Just One More Thing: Candidate for Crime
Notes and screenshots for Candidate for Crime: Originally broadcast on Nov 4, 1973, starring Jackie Cooper as a politician with skin in the game, a quick cameo from the director's daughter, the beloved character actor Vito Scotti, and, of course, Peter Falk as Columbo. "Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong." -IMDB Summary "Politics. No one’s tired of that yet, right? Ha. Ha. Ha. Yeah. So, in “Candidate for Crime,” Jackie Cooper is Nelson Hayward, a US Senate candidate who’s sick and tired of his campaign manager telling him what to do. Does he fire him? Nope, it’s a literal Saturday Night Massacre, as the pol kills him in cold blood, then tries to pin it on a mob assassination attempt. Of course, Columbo doesn’t buy this angle for a minute and engages in a one-man filibuster against…. murder. JD Ryznar ( Beyond Yacht Rock ) returns to ...
