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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 274982" data-attributes="member: 33">Death Lends a Hand is another good episode and Robert Culp is great. It&#039;s also an unusual episode in that Columbo spends a lot of time with the character played by Ray Milland which is unusual because he isn&#039;t the murderer. Those scenes were so good I&#039;m sure it was why they invited Ray Milland back in to play the murderer in a future episode. I don&#039;t remember much about Dead Weight except that Eddie Albert was the murderer so I think either I&#039;ve not seen it very often or it was just a average episode with nothing specific in it that sticks in my mind.This was another of the most memorable cinematic effects used in Columbo. It looks a bit old fashioned in that they used a still picture for the close up of Robert Culp&#039;s glasses rather than a film with motion but that aside it&#039;s still an effective and impressive way to show viewers the aftermath of the murder.Of all the actors who played murderers more than once, Jack Cassidy, Robert Culp, Patrick McGoohan and William Shatner (have I forgotten anyone?), Robert Culp was my favourite. There was always an anger, aggression, unpredictability and danger in his performance and his interactions with Columbo are more confrontational rather than being a playful cat and mouse interaction that was a feature of so many of the other murderers on the show.My main question about Columbo methods in general are how he never preserves a crime scene. He goes stomping through the scene of a murder potentially contaminating evidence. He also occasionally does instant on location destructive forensic analysis of items (e.g. picking up guns with a pen, touching corpses or going through their pockets) rather than sending things to the lab for a proper investigation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 274982, member: 33"] [I]Death Lends a Hand[/I] is another good episode and Robert Culp is great. It's also an unusual episode in that Columbo spends a lot of time with the character played by Ray Milland which is unusual because he isn't the murderer. Those scenes were so good I'm sure it was why they invited Ray Milland back in to play the murderer in a future episode. I don't remember much about [I]Dead Weight[/I] except that Eddie Albert was the murderer so I think either I've not seen it very often or it was just a average episode with nothing specific in it that sticks in my mind. This was another of the most memorable cinematic effects used in [I]Columbo. [/I]It looks a bit old fashioned in that they used a still picture for the close up of Robert Culp's glasses rather than a film with motion but that aside it's still an effective and impressive way to show viewers the aftermath of the murder. Of all the actors who played murderers more than once, Jack Cassidy, Robert Culp, Patrick McGoohan and William Shatner (have I forgotten anyone?), Robert Culp was my favourite. There was always an anger, aggression, unpredictability and danger in his performance and his interactions with Columbo are more confrontational rather than being a playful cat and mouse interaction that was a feature of so many of the other murderers on the show. My main question about Columbo methods in general are how he never preserves a crime scene. He goes stomping through the scene of a murder potentially contaminating evidence. He also occasionally does instant on location destructive forensic analysis of items (e.g. picking up guns with a pen, touching corpses or going through their pockets) rather than sending things to the lab for a proper investigation. [/QUOTE]

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