) isn’t solved until the end. There’s no one central murder. He kind of has a partner. A lot of this is due to it being based on an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel. But still, […]

Jumping ahead to season twelve for a 1990s Columbo, “Undercover,” in which Columbo goes, well, undercover. Leonard Pierce (leonardpierce.com) returns to the podcast to help us wrap our heads around this one. The episode is available on DVD or places around the internet, if you’d like to watch along.

From season six, it’s “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” in which Columbo has to solve a murder committed at a club for some of the world’s foremost minds that isn’t Mensa. Comedian and podcaster Richard Massara (facebook.com/comedyrich) joins us from the UK to talk about the episode, as well as why the heck Columbo never […]

Season six this time, for “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” with our guest, comedian Rich Massara, who will join us from waaay across the sea. If you’d like to watch beforehand, it’s available on DVD or Netflix Watch Instantly.

For our latest, we go back to Columbo‘s first episode (yes, yes- there was the TV movie and then the pilot, but this is the first episode), directed by a young go-getter named Steven Spielberg. It’s Jack Cassidy’s first turn as a murderous creep, killing his writing partner (Martin Milner), rather than letting him break up […]