Ransom For A Dead Man (1971) Columbo- Deep Dive Review | Lee Grant, Peter Falk, Patricia Mattick

I really did not care for this episode because it required Columbo to conspire with somebody to threaten the suspect with a gun in order to entrap them. Columbo should be above such blatantly illegal tactics, such as threatening the suspect's life. He does this to poor Norm from Cheers as well, nearly gives him a heart attack to with the stunt.

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Shonna, I think the doormat says “The murderer lives here.” Unfortunately that was a clue Columbo didn’t pick up on. Of course the episode would have been considerably shorter if he had.

Excellent video. Falk must've had a way with people, getting all these actors (old friends) who never did TV to guest star.

Green energy what a load of Crap !

I love this episode; and, your vid reviewing it.

Lee Grant is wonderful and i think you explained why she is in the pilot. She also is still alive!

Thank you, WatchitforDays for all the work you put into your thoroughly enjoyable commentaries of this classic series. I really like to tune into your channel after I've seen the episode.⭐🏆🥇

💓Double Indemnity💓
Phyliss: "We're both rotten."
Walter: "Only you're a little more rotten."

What inane and dumbed down narration.

Oh this is the pilot! I had no idea lol I think I saw this one way later

Oh I love how Margaret plays her in this episode

It’s a quality story!

Lee Grant was hilarious in the Neil Simon movie “Plaza Suite.”
Recommend!!! 👍

Fun fact about the Hollywood Forever Cemetery: summertime features movie nights in the cemetery. Corpses really enjoy it!

Lee Grant - 2 civil war generals

Thanks! Absolutely love your videos, sense of humor, e.g. “Columbo, She’s dead!”

I always liked how Columbo is great at pool. It's kinda like working a case, in a way. You pick off one thing at a time until it's all laid bare.

If you like "Double Indemnity," it was also adapted a number of times for radio, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.

Her stepmother's guilt notwithstanding, I'm not sure I'd want to be Margaret's parent.

I'm more of a fan of train stations. Union Station in Toronto may be my favourite building in the world. Also, I don't have any interest in being inside any kind of aircraft. But i would like to visit LAX one day. That dome is very interesting.

Harold Gould was also in The Sting

If these murderers ask for lawyers the whole entire Columbo series doesn’t happen.

You skipped the part where she switched bags in the locker room

Lee Grant is still with us. What a babe.

Tim.Carey steals the scene by slamming down the catsup.

Margaret kinda reminds me of Frau Farbissina.

About the character of Margaret, whom everyone seems to dislike. I thought of Leslie's description of her husband--humorless, with a rigid sense of ethics--and I realized, Margaret is a younger version of her dad.

We saw the victim's POV in 'Stich In Crime' when Doctor Mayfield ambushed Anne Francis in the parking garage with the tire iron. Sounds like 'Clue'. 😃

I'm sure others have share this comment: Columbo's hair. Compared to later episodes, his hair in 'Prescription Murder" is so normal, slight, combed. lol! This episode seems to be the one where his hair becomes wild and crazy. 🙂

Omg, Rose Nyland almost married him!! I love there's a Columbophile making videos I can binge! Thank you so much for this!

Listening to this voice I'm getting an erection , No AI voice here.

Lee Grant is a Gorgeous Lady ❤️...

Never understood why Americans always punish their telephones or the steering wheels of the car.

It's a great episode with a great villain. I think her biggest mistake was dumping the bag out of the plane at the same time as the light. She should have dumped it miles away where no one would ever found it.

I do wonder what would have happened if she admitted to keeping The Ransom but claimed she had nothing to do with the murder or the kidnapping. Most of the evidence for the kidnapping and murder is circumstantial

TV's most jewish show.

About Lee Grant: she was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 50's (the Red Scare era) by Sen. Joe McCarthy & his thugs. Her career was limited. It took a long while to recover from that. In discussing America History in high school, out teacher used her as an example of when government goes unchecked.
~I actually liked Margaret. If nothing else, she had spunk.

Love ya for crediting Mr, Green

This wasn't the pilot episode, every self respecting Columbo fan knows that. This was the second tv film of Columbo following the very first pilot episode in 1968. And you really should put Peter Falk's name ahead of everyone else since it was his tv show. Lee Grant was absolutely gorgeous looking in this episode though. Clever, sexy, seductive and sharp tongued. She's nearly 100 years old soon.

Columbo got both airsick and seasick.

Columbo's cousin Ralph probably doesn't exist. I also have a nonexistent relative that I use sometimes, "Uncle Roscoe."

The Birthday Party. Let me know if you know the connection.

who puts ketchup in chili?

It makes sense that it should be allowed in Europe but not in the United States. 😷😵🤬😤😳🤔🤫🤥🫡🫥🤮😵‍💫😪🤪

I am in my 50s and adore Lee Grant. She has a look and style all her own.

I remember reading that Lee Grant (Leslie) had been blacklisted in her prime acting years after displaying seemingly sympathetic sentiments (say that 3 times fast) for the communist party at a time when that was a big no no and she appeared in this Columbo episode after that time of being exiled as a heretic.
From her wiki:
Kirk Douglas, who acted with her in Detective Story, recalled that director Edward Dmytryk, a blacklistee, had first named her husband at the HUAC:

Lee was only a kid, a beautiful young girl with extraordinary talent and a big future. You could see it. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role. But because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, and it took years before anyone would hire her for another picture.[17]

5 outa 5 Columbo cigars