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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Steven Bochco (teleplay)
Barney Slater (story)
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
15 December 1971 (Season 1, Episode 5)
Plot:
A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi. full summary | add synopsis
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Columbo and a family thing more (14 total)
Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Susan Clark | ... | Beth Chadwick |
| Jessie Royce Landis | ... | Mrs. Chadwick |
 | Richard Anderson | ... | Bryce Chadwick |
 | Leslie Nielsen | ... | Peter Hamilton |
| Joel Fluellen | ... | Charles |
| Richard Bull | ... | 2nd Detective |
| Garry Walberg | ... | 1st Detective |
| Barbara Rhoades | ... | Hostess |
| Jon Lormer | ... | Hearing Officer |
| Frank Baxter | ... | Fred |
| Susan Barrister | ... | Waitress |
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Runtime:
72 min | Italy:68 min (cut version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-7 (2004) | Australia:PG
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Last film of Jessie Royce Landis. more
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Continuity: Beth's sitting on her bed, waiting for Bryce to come home. She opens a box of chocolates and reaches in for a piece. There are no wrappers on the bed at this point but as she puts the piece of candy in her mouth, the bed is suddenly littered with candy wrappers. more
Soundtrack:
Love Theme from 'Red Sky At Morning' more
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Beth Chadwick's brother Bryce is running the family business and she feels left out.So she decides to kill him.Her plan is to make it look like she shoots a burglar trying to get into her house.Things don't quite go as planned and her boyfriend Peter Hamilton, who works for Bryce comes there at the wrong moment.Next we see Lt.Columbo coming.His job is to prove Beth murdered her brother.Norman Lloyd is the director of Columbo: Lady in Waiting (1971).Billy Goldenberg is behind the original music and Henry Mancini is the composer of the theme music.The cast does a very good job.There's Peter Falk, of course.Susan Clark plays Beth.Richard Anderson is the brother Bryce.Their mother is played by Jessie Royce Landis, who does her last performance there.Leslie Nielsen does a serious role as Peter.The 80's brought out the comedian in him but the previous decade saw the serious side of Leslie.Garry Walberg is the 1st detective.Richard Bull, who we remember from Little House on the Prairie playing Nels Oleson, is the 2nd one.Also Marcia Wallace, who does Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons is there as Woman at Inquest.This Columbo is good, maybe not the very best, but good.It's always fun to watch Columbo annoy those murderers.He's always there, you can't escape from him.What a character!