The great character actor Dabney Coleman was going through a nice purple patch in his career so was a bit of a casting coup here.
He plays Hugh Creighton ace defence lawyer who discovers his girlfriend a former rock star is having an affair. Splitting up is going to be an expensive option so he resorts to murder and frames the man she was sleeping with. Poor Creighton his luck does not get any better, Columbo is on to him and an associate of the firm guesses that he murdered his girlfriend and she proposes a partnership both professionally and personally.
There are a lot of soft rock tunes being played in this episode, a reflection of the influence of 1980s television especially after the show Miami Vice aired. At one point Little Richard turns up just as he once did in Miami Vice!
This is a routine Columbo episode since the show returned in the late 80s. It really drags a bit, Sondra Currie is nice eye candy as the cop helping out Columbo. The breaking of the alibi with the photo mask was all nonsensical and a good defence lawyer would had torn it to shreds.
Watch out for Grant Heslov as the nerdy tech guy who aids Columbo with the speed camera. He went on to win an Oscar as one of the producers for the film Argo.
He plays Hugh Creighton ace defence lawyer who discovers his girlfriend a former rock star is having an affair. Splitting up is going to be an expensive option so he resorts to murder and frames the man she was sleeping with. Poor Creighton his luck does not get any better, Columbo is on to him and an associate of the firm guesses that he murdered his girlfriend and she proposes a partnership both professionally and personally.
There are a lot of soft rock tunes being played in this episode, a reflection of the influence of 1980s television especially after the show Miami Vice aired. At one point Little Richard turns up just as he once did in Miami Vice!
This is a routine Columbo episode since the show returned in the late 80s. It really drags a bit, Sondra Currie is nice eye candy as the cop helping out Columbo. The breaking of the alibi with the photo mask was all nonsensical and a good defence lawyer would had torn it to shreds.
Watch out for Grant Heslov as the nerdy tech guy who aids Columbo with the speed camera. He went on to win an Oscar as one of the producers for the film Argo.