#columbo himself

[fern-spotting]

Columbo S4E3 “By Dawn's Early Light” (1974)

No ferns spotted! However, this episode is remarkable in many other ways. For one, it stars Patrick McGoohan, well-known for his role as Number Six in The Prisoner, as a no-nonsense commandant of a military academy. He won an Emmy for his performance in this episode and went on to act in and direct several episodes of Columbo.

Secondly, it was shot on location at Citadel Military College of South Carolina ("The Citadel"), well-known for being sued by Shannon Faulkner, a high school student who applied to the at-the-time all-male college by hiding her gender on her application. She sued for the right to be admitted, and won, but wound up quickly leaving because of the abuse she faced on and off campus.

Lastly, this episode features a vanishingly rare sight of Lt. Columbo sans raincoat and, indeed, sans shirt. You're welcome.

[lesbworth]

was anyone going to tell me that daniel craig himself said this?!

(from his interview re glass onion in the christmas edition of radio times)

[girlwiththegreenhat]

columbo button

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[lieutenant-columbro]

[gengarpng]

Columbo following the murderer everywhere they go

[mail-me-a-snail]

lil posters of my snailsonas :] they're both me in different outfits and characters with their own stories !

[gwiggs]

Its astonishing to me that some people didn't think Benoit Blanc was intended to be a gay man.

I mean, they call him the World's Greatest Detective right in the beginning of the film, title almost exclusively held by gay men. Its gay as hell to be the world's greatest detective.

[berners-sandie]

Columbo is my comfort show right now and I literally only came back to Tumblr after a man year hiatus, just to see Columbo content. And now I believe it's my turn to return content back to the masses. (The watermarks are for my Instagram meme page btw sorry)

[rad-roche]

i'm on the fancy english theatre hams murder a guy episode (dagger of the mind) and fucking crying laughing at the one two combo of the police in heathrow spelling out the conceit of the show being like THIS LAD? SOLVING CRIME?? followed IMMEDIATELY by columbo throwing himself out of a moving vehicle to get a picture of the palace guards

[fern-spotting]

Columbo S7E5 “The Conspirators” (1978)

After a wait of 40:42, we've spotted the ultimate combo: Columbo and a Boston fern!

Bonus plant: this lush and tall dieffenbachia.

Bonus bonus: Columbo contemplating erotic art.

[dazzelmethat]

Columbo meeting Conan Edogawa. There is a jazz ost playing-

Columbo: hmm now isn't that interesten. On the day Shinichi went missen you just hayppened to appear. Kinda a coincidence if you ask me.

Conan: Oh gee minster lieutenant Columbo, that sure is funny. Whoops! -Conan purposefully knocks over vase containing a clue- That's weird! Who put that there??

Columbo: -takes a puff of his cigar-

(ignore my poor Bostonian accent approximation, I was trying to be immersive)

[columboscreens]

[oceans11]

they were probably right to not make wilson a recurring sidekick for columbo but i wish there was more of him. their onscreen dynamic is so funny every time

[birbwell]

i cant keep getting obsessed with mid bald white men. this is terrible for my health

[shallowseeker]

A continuation of that wall of text idea I left in the tags of some poor shmuck's Columbo post.

Post-finale, Dean finds himself going out on cases and running into hunters and people who'd been helped by Cas along the way. It turns out some of them know Dean indirectly, a la Ca's references and anecdotes. (They even know his music.)

"Oh? Oh. You're Dean? You're Dean!"

[nyxkaikaos]

Feel like pure shit for Joan from the pilot tho