Murder Under Glass

About this episode

Mike and Chris discuss the controversial final season of Columbo, focusing on an episode featuring a TV chef who uses poison in a murder plot.

As Mike and Chris continue to traipse through the controversial official final season of Columbo with the Shabby Detective returning to the kitchen to face off against Louis Jourdan as a snotty TV chef and food critic who uses blowfish poison to take out a victim of blackmail who was going to go public. Is the all-star cast and steady directing from Jonathan Demme enough to save the episode? 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 chef
• food critic
• blackmail
• poison
• final season
• episode review

Keywords

• Columbo
• Murder Under Glass
• Louis Jourdan
• Jonathan Demme
• food critic
• blowfish poison
• blackmail
• TV show review

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Columbo

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