For as many times as Raymond ran films for Mrs. Willis "invariably" at 11pm, why didn't he notice that Walking My Baby was just ending at 1am, and why would a dutiful servant have waited until after Johnny Carson was over to check on things in the screening room in the first place?

Like Mrs. Halperin, in "A Friend In Deed". Logically, you'd think the first thing out of her mouth would have been to tell Columbo that an agitated Hugh had called their house looking for Mark the night his wife was killed, but alas, these wonderful plots would never have worked.

about the enchanting raymond....
you have to realize he was hitting the wine a bit hard that night...and heck!! look at his honey! she was quite the distraction!

The little irony there is that Maurice Evans was once a Batman villain (The Puzzler), Linda Scott who played his wife in "Forgotten Lady" was a moll to the Riddler in another episode, and Francine York who was Sergeant Lefkowitz in the episode was a moll in another Batman episode where the villain was the Bookworm, played by Columbo alumnus Roddy McDowall.

And if that seems like quite a few "Batman" connections in the one episode, Sam Jaffe had a cameo in one "Batman" episode too!

very cool eric!

Interesting EP ... it never gets past me either, but it was a much tighter group in those days, and contract actors never wandered very far from the studios. In fact, many even resided there.

Speaking of Batman, Adam West might have helped shake all the typecasting he got afterwards if he'd been a Columbo killer.