Link (very funny Falk)

Must watch

So, when I roll up the wooly, what the hell am I supposed to watch now?

FTFA:

Falk portrayed "Columbo" on 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003.

What? there was only 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003?!

or was the character Columbo not in every episode of "Columbo"?.............no, that doesn't seem right.


/ loves both "Princess Bride" and "Murder By Death"
// R.I.P. Peter

mediablitz: For Columbo fans: Netflix has quite a few episodes available for streaming.


I was watching one today and when I finished I read this thread. Bummer.

/Murder by Death, the In Laws were great also like The Cheap Detective

Boy you farkers wasted no time with the retarded RIP jokes didn't you?

Another death that really sucks ass for me... Columbo was a great series, but Falk was also hilarious in the old time mystery movie spoof Murder by Death.

Today does indeed suck. We lost a great actor.

Never saw Columbo in my life.

Enjoyed him in The Princess Bride though... I think that's all I know him from.

FerneJohn: Never saw Columbo in my life.

That's something that you would be glad to change, believe you me.

Somacandra: Philly: And Wings of Desire....I can't see you, but I know you're there. I feel it.

Great line...


Even better, the whole scene -- "To smoke, and have coffee - and if you do it together, it's fantastic." (new window, starts around 0:55)

My favorite movie

I think this might leave Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner as the last living cast members of "It's A Mad,Mad,Mad Mad World".

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: FerneJohn: Never saw Columbo in my life.

That's something that you would be glad to change, believe you me.

I was actually just looking at Wikipedia's entry on Columbo and DVD releases of it. I've heard good things, but I was born in 1985, so I guess it passed me by when it was on television.

The Cheap Detective is one of his finest hours. If you've never seen it, watch it.

I submitted this with exactly the same headline, so I'm getting a kick...

/MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!

RIP Colombia

Third_Uncle_Eno: FTFA:

Falk portrayed "Columbo" on 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003.

What? there was only 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003?!

or was the character Columbo not in every episode of "Columbo"?.............no, that doesn't seem right.

It wasn't really a regular series - it was part of the mystery movie rotation along with several other series, and later it was mostly specials.

According to this episode guide, there were only about 4-8 episodes per season from 71-78 (there were two pilot episodes in 68), then 10 more episodes in 89-90, and 14 episodes from 91-2003.

/Interesting factoid - the first non-pilot episode, "Murder by the Book" was directed by Steven Spielberg
//Also, Columbo first appeared in 1960 on the Chevy Mystery show played by Bert Freed, and that story was later adapted to a stage play. That play was later adapted into the first 2 hour pilot/tv movie which eventually had Falk, but producers wanted either Lee J. Cobb or Bing Crosby to play Columbo.

FerneJohn: I was actually just looking at Wikipedia's entry on Columbo and DVD releases of it. I've heard good things, but I was born in 1985, so I guess it passed me by when it was on television.

Heh, I used to catch it by way of reruns on a nostalgia-happy channel, actually.

If you can find the DVDs, go for it! It's great TV comfort food... pretty much the niche that Monk would fill years later.

:(

RIMMER: Are you awake?
LISTER: Yeah, yeah.
RIMMER: Yeah, I couldn't sleep either. The excitement!
LISTER: What excitement?
RIMMER: The alien excitement!
LISTER: Rimmer, it's garbage.
RIMMER: You can scoff, Lister. That's nothing new. They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Edison. They laughed at Columbo.
LISTER: Who's Columbo?
RIMMER: The man with the dirty mac who discovered America.

FerneJohn: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: FerneJohn: Never saw Columbo in my life.

That's something that you would be glad to change, believe you me.

I was actually just looking at Wikipedia's entry on Columbo and DVD releases of it. I've heard good things, but I was born in 1985, so I guess it passed me by when it was on television.

If you have netflix, there are quite a few episodes available to stream.

I see I'm not the only one with a hankering, my download of Murder by Death is seeded quite well.

Sad.
First Clarence Clemmons. Now, Peter Falk. I wonder what genre leading artist will be next.

Maybe Jim Nabors?

Little things like this just bother me. RIP Peter.

So.... Explain this to me like I'm an eight year old.

/Good bye Columbo! RIP Every time I watched you, I loved you... because it meant Grandma wasn't making me watch Matlock or Touched by an Angel.

Has anybody checked on Abe Vigoda?

RIP Murder By Death

To the tune of "They call the wind Maria"

Let's sit and gawk
While Peter Falk
Goes through his mumbo jumbo
But in the end, he'll catch the crook
and we call this clod Columbo!
- Mad Magazine

Too bad.

Rest In Peace.

The Cheap Detective is a wonderful film. It's like Murder By Death, but with just Sam Diamond, except he's called Lou Peckinpah. And lots of women...

RIP. Thank you for all of the great shows.

you are a puppet: RIP Perry Mason

That was perfect

I would like to know how many farkers submitted this story with the Just One More Thing title.

RIP

shastacola: I think this might leave Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner as the last living cast members of "It's A Mad,Mad,Mad Mad World".

Mickey Rooney and Jerry Lewis are still hanging in there too.

RIP

RIP

God, I just wince at the thought of these farking stupid "RIP" memes in these threads. fark the people who came up with it, and fark the people who keep using the unfunny shiat.

Bag of Hammers: You like chicken Shel? 'Cuz they make a chicken sandwich here, slice it up hot, serve on hard roll with a large pineapple juice, y'know, a grande, and then...Oh Jesus Pigs!

Thank you so much for that, good sir. RIP.

Googled "peter falk princess bride" and came up with this:

/As you wish