The Columbo’s offer, which he skipped slowly from existence

For a long time, you can know how successful the TV program is based on the number of cross operations that inspired it. This concept is now true as it was decades ago, what The huge amount of “NCIS” and Dick Wolf cross This garbage, airline network, year after year. But although cross operations can be an easy sign of whether the series is common or not, the processes themselves are not always successful, even when it comes to procedures such as drama and police puzzles. In fact, just because viewers will always flow to the crime drama does not mean that each of these offers is guaranteed to be a great success. If you need an example, just look at the short -term cross show of one of the most popular TV series ever.

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One of the great mysterious TV shows, “Columbo”, Peter Falk, has transformed from a very talented actor to a very talented actor and A star around the world. “Columbo” was great as a TV series for many reasons, not the least of which led to raising the level of traditional sub -drama from Whodunit. Here, while the same show focused on a pre -nature smart investigator at the Los Angeles Police Department and his ability to know who killed another person, the “Howcatchem” series in which the audience was always knew Whodunit in the first 15 minutes. But although “Columbo” was a great success in Nielsen’s classifications, the accident she inspired, “Lady Columbo”, was sufficient to flip that tried to get out of Colombo himself from his existence.

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The consistent side of “Columbo” was the same man, as he was wearing a coat and stuffed through a specific crime scene as a way to eventually throw his quarry. Falk was in every episode, but the other other details that would hesitate through multiple episodes are the things that Colombo mentioned to the two different suspects. Beyond that, Colombo is a kind of maintaining itself; “Columbo” The show was not the type of program to give its fans a great deal of personal information about the character. Although eagle viewers have noticed that his first name was Frank due to a good glimpse of the police badge, Colombo was never referred to as his first name. While Colombo often called for his wife, we never knew her name or met her within the limits of any “Columbo” episode.

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This has changed with “Lady Columbo”, which We presented not only to Kate Colombo (Kate Molgro) But also Columbus Jenny’s daughter (Lily Hayden). Kate is a news correspondence that raises her daughter while crimes also resolved out of service. The show was first shown in February 1979, which was, interesting enough, just a few months of “colorbo” stopping the broadcast of new episodes on NBC. (Although “Columbo” was revived at the end of the 1980s and broadcast new episodes until 2003, she did it on ABC.) If the accidental hypothesis seems somewhat fragile for you, know that you are not alone in feeling this way. In fact, the creators of “Colombo”, the book, Richard Levinson and William Link, felt the same way.

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As was the case, Levinson and Link was loudly against the cross show (in addition to pouring 24 -year -old Mulgrew to play the role of Colubo’s wife, who could have been 52 years old when the show started). However, NBC executives chose to move forward. Levinson and Link had the right idea, although the mid -season alternative broadcast only five low -rating episodes in the spring of 1979. So, when she returned to that fall, Kate was no longer called herself Mrs. Colombo and used her first apparent name for Callahan. Meanwhile, the same show was renamed twice, starting with “Kate The Investigation” and then “Kate loves mystery”. It is not a shock that the series lasted only eight other episodes (totaling 13 in all) before it quickly disappeared from the ether waves.

For each successful cross such as “Frasier”, there are 10 of them like “Lady Columbo”. When, for example, “Frasier” was stopped from the 11 seasons comedy chants “, it was a risk, but the comic play that was appointed Boston has created at least many unforgettable characters that the logical” chants “will not have any feeling of the new show that abandons what the old series did, and much less than what made it very special.

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On the other hand, there was no meaning from the executives in the 1970s who wanted to take advantage of a famous intellectual property after it stopped making new episodes. “Columbo” was not a show with a rich or wide band; The title involves what was clear, that this was basically a series of one man. Falk was not fair, the only special part of the procedural in the old school; The preparation was also special, and the amount of guest stars was really impressive. (The directors can also be; An early episode was appointed by a young Stephen Spielberg) But the masses excited to the Lieutenant Colombo himself, so it was an invisible offer about an invisible personality, at best, a calculated gambling.

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In the worst case, the result is what we got with “Mrs. Colombo”. It is so unwilling to stand alongside his initial hypothesis that he not only renamed his heroism, but also demonstrated as if Colombo was not in Kate’s past. “Lady Columbo” herself looks, frankly, like a satirical simulation address to view bad TV, so the fact that she is already exists-and trying the colombo a memory hole is no less than-it is laughing. Colombo himself, as we mentioned earlier, will get another crack in things with ABC’s revival years later, ensuring that the fans will somewhat work “Columbo” in return.