An Iron-Clad Alibi | Columbo
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- Season 3 Episode 5 "Publish or Perish" A publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of sex novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case. Columbo has his suspicions but finds one of his key suspects to have an air tight alibi.
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Jack Cassidy played the ultimate scumbag. He played the part perfectly, yet he did it in such a way that you sort of rooted for him. Next to Patrick McGoohan, he was Columbo's most formidable adversary.
Don't count out Robert Culp (Death Lends A Hand (1971), The Most Crucial Game (1972), and Double Exposure (1973).)
@@wbcjr17106 Good point, Culp was good too. There was just something special about Cassidy and McGoohan. They were almost like anti-Columbo's personality wise.
You seen his moustache? Its 300% evil
Whenever Columbo says "that's probably it" you know it's over.
That’s a fact
Lol. Yeah.
Or "you know what's been botherin me?"
When Columbo is assigned the case, *that's* when you know it's over 😉
The lawyer tried to spike the ball with Columbo... Immediately regrets it!
yepp
It's a crime to dislike this great detective!
I agree especially throughout all the 70s series
just one more thing
When the lawyer believes that he is driving the situation
i see what u mean, but it IS his job to defend him, even if he did it.
nothing like a Cassidy-Falk duo, love them :))
The best thing about the Columbo criminals is that they're always so arrogant, with high-powered lawyers handy.
Makes the final take-down all the better.
yeah i agree, the fact they focus on the rich & powerful vs. ghetto murders is what makes this show so great.. and the fact columbo is a humble lower/middle class guy bringing down the rich & powerful.
The common theme throughout this great series was underestimate Columbo at your peril!
That happens a lot. They're always murderers... often very wealthy or well connected, and they think they can get away with it.
In real life, these wealthy people would at least get reduced sentences or even get away with their crimes completely with the way the court system is.
As Columbo walks away and thinking to himself...you want evidence? I will get you the evidence. Lol
Mariette Hartley is a beautiful actress, and what a voice.
She is still around at 81 !!! Wasn't she on some TV series as a regular ?
“That’s Incredible”?
Nope I was thinking of Cathy Lee Crosby
Jack Cassidy -- my favorite Columbo villain.
I was trying to think who he reminded me off, then it came to me.... Danny McBride!
The Great Santini!!
Also Robert Culp was an excellent foe
The one directed by a young Spielberg when he kills his partner but pretends they went to the cabin together is my favorite
Earlier this morning on Sundance channel "Now You See Him" aired with costar Nehemiah Persoff who is still with us at age 101..
And Patrick Macghooan
I just bought the columbo box set.
I love it.
Me too last year
What’s your favorite
@@noeleenburns2874 at the moment I think It's murder by the book and
suitable for framing.
What is your favorite?
I plan to buy it soon. My favorite episode has to be "A Stitch in Crime."
@@johns.8220 That's a great episode.
My favorite is murder by the book
It's a 'must-have'.
Great episode. This case was kind of easy for Columbo there were a lot of obvious clues left behind. Once he tried to switch the key to the office; such a amateurish move
I don't know if it's true that Jack Cassidy was jealous because his son was more succesfull than he was.But he was such an arrogant killer in all the episodes he was in.He was a very good actor and that's a fact.
0:00 They use that same location shot in "The Rockford Files" for Beth Davenports apartment (Gretchen Corbett). The episode is called "Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken"
Guy should've listened to his lawyer. Especially when he did do it.
" Just one more thing, Things in the dark, Do come to light. "
Alan Fudge was one of the oldest looking 29 year olds when this was filmed in 1973.
Richard Dreyfuss was 28 in 'Jaws' but looked closer to Shaw's age...
@@artmallory970 That's probably why he grew a beard for the role of Hooper - to look older.
@@artmallory970 He normally did look younger back then. Remember it was only two years earlier that he played a recent high school graduate in American Graffiti.
29? Wow, he looks much older
+RADIUM CLOCK: Has this been confirmed ?
"I pay you handsomely to do your job, now quit trying to do it!"
😂
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Mariette Hartley was so pretty.
Jack Cassidy was a good actor and made a convincing villain. He played the villain 3 different times on Columbo.. including the first episode.
