Columbo: Undercover

TV Movie
1994
TV-PG
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Mystery

The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This is the fifth of six appearances by Peter Falk's second wife Shera Danese on the series.

Goofs
When Columbo shows up at Mo Weinberg's apartment, he looks through the key hole and sees Mo straight ahead in the kitchen, and then he sees Mo move across the apartment to his bedroom. The first problem is that a keyhole that can be seen through would require a skeleton key, and no apartment in any big city, such as L.A., would still be using skeleton keys in 1994 -at least not as the sole lock for a front door. However, assuming that the skeleton keyhole was in that door, then the second problem is that Columbo would have been able to see only straight ahead, i.e., tunnel vision. People are not able to pan across the room through a keyhole.

Quotes
Geraldine Ferguson: What's your real name?
Columbo: Lieutenant Columbo.
Geraldine Ferguson: Your first name.
Columbo: Lieutenant.

Connections
Featured in Columbo: Undercover

Soundtracks
This Old Man
Traditional children's song

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Irving Krutch

What Peter Falk thinks might be a quick one though the case piques his curiosity turns out to be long and complex when Ed Begley, Jr. comes into his office. The case involved a break in of one criminal breaking into the room of another and each killing the other. The one breaking in has a carefully cut out piece of a photograph.

Begley who plays one Irving Krutch and who always refers to himself in the third person is an insurance investigator who has another piece and wants Columbo and his partner Harrison Page to look into this jigsaw puzzle like photograph which shows the location of stolen bank loot from a robbery several years earlier.

The usual Columbo formula departs radically as the man himself goes undercover and without the usual rumpled raincoat. It nearly gets him killed which sets up a very funny scene when a nurse won't let him out of the hospital.

In the meantime two other murders occur of piece holders, eight pieces in all. Breaking an alibi witness is at the climax of this story.

Burt Young is one of the piece holders and later a victim. Peter Falk goes undercover to smoke him out among others. Watch Falk assume a different guise to relate to Young on his level.

All in all a fine episode.