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Now - Columbo's Best Episodes

Here are my favorites:

Troubled Waters
A Friend in Deed
Exercise in Fatality (Robert Conrad is great)
A Bird in the Hand (Tyne Daly did a great job)
Make Me A Perfect Murder
A Stitch in Crime

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I'd like to add to that list a couple of my all time favorits. Columbo Goes To College; Now You See Him ( I really like Jack Cassidy) By Dawn's Early Light and Agenda For Murder. Patrick McGoohan is fantastic in the last two.

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Best ones:

Negative Reaction
Troubled Waters
Friend in Deed
The Conspirators
Now You See Him
Make Me A Perfect Murder
Ransom For a Dead Man
Stitch in Crime
By Dawn's Early Light

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Death Lends A Hand
Dagger Of The Mind
Prescription Murder
Forgotten Lady
Troubled Waters (but we could have had a shorter rendition of "Volare"!)

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um...um....Etude in Black...

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C'mon Cass...we all know you said that because you are secretly in love w/Alex Bennedict!!

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um...Fred...I really don't think it's a secret!!

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Of the 69 episodes of "Columbo", I consider 20 of them to be of Four Star **** - top of the line quality.

Of those 20 Best episodes, here are my utmost top 10 (in running order):

Prescription: Murder
Murder By The Book
Blueprint For Murder
Dagger Of The Mind
Double Shock
Negative Reaction
Now You See Him
Columbo Cries Wolf
Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Death Hits The Jackpot

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ahhh......but headache, do you remember when you posted this on colsy's site and you gave etude a four star rave......

"Episode #10
"Etude In Black" (****) Murderer: Alex Benedict

Murderer's Lesson: Flowers are for smelling, not for wearing.

Victim's Lesson: If the lover you've threatened to ruin is standing behind you while you're playing the piano, get up, turn the piano around and keep him in sight at all times."

and if any of you want to see the brilliance that is headache just check out the site columbo.us.tt and check out all his great murderer's lessons on there..it is in the original 45 section......you will be so impressed!!

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............oh, by the way...i am headache's groupie and road manager...i like my job...it's fun...

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Here's my top five:

A Friend In Deed
Negative Reaction
Candidate for Crime
Swan Song
Blueprint for Murder

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Cassa, "Etude" is one of my 20 "****" Four Star episodes. I broke it down further for my top 10 "utmost" best episodes. WHICH WAS NOT EASY! If you were to ask me to do this again a month from now, my top 10 utmost episodes might be different from what I've got up there.

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i know what you mean headache....everytime i watch an episode i find so much more in it and i want to add it to my top 10...episodes that i found rather lacking at first are now so terrific to me..

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These are my top ten (in airdate order):

Murder by the Book
Suitable for Framing
Blueprint for Murder
Etude in Black
Double Exposure
A Friend in Deed
By Dawn's Early Light
Forgotten Lady
Try and Catch Me
How to Dial a Murder

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my favorites this week:

prescription murder
murder by the book
a stitch in crime
playback
a deadly state of mind