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Season 4 Episode 4 ''Troubled Waters'': Lt. Columbo takes a trip to Acapulco but finds himself on a new case when a used car dealer commits murder on the cruise ship.
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Columbo has convinced me the evil within somebody is directly proportional to the width of their shirt collar.
l o l
Robert Vaughn's collar crossed several time zones.
Hitler's went down to the nipples
Lol😂😂
Yes , absolutely, almost a law! definitely a rule of thumb!
Peter Falk frequently added in unscripted improvisations such as asking for a pencil, searching for something in his pockets, asking a character to repeat something, rambling about irrelevant trivialities, or adding in a line about Mrs. Columbo. Falk did this to frustrate and annoy his fellow actor (usually the suspect) and generate a genuine "get to the point" moment. ~ IMDb
He did it to make them think he was stupid and dimwitted. This kept them talking they would often try to help him solve the crime by suggesting alternative solutions to the problems he had in closing the case.
And it was one of the most successful gambits in his acting. It sure made the show interesting!
seems like it would also add an element genuine confusion to the actor who's playing the suspect
Columbo's theme , This old man was unscripted as well. He says in his auto biography that in one scene he is making a call and he is either put on hold or is waiting to be put through and he just started whistling/humming that song and it stuck.
@@nickinurse118 He's talking about the actor, not the character. Pay attention.
"Sir, would you please give me your prints so you can incriminate yourself?"
"How about I just admit to the whole thing."
"Oh, thats very kind of you."
LMFAO, how every Columbo show ends. Just like Scooby Doo, I would of gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids.
Rip Lucy Saroyan.
They confess and are always calm knowing they'll spend their life in prison.
I like it, it's sort of like one last tiny futile action to go out on his own terms with dignity before he spends the rest of his life behind bars, like he needs people to know he put himself here, and ironically, he's right.
I think, in this case, the Captain of the ship could insist...
"I knew the killer was you from the moment I realised you're Robert Vaughan."
The trope name is "Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize" XD
Incidentally, I missed this implication entirely during a recent murder mystery, wherein the murderer was played by one of the Avengers. Helps that I didn't actually recognize him out of costume 😅
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I actually think the reason they only have one big star per episode (besides Falk) was because they had only enough money for one
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It's rare for Columbo to directly troll a suspect so severely, but the man DID interrupt his vacation.
I personally think that his hounding of suspects with his endless questions and "One more thing" is directly trolling. All by design, of course, to get under the person's skin and cause them to panic and err.
@@gaden002Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.
@@gaden002 Exactly. Columbo pretty much knows early on if not from the beginning. Then he absolutely trolls them day and night with how the cover stories don't quite work.
Whenever Columbo said "just one more thing" you knew they were done for.
This is my favourite gotcha moment because Hayden has essentially got away with it but columbo puts doubt in his head, so the guy goes away and basically frames himself (by 'creating' the second pair of gloves)
That's the bit I don't understand. He would have got away with it because he tossed the first pair of surgical gloves overboard. He was so obsessed with framing Harrington for the murder he gave himself away by robbing a second pair, because Columbo him he needed surgical gloves with power burns on them to make a case against Harrington.
Right. He knows that Columbo knows he did it, and his logic and nerves finally failed him: he needs, psychologically, to PROVE his innocence to Columbo.
@@patrickjohnson5658He was obsessed with framing somebody else because he knew that Columbo knew he did it, so he panicked.
I love how Columbo pretty much knew who did it. He just had to find proof. And then he tricked the guy into incriminating himself. Just great.
I'd LOVE to count how many times the villain wold have got away with it...had they only played it cool.
That's pretty much the default for most of the episodes.
I've heard Columbo described as "How gonna catch em" as opposed to "Whodunnit" since the audience always knows who the killer is from the start.
Yep the guy could've either not provided evidence or if he did use gloves either had a different kind underneath or just not used surgical gloves. Oops.
Every. Single. Time.
I think the most humiliating part of getting caught in this episode is that he had to be taken into custory by a guy wearing those white shorts 🤣
That's Dr. Bombay, that dude didn't want the smoke lol.
When Columbo starts talking about the prints in the surgical gloves, you could see Vaughn slightly squirm, saying to himself, "What did I get myself into?"
If Columbo taught me one thing, it's this: *_Never talk to the Police._*
Should be "Don't Murder Someone" but that's one lesson
@@americankid7782 My parents had already taught me that.
@@americankid7782innocent people get convicted all the time. Even if you didn't commit a crime, *don't talk to the police*.
Then you’ve learned nothing.
