I wish Universal would bring that Columbo Blu-Ray set to the U.S. Not really sure about the “Japan-only” logic.

I’ve never seen this before!

Thanks, Rancer! You are correct.

(I’m not some Columbo savant, by the way. The show’s YouTube channel just — as in, within the past 3-4 days — posted that exact clip as a vertical Short and I happened to watch it.)

According to Wikipedia — buyer beware — it looks like there were usually three weeks to a month between Columbo episodes.

I don’t know. Having to wait several weeks between episodes as the NBC Mystery Movie wheel instead came up with McCloud or McMillan & Wife would be kind of depressing.

If by “first episode” you’re referring to the first pilot movie “Prescription Murder,” where a doctor kills his wife, I agree with you. Columbo in that seems like a work-in-progress compared to what he soon becomes.

Oh, and speaking of “least cop thing ever”: In one, a killer police captain/higher-up (Richard Widmark) kills his wife and starts to frame it on a wanted burglar/jewel thief. Columbo not only finds the thief, but gets his help to nail the captain.

Was that the golf pro/instructor who was guilty and torn up about the death of his lover (who was killed, I believe, by Robert Culp’s character)? I remember Columbo gently telling that character that because he already knew it was someone else.

I like Bautista as much as the next person, and he may be the best wrestler-turned-actor now, but let’s see how well how he works with Bela Lugosi and mutters such lines as “Time for go to bed!” before we annoint him the best ever.

“I wasn’t sure what to do until Paul suggested I freeze the Knicks’ envelope.

“All I wanted was Showtime, but I somehow ended up with a time-share.”

I believe “Sullivan’s Travels” is still there as part of the Screwball collection. I highly recommend the (edited together) commentary that features 2/3rds of Spinal Tap.

That was my immediate thought.

Jurassic World: Dominion has to be the most disappointing $1 billion ever. It finally dragged itself across that line — 4 months after release — only because Universal refused to pull it from theaters.

He probably did go the lucrative private practice path at some point after the show. That apartment isn’t cheap.

From what I’ve gathered, he’s been out of law — or at least the low-paying kind — for some time. (That apartment of his overlooking what looks like Central Park probably isn’t something a prosecutor would afford.)

But how many Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailers has she narrated?

That’s the thing that I’m most interested in. Another review of this new continuation was more effusive in its praise of the new version of the theme, but NBC hasn’t shared it yet.

Night Court just can’t catch a break in modern times, making it, yeah, a small cult show.