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Looking at episodes of Columbo, but not necessarily in order. Hosted by RJ White and Jon Morris.
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Live chat- this Wednesday! from 2020-05-18T17:34:54
This Wednesday, May 20, at 9 PM (EDT), Jon and RJ are going to try a live watch-along chat of a Mrs. Columbo episode. Get the details!
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The Servicing of Dixie Daisy from 2019-04-08T12:23:54
From the early days of this podcast (In what, 1986? 2002? 2014?), there has been one episode set aside for the very last Columbo we’d watch. Well, this is it, folks. The last roundup. The final act...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Strange Bedfellows” from 2019-03-31T19:35:43
So it’s come to this. Our final show. Season thirteen’s “Strange Bedfellows,” (AKA The George Wendt Episode) in which the comedian plays a racehorse breeder whose brother is in deep to the mob. Kil...
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Penultimate from 2019-02-13T02:10:55
In this next-to-last edition of the podcast, Jon and RJ list their top and bottom five Columbo episodes, talk about favorite performances and answer lots of your listener questions, along with a bu...
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Next on Just One More Thing: You, maybe? from 2019-01-06T21:37:48
Our next-to-last show will largely be Jon and I discussing Columbo, giving our best-of and worst-of lists, etc. But, we want your questions, too! About Columbo, about the podcast, whatever! Leave t...
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The Usual. Somebody Killed Somebody. from 2018-12-30T22:09:17
What do you know? The second-to-last Columbo episode ever is the second-to-last one we’re covering! In “Murder with Too Many Notes,” Billy Connolly plays a past-his-prime film score composer whose ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Murder with Too Many Notes” from 2018-12-23T19:02:42
Billy Connolly! Film scoring action! A rusty elevator! Tuxedo rental clues! We’re getting close to the end, with Season Ten’s McGoohan-directed “Murder with Too Many Notes.” Joining in will be auth...
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All Full of Blue Blotches from 2018-12-16T21:36:33
As we reach the end of the podcast’s run, we come upon “Uneasy Lies the Crown,” a rarely-mentioned late entry in the series. Steven Bochco recycles a 1970s script, in which a dentist/gambling addic...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Uneasy Lies the Crown” from 2018-12-09T20:56:24
Tilt Araiza (The Sitcom Club) returns to the podcast to join Jon and RJ for a discussion of Season Nine’s “Uneasy Lies the Crown.” In it, a dentist murders his wife’s lover and sets her up to take ...
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An Evil-Smelling and Blinding Gas from 2018-11-23T13:00:39
Well, we’re back from our break with a Mrs. Columbo. Before you hit us, though, wait! “Murder is a Parlor Game” stars Donald Pleasance! That must mean it’s good, right? Right? Nope! Go ahead and hi...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Murder is a Parlor Game” from 2018-11-18T21:21:09
Coming back soon from a hiatus with a Mrs Columbo episode, “Murder is a Parlor Game.” Don’t let the fact that it stars Donald Pleasance as the killer fool you. If you’d like to take a look beforeha...
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Esprit D’un Chien Mort from 2018-07-29T20:23:22
It’s our final 70s Columbo of the podcast! We’re saying farewell to the Lieutenant’s original decade with “Playback,” an episode featuring dazzling futuristic gadgetry, bowl haircuts and Gena Rowla...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Playback” from 2018-07-22T18:45:21
Next time, we discuss our final 70s episode, Season Four’s “Playback.” Oskar Werner is a gadget-happy electronics executive who’s about to get fired from his mother-in-law’s company. This far into ...
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So the Jail He Broke Outta He’s in Again from 2018-06-10T21:22:55
The final episode produced for Columbo‘s original run, “The Conspirators” has Irish poet Joe Devlin (Clive Revill) brokering an arms deal to send an RV-load (literally!) of machine guns to the IRA....
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Next on Just One More Thing:“The Conspirators” from 2018-06-03T19:07:57
Next up, we discuss the last 70s Columbo produced, “The Conspirators.” The Lt. gets involved with gun running, pinball, erotic art and lots and lots of Irish whiskey. Returning guest Steven Goss (C...
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40th Annual Basset Hound Club Picnic from 2018-05-27T19:53:48
In Murder, a Self Portrait, artist Max Barsini (Patrick Bauchau) has kind of an odd arrangement- he shares a beachside house with his second wife (Shera Danese) and his model/mistress, all while hi...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Murder, a Self Portrait” from 2018-05-20T18:56:52
Back to the latter-day Columbo, with 1989’s “Murder, a Self Portrait.” When a famous artist kills one of the three women in his life, the “Leftenant” has to a lot of sitting in black-and-white drea...