@@akmi1931 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
Always liked the captain slowly coming around to respecting Columbo throughout the episode
Played by Patrick Macnee, famous for his role as John Steed in "The Avengers". The purser was played by Bernard Fox, who was one of those actors you would see over and over again in various shows (he played "Colonel Rodney Crittendon" in "Hogan's Heroes". Last but not least, Dean Stockwell was in this episode, too.
Fox also played Dr. Bombay in Bewitched. I will never forget about something the happened about a year ago. Someone posted a clip of this episode. I said that John Steed and Dr. Bombay helped Columbo solve the case. A woman claiming to be a doctor from India, blasted me. She called me a racist that thought all doctors in India are called Doctor Bombay. When I proved to her that Bernard Fox played a *CHARACTER* named Doctor Bombay, she never apologized!
Hope she sees this!
I love it when British people say “Very good sir” after an order or a request
They don’t 😂 But 70’s Hollywood (and today’s ftm) think they do.
Possibly a naval or armed services thing?
@@balfnet I am very sorry to have to inform you that indeed we do say this. It's an old fashioned way of speaking but you will still hear it and similar phrases uttered in high-class establishments by workers in the service industry. Think , butler, valet at a country club or a bartender in a gentleman's club, that sort of thing.
@@EarlHare That sounds about right to me too. It's lost currency since Columbo's days and it definitely sounds a bit old-fashioned now, but it's still normal in certain situations.
"Perhaps some cheese on your coffee, sir?" "Well of Course!" "Very Good Sir!"
When Columbo shows Danziger the fingerprint and says, "Big as life," he gives him that 'I've got you now' stare that was brilliant. This was a great episode that never gets old. By the way, the ship that was used for filming is laying on its side in 2024.
Whats it called?
IMDB said the ship was the Sun Princess, later the Ocean Dream. Sank off Thailand in 2016, currently being scrapped. It was also the location where they filmed the Love Boat pilot. @@_Meng_Lan
@@_Meng_LanTroubled Waters
@@_Meng_Lan The ship itself was called the Spirit of London originally and then changed hands a fair few times, had some legal trouble and then capsized and sank in shallow waters very close to Thailand and as of 2019 pretty much all of the ship above the waterline where it rested had been removed and all that's left is what's below the water, getting that salvaged is another matter entirely.
These were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end…..
We'd live forever and a... *BANG*. And we're a subject for Columbo.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
The whistling and humming, toying with the murderer lol.
And nearly always it was "This Old Man."
Columbo is never really on vacation. One of my favorites.
This raises the troubling possibility that someone gets killed whenever Frank is on vacay?
Happened to that Murder she wrote Lady all the time...
it's a fact that many murder shows have homicide rates far in excess of average rates before the detective arrived...
Everyone Johnathan and Jennifer Hart ever knew was murdered!
I don't think that Napoleon Solo would have been able to get away with this crime, even if Columbo wasn't around. Ship's captain, John Steed would have brought Solo to justice.
I love how stacked the casts are in Columbo episodes.
Oh, a double crossover! Nice!
Triple or quadruple or more crossover, if you count Col Critendon from Hogan’s Heroes or Dr. Bombay from Bewitched or even M*A*S*H!
@@MrBiggles53 In the same episode?!
Or even Quantum Leap
"Man From U.N.C.L.E." was one of my favorite spy shows as a young girl...mostly because of "Ilya Kuryakin," of course! I came to appreciate Robert Vaughn's acting when I reached my 20s and realized he was quite superb.
Can't get enough of columbo no matter how old, all the repeats I just love it, they don't make em like that anymore.
this is my favorite episode, it's really cool how he notices the feather on the floor & instantly knows the killer is on the other side of the door but he plays it cool & waits for the right moment to look
One of many superbly written series of the time. We were spoiled by world-class writing in those days. If we knew how crappy TV would be today, we might have appreciated it more then. Columbo was the best.
Absolutely spot on!
There was just as much garbage tv back then as there is now, dozens of shows premiered and failed every year. We just remember the ones that were good.
@@Toastybees Yep. Survivorship bias. At the time of release? The good and the bad run neck in neck - sometimes it might even feel like the garbage drowns out the good stuff. But the good stuff is what people come back to again later, again and again, rather than the garbage which gets tossed out once the initial spectacle is gone.
For example - my grandma once had me track down a copy of Quo Vadis (1951) and it was one of the driest, most dull things I ever watched, with only Peter Ustinov going ham as Emperor Nero and one Colosseum scene where a man wrestles an actual live bull offering any point of interest out of a nearly three hour long picture. But back in the day when it was released, it was The Big Deal, because of how Big the production value was. It really just goes to show you that 'time will tell' especially counts for media... though sometimes that's poor comfort for people who needed their work appreciated in its own time, rather than ten, twenty, or thirty years after the fact.
