True or False: Columbo was the greatest TV detective.....
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:06 PM
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True or False: Columbo was the greatest TV detective.....
nothing got past that man.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:06 PM
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Monk is the greatest TV detective. And Tony Shaloub rocks. "That was a helluva thing...."
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:07 PM
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2. Every time I see your name....
Edited on Wed Dec-17-03 12:15 PM by KensPen
I think of that hokey movie "the klan to the rescue"...... ooooops meant to pm that.....
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:18 PM
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6. I know. Reference to the film is neither implied nor intended.
Replace that thought w/ thoughts of fabulous drag queens on Broadway!..."Son, wear dresses that flatter and your Mamma will always love you! For it was God who made you a drag queen He must've smiled on the day you were born..."
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:58 PM
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13. I never saw the play, but loved the movie, eom
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:19 PM
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:08 PM
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3. This is the correct answer
Monk is the inevitable culmination of all great detectives before him, without the fist-fights.
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:21 PM
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15. Monk is definitely true to the style of the old (good) Columbos.
Honorable mention: Jim Rockfish.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:12 PM
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greatest detective 'show' I'd pick "The Rockford Files". But then I've never watched much TV, especially detective shows.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:16 PM
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5. ...aaaeegh yeah just one more question...
I don't know if he wsa the greatest but I saw Falk on "Inside the Actors studio" and Lipton (I know I know) made an interesting point. Columbo never busted middle class or working class people it was always the rich. Falk said that that was one of the keys to the show. They thought it would bring more people in to see rich people busted (pre-Reagan "you might one day be rich" diversion) and also Columbo always took advantage of their attitude of invicibility. They thought they were smarter than him and could get away with anything.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:23 PM
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as a result of a vase or candle stick during a fight in the heat of passion, I think one young actor, don't know his name, killed his girlfriend in every damn one of those 70s detective shows.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:25 PM
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The greatest TV detective was not even a member of the police force. Instead, he was an intrepid newspaper reporter named... Carl Kolchak.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:26 PM
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yes, Columbo would never have been able to bring in that Bayou Louisianna fiend "Paramafay".
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:32 PM
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11. I suppose Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
in the PBS series was not really a detective "show". in the same sense.
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:10 PM
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One of the best series ever on TV. Too bad they didn't let him sniff a little nose candy like the original.
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Wed Dec-17-03 12:53 PM
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12. I happen to know Peter Falk is a Democrat
So game, set, match. Also, he's just plain cool.
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:27 PM
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Nothing can come close to the vintage Jag driving detective from Oxford. :-)
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:45 PM
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17. Well, I like Cadfael, Hamish MacBeth, and Sherlock Holmes much more
Edited on Wed Dec-17-03 01:47 PM by MissMarple
than Colombo. Also, Morse and a certain elderly English maiden lady who knits aren't so bad either. :bounce: edited for incredibly bad grammar.
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:48 PM
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18. False-Jim Rockford was better and funnier
Nothing against Columbo, I just like "The Rockford Files" better.
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Wed Dec-17-03 01:54 PM
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was my favorite series, seems Rockford picked up where he left off when the show ended with Jansenn's untimely death. dp
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