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Clown Can’t Talk from 2018-03-13T12:55:49
Well, what can one say, except that this is certainly an episode of Mrs. Columbo? In “A Riddle for Puppets,” our heroine stumbles upon a mystery involving a ventriloquist (Jay Johnson) who begins t...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Riddle for Puppets” from 2018-03-04T16:03:04
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Yup, it’s another Mrs. Columbo. This time, with a possibly homicidal ventriloquist dummy. Writer, podcaster and roustabout Abed Gheith will return to talk about it.
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You wanna banana? from 2018-02-18T20:42:25
In “A Trace of Murder,” Shera Danese and David Rasche are having an affair and try to get her husband out of the way by framing him for the murder of a business rival. Here’s the thing, though- Ras...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Trace of Murder” from 2018-02-11T15:24:11
What happens when the person who’s investigating the murder is the one who committed it? You’ll find out in our next show, covering season thirteen’s “A Trace of Murder,” which finds forensic exper...
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The Mind String and How to Pull It from 2018-02-04T16:11:27
The podcast has finally come around to its final Robert Culp episode, “Double Exposure.” In it, Culp plays Dr. Bart Kepple, an expert in psychological manipulation who uses subliminal filmmaking (w...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Double Exposure” from 2018-01-27T20:43:47
As things begin to wind down, the ol’ podcast starts running up against a few lasts. This time, it’s our last Robert Culp episode, “Double Exposure”! In this one, Culp uses a lethal combination of ...
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A Seven-Letter Word for Green Leaf from 2018-01-21T18:39:43
Do you like surprises? Of course you do, and “A Bird in the Hand…” is full of them! Not one, but three murders? Greg Evigan doing an outstanding job as the killer? A 90s episode that is actually ve...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Bird in the Hand…” from 2018-01-14T20:06
Three murders for the price of one! That’s what you get in season eleven’s “A Bird in the Hand…,” which has Greg Evian as an inveterate gambler who plans to murder his wealthy uncle, but someone be...
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These Girls Have Their Health from 2017-10-08T20:53:10
In “Columbo Cries Wolf,” Ian Buchanan is one half of the inexplicably popular skin mag, Bachelor’s World. When the other half, Diedre Hall, decides she’s had enough of his philandering with the mag...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Columbo Cries Wolf” from 2017-10-01T15:36:03
What happens when you have a murder without a body? You have season nine’s “Columbo Cries Wolf,” in which Columbo goes up against a skin mag impresario whose business partner goes missing. Tim Turn...
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Shop-Worn Bag of Tricks from 2017-09-24T19:00:15
In “Ransom for a Dead Man,” Lee Grant is a high-powered attorney who shoots her husband, then constructs an elaborate kidnapping plot in order to point the feds in the wrong direction. Unfortunatel...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Ransom for a Dead Man” from 2017-09-17T18:22:40
Going way, way back for Columbo‘s second pilot, “Ransom for a Dead Man.” Lee Grant murders her husband (pretty much just for being a boring, okay guy), then tries to cover it up with an elaborate f...
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Daddy’s Here! from 2017-09-10T20:39:24
So, this pilot for Mrs. Columbo, this “Word Games.” It has Kate Mulgrew. It has Robert Culp. It has Edie Adams. It has Bob Dishy. It has a host of other good people. It has the car. It has Dog. It...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Word Games” from 2017-09-03T15:45:28
Well, that whole Mrs. Columbo/Kate Columbo/Kate Loves a Mystery thing had to come from somewhere, didn’t it? In our next one, we discuss the pilot, “Word Games.” Author Amanda Reyes (Are You In The...
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How Did We Get from“Murder”to“Word”? from 2017-08-27T20:26:06
In “How to Dial a Murder,” Nicol Williamson plays Dr. Eric Mason, a behavioral psychologist looking to exact revenge on his business partner, who may have had an affair with the doctor’s late wife....
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Next on Just One More Thing: “How to Dial a Murder” from 2017-08-20T20:16
On our next show, author Glen Erik Hamilton (Every Day Above Ground) returns to talk about Season Seven’s “How to Dial a Murder.” Ever wonder what Those Amazing Dobermans would have been like with ...
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Carnegie Hall and Nashville, They Don’t Mix from 2017-07-24T00:50:11
The Season One finale, “Blueprint for Murder,” stars Patrick O’Neal as an architect whose big upcoming project is placed in jeopardy due to a minor funding issue. What issue? Well, a Texas tycoon’s...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Blueprint for Murder” from 2017-07-16T15:27:01
In Season One’s “Blueprint for Murder,” what’s an architect do when a Texas millionaire angrily refuses to pay for his elaborate project? Guess what? The hint’s in the title! Mallory Ortberg (Dear ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Case of Immunity” from 2017-07-02T15:06:56
What happens when a foreign diplomat starts killing off embassy staff? Can Columbo even touch him without sparking an international incident? Find out, in Season Five’s “A Case of Immunity.” Joinin...
