Hi all,
Seems I completely forgot to show it here in detail when I had finished it last year.
So here it is now, complete with a Duck Avenger/Superduck/Fantomiald/Paperinik/Phantomias version (or whatever he is called in your country):
(Click on image for animation of foldable rumble seat!)
Free instructions available here:
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=aeeedd732d10bbcaac6ec832b048b8fd4a84fd19
... that four years later Suchet would become THE incarnation of Poirot?
("Thirteen at Dinner", TV movie)
Currently I'm watching "The Streets of San Francisco", one episode per evening; yesterday it was "The Programming of Charlie Blake" (S3 E19, first aired Feb. 1975).
The "howcatchem" plot, the setting (psychiatrist with Mercedes SL (!) killing his wife, who owns all the money), the final "gotcha" evidence (a broken lamp which was still turned on, though it shouldn't have been) - it felt very "Columbo-esque" for me.
Even the director was an old acquaintance - Nicholas Colasanto!
Writing is credited, however, to "Rick Blaine", which obviously is a pseudonym (character name from "Casablanca", and he has only 2 writer's credits on IMDB).
Does anyone know if this might be an alias of one of the regular Columbo writers, maybe offering a rejected Columbo script to the producers of "The Streets of San Francisco"?
So I'm looking forward now to some pleasant hours of reading.
After having read the old 1956 German translation of „A Pocket Full of Rye“ several times >!(„Das Geheimnis der Goldmine“)!<, I am currently making my way through the newer 2002 translation by Milena Moser.
And there’s one thing that baffles me:
>!In the old version, Rex Fortescue’s erratic behaviour is explained due to him suffering from the final stage of syphilis. The newer translation only states him having senile dementia (not at all convincing for a man of just over sixty).!<
>!Now I wonder: Why was this change made? And does it occur only in the German version, or in other editions, too?!<
"Les vacances, they are the most enjoyable time of the year, are they not?"
(S01 E06, Triangle at Rhodes)
S02E05, "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim".
I like those short "comedy" scenes that don't appear in Christie's original novels and stories. Sadly there are very few in later seasons.
As Columbo hardly ever opens his car's convertible roof, he could have bought a hardtop as well (page 7)...
S06E02 Hickory Dickory Dock
S04E02, Death In The Clouds.
I wonder why he flew to Paris and back to London at all. He must be even more terrified of traveling by ship than he is of flying...
"Well, essentially, you're run down."
(S05E08, Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan)
His facial expressions are so marvelous!
S02 E06 - Double Sin
"Collect 10 pounds."
(season 2, episode 3: "The Lost Mine")
Hi all,
here is a further refined, new version of my 1/32 model of the famous Peugeot 403 from the long-running TV series "Columbo".
Front and rear were thoroughly reworked for greater accuracy and sturdiness, new (narrower) wheels and tires replaced the previous ones, and the convertible top received a cosmetic overhaul.
Also, "Dog" is now present on the passenger seat. ;-)