I've just....oh my, Jack Cass..always landing...!!
Wasn’t the first episode “Prescription Murder” ?
@@bh7286 Yes. But that's not with Jack.
@@bh7286 That was actually a tv-movie (technically a pilot). Columbo the show began about three years later.
Cassidy was not in the original pilot movie of the week
"The key to Allen's office I kept in the glove compartment along with the gun"😂
Hey Jack, don't touch your ears when you're lying! Columbo knows this trick well ;)
Typically, it's the nose that people touch after a lie 👍
Crossing your arms is a great signal of guilt as well....
Mrs Columbo My friends, read the credits. Many-most-all (?) of the episodes were not written by Levinson/Link, but by individuals whose names we're not familiar with and hopefully gained credit for. As most of you have noted, we owe credit to the writers. Touche, unknown writers of one of the greatest, most legendary, body of work in television history.
Absolutely!!!
Nah. I'm absolutely convinced that mrs. Columbo and her shopping friends wrote it all, and by modesty managed to hide the work in progress and her own persona. She's never there!
I like Columbo and Peter Falk for the sentiment and all the ambiance of old LA and how things were then
There might be odd blips in the story but I dont care. Jack Cassidy was goid actor. Miss them. RIP to both.
jack's hair is great.
Your best strategy to get away with a murder was to have no alibi at all.
The lawyer is Alan Fudge. He played ”Jesus Christ” in the M*A*S*H episode ”Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?”.
Omg. I’ve seen that episode like ten times and never made the connection!
He sure looks A LOT different with glasses on! 👓
16 years later, he also played Cooper's father in "Columbo Goes To College".
A character actor who normally played "official" types. Remember him from a Season 1 episode of The A-Team where he helps spring Face, Hannibal, and B.A. after they are captured by Col. Lynch. He's a State Department official who wants the A-Team to perform a special covert op to free a former colleague of the team.
I recall him best from The Man From Atlantis.
LOVE COLUMBO 💖
Robert Culp and Jack Cassidy were two of the best criminals Columbo ever nailed. Cassidy in Murder By The Book is priceless.
There is not a single word that gets past him.
Columbo is very cunning and very smart
“Oh, by the way, just on more thing if you don’t mind. It’ll just take a minute . . . “
I love how he confesses in front of Columbo when he says "I'm in no mood to discuss insurance" while acting like he didn't know about his car accident or that he was involved in an accident with the caller.
Mr. Trumble is his insurance agent, so of course when he called, it would have something to do with insurance.
It didnt give anything away unfortunately.
Bring back the 70’s!!!!!!
I think late 60'ties and early 70'ties must have the best times to be young
Yeah, but maybe with a bit more stylish clothes!
@@doncarlodivargas5497 Absolutely!
@@markmerzweiler909 Wot????? All those flared trousers, tank tops, Maxi skirts, Maxi Coats! Great music, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Kate Bush, The Who..........All this and Columbo too!!!!! Those were the days my friend! 🙏🙏🙏
@@b.goodfellow465 You hit it with Pink Floyd! 😍
its a crime that we are unable to see the whole episodes if this great series even though I have subscribed to this channel
This CZcams is not meant for whole episodes, it is simply a selection of classic clips from the archives. Peacock streaming service has the television broadcast rights for the whole show, it is they who limit how much can be shown on here. Do you understand now?
Pirate bay and microtorrent.....
@@johnking5174 This channel is run by the copyright owner of Columbo which they have licensed to Peacock.
SUCH a wonderful woman's voice ....
Never heard anyone say that about Columbo, but whatever floats your boat!
Hahaha those ppl ...then he gives a relief smile even though he doesn't mean it .... hahaha 😂 so cunning and so smart!!!!!hahaha good ol' Columbo
Classic double bluff.
He always gets them in the end.
Perfect crime 📺 serial
Why does the lawyer need to talk to the insurance company on the phone to be reminded that he -- the lawyer -- got Mr. Greenleaf out of the drunk tank that morning? Makes no sense. The lawyer should already know the alibi without the phone call.
8:54 Columbo pretending to be duly chastened always cracks me up.
Mariette Hartley!
Thank you.
Columbo's subconscious is telling him that Riley is lying.
