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The Columbo Confab Podcast

Dec 29, 2018

Our fearless podcasters face the daunting task of reviewing A Riddle for Puppets (1979), one of the few episodes of Mrs. Columbo still widely available.  Something's not quite right with ventriloquist Noel Abbott (Jay Johnson), who chisels his mentor to death and is convinced the only witness to the crime is his...


Oct 29, 2018

Famous criminal defense attorney Hugh Creighton (played by Dabney Coleman) murders his common-law wife, a has-been rock star.  However, while dodging questions from Lieutenant Columbo, Creighton must also deal with his blackmailing associate.  Is this one good enough to set free?  Or should it be guilty as charged? ...


Oct 22, 2018

In "Publish or Perish" (1974), saucy publisher Riley Greenleaf (Jack Cassidy) pays a creepy hit-man to bump off a rival, Greenleaf stages a fake drunken night on the town to provide himself with an alibi.  Of course, now he has to outwit Lieutenant Columbo while disposing of the man he paid to do the dirty deed.  Is...


Oct 15, 2018

Steve and Sean talk about "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990) in which realtor Vivian Dimitri (Helen Shaver) kills her boss to avenge the imprisonment and eventual death of her late husband.  As the title suggests, wackiness ensues when Vivian has designs not only on the policeman who caught her husband, but his wife...


Oct 8, 2018

In "A Stitch in Crime" (1973) a talented heart surgeon (played by Leonard Nimoy) kills twice to cover up his murderous plan to do away with his colleague in a diabolical plot involving dissolving suture.  Does this episode deserve a good diagnosis?  Or was it DOA?  Listen in to what Steve and Sean have to say and find...