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Columbo Season 8 Episode 2

Murder, Smoke and Shadows

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AIRED: 2/27/89

Movie director and wunderkind Alex Bradey keeps everyone dancing to his tune - his producer, the studio, his leading man and his ex-girlfriend whom he set up together to keep the actor in his film. But an old friend of Bradey's shows up and wants revenge for the death of his sister, whom Bradey ended up getting killed in a high-school film stunt and then covered up. Bradey maneuvers the friend into being electrocuted on a film set that he orders watered down for a film shoot. The off-schedule order to water down the street is just the first of several clues that Columbo notes as he investigates the "accidental" death, and he soon figures out that Bradey is the one responsible. Columbo isn't the only problem Alex has - his producer is cancelling his film due to cost overruns and missed deadlines, and his secretary has figured out he had the brother killed and resorts to blackmail. Finally, Alex falls prey to a staged scene of his own when Columbo proves his own superior ability to direct by setting up a con to get Alex to confess his crime on a movie set as the film of the accidental death shows in the background.moreless

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Peter Falk

Lieutenant Columbo (no first name)

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Fisher Stevens	Alex Bradey	Guest Star
Jeff Perry	Leonard Fisher	Guest Star
Steven Hill	Mr. Marosco	Guest Star

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- When Columbo does his analysis of the two sodas, one is full and the other half full. Columbo then leaves and Bradey returns to the fountain to dump the sodas in the sink. They are now completely empty with only a slight chocolate residue in them. Of particular interest is the fact that it is all one shot, which means the glasses were replaced while Columbo and Bradey are at the door. The originals were likely replaced with breakaway (sugar) glass to avoid possible injury to Fisher Stevens when they shatter.
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- 91 minutes long
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- The character of Alex Bradey is a tribute to Steven Spielberg, the famous director who directed the first TV episode, Murder by the Book, of Columbo.
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