Old Fashioned Murder

Episode aired Nov 28, 1976
TV-PG
1h 13m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.2K

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Peter Falk and Joyce Van Patten in Old Fashioned Murder (1976)

Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Peter S. Feibleman, who wrote this episode's teleplay, plays Milton Shaeffer, the museum's security guard.

Goofs
The police photographer uses a flash to take pictures of the artifacts behind a glass case.

Quotes
Columbo: My watch cost thirty dollars. His must have cost a couple hundred and it's wrong. It says May first. Goes to show you money doesn't buy quality.
Sgt. George Carter: Lieutenant, it IS May first. Your watch is wrong, his watch is right.
Columbo: Oh. Well, what do you expect for thirty dollars.

Connections
Featured in Marie-Francine (2017)

Soundtracks
The Girl from Ipamena
("Garota de Ipamena") (uncredited)
Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Portugese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes
English lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Instrumental version heard in beauty salon

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Featured review

6/10

The Museum

Joyce Van Patten stars as Ruth Lytton, the never-married head of the family-owned museum that has been sadly losing money. Her caring but stern brother Edward(played by Tim O' Connor) has decided to convince their sister(played by Celeste Holm) to close the museum, which is something Ruth cannot allow, so she concocts a surprising(for her) plan to murder him, blaming it on a guard with a shady past, then killing him too. Lt. Columbo(Peter Falk) doesn't believe it was a botched robbery, but how to find proof against the spinsterish Miss Lytton? Oddly flat episode isn't that compelling, but is still innocuous enough to make it passable fare.