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Torpedoes Running Straight, Hot, and Normal from 2017-06-04T21:03:56
In Season Two’s “The Greenhouse Jungle,” Ray Milland and his nephew cook up a fake kidnapping scheme to get at the nephew’s $300,000 trust fund. The scam goes off without a hitch- well, except for ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“The Greenhouse Jungle” from 2017-05-28T15:20:16
Get out your salt and pepper, it’s time to chew some scenery! In Season Two’s, “The Greenhouse Jungle,” Ray Milland happily munches every bit of the set as an evil uncle who has no problem killing ...
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I Never Saw a Guy Unwind That Fast from 2017-05-21T20:05:59
Wayne Jennings is a tennis layabout and wannabe actor who’s romancing several women at once, including a famous romance novelist. When she (apparently) threatens to break off their relationship ove...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Murder in Malibu” from 2017-05-14T15:24:33
Seemingly ripped from the pages of a romance novel, it’s Season Nine’s “Murder in Malibu.” Columbo has to unravel the twists and turns surrounding a writer and her two-(Or is it three? Maybe four?)...
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04-05-06-08-11-16 from 2017-05-07T20:49:12
Get your scratch-offs, it’s “Death Hits the Jackpot”! Wielding a southern accent slightly less broad than Foghorn Leghorn’s, Rip Torn is the owner of a fancy Beverly Hills jewelry store who’s just ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Death Hits the Jackpot” from 2017-04-29T18:22:59
Season Eleven’s “Death Hits the Jackpot” contains: Rip Torn doing a huge Southern accent Gary Kroeger Columbo pulling his badge on a car salesman Someone dressed as Col. Sanders accompanied by a la...
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I Was in the Shower Enjoying Myself, Singing from 2017-04-16T20:20:50
“No Time to Die” is the first of two forays the series made into the world of Ed Mccain’s “87th Precinct” books, so the format’s a little different than your typical episode. There isn’t a murder, ...
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Next on Just One More Thing: No Time to Die from 2017-04-09T19:57:19
When is a Columbo not a Columbo? When it’s Season Eleven’s “No Time to Die,” based on an Ed McBain 87th Precinct tale of a kidnapping, not a murder. What happens when a beloved program strays wildl...
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Liquid Filth! from 2017-04-02T15:46:24
Poor Adrian Carsini (Donald Pleasance). When we meet him in “Any Old Port In a Storm,” all he wants is to run the family winery, play the big shot with his wine nerd friends and decant the days awa...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Any Old Port In a Storm” from 2017-03-26T15:43:10
Grab a bottle! In Season Three’s “Any Old Port In a Storm,” Columbo comes up against Adrian Carsini (Donald Pleasance), the prestigious head of a winery who locks his brother in the cellar when the...
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You’ve Done a Very Nice Job from 2017-03-19T20:26:16
In “By Dawn’s Early Light,” Patrick McGoohan is Colonel Lyle Rumford, overseeing a military academy whose enrollment has been steadily declining for years. When the scion of the academy’s founder a...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“By Dawn’s Early Light” from 2017-03-12T19:33:11
Staying with the military theme, as we visit Season Four’s “By Dawn’s Early Light.” Columbo mainstay Patrick McGoohan is the commandant of a military academy who’d rather commit murder than see the...
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A Private Place, for Romantic Meetings from 2017-03-05T19:57:22
It’s like the old saying: Sometimes, it’s not enough to stab a guy; you also have to blow him up. At least, that seems to be the thought in “Grand Deceptions,” a confusing late Columbo set at a mil...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Grand Deceptions” from 2017-02-25T21:25:46
Rocketing back into the 90s for the season eight episode, “Grand Deceptions,” in which Columbo has to dig into the secrets of a military think tank that also runs a little paramilitary ripoff schoo...
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We Ain’t Winnin’ from 2017-02-19T21:01:44
Murder is no game. Well, except for “The Most Dangerous Match,” wherein chess genius Laurence Harvey is terrified at the prospect of losing to someone even more genius-er than he is. Instead of jus...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “The Most Dangerous Match” from 2017-02-11T21:19:01
Season Two’s “The Most Dangerous Match” pits chess grandmaster Laurence Harvey against Lt. Columbo in a case involving garbage crushers, garlic snails and garish hallucinations. Game designer Natha...
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Ohhh, the Mizzen Boom from 2017-02-04T20:57:53
“Last Salute to the Commodore” is an odd episode of Columbo to be sure. The titular Commodore, owner of a luxury shipbuilding firm and head of a dysfunctional family, is found dead, presumably of a...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Last Salute to the Commodore” from 2017-01-28T21:18:19
Vaughning it up again with Season Five’s “Last Salute to the Commodore,” a perennial favorite of all Columbo fans! Sure, why not? An exclusive LA island community turns out to be a hotbed of murder...