Come on dude, this is a golden age for tv, trouble is there is so much of it, it’s impossible to watch it all.
A great representation of how much time Justice has, to catch up.
He's never in a hurry.
Columbo could also have solved the case through a process of elimination if Danziger refused to give his fingerprints. He found a feather from the singers pillow near the entrance to the ships hospital. Therefore whomever murdered the singer would be somebody who had need to visit the hospital. According to the episode only three passengers did, Columbo himself, the singer Harrington, and Danziger himself. So unless the doctor or the nurse did it, it could only have been the singer or Danziger. Columbo had already determined the print was not Harrington's, so it could only have been Hayden's.
Columbo baited Danzinger into getting another pair of gloves and firing a gun with them on, by telling him he could only close the case when he found the gloves with powder on them. Danzinger fell right into the trap.
As someone who once worked in the glass industry, surgical gloves will still leave fingerprints on glass.
Wow. Isn’t that something? I didn’t know that.
Welding gloves won't😊
" Typically, gloves that leave no fingerprints are made from materials that do not absorb oil or moisture from the skin. Latex, nitrile, and PVC are commonly used in medical, laboratory, and industrial settings. "
I think you're confusing actual fingerprints and smudges
As a fan Years back, I tested this and found it to be true
I'm being silly, but Columbo was in this scene with 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' and Steed from 'The Avengers'!!!!!!!! And Bernard Fox from the 'Carry On' movies!!!!
I have just watched this episode of Columbo yesterday morning.
Best serial ever
It's good, but nothing beats Captain Crunch.
Love this episode - Troubled Waters.
One of the best police/detective shows ever made.
I love Columbo, but I find it hilarious that in almost every episode, the second he figures out and proves how the bad guy did it, they all go "OH, you got me... I wont fight or put up any fuss, take me away I am guilty!!!" lol
I like this. It may be unrealistic but the story doesn't end with a chase and/or a shootout.
Yeah, well, I'm sure you know why that's the case, so I won't bother explaining it.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing while watching The Mentalist the other day. I guess it makes sense by TV logic, you wrap everything up in a nice bow and the hero gets their "gotcha" moment. That's one way Law and Order is different - you get the trial.
@@davidhoward4715 Wrong. All Columbo villians are educated, wealthy people. You can see each of them mentality calculating the odds of being found guilty as Peter Falk goes through his gotcha moment. They're not trailer park trash or ghetto gang members who try to escape in a car and kill themselves in the inevitable helicopter chase / shoot out or by driving into a bridge support at 105MPH.
@@ksjazzguitaryt You have to end the story somewhere. Why not an extra half hour after the guilty verdict on Law and Order to show prison life for the convicted child molester, and his murder in prison, and .....?
Columbo was so good, he even outwitted the man from UNCLE
The Man from UNCLE, John Steed, and Dr. Bombay all in one episode.
Last time I mentioned Bernard Fox played Dr. Bombay, someone came on and blasted me. She called me a racist for saying doctors in India are called Dr. Bombay!
Making the Man From UNCLE say "Uncle!"...no small feat.
Then he got off on a technicality and went to found a computer company that employed Richard Prior.
Great episode 😃😀
Excellent episode!! It had of course Lieutenant Columbo, Mr Steed, Dr Bombay & more!!! 👍👍🙂
And Napoleon Solo.
@@slake9727 And Al (QL)!
They should have had Uncle Arthur as the band leader.
Talk about being put on the spot. The wait must have been excruciating. He probably would gave preferred jumping overboard or getting sucked into the ship's smokestack.
grear cast ,,british and americans.. great episode..
robert vaugn against columbo..always a great show
I love the youtrack ad! I wish it lasted longer!!!!!!
I am watching it now..exactly this episod!
Anyone else remember back when those wings that got called collars would catch wind and put your eyes out?
I never understood why Hayden did this .... he practically incriminated himself.
Columbo finessed him into doing it.
Agreed, it made zero sense logically
He knew he was caught. If he had refused Columbo it would have looked very suspicious. Why would an innocent man refuse to give his fingerprints in a murder investigation? On the high seas the captains word was the law, and he could have simply have commanded Hayden to give a fingerprint sample. The fact a murder had taken place on his ship would would have given the captain the right to demand his fingerprint.
@user-bf3jr7cu7z I am sure the Mexican Police would have checked the Passengers.
