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Dagger of the Mind. " Dagger of the Mind " is the ninth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Shimon Wincelberg (under the pen name "S. Bar-David") and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on November 3, 1966. In the episode, the Enterprise visits a rehabilitation facility ...
October 15, 1972. ( 1972-10-15) 70 min. Jarvis Goodland ( Ray Milland) and his nephew, Tony ( Bradford Dillman ), stage Tony's kidnapping in order to break into his trust fund and use his half to bribe his wife's lover to stop seeing her. Jarvis, disgusted at the notion, shoots and kills Tony, whom he has always despised, once the ransom is ...
Sometimes, Columbo sets up the murderer with a trick designed to elicit a confession. An example occurs in "Dagger of the Mind", in which Columbo flips an evidentiary pearl into the victim's umbrella, bringing about incriminating activity from Nicholas Frame and Lillian Stanhope.
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
Columbo, who just happens to be in Tijuana for the weekend, is recognized by a suspicious local chief of police (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.), who enlists Columbo's help. Final clue/twist: Due to the condition of the muleta used to attract the bull, Columbo deduces the time frame of the murder, a period for which Montoya has no alibi. To prove ...
September 15, 1971. ( 1971-09-15) 72 min. Ken Franklin ( Jack Cassidy) is one-half of a mystery writing team, but partner Jim Ferris ( Martin Milner) wants to go solo, exposing the fact that Ferris did all the actual writing, and thus leave the high-living Franklin without his cash cow. However, the pair have an insurance policy on which ...
October 10, 1976. ( 1976-10-10) 70 min. Egocentric actor Ward Fowler ( William Shatner ), who portrays Detective Lucerne on a weekly TV show, is being blackmailed by his producer and ex-paramour, Claire Daley ( Lola Albright ), over the fact that he was a deserter in the Korean War. Fowler drugs a friend staying at his house watching a baseball ...
February 10, 1990. ( 1990-02-10) 92 min. Oscar Finch ( Patrick McGoohan) is a lawyer who uses underhanded methods to get his clients off, like coercing Paul Mackey ( Denis Arndt ), who worked for the D.A.'s office, into destroying evidence against racketeer Frank Staplin ( Louis Zorich) in 1969. Twenty-one years later, Mackey is chosen by a ...