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That’s the Biggest Garbage Dump in the World from 2016-12-31T21:10:55
What was supposed to be a pleasure cruise to Mexico becomes a working vacation for Lt. Columbo in “Troubled Waters.” Also on board is used car kingpin Robert Vaughn, who kills the lounge singer who...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Troubled Waters” from 2016-12-24T19:39:25
Season Four’s “Troubled Waters” welcomes Robert Vaughn aboard as a scheming used car dealer who murders a past fling on a pleasure cruise. However, he didn’t figure on Lt. Columbo happening to be o...
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Still a Lot of Wear in This Fella from 2016-12-17T21:45:28
Politics. No one’s tired of that yet, right? Ha. Ha. Ha. Yeah. So, in “Candidate for Crime,” Jackie Cooper is Nelson Hayward, a US Senate candidate who’s sick and tired of his campaign manager tell...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Candidate for Crime” from 2016-12-10T15:31:46
Next up is Season Three’s “Candidate for Crime,” in which a politician figures he can get away with literal murder and still get elected. That could never happen in a million years, right? Right? A...
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That’s Very Good. The Magician Did It. from 2016-10-22T17:27:33
Yes, we talked about “Now You See Him” way back on our seventh show, but we felt it was worth revisiting with a more, shall we say, open-minded guest. The episode features Jack Cassidy creeping it ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Now You See Him” from 2016-10-16T15:05
Next time, it’ll be Season Five’s “Now You See Him,” with Jack Cassidy doing his slimy best as a murderous magician. Yes, it is a do-over, for obvious reasons. Joining us will be Leigh Beadon (tech...
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Hockey’s for Penguins from 2016-10-09T19:05:13
“The Most Crucial Game” has ace Columbo foe Robert Culp as the frustrated manager of a sports team empire. When he sees a chance to kill the heir to the family business, he dresses as an ice cream ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“The Most Crucial Game” from 2016-10-02T15:06:35
It’s a Robert Culp! In this season two episode, he’s the day-to-day manager of a sports empire owned by dissolute heir Dean Stockwell. For hazy reasons, Culp kills the guy and, well, the episode ju...
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Here’s to Your Pension from 2016-09-25T18:20:27
In “A Matter of Honor,” Ricardo Montalban plays Luis Montoya, a legendary matador and one of Mexico’s national heroes. When, retirement, he freezes up when trying to save a young man from being gor...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Matter of Honor” from 2016-09-18T18:50:14
When you’re one of Mexico’s national heroes, it just doesn’t do to have someone going about who has witnessed your act of true cowardice. That’s just the problem revered matador Ricardo Montalban f...
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Pocket-Sized Hemingway from 2016-09-10T19:43:18
When a best selling author tries to leave Riley Greenleaf’s (played by Jack Cassidy) publishing company, the smooth, smarmy operator sees no choice but to have the writer killed, then blow up the c...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Publish or Perish” from 2016-09-04T19:48:02
Our next episode is a Jack Cassidy one! He plays a sleazy publisher who hires a bomb freak to murder Mickey Spillane (really) and then kills the killer. It’s a darn good one, and Leonard Pierce com...
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Ask for Freddy from 2016-08-27T18:15:42
Four our forty-first show, we look at the series’ last, “Columbo Likes the Nightlife.” In it, we find Columbo bumping up against a world of Mafia sons, rave promoters, sleazy tabloid reporters and ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Columbo Likes the Nightlife” from 2016-08-21T18:20:31
For our forty-first show, we invite Zack Handlen (The AV Club) back to talk about Columbo’s last one, “Columbo Likes the Nightlife.” This 2003 final bow has Crystal Method songs, actors from future...
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BLANK TAPE from 2016-08-13T19:00:22
What do you do when you’re the host of a wildly popular crime show and a rival finds evidence of your past career in “party films”? Well, if you’re George Hamilton in “Caution: Murder Can Be Hazard...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” from 2016-08-07T18:18:39
As George Hamilton returned to Columbo for season ten’s “Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health,” so does Aaron Bleyaert (Conan, How to Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps) return to Just One M...
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I Do Wish Everyone Would Stop Asking Me That from 2016-07-31T20:08:54
In “Old Fashioned Murder,” Joyce Van Patten plays Ruth Lytton, who has put her entire life on hold in service of the family museum. When her brother threatens to liquidate the collection and shut t...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Old Fashioned Murder” from 2016-07-24T14:01:23
From season six comes “Old Fashioned Murder,” in which Joyce Van Patten resorts to -cides both fratri- and homi- when her brother threatens to unload the family museum to which she’s devoted her en...
