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Peter Falk and Martin Landau in Double Shock (1973)

Mrs. Peck? Mrs. Peck, I made a very poor introduction of myself to you, I know that. I'm a stranger in your house that you love and I'm here to do something that's not very pleasant, so I don't expect you to like me but I have feelings too, Mrs. Peck. Now, I'm sorry about being untidy. That's something that I can't control. That's a fault of mine that I-I, I don't know, I just can't correct that, and I've tried many years. I'm just very untidy. That's my nature, but I've never been un... I-I-I've never been rude to you, Mrs. Peck, and-and i-if you keep on treating me like an enemy just because I'm here trying to find who killed a man that you worked for for thirty-three years, well, then... well, then I think you're a very unfair person.

Peter Falk

Martin Landau

Jeanette Nolan

Steven Bochco

Jackson Gillis

Richard Levinson

A smarmy TV chef and his identical twin brother, a rigidly proper banker, are suspects in the electrocution of their rich uncle.

Robert Butler

Double Shock

The rare Columbo mystery

This Columbo is unique in that we don&apos;t really know the exact outcome until the very end.  Our favorite dark horse detective suspects a pair of identical twin brothers of killing their rich uncle; each points the finger at his brother.  In a mystery series in which the crime is shown at the beginning of the drama, this twist could reasonably be used only once or twice, and this was Columbo&apos;s time.  Other than that wrinkle, this episode fits in well with others of the series.  It has a lighter tone than some, with a very funny performance by Jeanette Nolan as the fastidious and loyal housekeeper who takes an instant dislike to Columbo.

This Columbo is unique in that we don't really know the exact outcome until the very end.  Our favorite dark horse detective suspects a pair of identical twin brothers of killing their rich uncle; each points the finger at his brother.  In a mystery series in which the crime is shown at the beginning of the drama, this twist could reasonably be used only once or twice, and this was Columbo's time.  Other than that wrinkle, this episode fits in well with others of the series.  It has a lighter tone than some, with a very funny performance by Jeanette Nolan as the fastidious and loyal housekeeper who takes an instant dislike to Columbo.

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