Troubled Waters is a troubling episode as it leads me to conclude that some of the classic Columbo episodes were maybe not all that good. A case of the memory cheats.
Columbo is on a cruise with Mrs Columbo and she is nowhere to be seen, always getting lost. I doubt Columbo was ever with his wife in this story.
Hayden Danziger (Robert Vaughn) is a wealthy car salesman who is on board with his older wife. This is more than a holiday as his sales force are also on the cruise, it is a business function for him, in more ways that one. Danziger is being blackmailed by the lounge singer that he once had an affair with. He has concocted a plan to get rid of her which includes feigning a heart attack and framing a member of the band (Dean Stockwell) who also had a brief affair with the singer and then got dumped.
Bad news for Danziger, Columbo is on the case as he is already on the boat, a bout of a troubling tummy for Columbo means he comes across a loose feather in the ship's hospital.
We are at the height of 1970s fashion. The cast are wearing long collars, Stockwell has weird hair. The story is a little bit flaky and even a bit dull. It is almost a perfect murder but Danziger he wants to frame someone else and leaves loose clues behind. Mrs Danziger seems to have got lost somewhere in this story, she does not come to see her husband at the hospital when he has an heart attack, she is not concerned when he leaves it. Heck even his sales force seem to have disappeared, in fact we never ever saw any of them. I wonder if they were all partying with Mrs Columbo.
Columbo is on a cruise with Mrs Columbo and she is nowhere to be seen, always getting lost. I doubt Columbo was ever with his wife in this story.
Hayden Danziger (Robert Vaughn) is a wealthy car salesman who is on board with his older wife. This is more than a holiday as his sales force are also on the cruise, it is a business function for him, in more ways that one. Danziger is being blackmailed by the lounge singer that he once had an affair with. He has concocted a plan to get rid of her which includes feigning a heart attack and framing a member of the band (Dean Stockwell) who also had a brief affair with the singer and then got dumped.
Bad news for Danziger, Columbo is on the case as he is already on the boat, a bout of a troubling tummy for Columbo means he comes across a loose feather in the ship's hospital.
We are at the height of 1970s fashion. The cast are wearing long collars, Stockwell has weird hair. The story is a little bit flaky and even a bit dull. It is almost a perfect murder but Danziger he wants to frame someone else and leaves loose clues behind. Mrs Danziger seems to have got lost somewhere in this story, she does not come to see her husband at the hospital when he has an heart attack, she is not concerned when he leaves it. Heck even his sales force seem to have disappeared, in fact we never ever saw any of them. I wonder if they were all partying with Mrs Columbo.