Overview:
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.| Status: | Released (1968-02-20) |
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| Screen: | Richard Levinson, William Link |
| Productions: | Universal Television |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 2314: Peter Falk - Columbo
- 56442: Gene Barry - Dr. Ray Flemming
- 40445: Katherine Justice - Joan Hudson
- 8499: William Windom - Burt Gordon
- 13026: Nina Foch - Carol Flemming
- 19110: Virginia Gregg - Miss Petrie
- 30952: Andrea King - Cynthia Gordon
Crews
- 10771: Dave Grusin - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 108272: Richard Irving - Director - Directing
- 42057: Richard Levinson - Teleplay - Writing
- 42058: William Link - Teleplay - Writing
- 55264: Jerrold Freedman - Associate Producer - Production
- 108272: Richard Irving - Producer - Production
- 32996: Ray Rennahan - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
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***“Prescription: Murder” (1968)*** PLOT: An arrogant, nonchalant psychiatrist (Gene Barry) murders his wife and uses his naïve actress girlfriend to get away with it (Katherine Justice), but Lt. Columbo strongly suspects the therapist and steadfastly works to obtain evidence. Wil ....
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As far as detectives go, Columbo is my guy. He's the wrinkled low expectation mess that uses his appearance and working class persona to lull everyone into a felling of superiority that he can exploit... ... and that really works for the detective genre. Most everything else has m ....
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