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.
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- (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)
COMMENTARY: This one has always ranked high on my list of favorites of the latter-day series. Some people don't like it because of the quasi-military setting and Foxworth's supposedly wooden portrayal. But he's no more wooden than Gene Barry in the very first Columbo flick, "Prescription: Murder" (1968). Both roles called for an arrogant, calm, overconfident and inexpressive person.
Janet Eilber plays the general's much younger wife and her character is genuinely winsome and noble, yet she's taken a foolish path and feels guilty about it. This all leads to a convincing and potent sequence.
Look for Lee Arenberg in an amusing bit part.
GRADE: A-/B+
- Wuchakk
- Jan 13, 2019
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