A great check with my co-host, Carolyn Hinds. Check out the recording here: https://x.com/BaronDestructo/status/1942750590171504883  

This episode aired November 21, 1977. Richard Alan Simmons, a friend of Peter Falk who wrote season six's "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case", took over as the show's producer, bringing with him a fresh perspective and, in some ways, atypical approach. In The Columbo Phile, author Mark Dawidziak breaks down the three things…

Akemi attempting to walk two dogs - front-runner Bubbie and laggard Sharky This L.A. dog prefers cooler weather. All smiles. Goat heart... Will anyone notice? Asian pear... Quaso! Sharky's double coffee outing...

Two discussions in to this Best Of marathon and I am very, very pleased with my co-hosts to date.  Both Tom Luongo and Dr. Ben Hunt proved immensely entertaining and hugely informative.  The X Spaces, on the other hand, has proven frustratingly buggy.  As I posted... The fact that the Spaces do not record by…

This episode aired May 22, 1977. Theodore Bikel, who played Oliver Brandt, was a real life member of MENSA. Bikel on his Columbo experience: “I remember we had twenty-two shooting days for a ninety minute episode. That was wonderful. The whole experience was a lot of fun. I read mysteries and like them, so it…

Well....shit. I pressed "RECORD" when I set up the X Space but apparently I have to hit "RECORD" AGAIN before starting the X Space.  As a result, I didn't record tonight's X Space which was a brilliant discussion of the aforementioned shows with the amazing Dr. Ben Hunt. Now I'm going to bed angry!  

Here's the link to the recording of tonight's X Space.... Link to the recording!  

This episode aired November 28, 1976. When the original writer of the script, Peter S. Fischer, was unable to rewrite the script due to other commitments, Peter Falk brought in his friend Elaine May and script doctor Peter S. Feibleman to handle the revisions. Feibleman, also played Milton Shaeffer, the museum's slovenly ill-fated security guard…

The Montreal highlights... Back to Tiny Market... Shopping at Bone & Biscuit... Every day after we have lunch, Sharky rushes into his "mansion" for an after- lunch snack... Arguing with the couch...

At 3:00 p.m.. this afternoon, I kicked off the "Best Of..." month-long marathon with a pre-show.  Its purpose was foster discussion about the sci-fi shows we would be watching...and do a test run of this whole X Spaces thing. It was, admittedly, marginally successful.  I did most of the talking and despite having upwards of…

This episode aired October 10, 1976.   Falk was convinced to return for a truncated sixth season of the series. He received a bump in pay that saw him make $300k/episode, the equivalent of about 1.5 million/episode today.   The picture in Ward Fowler's living room is actually a head shot of William Shatner as…

We returned to Toronto from out 10-day-stay in Montreal yesterday.  Our flight was delayed but Sharky didn't seem to mind as he ended up getting a lot of attention from passengers as well as the flight crew.  Finally, we took off - 40 minutes late but thankful to be finally heading home. The return flight…