Grand Deceptions
- Episode aired May 1, 1989
- TV-PG
- 1h 38m
After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.
- Corporal
- (as Bennett Liss)
- Mrs. Martinson
- (as Norma Macmillan)
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- Trivia(at around 43 mins) This is one of the few Columbo episodes in which the Lieutenant's supposed first name is displayed. Columbo is showing Frank Brailie a plastic evidence bag of leaves and mud retrieved from the collar of the victim, and the name 'Frank Columbo' can be read on the bag.
- GoofsWhen Columbo looks at the body of Sergeant Major Lester Keegan, he can be seen to be blinking.
- Quotes
Colonel Frank Brailie: The sexual life of the Camel...
General Padget: ...is stranger than anyone thinks,
Colonel Frank Brailie: He lies in the shade of the Pyramids...
General Padget: ...and tries to make love to the Sphinx,
Colonel Frank Brailie: But the Sphinx is only a statue...
General Padget: ...beset by the sands of the Nile,
Colonel Frank Brailie: Which accounts for the humps on the Camel...
General Padget: ...and the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
- Crazy creditsAs the program ends and the credits roll, the camera pans across the Civil War miniature figurines on their battlefield. It ends its motion on a tight closeup of a miniature figurine of Columbo himself, complete with trademark rumpled tan raincoat and arms up in his classic pose when interrupting to make a point. Clearly, his figurine is intended not as a Civil War relic, but instead as a little joke for the viewers.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Columbo: Murder, a Self Portrait (1989)
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- Коломбо: Большие маневры
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