This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old Columbo episodes.

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On 20 Jan 2004 10:41:13 -0800, jedwardsesq@hotmail.com (Joe Edwards)
wrote:

>This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old Columbo episodes.

Hmmm... I never really thought about that, and I'm a huge Columbo fan.

Could you cite a couple of examples?

Cheers, Harry



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> >This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old Columbo episodes.
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> Hmmm... I never really thought about that, and I'm a huge Columbo fan.
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> Could you cite a couple of examples?
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> Cheers, Harry
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Well in the last episode I saw, "Mr. Monk Goes to School" he traps the
murderer by telling him that he's going to bring a huge search team to
look for a vital piece of evidence. The murderer gets scared and
surreptiously finds the evidence the night before the huge search. Of
course Monk is waiting for him to find it because it proves he knew
where it was. That's a straight lift from the Columbo episode with
Johnny Cash. In Monk the murder has to retrieve a pair of glasses, in
Columbo he had to retrieve a parachute.

Joe Edwards wrote:
>>> This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old
>>> Columbo episodes.
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>> Hmmm... I never really thought about that, and I'm a huge Columbo
>> fan.
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>> Could you cite a couple of examples?
>>
>> Cheers, Harry
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> Well in the last episode I saw, "Mr. Monk Goes to School" he traps the
> murderer by telling him that he's going to bring a huge search team to
> look for a vital piece of evidence. The murderer gets scared and
> surreptiously finds the evidence the night before the huge search. Of
> course Monk is waiting for him to find it because it proves he knew
> where it was. That's a straight lift from the Columbo episode with
> Johnny Cash. In Monk the murder has to retrieve a pair of glasses, in
> Columbo he had to retrieve a parachute.

And I think the Columbo writers took that from real law enforcement tactics.
They rarely have cameras all around when they do it, though. :-)

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>And I think the Columbo writers took that from real law enforcement tactics.
Doesn't that constitute entrapment?

cwmorrow@gbronline.com wrote:
>> And I think the Columbo writers took that from real law enforcement
>> tactics.
> Doesn't that constitute entrapment?

I don't think so. The courts have long held that police agencies can
trick and lie to get information. The line between that and entrapment
is a little vague to me.

We have a little town here that has 'block-parties' on New Years.
A couple of years ago, the police of that town sent younger guys
(early 20s) to the streets with phoney drug material. These guys
would sell it as real drugs to somebody, the police would then
arrest him/her for buying drugs. It was their contention that as long
as you thought you were buying drugs, you had committed the
crime. The local courts seemed to agree.

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Hear Hear! I'm glad someone has finally brought this up. Don't get
me wrong, the show is quite good but it needs an overhaul.

I can't say I liked much about "Mr. Monk and The Three Pies." I saw
that same premise on the Happy Days spin-off "The Ralph Malph
Mysteries" back in 1983 . It was the exact same idea but in this
episode it was the German rock band The Scorpions who were trying to
find the pies.

I'll go back and watch the RMM episode and see if the same guys wrote
the Monk episode.



On 20 Jan 2004 10:41:13 -0800, jedwardsesq@hotmail.com (Joe Edwards)
wrote:

>This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old Columbo episodes.

"Joe Edwards" <jedwardsesq@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> This is a good show, but the writers borrow too much from old Columbo
episodes.

Hahaha that`s funny, just described Monk, a couple
of weeks ago, as columbo meets john doe(pretender?) ;o)