It's been a long time since I posted on this site but glad to see the Fan Forum remains active. Like many of you, I've seen all episodes numerous times. I'm wondering what you think of Shera Danese's many appearances, mostly in the ABC episodes. Obviously, Peter Falk liked the concept of working with his wife but does anybody feel her appearances were overdone? Did she add anything positive to her episodes? I found myself getting to the point of just not wanting to see her face in them so much. But if there is particular episode any of you feel that she was her best in and added more to the episode than I'm giving her credit for, I'd love to hear it, and then I'll check that episode out again.

For me, I really enjoyed her as Katheen Calvert in A Trace of Murder. The 25th anniversary show.

I really didn't care for her role as Geraldine [the owner of the Ferguson Art Gallery] in Undercover, but maybe that's because I wasn't crazy about the entire episode to begin with.

I thought she was a sassy actress, well suited to the roles she was cast for. However let's be honest, she was never an accomplished actor and some would argue her appearances in Columbo were mostly due to her husband!

Clive, I'd say you change "mostly due" to just "due", because there was no way she'd keep getting picked for parts over and over. There wasn't anything special about her. Also there is something about the tone of her voice that has never gone over well with me. But hey, when you're Peter Falk and your wife wants a job, you hand her it :)

Fred, I have to agree with you that of all of her appearences, the Trace of Murder one is probably the one that I think she added something to. I think in Murder Under Glass as Eve Plummer, she holds her own, too.

She definitely had a specific type she played, and I think the show used her on-screen persona well. Somebody else said she was often cast in a sassy role, but I thought of her characters as more annoying and pushy than sassy, and she did those well.

One scene in particular I remember was in the lawyer's office in "Trace of Murder" where her secret partner wished everyone a good day and she squawked back at him "I don't know what's so good about it!"

His look back at her was pretty funny.