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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Steven Bochco (teleplay) and
Dean Hargrove (teleplay) ...
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
18 February 1974 (Season 3, Episode 6)
Plot:
The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo. full summary | add synopsis
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Co-incidence or inside joke more (12 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | José Ferrer | ... | Dr. Marshall Cahill (as Jose Ferrer) |
| Lew Ayres | ... | Dr. Howard Nicholson |
| Robert Walker Jr. | ... | Neil Cahill (as Robert Walker) |
| Lee Montgomery | ... | Steve Spelberg (as Lee H. Montgomery) |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Margaret Nicholson |
| Lou Wagner | ... | Ross |
| Arthur Batanides | ... | Murph (as Art Batanides) |
| Darrell Zwerling | ... | Motel Manager |
| Charles Macaulay | ... | Farnsworth |
| John Zaremba | ... | Coroner |
| William Bryant | ... | Fields |
| Bert Holland | ... | Whitehead |
| Ed Fury | ... | Plainclothesman |
| Jefferson Kibbee | ... | Jeff |
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Germany:70 min | USA:73 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-18 (2005) (DVD) (self applied)
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Perhaps the most unusual "guest star" in the entire "Columbo" series is the robot who is programmed to provide Marshall Cahill with his alibi. "Robby" is best known for having starred in the Sci-Fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956) directed by Fred M. Wilcox, as well as in "The Twilight Zone" and, more notably, in the cult television series "Lost in Space" (1965). more
Quotes:
Dr. Marshall Cahill:
Neil, be as humble as you like. Einstein was the most modest man I've ever met.
Neil Cahill:
Yeah, he could afford to be, he was a genius.
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I watched this Colombo movie and enjoyed it. Considering the format limitations of a television series, the story was very interesting, the acting excellent and worth repeated viewing. But my comment goes more to a couple things I noticed and I wonder if other IMDb viewers know more about it. There were a couple of characters in the story with names that must surely be an inside joke. Is the name of the lead character, Marshall Cahill, a nod to the 1973 John Wayne movie, Cahill US Marshall, and is the boy genius named Steve Spelberg a nod to Steven Spielberg who directed a 1971 Colombo TV movie? I turned to IMDb to see if this would be mentioned as trivia or in user comments. Surely this can't be just a co-incidence. Maybe others have something to add.