@user-bf3jr7cu7z I would have risked bribing a Mexican cop over just giving up. Then again I wouldn't have murdered anyone in the first place.
Good heavens. In the background, that's Dr. Bombay from Bewitched, Bernard Fox. I caught a glimpse of him and my backbrain kept saying, "I know him, I know him" until all the little wheels caught up. Passed away in 2016. A true actor who grabbed his roles by the throat.
@georgfelis Yep , but my fav is when he plays Col Crittenton on Hogans Heroes . Classic
We know Columbo successfully caught the murderer because there was an episode "A matter Of Honour", where Columbo finds himself in Mexico and he is celebrity for having unmasked the killer on the cruise ship to Mexico. So much so the Mexican police wants his help with looking into a death at a bullfighting ranch.
Khan took up bullfighting!
What I loved on this scene most, was that earlier in that episode Columbo tells the suspect he actually does not know that much about ballistics. :-)
I really need to watch Columbo one day.
I've got it! Columbo is a cat. Poking and prodding with his prey, getting in their face wether they like it or not, often doing it under a cute cuddly guise. Picking or digging out little tidbits to play with to solve the case, not naming his dog but getting along with it, and always sinking his claws in once he is done playing. He is the cat detective. Comfortable his way, Superior confidence, always toying with the little scraps and always landing on his feet.
Rola głównego bohatera "COLUMBO"na miarę Oscara 👆👍😊
Robert Vaughan was a very stylish villain
Seeing this with anticipated breath I was very hopeful about the ending
Patrick Macnee, Bernard Fox, _and_ Robert Vaughn. Wow.
Yea he could tell those prints are different in 5 seconds of seeing it on the glove. LOL
Hey, that guy played Napoleon Solo! 🤣
Robert Vaughn was a fantastic actor...and a very handsome man, which certainly did appeal to us women!
the collars then makes the flying nun's headgear seem pretty normal 🙂
His crooning while he passes the print sheet over. Unsettling.
That was the whole idea. That was precisely what the producers and writers wanted viewers to feel!
If there is on flaw with this show it is they always showed you the crime in the beginning!
This was uploaded in the wrong framerate. PAL is sped up (and pitch shifted) by 4%.
Great segment, but it's already been posted by 'Columbo'.......
Couple of times even.
I just realized that Hogan's Heroes
Colonel Crittendon made 2 appearances on Columbo.
Napoleon Solo vs Columbo 😂🙌🏾
All they needed was Ilya Kuryakin!
Let this sink in... Columbo and John steed catch Napoleon Solo
Well done Colonel Crittendon!
That John Steed sure gets around
Well, with him in Crittendon's custody, he's sure to escape
Thanks, I couldn't remember where I had seen that actor before.
i like to say this when im solving a mystery.
"you got colombo'd"
i meant to say youre ABOUT to get columblowed
cololumbo'd its autocorrect sometimes
COLUMBO I LOVE YOU ❤
If a murder took place on a cruise ship who would have jurisdiction? The next port of call and that would be where the killer would held, brought to trial and eventually imprisoned? Or would the killer be sent back his/her country of origin for their prison time?
The jurisdiction is typically under which ever country the ship is flying the flag of. The crew would likely offload the suspect to be held by the local constabulary as the diplomats work out extradition.
Columbo is so calm. I would be nervous with Napoleon Solo on one side and Steed on the other…
Killer: "Drats! I know I should have thrown those gloves overboard!"
@@johnklatt3522 Ah! Logic!
Anakin solo did nothing wrong 😂awsome thank you loved it
Napoleon Solo vs. Lt. Columbo and John Steed. I just didn't know that Columbo is a finger print expert. Either that, or he was trolling the guy to make him more desperate. It was always about the mind games.
The entire premise behind the "Columbo" series was specific, but wasn't revealed all at once.
That premise was that Lt. Columbo, who appeared to be a bumbling, clumsy dolt who wore a huge, shabby trenchcoat in most episodes, was actually a seriously brilliant man, a police detective who was far more educated than the average homicide detective, and who had an IQ far, far higher than the average person in general.
It was a brilliant bit of strategy on the part of the producers, actually, because it gained a huge, loyal viewership.
Imagine boarding cruise ship and seeing Columbo in line. "Oh boy, someone is about to get murdered for this guy to solve it. Hopefully its not me."
Let's get this channel to 200k subscribers family!
The Captain of the Love Boat was Baltar? I half expected Cylons to come.
I thought he was grasping at straws... but it was a feather.
Columbo.
What I learned from this episode:
Burn the gloves.
He needed the gloves to plant evidence and throw Columbo off. At least, that's what he thought.