The Wallpaper is epic
Many of the one-of murderers were superb. The one I had never seen before was Susan Clark in 'Lady In Waiting' and she was among the best.
He just couldn't help coming back to plant that seed!
Wait....the lawyer didn't know about the accident even though he got him out of jail???
The lawyer couldn't remember pulling Greenleaf out of the drunk tank until after that phone call?
Jack Cassidy kinda reminds me of my father. The two men share the same looks despite my dad being Nigerian and therefore black. My dad had that snappy, steely look about him in which he could one moment be all charm and the next make you wonder if it was the same man of a few moments ago. In tune with the times, he smoked cigarettes, drank more than a bit, was a redoubtable womaniser, and drove a 1960s Vauxhall; but he and Cassidy could've passed for brothers no matter that they came from entirely different races.
Jack Cassidy is perfect
I thought that drunk driving was a big deal
Maybe not so much in the 70's
He wasn't driving, he was parked and publicly intoxicated (or acted drunk, anyway).
Not in the 70s and not when you’re rich
What beautiful vocal timbre had blond and late cassidy too
It never made any sense to me that the lawyer needed a phone call to remind him that he bailed out Jack Cassidy from the jail the previous night.
I think it would be the first thing the lawyer would have a thought of to create an alibi to his client; I think that was the only sloppy writing in otherwise excellent episode.
The phone call was to confirm the witnesses of Jack's drinking and car accident, so to ensure he had an iron clad alibi. The lawyer only knew he bailed him out, he was not present at the scene of the drunken crash. He only appeared at the police station when Jack's character sobered up and asked for his lawyer.
@@johnking5174 That's an important piece of evidence; Jack Cassidy was in jail for several hours miles away from the scene of the crime; even without the car accident that would be an alibi enough.
And the lawyer never mentions it until he got the call. A couple new lines of dialogue would have been better than the lawyer just acting surprised about something he personally witnessed a few hours before.
Plus you want more bad writing I just noticed? The lawyer, Colombo and Jack Cassidy all first meet the previous night while Jack Cassidy was still in jail, and Colombo mentions he is not part of traffic violations.... And all of them 3 act surprised to Jack Cassidy being in a traffic accident and in jail the previous night.
@@sallobo777 Being in jail wasn't the alibi, the accident was. He was getting into the accident during the time of the murder, after which he parked his car illegally. When the police came to talk to him he acted drunk and confrontational and that's why he was in jail, NOT because of the crash, and he was put in jail possibly hours after the murder had already happened. Nobody was supposed to know about the bar incident until the people in the car he hit called the insurance guy and gave him his alibi.
I don't understand how so many people on this comment section, despite having supposedly watched that bit in either the full episode or the clip on CZcams, missed that.
Jack Cassidy
Wait, did Robert Culp shave back his hairline for this part? He looks TOTALLY different. And in later shows where he appears, he's got a full head of hair.
That's dedication.
this is Jack Cassidy.
Mariette Hartley... Rod Serling had the hots for her and showed this in the script for "The Long Morrow" Twilight Zone episode.
That lawyer was a smart Aleck. He's lucky Colombo didn't frame him too.
Love Colombo....
Same here
Not enough to spell his name right.
@@6oodfella Exactly!!!! I totally agree!!!!
@@6oodfella
Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.
I'll forgive the misspelling,😉 the comment was the main thing to take into account.
You make one slip with a plural and Colombo gets you.
Jack Cassidy was perennially in deep, murder, muddy waters!!! Never seen this episode!! I thought this was the Spielberg episode!! A great villian!! :))
I believe Jack Cassidy was a bit of an alcoholic in real life. Old Hollywood, everyone drank. He died in a house fire at age 49. He was a very good actor.
According to some video I saw, he had mental illnesses which today most probably would be diagnosed as bipolar.
Publish or Perish..with Mickey Spillane.Great episode...Season 3 i think.
Subconsciously, Greenleafs blackout was 'clearing'
Second favorite Columbo villain.
Patrick M?
7:39 Lincoln Continental in front of the Cadillac.
Condo can tell whether something is made out of iron, or tin.
Those people. Oops.
Not many actresses like Mariette these days. Compare her with todays actresses.
