Our murderer here is William Shatner who as Columbo with his usual dogged style keeps seeking his company and getting bit by bit of information, goes in and out of his TV character. Lucerne is so unlike the working class hero that Peter Falk made so immortal. Of course the elegant, dapper, white suited Lt. The ending is one you won't see coming and FADE IN TO MURDER as a whole has the feel-good factor which makes it a delight to sit through.įor Lieutenant Columbo this case must have been like looking through the mirror because he was facing a TV creation here. There's a fantastic little cameo from Walter Koenig which STAR TREK fans will love, and Columbo himself seems to be particularly bashful here and awed by Shatner's exuberance. The opening murder sequence is surprisingly violent and arresting and unlike any other in the show. The rest of the production is above average. I loved the bizarre interludes in which he gets interviewed by Columbo and adopts his TV detective persona, helping out the crumpled detective. Shatner has never been so mannered as he is here and yet his character is completely likable throughout in fact he plays one of the most likable characters of his whole career.
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He plays a movie detective and is so larger than life that he dominates the whole thing. The thing that you'll either love or hate about this is William Shatner as the guest villain. I thought FADE IN TO MURDER was a very good episode of the Columbo show. All in all, very enjoyable and a solid entry in one of the all-time great detective series.
William Shatner, whose performance is better than in Butterfly in Shades of Grey(an episode I was mixed on and I wasn't crazy about Shatner in it), can be seen as hammy and a little stiff at times, but considering the ego of his character and the story concept it works. Peter Falk is as always brilliant as Columbo, playing with humour, an inquisitive air and cunning. Pacing is solid and Kowalski's direction shows why he was one of the more consistent directors of the show. However, it is slickly filmed, with everything looking beautiful especially the settings, the dialogue amuses and the story is clever and interesting a vast majority of the time. What I didn't quite like so much was that was final solution was a little underwhelming, I liked Shatner's final line but other than that the ending could have done with a stronger build-up and at the end of the day considering how well-executed the murder itself was it felt somewhat amateurish introducing the incriminating clue that wasn't even mentioned until then. I like Fade in To Murder especially for one of the most cleverly executed murders in Columbo history, the fact that the murderer leaves evidence, clues and questions helping Columbo in a sense, and the scenes between Columbo and Fowler which are very dynamic.
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Columbo is one of my favourite TV series of all time, and once again Fade in To Murder is a solid and very enjoyable episode.
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