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"Columbo" A Deadly State of Mind (1975)


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7.1/10   403 votes
Director:
Harvey Hart
Writers:
Peter S. Fischer (written by)
Richard Levinson (creator)
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TV Series:
"Columbo" (1971)
Original Air Date:
27 April 1975 (Season 4, Episode 6)
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
A psychiatrist, who specializes in hypnosis, murders the husband of his mistress and convinces her to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Falk ... Columbo

George Hamilton ... Dr. Mark Collier

Lesley Ann Warren ... Nadia Donner (as Lesley Warren)
Stephen Elliott ... Carl Donner
Karen Machon ... Dr. Anita Borden
Bruce Kirby ... Sergeant Kramer
William Wintersole ... Dr. Hunt
Ryan MacDonald ... Charles Whelan
Jack Manning ... Daniel Morris
Fred Draper ... David Morris
Glorie Kaufman ... Brenda
Redmond Gleeson ... Arnold
Vance Davis ... Officer Hendryx
Danny Wells ... Gary Keppler
Morris Buchanan ... Lab Man
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
70 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-18 (2006) (DVD) (self applied)
Filming Locations:
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
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Universal TV more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This is one of the few Columbo episodes where the original murder is a spontaneous act. In most episodes the murder is carefully planned. more
Quotes:
Charles Whelan: [watching a rat in a maze] They remind me of my junior assistants!
Dr. Anita Borden: We call her Willy.
Charles Whelan: I don't have a Willy.
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Top-Notch Columbo TV Thriller, 8 May 2005
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Author: ShootingShark from Dundee, Scotland

A brilliant psychotherapist kills his lover's husband at her home and tries to make it look like a robbery, but when she fails to convince the police with their story he uses hypnotic suggestion to murder her too. However, he has not reckoned with Lieutenant Columbo's tenacity in exposing the conspiracy and getting his man.

One of the best of ABC's classic Columbo mysteries, expertly written by Peter S. Fischer, and beautifully played by the cast. Hamilton is ideal as the suave, amoral research psychologist, seducing his patient purely for her literary worth to him. A very young Warren is fabulous as the flaky, child-like rich man's wife, unable to make the cover story stick despite her best efforts. And Falk is simply unforgettable as Columbo - affable, idiosyncratic, painstaking and brilliant. As with the best of these mysteries, it is the details of the investigation that make viewing so pleasurable - the broken flint, the thin tyre track, the jewellry in the stocking and the final masterstroke with the blind man. A fine example of some of the best TV crime drama ever made.

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