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vicious_rumors_@hollywood_heartbeat.com from 2016-07-16T19:29:52
In “Ashes to Ashes,” Patrick McGoohan is Eric Prince, Hollywood mortician to the stars, who has no problem stealing from his clients, revealing their secrets and romancing their widows. When an ex-...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Ashes to Ashes” from 2016-07-10T17:52:55
Season thirteen’s “Ashes to Ashes” sees Patrick McGoohan as a Hollywood mortician with several casketsful of sleazy secrets who murders gossip columnist Rue McClanahan when she threatens to crack o...
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Cadaveric Spasm from 2016-05-22T14:56:42
In “Forgotten Lady,” Janet Leigh is Grace Wheeler, an actress from the heyday of big movie musicals, who wants nothing more than to once again feel the white hot heat of stardom. When her wealthy h...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Forgotten Lady” from 2016-05-14T21:08:30
“Forgotten Lady,” the season five premiere, sees Janet Leigh as former song and dance star Janet Wheeler. When her husband vetoes the funding of her comeback, she murders him and makes it look lik...
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Ask and Listen, Listen and Ask from 2016-04-24T15:21:55
What happens when control freak director Alex Brady (Fisher Stevens) is confronted with a problem he can’t direct or FX away? Well, in season eight’s “Murder, Smoke and Shadows,” the answer is an o...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Murder, Smoke and Shadows” from 2016-04-17T19:01:12
Season eight’s “Murder, Smoke and Shadows” has Fisher Stevens as a hotshot young director who resorts to murder when his past sins finally catch up with him. Abed Gheith (Rick and Morty, Channel 10...
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I Would Never Typecast You as a Detective from 2016-03-20T18:09:39
In “Requiem for a Falling Star,” Anne Baxter is actress Nora Chandler, whose career is fading into obscurity. When gossip columnist Mel Ferrer tries to blackmail her, she decides to blow him up in ...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Requiem for a Falling Star” from 2016-03-17T00:55:48
Tell the landscaper to get away from that fountain- our next one is Season Two’s “Requiem for a Falling Star.” Past guest Nate Patrin (Vice sports) returns to talk about has-been Anne Baxter becomi...
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Skipping Cigars, Giving up Beer, No More Chili from 2016-03-06T22:23:57
In “An Exercise in Fatality,” gymnasium chain magnate Milo Janus’ (Robert Conrad) business double-dealings are about to be exposed by a disgruntled franchisee! What’s his wisest course of action? W...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“An Exercise in Fatality” from 2016-02-27T20:44:14
Wipe off those machines when you’re done, because we’re going to talk about season four’s “An Exercise in Fatality.” Robert Conrad is a gym magnate/fitness flim-flam man who resorts to murder when ...
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You Call That a Lining? from 2016-02-21T20:33:30
GOTV! Time to vote for your candidate for killer with a mustache in a 90s Columbo who’s tripped up by not finishing a tiny snack. Your clear choice is Patrick McGoohan, in “Agenda for Murder.” McGo...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Agenda for Murder” from 2016-02-18T02:09:14
After a break, we are back. This time, it’s still a 90s episode, but it’s a McGoohan! Season nine’s “Agenda for Murder,” which is directed by and stars Patrick McGoohan (Double-threat! Okay, triple...
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A Cold Supper, a Hot Tub and Bed from 2016-01-04T00:47:15
Hopefully, “Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo” will put lie to the “There is no Mrs. Columbo” conspiracy theories out there. Because, in this one, someone actually tries to take out the Lieutenant’s wife...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo” from 2015-12-28T23:39:22
Staying in the 90s, with season ten’s “Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo,” which the title kind of gives away, in terms of the big story at its core. Along for the ride will be Stevie VanBronkhorst (@spo...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Columbo Goes to College” from 2015-12-13T19:55:14
Next up is season ten’s “Columbo Goes to College,” in which the Lieutenant is asked to be the guest lecturer for a criminology course. When the professor winds up murdered before the class is throu...
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I Get Paid Not to Count from 2015-11-29T19:33:33
“Lady in Waiting” stars Susan Clark as Beth Chadwick, heiress to the fabled Chadwick advertising fortune. When she shoots her brother after years of his holding her back and trying to sabotage her ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Lady in Waiting” from 2015-11-22T19:41:55
Sticking with season one, we’ll be talking about “Lady in Waiting,” which features Susan Clark as a wealthy woman who kills her domineering older brother. It’s on DVD and Netflix Instant. Joining J...
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It Happened from 2015-11-15T19:28:43
Robert Culp’s first outing as a killer is a really, really good one, the first season’s “Death Lends a Hand.” When an attempt at blackmailing newspaper publisher Ray Milland’s wife turns into murde...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Death Lends a Hand” from 2015-11-10T00:53:19
Yes, finally, a Robert Culp episode. From season one, “Death Lends a Hand,” in which Culp, as the head of a detective agency, is tasked to help Columbo solve a murder he committed. Guest JD Ryznar ...
