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Leonard Nimoy.
Will Geer.
Anne Francis.
Columbo.
The makings of my favorite Columbo episode.
A Stitch In Crime, Season 2.
I don’t know which is more difficult to wrap my brain around; Spock as a cold blooded murderer, or Grandpa as a cardiac surgeon. The Man About the Place and I, avid Twilight Zone fans, enjoyed seeing Anne “Marcia” Francis in this episode too.
This was a brilliantly executed episode. Leonard Nimoy plays Dr. Mayfield, a menacingly enthusiastic cardiac surgeon who is just dying to get a new transplant resistance drug out of the lab and into people, but is hindered by his cautious partner, lovable and grumpy Dr. Hidemann, (Will Geer) who wants to test the drug longer. Fortunately for Mayfield, Hidemann has a serious heart condition which requires surgery. Unfortunately for Hidemann, Mayfield will be the surgeon.
Fortunately for Hidemann, his nurse (Anne Francis) notices that Mayfield used disolvable stitches when stitching up the good doctor – meaning that the stitches will dissolve around that new heart valve, causing his death which will not seem suspicious at all. Unfortunately for the nurse, Mayfield needs to get rid of her for this knowledge.
Will Columbo figure it out in time to save Hidemann? Will Columbo get the goods on Mayfield?
Of course he gets his man – Columbo always gets the bad guy in the end. What I enjoyed about this episode
Columbo Loses His Cool
was the great chemistry between Peter Falk and the cast. Nimoy’s Mayfield is so arrogant and cocky – and Columbo becomes furious and gives us a rare display of his frustration and anger with the murderer. Usually calm and collected, Columbo violently slams a statue on the desk and startles Mayfield in such a way that it made me laugh out loud. (view Columbo/Nimoy clip here!) He rarely confronts his killers with such a ‘tude!
I love Columbo – I love Peter Falk. I love this episode; in fact, I think I’ll re-watch it tonight!
Interesting Columbo Trivia: Six Million Dollar Man / Columbo connection!
The other night The Man About the Place and I took the kids out for dinner. It was a spontaneous decision, and we headed to Newfoundland, planning on some pasta or something from Napolitano’s.
Dang, it was closed. The Man and I did not want to go to Scranton, nor did we want fast food. We settled on Kay’s (after convincing The Boy that it was NOT KFC) in Lake Ariel. Had a nice time, nice atmosphere, nothing fancy schmancy, just very nice. Good food.
My husband probably wishes that he drove home.
Upon leaving Kay’s parking lot, instead of turning left to go home, I made a right and said “Let’s see what’s up this road!” As a real estate agent, this is what I do – drive around to see what’s around the bend. The Man was pleasantly surprised to discover an establishment that offers kiln dried wood. Interesting.
See, if we would have just gone straight home, he’d have never known it was there.
Have You Moooed Lately?
We follow this road to its conclusion and end up on Golf Park Road. We turn right.
Well, now the fun begins. I’m silly from eating too much pasta I guess, because we come across a herd of cows, just standing there looking at us. I did the natural thing; I rolled down the window and “MOOOOOOed” at them. The kids giggled.
The Man remained poker faced but I think I made him smirk, anyway. Then we all got to laughing at how funny the cows looked, just staring at us. We came up with things the cows might be saying or thinking.
A bit further down the road, we saw some deer. We pulled over and talked to them too. Silly…I suppose. I see deer all the time, usually with gritted teeth hoping they weren’t about to jump in front of my Honda.
Tonight though, we stopped and talked to them. Well, I talked, the kids laughed, and The Man probably wondered if we were going to get home before midnight.
Tigger would have been proud of me, I think.
Stay tuned for Part Two – Living the Last Lecture.
