BORN TO RERUN - DE-ZONKING "COLUMBO"

‘NCIS: LA’
“TIL DEATH DO US PART”

Roberta Deeks:

“Columbo solved hundreds of murders;

never even carried a gun.”

When Debbie Greenfield, one of the Columbo-TV admins on Facebook posted this information, this is the comment I left:

No mention of the show; she talked of Columbo as though he was real. And she spoke of him solving hundreds of cases whereas we only saw 69 of them. And maybe at most twenty others mentioned/referenced. I think all of that helps support a claim that both shows exist in the same TV dimension. Thanks, Debbie!  You made this Crossoverist very happy....

Inner Toob is a blog.  Unlike a sedentary website where it might be easier to track down the information… information… information, the info is constantly flowing through the system.  So for those who are members of Team Toobworld and are already familiar with my thoughts about Lt. Columbo and his status in the TV Universe, forgive me.  I’m going through it again for the sake of any newcomers.

Here in the Real World there have been many celebrated detectives whose fame has grown from the work they have done.  And the same would hold true in Toobworld.  And Lt. Frank Columbo would be one such detective.  After all, look at the types of murderers he has arrested over the years – world-famous actors, politicians, authors, publishers, composers, conductors, and military men.  Even a magician.  Those are the type of killers who are going to make the newspaper headlines and even the evening news.

So that alone would have made it possible for Roberta to know of him.  But there’s more – it’s possible that Columbo finally acted on his idea of writing a book (mentioned in “Publish Or Perish”.)  And in covering the cases he solved with so many infamous murderers, it more than likely became a best-seller.

That book eventually led to a TV series starring Peter Falk who bore an incredible likeness to the Lieutenant.  (The TV show and its star were mentioned in an episode of ‘Remington Steele’.)  This served to spread the fame of Columbo throughout the country (and probably England as well at least, since it is so popular over there.)

I don’t see any reason as to why the shadow ops group known as UNReel would have cared, but the depiction of Lt. Columbo on TV probably convinced many people that he never existed in the first place.  And that has been the goal for UNReel when dealing with other citizens of Toobworld whose adventures need to be covered up (KITT, the agents of UNCLE, the Time Lord known as the Doctor.)

To sum up, ‘NCIS: LA’ and ‘Columbo’ should exist in the same TV dimension and therefore no Zonk was involved.

Just one more thing….

Thanks for the quote, Debbie!

BCnU!