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"Columbo" Try and Catch Me (1977)
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"Columbo" (1971)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... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Simply one of the best Columbos more (21 total)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 minCountry:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Norway:11 (2007) (DVD) | Sweden:15 (2007) (DVD) | Denmark:15 (2007) (DVD) | Finland:K-18 (2007) (DVD) (self applied)Fun Stuff
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Continuity: When Abigail slams the safe door on Edmund for him to slowly suffocate (a rather nifty substitute for the gas chamber, which California wasn't using at the time), she pushes on the door with all her might so that the lock will jump from the impact. The lock DOES jump in the next shot, less than a second later, but neither Abigail nor even her shadow are in the picture. When the camera cuts to Abigail walking away from the safe, she is already several steps away, a process that would have taken far longer than the time allotted it. moreQuotes:
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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A top notch Columbo from beginning to end. I particularly like the interaction between Columbo and the killer, Ruth Gordon.
As an avid Columbo fan, I can't recall another one in which he doesn't set up the killer at the end as he does in other episodes. In this one, as he's trying to determine the correct sequence of the boxes and the "message" that the nephew left behind, it finally dawns on him.
The music in this episode is very good as well, as it is in many of other ones.