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.