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Titre original : Columbo: A Bird in the Hand

Téléfilm
1992
TV-PG
1h 38m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA football team's owner's nephew plans to kill his uncle by rigging his car to explode, only the uncle dies from a hit-and-run, while the car bomb kills the gardener instead. Lt. Columbo inv... Tout lireA football team's owner's nephew plans to kill his uncle by rigging his car to explode, only the uncle dies from a hit-and-run, while the car bomb kills the gardener instead. Lt. Columbo investigates.A football team's owner's nephew plans to kill his uncle by rigging his car to explode, only the uncle dies from a hit-and-run, while the car bomb kills the gardener instead. Lt. Columbo investigates.

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Anecdotes
The football footage, which shows two mock American football teams, is excerpted from an actual Canadian Football League game shot in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Edmonton Eskimos.

Gaffes
Tyne Daly's "Southern accent" comes and goes throughout the episode.

Citations
Harold McCain: Hey, why would you need me at all? Your job here is to keep people away, isn't it?
Columbo: Oh, the traffic boys, they handle that. No, sir, I'm just waiting for more of my crew. Look at that. Even the tires are custom. Oh, I don't mind admitting, sir, this buggy sure caught my eye. See, I got a foreign car, too. It's French. I don't know if you noticed it. It's parked down there in the street?
Harold McCain: No, I didn't.
Columbo: Oh.
Harold McCain: What is your job, Lieutenant?
Columbo: Homicide.
Harold McCain: On a hit-and-run case?
Columbo: Oh, don't let that worry you, sir. And particularly not Mrs. McCain. But the violent death of anyone as well-known as Big Fred, we gotta look into it, just to make double-triple sure, that's all. Besides, our chief... he's the biggest Stallions fan in Los Angeles, if you understand what I'm saying.
Harold McCain: I guess so.
Columbo: Yeah.
Harold McCain: [a police car approaches] That's your crew now, right?
Columbo: No, no, no, no. That's the accident detail. There must be a dozen of 'em in the neighborhood by now. But, you know, I was just thinking. When the people start trampling around here...
[opens the door to Big Fred's car]
Columbo: ... we don't want 'em poking into this. There's gotta be some button you can push to lock the doors.
Harold McCain: Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, this was Uncle Fred's pride and joy.
Columbo: Yeah. And if we have to move it, I'm sure we can find a key.

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Featured in Columbo: A Bird in the Hand

Bandes originales
Rags To Riches
(uncredited)
Written by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
Performed by Tony Bennett

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7/10

A different twist: two bodies more than usual.

This episode may have been weakened by three people being killed off, with possible multiple culprits.

As in some other episodes, there is delightful chemistry between Columbo and his quarry, in this case played by Greg Evigan. Evigan's reactions and timing are impeccable.

Tyne Daly works hard, but not too convincingly at first, at being a middle-aged boozy ditz. However, when her husband is killed, she takes control of his football team and his money, the latter always needed by her younger lover, Evigan, for gambling debts; this transformation has a perverse appeal.

Noteworthy, too, is a scene when Columbo, in his rumpled coat, walks into a very proper Rolls Royce showroom and is all over the engine compartment and underneath the car threatening to take something apart, all this to the delight of a gathering sidewalk crowd.