Episode 143: Columbo: Try & Catch Me (1977)

Our second foray into the greatest detective series ever made continues with an episode from the final year of the show's original NBC run - 1977's Try & Catch Me, starring Ruth Gordon as a mystery novelist in a very different vein from Jack Cassidy's smug charlatan in Murder By The Book. Bringing the likeable... Continue Reading →

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Episode 140: Columbo – Murder by the Book

Introduced by Devlin Gali may not have introduced me to Columbo as such - I'd watched it before and enjoyed it, I'm sure - but he was certainly the person who anchored it as a regular viewing habit. Back when we were housemates in the Hyde Park area of Leeds, we would commandeer the living... Continue Reading →

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