Well I finished Colombo and I’m closing in on finishing Harry O. What should I watch next?

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I vote for The Rockford Files.

Patrick McGoohan played a Columbo murderer more times than any other actor – four times.



And he directed FIVE episodes

If you want detective shows .

70's detectve database

Watch The Neverending Story (1984), in which Peter Falk plays the grandpa...

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Falk also plays a grandpa in one of the greatest movies going — The Princess Bride.

Fred Savage was the grandson, before The Dark Savage Days.

LOVE that movie.

'I do not think that word..."

'As you wish'.

Also As You Wish, a very good book and audiobook about the making of The Princess Bride.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

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Well I finished Colombo and I’m closing in on finishing Harry O. What should I watch next?

Not quite, I do have just one more question...

(Rockford Files is a great suggestion.)

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Well I finished Colombo and I’m closing in on finishing Harry O. What should I watch next?

As I recall Columbo originally aired on a rotating basis with McCloud, McMillan And Wife, and possibly one other series. I never got into McCloud but McMillan And Wife wasn't bad and had a bit of a sense of humor to it, so my vote is for McMillan And Wife.

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Lie to me if you must, but don't lie to me and insult my intelligence in the same sentence.

Resist the Thought Police: George Orwell's book 1984 was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual.

"Political correctness is just intellectual colonialism and psychological fascism for the creation of thought crime" - Steve Hughes

What's my "Super Power"? I can make active threads go stone-dead with a single post. I try to use this power only for good and not for evil but, you know... stuff happens.

I've been working my way through Poirot via BritBox and have been enjoying it. I just started season 6 so about halfway through.

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Watch The Neverending Story (1984), in which Peter Falk plays the grandpa...

pretty sure you're confusing this with the princess bride. don't think peter falk is in the neverending story.

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Watch The Neverending Story (1984), in which Peter Falk plays the grandpa...

Pretty sure you're confusing this with The Princess Bride. Don't think Peter Falk is in The Neverending Story.

You are correct. Peter Falk is however in both Murder By Death and The Cheap Detective. The first is a parody of the detective/mystery genre as a whole, if I'm not mistaken the second one is a parody of Mike Hammer/film noir detectives specifically.

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WARNING- If I posted a link in the above message, assume it is at minimum "NSFW- Language". Occasionally you'll be wrong.

Lie to me if you must, but don't lie to me and insult my intelligence in the same sentence.

Resist the Thought Police: George Orwell's book 1984 was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual.

"Political correctness is just intellectual colonialism and psychological fascism for the creation of thought crime" - Steve Hughes

What's my "Super Power"? I can make active threads go stone-dead with a single post. I try to use this power only for good and not for evil but, you know... stuff happens.

The. Cheap Detective is a parody of several Bogart movies including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Casablanca

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The. Cheap Detective is a parody of several Bogart movies including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Casablanca

If you're going that route, throw in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Steve Martin, Carl Reiner and at least a little bit of every great B&W detective movie ever made.

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Watch The Neverending Story (1984), in which Peter Falk plays the grandpa...

pretty sure you're confusing this with the princess bride. don't think peter falk is in the neverending story.

Mea culpa; mea culpa; mea maxima culpa. Peter M. Falk played the grandpa in The Princess Bride, and was not in The Neverending Story. Sorry, folks; old age is getting the better of me...

Back to the rubber room...

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Yet another vote for Rockford. One of the best written shows of the era.

Thanks for the post. His character in the back reminded me so I went back and watched By Dawn's Early Light last night, one of my favorite episodes.

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Patrick McGoohan played a Columbo murderer more times than any other actor – four times.



And he directed FIVE episodes

You're looking for "one more thing?"

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Hurts like a bastid...

If you're going that route, throw in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.


That was a terrific movie, and it had Rachel Ward.


I've been working my way through Poirot via BritBox and have been enjoying it. I just started season 6 so about halfway through.


Poirot is a favorite of mine.

I've watched the entire Agatha Christie's Poirot series twice and always enjoyed it.

In TV or film, David Suchet was the best Poirot, far and away.

Tony Randall as Poirot, maybe as comic relief.

I never heard a radio version on the show, and don't

His Belgian accent wasn't that great, but he was highly entertaining.

I wish they hadn't made Capt. Hastings pretty much useless.
Besides the constant condescending remarks made by Poirot, he never did much of anything significant, other than be Poirot's good friend.

He was the equivalent of Nigel Bruce's Watson, and that's not a good thing.

While I found the whole series enjoyable, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case was especially good.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.