Just One More Thing: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Notes and screenshots for Columbo Goes to the Guillotine: Originally broadcast on February 6, 1989, starring Anthony Andrews and Anthony Zerbe as scam artist magicians with a history, Karen Austin as an ESP researcher who can't keep it straight if the first answer after the square is always true, unless there's an intervening circle, and the second answer after a wavy line is always false, unless that wavy line itself is false and, of course, Peter Falk as Columbo.

"An egocentric magician masquerading as a real psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick. Lt. Columbo is on the case."

-IMDB Summary

"And we’re back to the later episodes, for season eight’s “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine,” which does a fair job of debunking the whole psychic/ESP nonsense. Sadly, it cannot debunk the fact that sharp blades will chop off heads. That’s just real. Joining us to discuss the episode and its possible real-life background is Leigh Beadon (techdirt.com), who’s well-versed in the mentalism and magic game. If you guessed that this is a good episode of the podcast, what are you, The Amazing Kreskin or something?"

-RJ's episode summary

Listen to the original podcast episode here:

Episode 13: A Rubber Band, a Compass and an Instant Camera with our guest Leigh Beadon.

Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Season 8, Episode #1

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: William Read Woodfield

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