Believe me, the first episode was the only good Columboesque one -- the pilot movie was actually a little sleazy, despite Robert Culp being the secondary villain (the primary villain was a grinning, semi-pervy hitman), and after one or two tries at Columbo-type mysteries, they moved to pure cheapie '70s crime plots.

I liked Pleasance, too, and I actually kind of liked that Mrs. Columbo was so sad about catching him.

I noticed that Martin...that she was so sad. I watched that scene twice, and to me, she almost looked like she was on the verge of tears.

I could only watch up to the scene in which Donald Pleasance is in the room with the police chief from "Give Me A Break". That actor who played the sargent was just awful and his line, "How can I make this still look like a suicide" (or whatever it was) was terrible. Pleasance was good with the material he was given. Kate Mulgrew was certainly giving the role of Mrs. Columbo her all. She was so pretty and cute, that the rest of the episode could almost... I said almost... be forgiven. Terrible production values and the writing was no where near "Columbo" levels. Then too, the writing on "Mrs. Columbo" wasn't even any where near "Starsky and Hutch" levels either! Very bad TV mystery. Very, very bad.

Yeah...Dolph Sweet....did you see how long they kept the camera on his face...it was giving me the creeps!!! ...so does he!! still!!!
You should have watched the whole thing Headache...it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be....the last clue thingy was kinda cool.
And who did you think was sexier??? Starsky or Hutch??? I liked Starsky...my sister liked Hutch. Come on, let me know, Headache!