Columbo - The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of Columbo - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Good Start for a Great Detective
Summary: 4 Stars
How can you not love Columbo, the disarming detective with the absent-minded demeanor who unnerves heinous murderers from their ivory towers? The first season probably deserves five stars for its innovation and development. The pilot movie delighted audiences with its surprises and characterization. There are skillful performances throughout and interesting cases to boot. One could find minor qualms almost from the series' success and continuing improvement. There are a few episodes that bring a cliff-hanger and depend on Columbo's assumptions of human nature to unravel their crimes. They aren't always coincidences, but chance plays into Columbo's hand a little too neatly sometimes.
Despite this picky complaint, the crimes presented seem flawless by those living the lifestyles of the rich and arrogant, and it Columbo's finesse as a man with everyman's savy that has delighted audiences for decades. He's still the TV detective to beat. (Leslie Nielsen [playing it straight--no less!] Jack Cassidy, Lee Grant, and Ross Martin are just a few of the guest cast who make the adventures authentic. Roddy McDowell, subjectively, is the smoothest murderer of the bunch.) The debut season is a good start to a great television series.
Movie Review: Columbo Series DVDs
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a big fan of the Columbo series, ever since it first aired on television in the early 1970s. I own all of series to date, and I can't wait for the remaining seasons to be released on DVD. I never get tired of watching these shows, I throughly enjoy them each time I see them. I am really glad to have purchased these. I haven't had any problems with the DVDs I've received from Amazon. However, I too would like some feedback from Peter Falk, regarding the series. "Oh, just one more thing..." I never once watched any of the Mrs. Columbo series, and I would like to see more bonus features that pertain to this particular series.
Movie Review: There is no crime when you order from Amazon
Summary: 5 Stars
Product was in excellent shape, new and enjoyable to view. Amazon maintained a good line of communication and shipping was in a reasonable time frame.Movie Review: Here's hoping for a "complete" set of Columbo episodes this time.
Summary: 4 Stars
It's great that Universal finally got around to releasing the Columbo detective series on DVD. Columbo was one of the few shows, where the story quality rarely degenerated from one season to the next. That said, however, it's nothing short of criminal that several of these episodes are NOT in their original full length. From the first season DVD set, actress Barbara Rhodes is missing from "A Lady In Waiting". Even worse, a key scene in a recording studio with Columbo and an engineer is missing from the famous "Swan Song" episode with Johnny Cash, from the second or third season. And I've found large scene deletions in at least two other favorite episodes on other season DVDs. These shameful practices are characteristic of most American conglomerates like GE-NBC-Universal that consistently show that their regard for their customers is even lower than that of their own substandard merchandise. Thank you, Jack Welch-who should have stuck to dishwashers and weapons contracting. Movie Review: "you're almost likeable in a shabby sort of way...."
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't remember seeing Columbo on TV when I was young, in South Korea, although I do remember it was on everyweek, late Saturday or Sunday night. The name Columbo and its fame (one of the best mystery shows on TV) are pretty much all I knew about it, so I had to hesitate a little before I bought the DVD set.
After the third episode of the first season ("Murder by the Book," directed by Steven Spielberg), I was sure that the show is going to be one of my favorites.
My initial hesitation had to do with the fact that the show is from more than 30 years ago. I don't know why I keep forgetting that, while the outside of our lives may change tremendously, the inside change little. I just assumed that the show would be too "coy" for the tastes of today's viewers, and, without blood, without profanity, without overt violence, murder mysteries wouldn't have so much thrill and fun. How was I wrong.