Columbo unscrewed which slowly stopped it out of existence

For a long time you could say how successful the television show was based on the number of spin-offs that it inspired. This concept is as accurate as decades ago that with A huge number of “ncis” and “wild wolf” This is the backfill of the network respiratory tract year after year. But while the spin-off can be a simple sign whether the series is popular, the spin-off is not always successful, even when it comes to procedures such as Dramas COP and secrets. Indeed, just because the audience will always flock to criminal dozen, does not mean that each of these shows will be guaranteed. If you need an example, just look at a short spin-off of one of the most favorite television series of all time and peoples.

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One of the biggest mysterious series “Columbo” turned Peter Folk from an extremely talented actor into an extremely talented actor and Star all over the world. “Columbo” was brilliant as a series for many reasons, not least, it was how it overcame the traditional criminal drama. Here, while the show itself was focused on the exquisite intellectual detective in the Los -Andgeles Department and its ability to find out who killed someone else, the series structure was “Howcatchem”, in which the audience always knew that in the first 15 minutes. But although Columbo was a mass hit in Nielsen’s ratings, inspired by IT, Mrs. Columbus, there was enough flop that he tried to stop himself in Columbus from his existence.

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The only consistent aspect of “Columbo” was the man himself, because he wore a cloak and stumbles through this crime place as a way to reset his quarry. Folk was in each episode, but the only other details that would respond in several episodes were the things mentioned by Columbus mentioned by his different suspect. In addition, Columbo looked to itself; The “Columbo” show was not a type of program to give its audience great personal information about the character. Although Eagle-Eyeed viewers may have noted that his name was honest because of a well-placed look at his police badge, Columbus never even mentioned him. And while Columbus often referred to his wife, we never knew her name and did not meet her within any episode “Columbo”.

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This has changed with “Mrs. Columbus” which introduced us not only to Kate Columbus (Kate Malgre) But also the daughter of Columbus Jenny (Lily Hydn). Kate news reporter raising a daughter while resolving crimes in his time. The show took place in February 1979, which was interesting, just a few months after the “Columbo” stopped on the new episodes on NBC. (Although Columbo was revived in the late 1980s and aired new episodes until 2003, it did it on ABC.) If the spin-off room seems a little shaky, know that you are not alone, feeling that way. In fact, the creators of “Columbo”, writers Richard Levinson and William Link, felt the same.

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Be that as it may, Levinson and Link were a vocalist against the back (as well as from the casting of the 24-year-old Malgra to play Columbus’s wife, which would be 52 years old when the show started). However, NBC executives have decided to continue forward. Levinson and Link had the right concept: in the spring of 1979, only five very low rated episodes came out in the middle of the season. So, when she returned this fall, Kate no longer called herself Mrs. Columbus and instead used her obvious maiden name Kalahan. Meanwhile, the show itself was renamed twice, starting with “Kate -Detective”, and then “Kate loves the mystery”. It is not the shock that the series lasted only eight episodes (only 13) before they disappear rapidly.

For each successful spin-off as “Frasier”, there are 10 of them as “Mrs. Columbus”. If, for example, Fraser turned away from the 11-season comedy “hurray”, it was a risk, but Boston Sitki created at least so many memorable characters that “I” made sense. There was no sense of the new show that gave up what the old series did, especially what made it so special.

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On the other hand, unscrewing “Columbo” did not make sense from the heads of the 70’s era, who want to use the famous intellectual property after the new episodes stopped. “Columbo” was not a show with a rich and large ensemble; The name meant what it was obvious that it was, in fact, a single series. Folk was not a fair, only special part of the old school procedure; The setting was also distinctive, and the number of guest stars was truly impressive. (Directors can also be; One early episode was greeting young Stephen Spielberg.) But the audience made the sharp sensations of Columbus Lieutenant, so the creation of the back of the invisible character was at best calculated by the gambling game.

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In the worst case, the result is what we received from Mrs. Columbus. This show is so unwilling to stand on its original prerequisite that he not only renamed her heroine, but also pretended that Kate never existed in the past. Mrs. Columbus himself sounds, honestly, the parody called a bad TV, so the fact that he actually existed-and tried no less memory hole, the same wild as laughter. The Columbo itself, as mentioned earlier, would eventually receive another revival with ABC revival through the years, ensuring that Mrs. Columbus will be more or less a hole in return.