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"Columbo" The Most Crucial Game (1972)
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Original Air Date:
5 November 1972
(Season 2, Episode 3)
Plot:
The manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case. full summary | add synopsis
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Average Columbo, entertaining to watch once.
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Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Robert Culp | ... | Paul Hanlon |
| Dean Jagger | ... | Walter Cunnell |
| James Gregory | ... | Coach Rizzo |
 | Valerie Harper | ... | Eve Babcock |
| Susan Howard | ... | Shirley Wagner |
| Dean Stockwell | ... | Eric Wagner |
 | Val Avery | ... | Ralph Dobbs |
| Kathryn Kelly Wiget | ... | Miss Johnson |
| Richard Stahl | ... | Mr. Fremont |
 | Don Keefer | ... | Deputy Coroner |
| Cliff Carnell | ... | Plainclothesman |
| Joe Renteria | ... | Box attendant Jimmy |
| Ivan Naranjo | ... | Sgt. Hernandez, LAPD |
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70 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-7 (2005) |
UK:PG
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The murder victim's (Eric Wagner's) house is the same used in "Columbo: Murder by the Book (#1.1)" (1971) where it was the house of Ken Franklin.
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Miscellaneous: When Shirley Wagner lands at the airport, there is a scene showing the wheels of her plane touching down. The wheels are of a B-52 bomber, and not a commercial airliner.
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Lt. Columbo:
Uh, sir?
Walter Cunnell: Yes?
Lt. Columbo: You don't mind if I ask you a personal question, do you?
Walter Cunnell: No.
Lt. Columbo: What'd you pay for those shoes?
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Walter Cunnell: Yes?
Lt. Columbo: You don't mind if I ask you a personal question, do you?
Walter Cunnell: No.
Lt. Columbo: What'd you pay for those shoes?
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There are better Columbo-movies to watch, like the Bye-Bye Sky High IQ murder case, but when you see this one for the first time it will certainly not disappoint you. This time the murderer makes very few mistakes. Columbo has his usual charm, but too much luck is involved this time to make everything truly belieavable.