B U S T E D, I LOVE THIS DETECTIVE
Robert Vaughn was excellent in this.
At the beginning of Detective Conan, Kudou Shinichi tried to convince Prof. Agasa that he was Shinichi by deducting where the Professor was. And Kudou mentioned that his moustache had a sauce from a nearby restaurant called Columbo. I never knew of Columbo TV series. Only today. Gosho Aoyama really did his research. Kudos to him.
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RIP Jon Miller all please a minute of sorrow for this gentleman. I'm saddened being exposed to these videos. . Why repeat it all these little clips instead of an actual series where his talent is visible in its full extent.
Thought the man from uncle would have known better...
Fortunately for Colombo, the ship unrolls all of the hoses during a drill
what do you mean fortunately?
@wisteria3032 - if the ship didn't see a need to unroll every hose during a drill, they never would have found the gloves.
@@MrYfrank14 no, the guy put it there exactly because he knew how the drill worked. he wanted them to find the gloves. you see him keep an eye on his watch because he was waiting for the drill.
They sort of explained it at the end of the scene, when Colombo makes fun of the guy and says "you would have to find a gun, shoot it where no one would hear and hide the gloves in the hose... why would you do that"
He did that because he had gotten rid of the gloves but Colombo wouldn't close the case without them. He told the guy he was sure it was the other suspect but that they needed the gloves with the gunpowder on them as a final proof. that's why everyone expected Colombo to look for gunpowder. He practically convinced the killer to falsify the proof they needed to get him since he had successfully done away with the real proof
@@wisteria3032 - I am not aware of anyone, anywhere, that unrolls every firehose during a drill.
@@MrYfrank14 my point wasn't that it made sense, my point was that it wasn't fortunate. If they hadn't behaved that way the killer wouldn't have hidden the gloves there, as he wanted them discovered.
Anyway yes, it would have made more sense for it to be an inspection instead of a drill
Robert Vaughn! He (Hunt Stockwell) was the former army general who was the A-Team's boss! 😂
George Peppard was the "A-Team" leader, though, and was always at his best with that single line at the end of each adventure..."I love it when a plan comes together."
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That's Barnard Fox who played "Winston" in 1999's "The Mummy".. 😀
I loved his last scene. He had a big smile on his face because he went out in the line of duty! It's all he wanted.
Bernard Fox played a vast number of character roles across many genres of tv and movies. He was a very versatile actor who typically liked to use his British accent, though I did watch him in just one show once where he spoke without it. It didn't suit him at all! He played his part well, but without the accent, he just wasn't the same.
Bring back shows like this and remove all ‘ reality shows ‘ that are far from reality
I really wish Columbo had used a brush to get the graphite on the gloves, as what he's doing won't work.
First time seeing Colombo without his trenchcoat
FACT there where 69 episodes in total
The murderer was Ross Webster in Superman 3
And, more famously, Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Columbo touching the interior of the gloves without wearing gloves himself , oops.
It was the exterior of the gloves...the inside the pencil lead
And then breathing into them to inflate them. Completely worthless as evidence by modern standards.
That poor sailor in those shorts...
So, next time everyone... wear gloves UNDER your gloves..
Hasn't Columbo busted this guy like a dozen times? That actor seems so familiar in this kind of scene.
Robert Culp got busted three times!
Dr. Bombay
Is the fire alarm annoucement voice that of the Imperious Leader?
It was Bernard Fox, who played the part of the ship's Second Officer...the same man who escorted Robert Vaughn to the lower deck to be taken by the police.
I use surgical gloves all the time. Latex, Nitrile and even the shitty Vinyl ones at one time. The gloves are already inverted once taken off. It’s their entire purpose to not contaminate the user with biological hazards.
The show aired from 1971 to 1978. Things were very different back then, and the gloves surgeons wore weren't made of nitrile or vinyl, and yes, they did hold fingerprints very well. I was studying fingerprint identification when the show was on, and learned that bit.
Doesn't work so well on nitrile, though.
Lawyer: Your honour, the investigator took the evidence, filled it with pencil shavings, then sneezed into it.
Judge: Case dismissed!
This was definitely one of the most premeditated and well-planned murders in the entire Columbo run.
Overplanned, really. His attempt to frame her ex utterly backfired, and by overcommitting to the act, he wound up handing Columbo the hard evidence he needed.
throwing the gloves in the ocean wasn't an option?
I like the episodes where he completely fails to find the criminal.
??? I've seen every Columbo episode and have never seen one where he failed.
Ted Cruz as a villain in a Columbo episode?
Nice