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Jul 24, 2022 · Episode review: Columbo Undercover. In his glory days, Columbo was occasionally thought to be working undercover due to his tramp-like, unkempt appearance. On May 2, 1994, he went undercover fo’ real in the straightforwardly titled Undercover.
Jul 23, 2023 · I can’t hate that scene as much as I hate Columbo working with the mob, or seeing Columbo get beat up in Undercover, because these have actually damaged the most important feature of the show: the character Columbo.
Jan 21, 2022 · Columbo isn’t as good as we remember it. I hadn’t seen the show since its 1970s run, and though my memory of plots and characters was dim, I still held great affection for the series.
Columbo: Undercover: Directed by Vincent McEveety. With Peter Falk, Ed Begley Jr., Burt Young, Harrison Page. The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.
Columbo then goes "undercover" to try to gain all the pieces of the puzzle from many different colorful characters before someone beats him to the punch. The plot originated from an Ed McBain novel (Jigsaw) and it is an odd choice to mold the Columbo character into a seemingly unrelated novel.
Irving Krutch (Ed Begley, Jr.), a crooked insurance investigator, enlists the help of Columbo to solve a series of murders that starts when two men, each of whom possesses a piece of a photograph, kill each other in a burglary gone wrong.
Columbo is the greatest detective of them all – but that doesn’t mean it was free from fault. Far from it. And some of its worst moments were very bad indeed. Here I chronicle 12 of the series’ most nightmarish scenes. Read on if you dare… Memories of a Columbo killer: an interview with Ed Begley Jr. 23.
