Columbo - a few questions for discussion

[terentii]

I made these additional comments a few weeks back on a different thread:

Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs

Got news here: I watched that episode on two different nights this week and read an on-line transcript of it. Despite what it says on the credits, I could find neither “Richard” nor “Gloria” in any scene. I suspect they both ended up on the cutting room floor. The business about fabricating the victim’s keys was, BTW, dumb and completely unnecessary. I watched a clip of the first act on YouTube and he puts them down in the foyer at 01:20. At 03:05, Lee Grant takes them to dump the body. At …