Peter Folk almost refused to include one of the favorite characters Columbo

Famous Detective Lieutenant Columbus, who played to perfection Peter Folk, is not quite your usual television police officer. He has fallen a little and seems to take into account many social norms, putting on the supposed cloak and carried the cigar almost wherever he went. Over Every wonderful, prolonged episode “Columbo” . Different Invited stars appeared as new killers And the victims each week, the Columbo itself served as a single connecting thread, with one small exception: Hound Basset Hound Columbo, Dog.

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Starting at 2 season, the columbo from time to time was a dog peail with it on different cases, acting as a kind mostly without unmistakable. The dog is good to sometimes make people from Columbus interview to open a little more, but mostly he just wanders or has his Columbus because he is a dog of an elderly citizen. It has become so much of the Columbus that Peter Folka’s bronze statue as a detective in Budapest, Hungary, also has a suitable dog’s bronze statue! However, when Folk first heard about the introduction of the dog, he was not a fan – until he saw a dog actor who would reflect his puppy.

The premiere of the 2 season “Columbo”, “étude in Black”, a good lieutenant appears in the vet’s office with a great old basset, and when the vet tells Columbus that the dog is completely healthy, it is a little shocked. You see, Columbus apparently adopted a dog because the old dog was on the last legs, and Columbus wanted to give him good last days. (Such a thing – much of what makes the show so comforting for viewing; Columbo is just sweet!) Director of the episode of Nicolas Kolasant (coach from “Hooray”! In an interview with BBC television In 1993, Folk showed that instead he was ambushed with the dog on the set and as a result fell in love:

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“And there is this dog. And he is laid out, and he is unlikely to walk, he is half dead, he is a million years old, and he’s insurmountable. I mean, you fall in love with this business. And I said,” Okay, all right. “I didn’t know it would be such a dog.”

Such The famous Columbus phraseThe name of writers who need filling, the name of the dog also arises because the detective is more focused on other things. Throughout the episode, he tries to come up with a name for a dog and even gives some sentences, but ultimately keeps things simple and cute.

Unfortunately, the dog played in the dog in 2 season was really very old, and Falk explained the BBC that he died and they had to get a dog replacement. As a result, they rescued Basset named Henry, making a dog in a real rescue in a fictional life dog, but there was one small problem: Henry was much younger than the original dog actor. Folk joked up to BBC that dog makeup took more time than his own, saying:

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“So the problem with the new dog was that we had to come up with it. Now when I go, I will need about 6 seconds in the morning. I look in the mirror, I will ruin my hair and I come up. I’m ready to go. come. ”

While the dog was a pretty important guest star, it does not record for most guest performances. This entry actually goes to Wife in real life foul, actor gray -danza, And I will argue that he does not mind waiting for her in a makeup chair as much as the powder did. After all, everything turned out because Columbo and Dog are the perfect partners, even when Folk was worried that he was a police officer with his dog companion.

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