Make Me a Perfect Murder
- Episode aired Feb 25, 1978
- TV-PG
- 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.
James McEachin
- Walter Mearhead
- (as James Mc Eachin)
Kip Gilman
- Jonathan
- (as Kenneth Gilman)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Playland Arcade scenes were filmed at the Santa Monica, California Looff Hippodrome. This location also was used as the carousel where Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman's character in The Sting (1973)) lived and worked. In The Sting, the carousel was located in Chicago.
- GoofsThe image of Columbo's car, sitting in the parking lot, can be seen reflected in the glass of the CNC building as Kay enters it before she commits the murder.
- Quotes
Columbo: [entering Kay's office] That's a very impressive desk, Ma'am. You can run the world from a desk like that.
Kay Freestone: The world doesn't count - just the West coast.
- ConnectionsFeatures Bolero (1934)
- SoundtracksThis Old Man
(uncredited)
Traditional English children's marching song
Whistled by Columbo (Peter Falk)
Featured review
Best of 7th (Final) Season when Falk was doing a goofy Bogart Imitation
Trish van Devere makes for a good killer. A woman scorned, she murders her lover who she thinks is a partner producer for a TV network. She's cold and steely but also human and, like the best Columbo villains, very sympathetic, and not just because she's a woman.
The problem with this episode is the problem with the entire final Season 7, before the show was done... until returning years later, which don't really count in my book... For true Columbo fans, THIS was the show's final season...
Herein, Falk is no longer being natural as Columbo, but seems to be doing a Columbo imitation by acting like his Murder by Death character channelling Bogart. He crosses his eyes in a cartoonish fashion and his voice sounds like Bugs Bunny...
Here, though, he's kept in check, and it's mostly because of the villain, Devere, who the producers of Columbo obviously thought wasn't strong enough to lead the show in the usual 15 minute murder first after which Columbo rolls in to figure things out...
Instead, vapid scenes of Columbo getting his neck injured in a car wreck are spliced into the prologue murder, and with the exception to this episode's acting and writing, it's rather awkward.
This and Clive Revill's turn as an Irish Revolutionary poet in the final episode are the top episodes of this quirky final season when Falk seems done with Columbo, and he might've been trying to tell us something. If that's true, only a few caught on...
The problem with this episode is the problem with the entire final Season 7, before the show was done... until returning years later, which don't really count in my book... For true Columbo fans, THIS was the show's final season...
Herein, Falk is no longer being natural as Columbo, but seems to be doing a Columbo imitation by acting like his Murder by Death character channelling Bogart. He crosses his eyes in a cartoonish fashion and his voice sounds like Bugs Bunny...
Here, though, he's kept in check, and it's mostly because of the villain, Devere, who the producers of Columbo obviously thought wasn't strong enough to lead the show in the usual 15 minute murder first after which Columbo rolls in to figure things out...
Instead, vapid scenes of Columbo getting his neck injured in a car wreck are spliced into the prologue murder, and with the exception to this episode's acting and writing, it's rather awkward.
This and Clive Revill's turn as an Irish Revolutionary poet in the final episode are the top episodes of this quirky final season when Falk seems done with Columbo, and he might've been trying to tell us something. If that's true, only a few caught on...
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- 26646 Latigo Shore Drive, Malibu, California, USA(Mark McAndrews' beach house)
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