8:55 is that face of oh ill find the evidence I haven't let a single criminal get by me yet
Still the best!! =:0)
He should’ve listen to his lawyer
So the lawyer knew the whole time he was in jail yet acts like he didnt know anything till the phone call. Because he just admited he got greenleaf out of jail for being drunk.
The phone call was to confirm the witnesses of Jack's drinking and car accident, so to ensure he had an iron clad alibi. The lawyer only knew he bailed him out, he was not present at the scene of the drunken crash. He only appeared at the police station when Jack's character sobered up and asked for his lawyer.
I LOVE PETER FALK 😘😘😘
Mariette Hartley ❤❤❤❤❤
That bookcase have no middle supports and weight bends them
Columbo says the only fingerprints on the pistol were Greenleaf's. I don't remember Greenleaf being fingerprinted!!!
Firearms permit in CA required finger print(s) be on-file (at least back then - it’s been a while). This was stated in another Columbo where they knew a suspect put a dime (inflation!) in a parking meter near a murder scene which matched their gun permit.
I never saw Greenleaf do a lick of work on the whole show
8:51 Yes,i will.
The Lawyer: When you talk to the Luteneit, do not say ANYTHING that might be misconstrued as an admission of guilt.
Columbo: We only found your fingerprints on the gun
Perp: Then im the only one who could have done it. I was walked out on and i killed them in anger
The Lawyer:
If the lawyer got him out of the drunk tank surely he’d remind him of that before Columbo came over. Then the lawyer or the guy himself would tell Columbo of the alibi. None of them mentioned it and the guy continued we his memory loss story. This makes no sense
The phone call was to confirm the witnesses of Jack's drinking and car accident, so to ensure he had an iron clad alibi. The lawyer only knew he bailed him out, he was not present at the scene of the drunken crash. He only appeared at the police station when Jack's character sobered up and asked for his lawyer.
@@johnking5174 Wouldn’t his being in jail at the time be an alibi lamumba?
haha, I mean let's face it....this story was a little laughable from the get go. The whole idea seems to be founded upon the notion that Cassidy's character just goes out and get's black-out drunk and drives around all evening. He doesn't even remember going to Encino. "Encino?? What the heck was I doing there?" lol. He was blacked out before even going to the bar. Such a convenient thing to be able to say "oh well I was drunk last night. I don't remember anything about the whole evening." Gotta love Cassidy though. His style was so perfectly suited to these roles...he was great at seeming like someone who was (badly) "acting" innocent.
The lawyer probably would not have known he was in the drunk tank since 10:30 the previous evening until he got into his office the next morning.
ooops! lol
¿Como se puede poner una nota mala a Columbo? Cuando se entere su mujer... 🤣
Jack Cassidy was my favourite baddy👌
Hahahaha 🤣!!!!!
Mariette Hartley has got to be one of the prettiest women to ever live. In my opinion.
When are they ever going to tell the truth about fingerprints? The likelihood of their persisting on a gun is extremely remote. Fingerprints simply evaporate very quickly unless they are stained. That is, they must be covered in blood or something to leave an impression. Under other rare circumstances, they might be found. But they're very unlikely to stick around on a gun.
The villain looks like Gus Johnson.
The Mommy Dearest house once owned by director Alan Dwan.
O, er... one thing
Gorgeous blonde lady and what speaking voice
She was so beautiful
sub-conscious mind wants to confess, I guess - tho the crack about the story being a Viet Nam War book didn't help much either. Anyway, once the identity of the killer is established, the alibi is meaningless bc the killer was Greenleaf's weapon.
Hmm
Like to have that caddy.
This episode was directed by Steven Speilberg
No kidding!
I think it was directed by Robert Butler. Steven Speilberg did actually direct the 1st ever (non-pilot) episode of Columbo though: "Murder by the book" in 1971.
@@grantchallinor5263 Spielberg.
Spielberg.
@@tilesetter1953 oops, thanks chief
...or Greenleaf uses "those people" when he doesn't know the gender of the other person.
Job:29-13
Jack Cassidy is the perfect villain! In real life he was a flaming alcoholic who had great difficulties getting along with people. He died an early death at home in a fire set by his smoking. He was apparently very drunk 🥴. Another person destroyed by John Barleycorn. Columbo took it step by step to solve the murder!