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Barney, Shut Up from 2015-11-01T19:59:04
In “It’s All in the Game,” Faye Dunaway is a very wealthy woman (who throws awful-looking parties) plotting with Claudia Christian to murder the gambling Lothario who’s been two-timing them both. W...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “It’s All in the Game” from 2015-10-27T16:19:56
We’ll be returning from our brief hiatus with “It’s All in the Game,” a season twelve episode that pits Columbo against Faye Dunaway, as he investigates the murder of her rake of a lover. Writer an...
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I Need Another Bum for This Wall from 2015-10-04T13:58:42
In “Butterfly in Shades of Grey,” William Shatner is popular conservative talk radio host Fielding Chase. He’ll do anything to advance his political agenda and sphere of power, as well as keep his ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Butterfly in Shades of Grey” from 2015-09-27T15:26:17
Two returns for the next show- William Shatner as the killer and Alex Knapp (forbes.com) as our guest. It’s season twelve’s “Butterfly in Shades of Grey,” which has Shatner as a murderous and posse...
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Quid Quo Pro from 2015-09-20T19:52:48
In “A Friend in Deed,” (dir. Ben Gazzara!) Richard Kiley is an LA police commissioner who helps a pal cover up the murder of his wife. Then, on top of it, Kiley tries to crisscross-Strangers-on-A-T...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Friend in Deed” from 2015-09-13T15:30:35
What happens when one of LA’s top police brass is the last one who wants Columbo to find the killer? We’ll find out, in season three’s “A Friend in Deed,” starring Richard Kiley. Ron Hogan (beatric...
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I Think I’m Too Suspicious from 2015-09-06T19:37:17
Ever wonder exactly where Columbo came from? Well, wonder no more, as we delve into the origins of the show while talking about “Prescription: Murder,” the TV movie that started everything. Okay, w...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Prescription: Murder” from 2015-08-29T18:41:25
It’s the TV movie based on the play based on the short story that started everything- “Prescription: Murder,” the absolute, first Columbo. Find out where it all came from and who played Lt. Columbo...
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These People, They Go To Bed Here? from 2015-08-22T19:58:38
Have you ever thought about what kind of dessert you are? No? Perhaps that’s for the best, because the answer to that question drives sex therapist Lindsay Crouse (rice pudding) to murder her busin...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Sex and the Married Detective” from 2015-08-16T15:22:15
In season eight’s “Sex and the Married Detective,” Columbo enters the world of sex therapy, courtesans and brass instruments to solve a murder involving a mysterious femme fatale with the exotic na...
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Look How Dr. Irving Is Sewing up That Colon from 2015-08-09T19:29:47
“A Stitch in Crime” features Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Barry Mayfield, who commits two murders and purposefully botches a heart operation, all to get some revolutionary surgical technique out to the wor...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“A Stitch in Crime” from 2015-08-02T15:21:46
Leonard Nimoy plays such an evil, evil man in season two’s “A Stitch in Crime.” He even gets Columbo angry! Zack Handlen (The AV Club) joins Jon and RJ to open this one up and see what’s inside.
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I’m Your Hairy Little Teddy Bear from 2015-07-25T13:49:35
In “Lovely But Lethal,” Vera Miles is Viveca Scott, a cosmetics magnate who needs a miracle product to keep her company from going under. When researcher Martin Sheen is discovered taking the formu...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Lovely But Lethal” from 2015-07-18T13:31:53
Get out your creams and astringents, it’s time to jump into the cutthroat world of beauty products with season three’s “Lovely But Lethal.” Vera Miles kills Martin Sheen with science and there isn’...
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You Must Belong in Some Pig Sty! from 2015-07-11T13:04:37
You get twice the Martin Landau for the price of one admission, as he plays murderous twin brothers in “Double Shock.” One’s a devil-may-care host of a TV cooking show, the other’s a staid banker w...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Double Shock” from 2015-07-04T21:16:45
Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your MURDER? In season two’s “Double Shock,” Martin Landau plays twin homicidal brothers who off their rich old uncle before he can get married to Juli...
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A Blue Horse from 2015-06-28T02:51:17
In “Suitable For Framing,” Ross Martin is an art critic who kills his uncle in an elaborate plot to gain control of the old man’s valuable art collection. Jon did not like this. Returning guest M...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Suitable for Framing” from 2015-06-21T18:41:33
On the next show, we’ll be discussing season one’s “Suitable for Framing,” in which Ross Martin offs his uncle to get control of the old man’s valuable art collection. Also, Vic Tayback as some sor...
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Let’s Go to the Party, Carl from 2015-06-13T16:41:58
In “Make Me a Perfect Murder,” Trish Van Devere is a network TV up-and-comer who figures she’ll get her big break once her boss/special night friend is put in charge of the entire joint. That does ...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Make Me a Perfect Murder” from 2015-06-06T15:02:23
On the next show, we’ll discuss “Make Me a Perfect Murder,” a season seven tale of television violence and unwanted neck rubs. Writers and critics Donna Bowman (The AV Club) and Noel Murray (The Di...
