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Columbo's greatest fan and a great friend to us all.
Bryce-san,
My pleasure. Thank you for your comments.
There are many Columbo fans and freaks in Japan too. One of them, who I have recently known of on the web, is Ms. Kanako NOMA. According to the website (URL attached below), she graduated from the architectual and interior-goods design course at Bunka Gakuen University in Shibuya, Tokyo, and her graduation work was about houses and interiors goods appeared in Columbo episodes. She made illustrations and architectural drawings of them. If you are interested in them, please visit the link here:
http://mystery.co.jp/program/columbo/home_collection/index.html
Well, one of her interesting researches reveals that the movie set (House) used in the episode #30 "Playbeck" is the same as the one used in the episode #31 "A Deadly State of Mind", though some parts were redecorated and redone in some ways. You can check how they are different and how they are similar on the link attached here: http://mystery.co.jp/program/columbo/explanation/031/trivia/set_img.html
I hope you can find someone who speaks Japanese, so that you can understand her works deeper.
Yours,
Hide 
* (Bunko Gakuen Univ) http://bwu.bunka.ac.jp/news/detail.php?id=853
I'm definitely going to have to check that out, Hide-chan! That house is one of my favorites in the series. Thank you!