I commented under Columbo Cries Wolf that I didn't like the way they made Columbo look like a fool for the most part, yet I understood why they tried to tweak the formula Here they tweak the formula properly by making it personal for Columbo. I wish they did that more often, maybe by killing a friend of Columbo, or something.
Is it predictable? Yeah, but almost every Columbo is predictable. He's going to catch his crook and we want to see how he does it. I think by the middle, people could figure out it was a fake funeral. Really killing off Mrs Columbo would completely change the character. They were never going to do it.
Peter Falk won the Emmy that year for Best Actor in a Drama Series which was amazing to me because everybody knew the deal with Columbo so there was nothing groundbreaking about it. But even though he won it for the previous episode with Patrick McGoohan, I think he won it for this. A new spin to the classic character
Is it predictable? Yeah, but almost every Columbo is predictable. He's going to catch his crook and we want to see how he does it. I think by the middle, people could figure out it was a fake funeral. Really killing off Mrs Columbo would completely change the character. They were never going to do it.
Peter Falk won the Emmy that year for Best Actor in a Drama Series which was amazing to me because everybody knew the deal with Columbo so there was nothing groundbreaking about it. But even though he won it for the previous episode with Patrick McGoohan, I think he won it for this. A new spin to the classic character