If you're interested in Columbo, I've finished posting the Tumblr notes from our old podcast, Just One More Thing, covering the first two TV movies and the first season -- Prescription: Murder through Blueprint for Murder. That's a lot of murder! There are also links to the relevant podcast episodes
Used to host a Columbo podcast called Just One More Thing back in the stone age, and have started posting all the old content from the pod's Tumblr account to my new blog, starting with the original TV movie Prescription: Murder. Links to the podcast episodes included...
Title card from the Columbo episode Strange Bedfellows showing Wendt in dark glasses and black overcoat behind the wheel of a blue van.
Wendt, wearing a false beard, glasses, a fedora and a photographer's vest, sneaks out of a bar.
Steiger slapping Wendt
Wendt dressed in all-black on a sunny street in Los Angeles, standing out enormously.
Scenes from Strange Bedfellows of Wendt being variously incognito and also getting slapped by Rod Steiger.
Wendt was the guest star on the Columbo episode "Strange Bedfellows," which @rjwhite.bsky.social and I saved for the final episode of our Columbo podcast, Just One More Thing, because it ... it wasn't very good. We were putting it off. You can listen to the episode here:
George Wendt from the Columbo episode "Strange Bedfellows," riding away from the murder scene on a tiny bicycle like some sort of performing bear.
So long, George Wendt.
Mrs.Columbo opening titles -- a cottage house with a circular drive, and both a little Subaru or something and Lt.Columbo's famous Peugeot parked in front.
Starring Kate Mulgrew, a young Kate Mulgrew in a comfy sweater and a big hairstyle reads the paper on her front step
Mrs.Columbo opening titles appreciation post
You idiot. This is a stupid idea.
Assembling a loin roast
An appetizer platter with triangular and round dishes on a rectangular silver platter
Columbo reacts with surprise and delight to a pannetone
Louis Jordan hawks Bon Snax
The delectable dishes of Murder Under Glass (1978)
Yet none of them are as hot as this guy right here
Just one more thing.
Your solutions: Last Salute to the Commodore (season 5, ep 6) and Dead Weight from season one (ep 3)!
Correct on the first and we'll give you that last one (Dead Weight)
Both correct!
A small boat (named Titanic) putts away from the viewer in a yacht harbor.
A sailboat crosses the water on a gray day, as seen from behind a wrought iron fence.
New round of "Peter Falk As..!" -- Can you identify these episodes from the credit screen? This week's theme is "Boats!" Two shots of boats on the water from two different seasons, difficulty level is moderate, good luck!
1. Yep!
2. Right episode, but wrong actor
3. Correct!
That's 3/3, nicely done!
1. Nope!
2. Right episode, but the wrong actor
3. Yep!
That's nonetheless 2 out of 3, nicely done!
...and here's the answers!
Identity Crisis. Walking away from us is Leslie Nielsen as superspy A.J. Henderson!
A Case of Immunity. The back in question belongs to Sal Mineo as Rachman Habib!
And, lastly, Requiem for a Falling Star, with Anne Baxter as murdering movie star Nora Chandler!
Last chance to make your guess, answers tomorrow! Here's a pretty big set of clues to help:
First image: Season 5
Second image: Also Season 5
Third image: Season 2
Good luck!
Number One is definitely he trickiest!
PETER FALK AS screen from Columbo, showing: A white-haired man in a blue suit walking across a hotel room.
PETER FALK AS screen from Columbo, showing: A man in a blue robe and white headcover spray-painting a wooden door.
PETER FALK AS screen from Columbo, showing: A woman in a navy blue dress with red piping, blonde hair, walking across a powder blue room
How dare they turn their backs on us! This round of Peter Falk As... features episode guest stars with their backs turned on the audience. Can you identify the three episodes in question from these screens?
Found her alts.
Congratulations to @commasplice.bsky.social for identifying BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER! That was a tough one! We'll be back next week with another round of Peter Falk As...!
Bullseye! Was it the boot or the car door that clued you in?
JOMT co-host Jon Morris briefly dives into the history of MUMBLY, Saturday Morning's answer to Columbo -- and why the muttering mutt bore such a close resemblance to *another* equally-hirsute Hanna-Barbera bad boy ...
A boot is stepping on the sidewalk, mostly hidden by a gold-colored car door.
Time for the second round of "Peter Falk As..."
Using only a screenshot of the Peter Falk As... credit as your guide, can you identity the episode from which it was taken? This one might be a little more difficult than the first:
Precisely so, well done!
That's the one, good job!
Congrats to the folks who recognized the opening credit for Murder By The Book, originally broadcast September 15 1971, guest-starring Martin Millner and Jack Cassidy (plus Barbara Colby as the rare second victim), written by Steven Bochco and directed by Stephen Spielberg, yow!
A blonde man in glasses works at his typewriter, in front of a large window which shows a broad view of Los Angeles, in a room which includes racks of hardcover books.
How well do you know your Columbo? Well, let's find out by playing a couple rounds of "Peter Falk As..."
Using only a screenshot of the Peter Falk As... credit as your guide, can you identity the episode from which it was taken? Here's a fairly easy one to get you started: