S2.E3

The Most Crucial Game

एपिसोड aired 5 नव॰ 1972
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Peter Falk and Valerie Harper in The Most Crucial Game (1972)

Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंThe manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case.The manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case.The manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

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बदलाव करें

Peter Falk

Columbo

Robert Culp

Paul Hanlon

Dean Jagger

Walter Cunnell

James Gregory

Coach Rizzo

Valerie Harper

Eve Babcock

Susan Howard

Shirley Wagner

Dean Stockwell

Eric Wagner

Val Avery

Ralph Dobbs

Kathryn Kelly Wiget

Miss Johnson

Richard Stahl

Mr. Fremont

Don Keefer

Deputy Coroner

Cliff Carnell

Plainclothesman

Joe Renteria

Box Attendant Jimmy

Ivan Naranjo

Sgt. Hernandez, L.A.P.D.

Edward Coch Jr.

Commuter
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LeRoy Ellis

Basketball Player
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Keith Erickson

Basketball Player
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Ben Frommer

Photographer
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ट्रिविया
The basketball players at the gym practice are all members of the Los Angeles Lakers.

गूफ़
The water sprayed on the pool side by Paul Hanlon would evaporate in the Californian heat in minutes. Yet when Columbo arrives the water is still there for him to taste.

भाव
Lt. Columbo: You know, when I'm listening to a game and my wife interrupts - I can't help myself - I want to hear that game, and I don't care how important the interruption.
Paul Hanlon: [trying to hear a game himself] Your wife has my sympathy.

कनेक्शन
Edited from A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

साउंडट्रैक
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
(uncredited)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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फीचर्ड रिव्यू

7/10

Culp and Falk are great together

When the owner of a football team is found dead in his pool, it looks like an accident. That is until Columbo starts poking around. He quickly latches on to the man who runs the team, Paul Hanlon (Robert Culp), as the primary suspect. But how could Hanlon have committed the murder? He was at the ballgame at the time it was committed.

The best thing about this The Most Crucial Game is the interaction between Robert Culp and Peter Falk. Culp is great as the suspect who grows more weary of Columbo's continual antics. There are a couple of scenes where Culp looks like he's really ready to blow a fuse. In contract, Falk's Columbo is calm, cool, and collected. Great stuff.

The actual murder is also a thing of genius. Using a block of ice to bash someone in the head while in a swimming pool is a masterful idea. The intended victim is dead and there is no murder weapon.

The weakest point of The Most Crucial Game is unfortunately the ending. It's rather poorly handled. It's almost as if the writers couldn't come up with a good way to end it. The solution is fine, it's just that the revelation of the solution seems very awkward.