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Original Air Date:
15 October 1972
(Season 2, Episode 2)
Plot:
Columbo arrives at a kidnapping case, which at some point turns into a murder. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund, that is being managed by a man with a great love for orchids.
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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good cast wasted
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Crew believed to be complete
Additional Details
Runtime:
USA:73 min
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Goofs:
Factual errors: When Jarvis and Tony are working out the kidnapping details, Tony is listening to the police dispatcher on his radio. A close-up shows the "police radio" is just a common portable AM radio that would not receive police frequencies.
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Where else does Bob Dishy appear as Sgt. Wilson?
How many appearances did Ray Milland make in this series?
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I'm as big a Columbo fan as anyone, and also can be very critical of certain episodes which warrant negative comments, see Last Salute to the Commodore, but I digress. Greenhouse Jungle contains a solid cast, including Ray Milland, who's as snooty as ever, Bradford Dillman, and William Smith, he of Any Which Way You Can fame, and the plot line revolves around a phoney kidnapping and trust funds, but is carried out weakly; all the characters simply look as if their guilty, mainly the scene between the wife and the uncle, right in front of Columbo himself! Another problem of mine is that none of the folks are likable nor developed enough to even remotely care what happens to them, and that's sad considering this is a decent cast, and Milland was very good in his other episode with Robert Culp, and he's rather funny and snobbish here, but he acts as if he doesn't give a damn if he's fooling Columbo or not, considering he just murdered his nephew, played by Bradford Dillman.
It seems everyone just mailed this episode in, or the writing was just plain lazy, but this isn't a very memorable insertion, even though it contains the funniest moment in the entire series; Columbo accidentally falls down a steep hill, and supposedly the powers that be left this scene in, as this was the best moment of this episode.