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Shall We Compare Poverty Stories? from 2015-05-23T20:22:05
Ruth Gordon is mystery novelist and playwright Abigail Mitchell, in season seven’s “Try and Catch Me.” When Mitchell’s beloved niece dies in a boating incident, she suspects murder. When the police...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Try and Catch Me” from 2015-05-18T01:26:14
Next time, we’ll be talking about the season seven episode, “Try and Catch Me,” starring the beloved Ruth Gordon as a coldblooded killer, which isn’t quite so beloved. Joining us will be Myke Chili...
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Artie Stokes. Salt Lake City. from 2015-05-09T20:10:09
“Undercover” is not a typical Columbo, by any stretch of the imagination. Columbo carries a gun. The mystery (such as it is) isn’t solved until the end. There’s no one central murder. He kind of ha...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Undercover” from 2015-05-05T15:47:08
Jumping ahead to season twelve for a 1990s Columbo, “Undercover,” in which Columbo goes, well, undercover. Leonard Pierce (leonardpierce.com) returns to the podcast to help us wrap our heads around...
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A Black Mass in San Francisco from 2015-04-26T20:11:01
From season six, it’s “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” in which Columbo has to solve a murder committed at a club for some of the world’s foremost minds that isn’t Mensa. Comedian and podca...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case” from 2015-04-23T01:29:37
Season six this time, for “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” with our guest, comedian Rich Massara, who will join us from waaay across the sea. If you’d like to watch beforehand, it’s availab...
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I’m Just Another Cop from 2015-04-12T14:52:24
For our latest, we go back to Columbo‘s first episode (yes, yes- there was the TV movie and then the pilot, but this is the first episode), directed by a young go-getter named Steven Spielberg. It’...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Murder by the Book” from 2015-04-05T18:46:09
Next time, we’re going back to the beginning- season one, episode one. It’s a discussion of “Murder by the Book,” with Gwen Ihnat (The AV Club). If you’d like to watch beforehand, it’s available on...
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Closed Mondays from 2015-03-28T20:10:37
Restaurant critic, bunco artist, murderer- Paul Gerard (Louis Jourdan) is a triple threat! Chef Allan McPherson (picnichfx.com) joins us to discuss season seven’s “Murder Under Glass,” a tale of ex...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Murder Under Glass” from 2015-03-21T22:29:26
We will soon be back from our hiatus with a discussion of season seven’s “Murder Under Glass.” Joining us will be chef Allan McPherson (picnichfx.com). If you’d like to watch beforehand, the episod...
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A Rubber Band, a Compass and an Instant Camera from 2015-02-14T21:50:19
And we’re back to the later episodes, for season eight’s “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine,” which does a fair job of debunking the whole psychic/ESP nonsense. Sadly, it cannot debunk the fact that s...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Columbo Goes to the Guillotine” from 2015-02-09T02:07:19
On the next Just One More Thing, we’ll talk about “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine,” a 90s episode from season eight. Joining us will be Leigh Beadon (techdirt.com). If you’d like to watch it before...
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Taken by a Ham and a Tart from 2015-01-31T20:26:14
Gordon Bennett, it’s “Dagger of the Mind!” Fading theatrical couple Richard Basehart and Honor Blackman accidentally kill the producer they’ve been tricking into funding their production of that pl...
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Next On Just One More Thing:“Dagger of the Mind” from 2015-01-26T02:13:40
Next time, we’ll be looking at “Dagger of the Mind,” a season two Columbo episode where the lieutenant heads to London. Cor and/or blimey. Joining us to discuss will be Manning Krull (manningkrull....
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Steven Spelberg from 2015-01-18T15:06:26
Think tank head Jose Ferrer applies his brainpower to the equation of murder in “Mind Over Mayhem,” which also sees Columbo assisted by Robby the Robot. No, wait- come back here, it works, it reall...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Mind Over Mayhem” from 2015-01-10T19:35:53
Our next episode will be Season Three’s “Mind Over Mayhem,” with guest Alex Knapp (Forbes) joining us for the discussion. You can watch it beforehand on DVD or Netflix Watch Instantly. As always, t...
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That Coat, That Coat, That Coat from 2015-01-03T20:59:35
Avuncular Dick Van Dyke is not so avuncular in “Negative Reaction,” playing a photographer who fakes his nagging wife’s kidnapping, murders her, then kills the ex-con who he’d framed for the snatch...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Negative Reaction” from 2014-12-27T22:35:23
Next time, we’ll be looking at “Negative Reaction,” from season four, with guest Kevin O’Mara (klophoto.com). It’s on Netflix Watch Instantly and DVD, so check it out before we post the next podcast.
