An episode featuring Anthony Andrews, Anthony Zerbe and Peter Falk is an acting clinic.
Andrews plays a jealous phony psychic whose career Zerbe is trying to undermine. Unfortunately, that means Zerbe doesn't appear for long.
The rest of the episode is cat-and-mouse between Falk and Andrews. Andrews is a wonderful actor if kept on a leash. Anyone who caught his Mercutio in The Shakespeare Plays knows he can get out of hand.
The military psychic clinic here looks like something out of "The Prisoner." One wonders if tax dollars are really being wasted like this. Fortunately, the "enemy" is the USSR and this episode aired very shortly before the collapse of the Iron Curtain and only a couple of years before the USSR crumbled trying to play catch-up in the SDI race.
Do I believe in psychics? Well, as the fellow said, to disprove all giraffes have long necks, I don't have to see all giraffes; just one without a long neck.
Columbo restarts with a superb episode, if a bit bloodier than we were accustomed to on the old days.
Andrews plays a jealous phony psychic whose career Zerbe is trying to undermine. Unfortunately, that means Zerbe doesn't appear for long.
The rest of the episode is cat-and-mouse between Falk and Andrews. Andrews is a wonderful actor if kept on a leash. Anyone who caught his Mercutio in The Shakespeare Plays knows he can get out of hand.
The military psychic clinic here looks like something out of "The Prisoner." One wonders if tax dollars are really being wasted like this. Fortunately, the "enemy" is the USSR and this episode aired very shortly before the collapse of the Iron Curtain and only a couple of years before the USSR crumbled trying to play catch-up in the SDI race.
Do I believe in psychics? Well, as the fellow said, to disprove all giraffes have long necks, I don't have to see all giraffes; just one without a long neck.
Columbo restarts with a superb episode, if a bit bloodier than we were accustomed to on the old days.