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The Great Bank Robbery

Lady Godiva breaks the bank, the Reverend Pious Blue soars away in a hot air balloon, or is it the Lady and the Ranger, caught in an updraft over ignorant armies?

Columbo: Suitable for Framing

The art collector is playing Chopin’s E Major Étude, Op. 10, No. 3, the art critic shoots him dead (with the help of the art student) and pins the murder on the art benefactor. In the midst of this the critic kills the student.

The first smiling murder takes place a few seconds after the episode begins, in Bel-Air. Rembrandts and Picassos look on.

He’s an acerbic critic who admires “the relations between the pieces” of a mobile, and says so. A policewoman descends a stairway, imitating the art student.

Lt. Columbo spots the culprit right away, as he shows no grief for the deceased but plenty (feigned) for the Degas pastels he’s just purloined.

Does he know the second victim? In words echoing from the Salon and the fox Chardin, the critic replies, “Lieutenant, there must be over a hundred thousand art students in Southern California.” These are very trenchant words.

Mary Wickes as a Hollywood landlady gives a Cook’s Tour of the tourist attractions (date farms, Chinese Theatre, graveyards, zoo).

The critic is berated by the dealer for preferring Paris and London to “us peasants.” The artist is berated by the dealer for having a mind of his own. The model is berated by the artist for fidgeting.

Like Kowalski's Fade in to Murder episode, the solution is imagery, and here it is as elegant as the two pastels which Columbo identifies by his own fingerprints (he wears Chekhov-gray gloves for this demonstration).

Columbo: A Stitch in Crime

As it opens, an ambulance is speeding west on Melrose Avenue past RKO Studios of old. The gallantly geometric hospital is seen in a low-angle establishing shot.

An operation carefully timed to fail so as to advance an unfledged theory casts a spreading pall of incrimination and murder. And lo! there is Lt. Columbo littering the scene of the crime with the shell of a hardboiled egg.