Columbo Finds Commodore’s Murderer | Columbo

Columbo gets to the point. The watch was deliberately smashed by the Commodore’s killer to establish an alibi. The only person in the room who bothered to reveal their whereabouts at the time of the murder was Swanny...

Season 5 Episode 6 ''Last Salute to the Commodore'': Charlie Clay runs the shipbuilding business of his father-in-law, Commodore Swanson, who turns up murdered; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

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[romulusnr]

Kinda love how he's doing the cliche "reveal to the room" detective bit. Usually he'd just confront the guilty party directly, or else put the guilty party in a revealing situation in front of others. But this was the classic Poirot-esque long-form reveal to everyone.

I swear time moves faster when I watch Columbo clips. This was not 7 minutes long.

[mikebrowne]

This is one of the weirdest Columbo episodes but even weird Columbo is still entertaining...

[mirellalastar]

I like how columbo has zero notion of personal space.

[benbergin]

I love how Columbo lingered on Swanny after he asked him to identify the watch. He immediately knew it was him behind the crime

[frankroper]

Best detective show of all time in my opinion. This started out as part of an array of of shows that would come on in Prime Time back in the 70's. Mc Cloud, Mc Millan and Wife and Columbo...then Columbo got so popular they only ran Columbo every Sunday. I think it started on CBS and later came back with it on ABC but to me the early were the best...Peter Falk was born to play that role!

[Retro]

So glad you post these. Coming across one is a bright spot to the day!

[jamesnasium]

That dude who play Swanny is a good actor. He's turning red at the end.

[Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

[TheWasif]

I’m sorry, but this is my favorite episode. I love so many and I know it works mainly when the killer is known early, but Falk seems to have so much fun with this one and it works as a great mystery, an ode to Agatha Christie. Perhaps McGoohan’s direction gave it its whimsy, but this is fun from start to finish.

[ridgesail]

My new party game is asking people "Commodores watch", and seeing what they say back 😂

[scottypersia]

Swanny put George Hamilton in prison in the episode where he played the blind brother. I just checked he was in 6 different episodes.

[davidalexander]

Only episode I've only watched once. Really never wanted to see it again

[gregorywall]

Fred Draper (Swanny Swanson) also played David Morris, the blind witness in "A Deadly State of Mind".

[A.B.-zsir]

Columbo is such a badass, that i had to buy the whole DVD set in blue ray, just so i can watch them whenever i want, btw it doesn't matter how many times i've seen them!! Bravo 👏

[Regularguy]

This episode is surreal to me. I have a box set of the full show and watch 1 episode a day in the morning but this one i watched an hour if it very early in the morning half asleep and was lost half an hour in. The next day i finished the last half hour and was shocked to only realise at the end the husband was dead and the other guy was guilty. This would be the episode i would rewatch first for how disjointedly i watched it

[johnking]

British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White seen here, also appeared in the Columbo episode set in London, England "Dagger of the Mind". Wilfrid never filmed any of his scenes in England, all in California, as he had fled to Los Angeles as a tax exile, he owed a fortune in unpaid income tax to the British revenue.

[keithjones]

Wilfred Hyde - White was a great comedy actor, he was wonderful acting as a dodgy vicar in the excellent film Two Way Stretch with Peter Sellers and the great Lionel Jeffries. Columbo worked with some great actors and actresses, they helped make it the wonderful series it was.

[stuartrees]

I'd like to hear Dennis Dugan's take on what happened behind the scenes on this episode. especially since Mr Dugan has since become a Director himself

[Trepidity]

I just love how Columbo stays the longest with the watch with the murderer.