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Damn Viking Daggers from 2014-12-14T22:18:20
Our holiday gift to you, dear listener, is this- a discussion of the Mrs. Columbo episode, “Caviar with Everything.” Gather family and friends around the mp3 player on the mantel with room-temperat...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Caviar with Everything” from 2014-12-01T00:37:56
So, next time? Well, it’s “Caviar with Everything,” which isn’t exactly a Columbo episode, so much as a Mrs. Columbo episode. It is our holiday “gift” to you, the listener. Returning guest Mallory ...
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Be Seeing You from 2014-11-16T23:13:10
Patrick McGoohan- actor, director, murderer. He’s a triple threat! Molly Eichel (AV Club, Philadelphia Daily News) joins Jon and RJ to talk about “Identity Crisis,” a season five episode directed b...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Identity Crisis” from 2014-11-09T22:33:37
For the next edition, we’ll be looking at season five’s “Identity Crisis,” with guest Molly Eichel (Philadelphia Daily News, AV Club). It’s on the Netflix Watch Instantly and DVD, so give a watch i...
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The Gaff in a Head Act from 2014-10-29T18:34:47
Say, what happens when someone hates the very premise of a show, but then is booked on a podcast about that specific show? Let’s find out! Aaron Bleyaert (Conan, RJ and Bley Suck at Girls) joins Jo...
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That’s a Lot of Fruit Salad from 2014-10-20T00:59:42
Going back, back, back to season one, as Carolita Johnson (The New Yorker, carolita.org), Jon and RJ try to find something less blah about “Dead Weight.” War hero Eddie Albert’s cornered when congr...
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Next on Just One More thing:“Dead Weight” from 2014-10-12T20:23:58
Want to be ready for the next show? Up next, it’s, “Dead Weight,” from season one. We’ll be joined by special guest Carolita Johnson (The New Yorker).
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A Shadow On A Hungry Street from 2014-09-28T19:03:47
The podcast makes its first foray into 90’s Columbo with Nate Patrin (Pitchfork, City Pages, Wondering Sound) joining Jon and RJ for season ten’s “Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star.” Dabney Col...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star” from 2014-09-23T01:21:05
Want to be ready for the next show? Watch the season ten episode, “Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star.” Yes, we’re hurtling into the 90s. We’ll be joined by special guest Nate Patrin (City Pages...
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Eighty Fellas Tied For First from 2014-09-15T01:19:49
Chris Sims and Matt Wilson (War Rocket Ajax and Movie Fighters) join Jon and RJ to discuss “Short Fuse,” in which Roddy McDowall plays a strange genius and heir to a chemical fortune who uses his k...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Short Fuse” from 2014-09-08T21:08:43
Get a jump on the next show by watching the season one episode, “Short Fuse.” We’ll be joined by special guests Chris Sims and Matt Wilson (War Rocket Ajax, Movie Fighters). It’s available on Netfl...
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Murder is Bad, but Suicide is Sadder from 2014-09-02T03:45:03
Mallory Ortberg (the-toast.net) joins Jon and RJ to discuss “Etude in Black,” which features John Cassavetes as an orchestra conductor who murders his mistress/concert pianist. It’s up to Columbo t...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “Etude In Black” from 2014-08-28T00:36:35
Next podcast – “Etude In Black,” with John Cassavettes! Listen to see who else, plus, our special guest! The episode is available on Netflix Watch Instantly or on DVD, if you’d like to get ready.
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Sorry, I Don’t Have a Willy from 2014-08-18T13:45:48
In “A Deadly State of Mind,” George Hamilton plays Dr. Mark Collier, a deeply, deeply creepy psychologist. Complications with his patient/lover, played by Lesley “No ‘Ann’ For Some Reason” Warren t...
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Next on Just One More Thing: “A Deadly State of Mind” from 2014-08-13T19:36
Next podcast – “A Deadly State of Mind,” starring… well, just listen. It’s available on Netflix Watch Instantly or on DVD.
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That Leaves Us With Sid Daley from 2014-08-07T10:15:27
In “Fade In To Murder,” William Shatner is Ward Fowler, TV’s popular Detective Lucerne. When he murders his blackmailing agent/producer, can Columbo prove it? RJ, Jon and Maggie Serota find out. Al...
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Next on Just One More Thing:“Fade In To Murder” from 2014-08-06T01:41:44
Get a jump on the next podcast by watching the season six episode, “Fade In To Murder,” starring William Shatner, Lola Albright and, of course, Peter Falk, as Columbo. It’s available on Netflix Wat...
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Candyhawkers and Picture-Sellers from 2014-07-27T19:51:34
In the episode “Swan Song,” gospel singer Johnny Cash murders Ida Lupino. Can Lt. Columbo prove it? RJ, Jon and guest Leonard Pierce dive deep, going through the whole episode. It’s a pilot, so be ...
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