![]() Yet Columbo makes him feel like the place he’s in is a palace, not a slum, sharing a beer with his host and displaying his rare gift of being able to connect with and put at ease people from all walks of life. His final years on this earth look bleak and lonely – a far cry from the life in the spotlight he once knew. All he owns in the apartment is his TV and a hotplate. He lives in a dive and has to share toilets and showers with other tenants. He’s helpful to a point but the beauty of the scene really lies in what it shows us about the real Columbo. He’s able to provide useful information about the magician’s changing accents and names, although he doesn’t know anything about his original identity. Lally knows Santini from decades before when they trod the circuit together. Enjoy…Ī beautiful example of Columbo’s everyman charm comes when the Lieutenant makes a positive impression during his visit to down-on-his-luck former high wire ace, Michael Lally. Now I invite you to read on as we countdown from numbers 100-91 on our list. If you haven’t immediately given this whole project up as a bad job on the back of these omissions, I’m very pleased. Trading poverty stories in Abi’s Rolls in Try & Catch Me.Columbo’s modern art confusion in Playback.The explosive opening titles in Publish or Perish.The hipsters at the lakeside club in Any Old Port in a Storm.Dr Mayfield’s clock winding when being informed of Sharon Martin’s murder in A Stitch in Crime.The nude model scene in Suitable for Framing.Leslie Williams’ ‘shopworn bag of tricks’ assessment of Columbo in Ransom for a Dead Man.Columbo crashing Paul Gerard’s Japanese dinner party in Murder Under Glass.Beth Chadwick’s moment of panic as the doorbell rings during her post-murder tidy up in Lady in Waiting.Columbo and Kay’s meeting of minds at her old family home in Make Me a Perfect Murder.The thoroughly modern murder from Playback.Columbo losing his appetite during the autopsy discussion at the gentleman’s club in Dagger of the Mind.Tommy and Edna’s blazing row in Swan Song.In no particular order, those closest to making the cut were: – All are delightful scenes and exemplify just how hard the task was to boil the show down to just 100 magical moments. The top 100 scenes were certainly no exception, meaning some genuine TV gold just couldn’t be shoehorned in.Īt some point, all 13 of the scenes below were in the top 100 until additional votes from other panellists forced the list to be reshuffled. In a show so packed with goodness as Columbo, there are always going to be high-profile casualties from any ‘best of’ lists. The ones that got away Close but no cigar… the modern art scene from Playback It’ll be 20 minutes of your day very well spent. I would urge you to take your time with this article and enjoy the clips in their entirety, so you can savour the excellence of each scene to the maximum. Still, I’m pretty happy with the overall list and think this has been a very worthwhile venture that ought to stimulate plenty of debate amongst Columbo fans.īelow, you’ll find text analysis of each of the chosen scenes along with a video clip to refresh your memory if you haven’t seen the corresponding episodes for a while. Rest assured, many of my own personal highlights also didn’t make it, so I feel your pain. I apologise to my fellow panellists for any of their top choices that failed to make the top 100. It was a slippery task and the final 20 positions in the chart changed hands on a regular basis. From positions 51-100, though, it was a lot harder to decide which scenes deserved their places.Īs the final arbiter, when in doubt I followed my gut reaction and/or consulted Mrs Columbo. Scenes selected by multiple panellists ranked higher in the list, making the top 50 relatively easy to compile. ![]() Scenes could be long or short, important or frivolous, and Columbo himself needn’t appear in them. These could be anything they liked: telling clues, jaw-dropping gotchas, emotional outbursts, comedy asides etc. Each panellist provided their personal top 20 Columbo scenes / moments from all 45 episodes that aired between 19. Thanks to the endeavours of a panel of 12 Columbo super-fans and experts from around the world including, but not limited to, The Columbo Phile author Mark Dawidziak and Dr Who / Sherlock creator Steven Moffat (all are credited at the foot of this article), I can now unveil the first instalment of the list, which will count us down from #100-91.īefore that, though, here’s a quick reminder of how the rankings were arrived at. Let’s get this party started! GET EXCITED! The first ever attempt at publishing a definitive list of Columbo’s 100 greatest moments is upon us!
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