The doctor is giving the dog a vaccine while Columbo looks on, a little uncertain. As he walks back to the doctor, though, the camera pulls back on an enormous, elderly basset hound drooping all over the table. The station calls him in the exam room he takes the call, promises he’ll be at the murder scene as soon as he’s done at the doctor’s. This isn’t unusual we often find Columbo doing humble, quotidian tasks. Columbo, twenty-four-minutes into the show, after we’ve watched John Cassavetes execute an entire murder plot, we find him in the most unassuming of circumstances. Like most episodes, this one is around an hour and a half, the length of a short movie, and even though the list of guest-stars might be a little more exciting than usual (because of Falk’s frequent collaborations with Cassavetes), it’s a fairly regular episode. As is often the case with Columbo villains, Cassavetes almost commits the perfect crime except for a small dumb error, and he would certainly still get away with the whole thing if any other detective were on duty. James McEachin’s in there, as is Pat Morita. The first episode of the second season, “ Étude in Black.” John Cassavetes guest-stars as a conniving orchestra conductor who murders his piano-virtuoso mistress after she threatens to go public with their affair, jeopardizing his marriage to Blythe Danner and the related funding he receives from his mother-in-law Myrna Loy. There’s an episode of Columbo I really like to watch.
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