Ok....I'm going out on a limb here, and this will either fly as an ongoing thread..or it will dive bomb into the sea!
Someone says a word or 2 or 3 etc.. and then the next person says the first thing that comes to mind....as in the word association game in How to Dial a Murder.
Obviously the words have to be Columbo related....it could be anything at all..an actor, an episode title, a character, a prop, a clue...anything at all that relates to Columbo..

Ok..I'll start...







Cassavetes

( Where else did you think I would start???)

The very first thing I thought of was...

"Typewriter".

Odd, eh?

Typewriter?

Well anyway, typewriter leads me to Jack Cassidy ("Now you see Him").

Ok, I say cigarette.

YAY!! thanks guys! maybe this thingy will fly!!

Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

The first thing I thought of when I saw "Cassavetes" was "purple" (the color of the carnation).

Now, for my reaction to "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to your Health":

The "DANGER" sign on the door to the basement in "The Most Dangerous Match."

Robbie-the-Robot in Mind Over Mayhem.

(remember Lost in Space with the same robot?? "Danger Will Robbinson!!")

The "Mind" in "Mind Over Mayhem" leads to
"The Bye Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case."

painting..( a recent post)

gloves

Suitable for Framing

OK, here's my word: Barsini.

Carsini

Carson (Forgotten Lady)

Columbo's pencil
(Johnny Carson loved flipping pencils around)

"For the first time, I have a pencil and it's the wrong type."

(fred, do you get the point of this game? how can i respond to that answer of yours??? )
ok..i'll just reply by saying the episode it was from and then we can carry on from there.

Candidate For Crime

"Candidate"?

McGoohan (Agenda For Murder)

Leslie Nielsen (Identity Crisis)

Chinese--which leads me to Chinese food (Gene's dinner in "An Exercise in Fatality").

Murder Under Glass (Mary Choy's restaurant)

glass cable car ("Shortfuse")

cigar box

Roddy McDowall's curly hair.

dean stockwell...

swimming pool

bathtub (a friend in deed/double shock)

Two

(Number of murderers in both "A Friend in Deed" and "Double Shock.")

Headlights

(Two headlights in the eyes of the murderous Leslie Williams "Ransom For A Dead Man" - a really cool transition from one scene to another!)

Deadly State of Mind
(headlights that should have been seen by Nadia)

Nadia's shoes (that she put her valuables in when she thought she was going swimming).

gene stafford's gym shoes (exercise in fatality)

paper clips (Gene said something about smelling flim-flam right down to the paper clips Milo made him buy).

alligator clips/clamps (what oliver brandt uses on the record player in Bye-Bye Sky High.)

the red marker that fell on the book in "IQ"

the marker...
that columbo borrowed from hayward in candidate for crime to re-create the driveway...columbo had a pencil..but it was the wrong kind!

going to the tailor to get a new suit

(good one E!)

vito scotti

Cassavetes.

We're back to where we started...does this mean the game is over?

You WISH!!

Miss Welles

...(that one is really easy if you just think for a second... )

Suicide note.

Is that what you had in mind?

(no..but it's a goodie ..I was thinking of the other Miss Welles from Troubled Waters. )

Tomlin Dudek

garbage chute

(although right after my initial reaction, I thought of "salt shaker" which I like better, but this is a game about our first instincts.)

(yup!! it's a crazy game E!! and why is it that it seems we are the only 2 playing it lately?!?!?!? )

ok......


Dog

ice cream cone (Forgotten Lady)

(and I agree this is a fun and crazy game and you and I are the major players now, but it would be even more fun if a few other people would jump in with their thoughts!)

(I agree! and for that reason I won't reply to this one....but HeCk!! I have a good response!! ...there's another episode that deals with one... )

...picnic table (from Identity Crisis)

And Cass, different robots, but Robby the Robot appeared in many sci-fi films and television shows over the years. Interestingly, he debuted in Forbidden Planet(1956) which starred Anne Francis and Leslie Neilson, both of whom later played on Columbo. BTW Forbidden Planet is basically a remake of Shakepeares The Tempest.

hot dog (what columbo was trying to eat)

and yeah i knew about robbie the robot from forbidden planet..tcm has a short about the movie that they run form time to time...and the tempest is my second favourite shakespeare play.

Insurance (Columbo talking with the insurance broker at the hot dog stand in Murder By The Book)

(excellent!! that was the exact scene i was thinking of for a response to hot dog! )

author...(the insurance policy that riley greenleaf had on allen mallory in publish or perish.)

Abigail Mitchell.

safe