Lynx
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Post by Lynx on Apr 10, 2020 19:37:10 GMT
Definitely a west coast show.....between Los Angeles and San Francisco......Columbo, MacMillan & Wife, Ironside is all I could think of.
LOL....we've been at this for years Sir....lol. We might learn the answer in the next life...lol.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 10, 2020 20:00:51 GMT
There's an episode of Banacek (set in Boston) where he goes to a Hollywood studio and talks to a horse wrangler. The guy says something about how westerns fell out of fashion thanks to cop and detective shows and Banacek assures him he is neither.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2020 23:55:55 GMT
NalkarjThey've started playing the early 90 minute shows ... the missing moment may turn up yet !
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 11, 2020 1:38:07 GMT
Rare viewer of Streets of San Fran so that's not it for me either … Nalkarj OK so you're not watching the streets of San Frandisco. So what is the location of the streets you are staring at?
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Post by alfromni on Apr 26, 2020 11:06:03 GMT
Nalkarj Just taking a break from Sleuth when I noticed this mystery about a mystery. I've been through the 8 pages to catch up and I see that the main aspect discussed is the alibi. One thing that hasn't been queried (if it was, then apologies, I must have missed it) is the murder itself. How was it done, and why, and who was the victim, etc. etc.? That may give a clue as to the episode. What approximate period / timeframe are we in with this episode? Either set in or made in. Not much point in scouring later programmes. Or earlier ones. Columbo spans 35 years from 1968 to 2003. Can we refine that a tad? Two improbable Colombo ones that come to mind are... Any Old Port in a Storm - Season 3 | Episode 2 - the alibi is New York, not Frisco, so it's probably the wrong one. Try and Catch Me - Season 7 | Episode 1 (Ruth Gordon episode) - but I don't think a meeting is involved. Also the killer is of course a woman.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 26, 2020 15:32:20 GMT
Nalkarj Just taking a break from Sleuth when I noticed this mystery about a mystery. I've been through the 8 pages to catch up and I see that the main aspect discussed is the alibi. One thing that hasn't been queried (if it was, then apologies, I must have missed it) is the murder itself. How was it done, and why, and who was the victim, etc. etc.? That may give a clue as to the episode. What approximate period / timeframe are we in with this episode? Either set in or made in. Not much point in scouring later programmes. Or earlier ones. Columbo spans 35 years from 1968 to 2003. Can we refine that a tad? Two improbable Colombo ones that come to mind are... Any Old Port in a Storm - Season 3 | Episode 2 - the alibi is New York, not Frisco, so it's probably the wrong one. Try and Catch Me - Season 7 | Episode 1 (Ruth Gordon episode) - but I don't think a meeting is involved. Also the killer is of course a woman. Thanks for looking into this one as well, Al! Unfortunately, I can’t remember much about the murder itself. I think the victim was the killer’s wife (or ex-wife), but I honestly can’t be sure. I seem to remember the killer driving to some building to kill his wife, checking his watch, then returning to his private airfield. Don’t remember how it was done. I’ve wondered before if the killing might have been the second murder in a Columbo (e.g., if the wife were blackmailing her husband because she knew he’d killed someone, so he killed her too halfway through), but again I’m just not sure. As far as I remember, first Columbo run (1968-1978), not the rebooted episodes. Originally thought the episode was “Candidate for Crime,” but that doesn’t have the alibi plot. I’m not sure if jervistetch and Lynx remember anything about the actual murder part. Our memories on this mystery episode have largely aligned.
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Post by alfromni on Apr 26, 2020 15:59:01 GMT
NalkarjSo murder seri dated from circa 1965-1985 would be the timeframe, either Colombo or other. That cuts it down somewhat. Will try my best.
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Post by alfromni on Apr 26, 2020 17:49:31 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 26, 2020 18:10:19 GMT
Nalkarj So murder seri dated from circa 1965-1985 would be the timeframe, either Colombo or other. That cuts it down somewhat. Will try my best. To be clear, I may be off on the timeframe… After all, I was almost certain the episode was a Columbo, but from checking episode synopses and e-mailing fan sites, it’s almost definitely not…
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 26, 2020 18:13:53 GMT
I don’t think so, unless the person who runs that channel also runs one of the websites I reached out to. If I remember correctly, I contacted the people who run “ The Ultimate Lieutenant Columbo Site” and “ The Columbophile.” Both of them said what I was describing was not a Columbo episode but pointed out I may be misremembering the Johnny Cash episode, “Swan Song.” I probably would have left it there if Jervis and Lynx hadn’t also remembered the episode! Cue Twilight Zone music…
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Post by alfromni on Apr 26, 2020 18:20:32 GMT
Yeah I've checked the synopses of all the Colombo episodes myself without success. THat said, on many of them the alibis aren't stated, but a good idea of whether the alibi is the right one can be gleaned from the general story. I remember a lot of the episodes too. If not Colombo then which are YOUR most watched series? No point in checking something you'd never watch.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 26, 2020 19:29:28 GMT
I checked the synopses of all episodes of McMillan & Wife and Streets of San Francisco but found nothing there. I can’t remember if I checked the episodes of Ironside but I never really watched that show very often.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 26, 2020 19:30:50 GMT
Oh yes. I checked all of the episodes of Barnaby Jones, too.
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Post by alfromni on Apr 26, 2020 19:35:53 GMT
I'm downloading episodes of Quincy as I write. I recall a Quncy episode similar to the one we're looking for.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 27, 2020 3:53:52 GMT
Yeah I've checked the synopses of all the Colombo episodes myself without success. THat said, on many of them the alibis aren't stated, but a good idea of whether the alibi is the right one can be gleaned from the general story. I remember a lot of the episodes too. If not Colombo then which are YOUR most watched series? No point in checking something you'd never watch. My most watched mystery series from the era, other than Columbo, are Murder, She Wrote and Ellery Queen. That said, I once e-mailed the webmaster of a MSW fan site and asked if she knew the synopsis (no MSW episode like that, she said, but it might be a Columbo! ), and I’ve seen all of the short-lived EQ and don’t think it’s any of those episodes. As far as I can remember, I’ve seen exactly one episode each of McMillan & Wife and Ironside. Don’t know what the titles were. I’ve seen a few of the Perry Mason reboot/TV movies.
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Post by alfromni on Apr 27, 2020 4:01:02 GMT
Definitely NOT Quincy. I was mixing up a Columbo episode "Swan Song" with a Quincy episode called "The Money Plague" which was loosely based on the real case of the infamous D.B. Cooper robbery. It was written just a few years after Cooper's daring but crazy plane stunt. If I remember right Nalkarj and I talked about the case. Or am I mixing that up with a discussion with another guy. Oi vey!
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 27, 2020 4:09:41 GMT
Oh, and forgot another show of which I’ve seen more than one episode, Matlock.
Thought it might be a Matlock episode for a while, but couldn’t find a plot synopsis even remotely similar. And I thought the cities involved were L.A. and Frisco, which would seem to rule out the Atlanta-set Matlock—but now I’m not sure even about that.
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Post by alfromni on Apr 27, 2020 4:20:32 GMT
I think someone mentioned that they'd checked out Banacek, but I checked again. NOT Banacek.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 27, 2020 4:27:10 GMT
NalkarjIF they are being shown in order... the Johnny Cash episode should be next !
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 27, 2020 6:02:59 GMT
Thank you for your help and dogged determination, Alfromni!!
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