“Actually, there is one thing. Not that it makes much difference, but…” Peter Falk dons the overcoat as the most distinctive detective on TV: the cigar-chomping, eternally disheveled LA police detective, Lt. Columbo. The character was actually created as supporting character in a Broadway play by Richard Levinson and William Link, where Thomas Mitchell played […]
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), still the best of the big screen Star Trek movies, features Ricardo Montalban reprising his role from the original series TV episode “The Space Seed,” but now the genetically perfect human has become a man obsessed with revenge against Captain Kirk. This a veritable swashbuckler of a […]
In 1976, Leonard Nimoy took the lead in a stage revival of William Gillette’s 19th century play “Sherlock Holmes.” That show was not recorded but he revived the portrayal for a short film made for Kentucky Educational Television. The Interior Motive (1976), produced as an episode of The Universe and I, is not listed on IMDb […]
