The Columbo Confab Podcast

Steve and Sean raise their glasses and discuss "Any Old Port in a Storm" (1973), a popular episode featuring Donald Pleasance as a snobby winemaker who commits fratricide to protect his beloved business.  Should audiences find this one on the top shelf?  Or should it be relegated to the aisle with the boxed wine?  Listen in and find out! Have a question or comment for the hosts?  Email Steve and S...

We begin our second season with Fisher Stevens playing a not-unlike-Steven-Spielberg Hollywood director whose secret past has him resorting to a shocking a murderous solution in "Murder, Smoke and Shadows".  Is this one worthy of an Academy Award?  Or does it belong on the cutting room floor?  Listen in and find out as Steve and Sean discuss it. Have a question or comment for the hosts?  Email Ste...

In the opening episode of Season Two (and the first episode to expand to the two-hour running time on television), John Cassavetes stars as frustrated maestro who murders his lover when she threatens to expose him to his wife and mother-in-law and ruin his career.  Is this one a symphony to die for?  Or is just a cacophony of confusion?  Listen in as Steve and Sean discuss it! Send feedback to col...

"Strange Bedfellows" is arguably one of the worst "Columbo" episodes that exists, so naturally we were thrilled to talk about it.  George Wendt ("NORM!") stars as a race horse breeder who shoots his debt-ridden brother to protect the business.  Does this story score a trifecta?  Or is this just a case of a "bad actor"?  Listen in and find out what Steve and Sean think...also, whatever happened to...

Our intrepid podcasters analyze the final episode of the classic season as they discuss "The Conspirators", in which Irish poet (and undercover gunrunner) Joe Devlin takes matters into his own hands when an exchange with a weapons dealer goes wrong.  Is this one worth a kiss of the Blarney Stone?  Or is it as terrible as a bowl of Frosted Lucky Charms?  Listen in and find out what Steve and Sean t...

We shoot ahead to 1989 and the first season of the "rebooted" show for "Murder. a Self Portrait", starring Patrick Bauchau as an artist who kills his ex-wife to hide a terrible secret.  Is this episode a masterpiece?  Or is just painting by numbers?  Listen in and find out as Steve and Sean discuss it! Send feedback to columboconfab@gmail.com, follow the podcast's Twitter account via @columboconfa...

The Columbo Confab Podcast kicks off its first season with "Lovely but Lethal", the first episode in the show's third season and starring Vera Miles as cosmetic queen Viveca Scott. When Viveca blindly bumps off a chemist to keep the secret of a cream that cures wrinkles from landing in the hands of her competitor, she finds herself matching wits with Columbo.  Does this story shine with polish and...