I started watching Columbo at the start of the pandemic (my Dad was a big fan of the show, so I had watched some of the later TV movies with him as a kid), but kind of dropped it. I thought I got farther, but I guess I stopped in the middle of season 3. Started watching again tonight with Robert Culp's third appearance as the murderer.
@Tim_Eagon My fun little head canon is that the returning actors are actually the same characters seeing if they can outsmart Columbo this time, and he just plays along pretending he doesn't recognize them. 😂
@Tim_Eagon I watched it for about a month or two after my daughter was born. It was a low-impact, low-overhead choice for binge entertainment while I held a small, hungry potato for hours on end.
@MrF Yeah, it's pretty easy to watch if you have the time to do so. I enjoy the glimpse into late 60s, early 70s Los Angeles, as well as seeing all the actors who guest starred in it - TV stars of that era, up and comers, former movie stars, etc.
@Tim_Eagon Man, I do enjoy Columbo, though I've never sat down to watch it through.
There are some quite bad Columbo episodes, though most are pretty good! And some are great.
@Tim_Eagon@Da_Gut My wife and I are rewatching it, and we're now in season 9 which is from shortly after it restarted in 1989. It's really odd since Hollywood has moved on to the sex-obsessed late 80's/early 90's and he's still the same frumpy, easily embarrassed 70's Columbo.
It's extra fun since we alternate with Murder She Wrote which is from the same creators and we're now at the same point in time with them both. Not having them crossover is such a painful missed opportunity.
@kenmarable@Da_Gut Those 1989 ones were the ones I watched with my Dad. ABC alternated mystery TV movies; we also watched BL Stryker with Burt Reynolds (I don't remember ever watching the Kojack reboot with him).
I didn't know that Columbo and Murder She Wrote shared creators.
@Tim_Eagon@Da_Gut Watching them on Peacock, I think a couple of them even had the general ABC mystery-of-the-week intro which threw us for a loop when we first saw it.
Richard Levinson & William Link created and wrote most of Columbo. The two of them plus Peter Fischer created Murder She Wrote, although the two of them didn't really write any, only came up with the concept while Peter Fischer and a bunch of rotating writers did the writing (including J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame).
@Tim_Eagon I will watch shows with the primary reason for "this will help me run a ttrpg"
A show that's essentially about a traveling merchant practicing his trade in medieval times? yes please.
Or that time when I wanted to run a sci-fi/sci-fantasy game for the first time and I realized I had 0 background in that kind of media so I started watching star trek. (it was kind of painful)
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