Now That Peter Falk And James Garner Are Both Dead

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@eschereal

What about The Inlaws? Who possibly could have done that role better than Peter Falk, keeping the audience on the edge of doubt for the whole movie?

I won’t say “better,” but I can kinda see Shatner playing for the tie.

[AncientHumanoid]

Is it a clip=on?

[dougie_monty]

@kayaker

Chill.

Hey, Gatopescado was trying to convince me that there is some merit to any of Aykroyd’s roles. I told him how I honestly felt about it.

[kayaker]

@dougie_monty

Hey, Gatopescado was trying to convince me that there is some merit to any of Aykroyd’s roles. I told him how I honestly felt about it.

Chill.
Then think before you post.
Deep, even breaths.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@AncientHumanoid

Is it a clip=on?

I’ll thank you to leave Mister Shatner’s toupee out of this.

[dougie_monty]

@kayaker

Chill.
Then think before you post.
Deep, even breaths.

Now deep breathely.

[kayaker]

@dougie_monty

Now deep breathely.

See, it’s working!

I’ve binge-watched Dragnet (and Adam-12) and find Friday’s gait to be stilted. He also gives sanctimonious (IMHO). The thing is, Webb (and you?) really believed every word he was saying.

Me . . . I’m more like BlueBoy than Joe Friday. But I can look at both characters as extremes on a continuum.

[dougie_monty]

@kayaker

See, it’s working!

I’ve binge-watched Dragnet (and Adam-12) and find Friday’s gait to be stilted. He also gives sanctimonious (IMHO). The thing is, Webb (and you?) really believed every word he was saying.

Me . . . I’m more like BlueBoy than Joe Friday. But I can look at both characters as extremes on a continuum.

Like Blueboy, eh? Remember his fate?

[kayaker]

@dougie_monty

Like Blueboy, eh? Remember his fate?

It’s a continuum. You are closer to the Jack Webb end; me I’m toward the other end. Neither is better, it’s just who we are.

[dougie_monty]

:Sigh: You * missed * the point. In case you don’t remember, -Benjie “Blueboy” Carver ended up dead.

[kayaker]

@dougie_monty

:Sigh: You * missed * the point. In case you don’t remember, -Benjie “Blueboy” Carver ended up dead.

No, I realize he died. His death was necessary to the plot and message the episode was presenting. In real life some people OD and die; many more use drugs and prosper.

ETA: it (Dragnet) is fiction, yo.

[dougie_monty]

@kayaker

No, I realize he died. His death was necessary to the plot and message the episode was presenting. In real life some people OD and die; many more use drugs and prosper.

ETA: it (Dragnet) is fiction, yo.

FWIW, the dialog at the end, when Friday questions the other (apparently sober and lucid) teenager present:
Friday: What’s your name?
Jamieson: Philip Jamieson.
F: How old are you?
J: Eighteen …[Gannon picks up saucer filled with pills]
…Those are Benjie’s…been taking them all day…kept saying he wanted to get further out…further out…kept saying he wanted to get further out… [Friday examines Blueboy’s face closely]
F: Well, he made it --he’s dead.

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Fiction it may be, but anyone who did what young Mr. Jamieson described would be hard put * not * to end up dead, as far as I’m concerned…

[Sherrerd]

@suranyi

I love Columbo, it’s one of my favorite shows ever. I just admire the way he puts together the clues. The best example is the episode “Negative Reaction”, with Dick Van Dyke as the killer. He creates a seemingly foolproof murder, complete with an obvious perpetrator, yet Columbo figures it out.
I like The Rockford Files a lot, too. Don’t get me wrong. But Columbo appeals to me on a deep level.

“Negative Reaction” is one of the good ones; as you say, its plot is carefully worked out. Also, it has a great comic cameo by Larry Storch (an underappreciated performer who should be known for more than F Troop).

A strong suit of Columbo was the inclusion of cameos by people like Storch, Mary Wickes, Vito Scotti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruno Kirby, Edith Head, Collin Wilcox (and others that will probably occur to me after I submit this post).