Make Me a Perfect Murder

About this episode

Mike and Chris discuss the Columbo episode 'Make Me a Perfect Murder' and its shortcomings.

Hell hath no fury like a TV executive scorned. Mike and Chris train their cameras on Season Seven's "Make Me a Perfect Murder," a 1978 entry that puts Trish Van Devere center stage as Kay Freestone — a network programmer who, after being passed over for the big promotion by her boss and lover Mark McAndrews (Laurence Luckinbill), decides that a well-timed gunshot during a screening room preview is a more satisfying career move than updating her résumé. Our hosts wrestle with the episode's real weaknesses: a runtime that overstays its welcome by a good twenty minutes, bogged down by a meandering subplot involving Lainie Kazan's has-been singer and one too many scenes of Columbo fiddling with TV equipment. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shabby-detective-yet-another-columbo-podcast--5084441/support .

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Chris

Topics covered

• Columbo
• TV reviews
• film analysis
• murder mystery
• episode critique

Keywords

• Columbo
• Make Me a Perfect Murder
• Trish Van Devere
• TV executive
• murder
• 1978 episode
• film review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Weirding Way Media

Books & works: Make Me a Perfect Murder

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