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"Columbo" Try and Catch Me (1977)
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Original Air Date:
21 November 1977
(Season 7, Episode 1)
Plot:
An aging but successful and wealthy crime fiction writer blames her nephew for the death of her niece...
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simply fabulous, that's all
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Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Ruth Gordon | ... | Abigail Mitchell |
 | Mariette Hartley | ... | Veronica |
 | G.D. Spradlin | ... | Martin Hammond |
| Charles Frank | ... | Edmund Galvin |
| Mary Jackson | ... | Annie |
| Jerome Guardino | ... | Sergeant Burke |
| Marie Silva-Alexander | ... | Dance Instructor |
 | Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Waitress |
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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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Norway:11 (2007) (DVD) |
Sweden:15 (2007) (DVD) |
Denmark:15 (2007) (DVD) |
Finland:K-18 (2007) (DVD) (self applied)
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Continuity: When Abigail is seated in her Rolls Royce and Columbo is speaking to her, his cigar appears alternately in his left and right hands without him having had time to move it.
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Lt. Columbo:
You know I can remember the only new car my father ever bought. How proud he was. The way it smelled. Kind of like the inside of a Pullman car. It wasn't like this though, I'll tell you that.
Abigail Mitchell: My father never owned a car. Not until I bought him one. I was 20; I'd just sold my first book. Shall we compare poverty stories Lieutenant?
Lt. Columbo: Not in a Roles Royce, ma'am.
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Abigail Mitchell: My father never owned a car. Not until I bought him one. I was 20; I'd just sold my first book. Shall we compare poverty stories Lieutenant?
Lt. Columbo: Not in a Roles Royce, ma'am.
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Imagine regular old network television with a guest star of Ruth Gordon's stature - only on Columbo. Gordon plays a successful author who attempts to outsmart Columbo. You can already guess what happens. Falk and Gordon are great together. Mariette Hartley plays Gordon's secretary. Gordon does a wonderful star turn in this - she's a conniver, all right, but she's one who never fully recovered from a great tragedy in her life. You really side with her.
I've often wondered, as a major Columbo fan, what really happens to some of these characters when they go to trial. Do the charges stick? I think in the case of Ruth Gordon - she walks.