As significantly different as "Blueprint For Murder" and "Columbo Cries Wolf" are in terms of style, in my opinion the main connection is that perhaps "Blueprint For Murder" should have been entitled "Columbo Cries Wolf." The converse is not plausible, though it brings up the interesting question of "What would 'Columbo Cries Wolf' have been called if it could not use the same name as its predecessor of nearly two decades earlier?"
But Columbo never cries wolf in Blueprint. The murder's already happened. Not so in Cries Wolf, where he is convinced a murder has been taken place because of false clues.
The episode guides on this web site list the characters with 2 different spellings.
I think I first noticed they were different on the videos themselves, either at the beginning or end of the episodes. Then I checked this web site guide and they were spelled differently.
I don't have the Columbophile book, so I don't know how they are spelled there, but i take your word for it.
ahh....you are not going to believe this...but when i was typing that i was thinking of you...and i was going to add...that it wasn't a big concern unless i was talking about the big E!!..you!!
EVERYONE here on this forum certainly should understand how "these little things jsut keep botherin' me".
I guess I'm "pickier" than a vineyard worker at Carsini's Winery.
Oh, that reminds me, my wife wants me to pick up a fifty cent gallon of mouthwash. You don't know where there's a store out here do you? No I guess not?
Now, getting way way back to MY point (I'm not accusing anyone of anything Cass)...I did go overboard in saying they are the SAME episode. What drove me to that post was the murderer-inspired press conferences that are for all intents and purposes the very same scene. It was a "holy smoke how could I have missed that" kind of thing.