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"Columbo" A Stitch in Crime (1973)
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11 February 1973
(Season 2, Episode 6)
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A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme. full summary | add synopsis
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Spock/Nimoy Serves Up Bad Crab To Columbo
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Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Leonard Nimoy | ... | Dr. Barry Mayfield |
 | Anne Francis | ... | Nurse Sharon Martin |
 | Nita Talbot | ... | Marcia Dalton |
| Will Geer | ... | Dr. Edmund Hidemann |
| Aneta Corsaut | ... | Nurse Morgan |
 | Jared Martin | ... | Harry Alexander |
| Victor Millan | ... | Detective Flores |
| Ken Sansom | ... | Paul (as Kenneth Sansom) |
| Murray MacLeod | ... | Dr. Simpson |
| Leonard Simon | ... | Dr. Michaelson |
| Ron Stokes | ... | Tom |
| Patsy Garrett | ... | Cleaning Woman |
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USA:73 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-7 (2005) |
USA:Unrated
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Continuity: (At 38:00) We see a close-up of Sharon's roommate Marcia reaching for a tissue in her bag. The bag is opened since we see the buckle up her breasts. In the next (wider) shot she's still struggling to open her bag.
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Dr. Barry Mayfield:
Maybe Marcia knows more than she's telling.
Lt. Columbo: Oh, actually I think she knows less than she's telling.
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Lt. Columbo: Oh, actually I think she knows less than she's telling.
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Sunday Mystery Movie Theme
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Directed by Hy Averback, veteran sit-com producer/director, this episode is paced more quickly than many Columbo episodes. It is cleverly written and slickly filmed & seems shorter than other shows.
Faulk not only has an excellent villain in Leonard Nimoy to pursue, but has Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) waiting in the wings as another victim of the evil opportunistic doctor Nimoy. Geers role in this is small but effective.
Columbo gets tortured himself in this one as he has a sleepless night and some bad crab at Nimoy's house party making him sick. This gives him a short temper which finally boils over in Nimoy's office late in the show.
Then, there is Nimoy who is a brilliant surgeon but a bumbling criminal who keeps trying and failing to throw Columbo off the scent. In this show he is the anti-Spock as he is neither logical nor anywhere near as smart as he is conceited. It would have been a crime to name him Dr. Spock in this episode as the real Dr. Spock would have really sued Universal.