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Edit page. Old Fashioned Murder: Directed by Robert Douglas. With Peter Falk, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin, Tim O'Connor. The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.
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- Robert Douglas
- TV-PG
- Peter Falk, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin
Sep 15, 2019 · For all of Joyce Van Patten’s quiet dignity, Old Fashioned Murder is too flawed to earn a recommendation. It’s poorly plotted, it’s dull, it’s hugely forgettable and is deservedly one of the least regarded episodes of the classic era. While I don’t hate it, I’m certainly in no hurry to view it again.
I love the scene with Joyce Van Patten who plays a nun who mistakes Columbo for a homeless person and wants to provide a better raincoat than the one he is wearing. That's another trademark in Columbo episodes, there is often light-hearted humor and Columbo always manages to use his charm and charisma to get away with looking so grim.
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- Alf Kjellin
- Unrated
- Peter Falk, Dick Van Dyke, Don Gordon
Columbo: Joyce Van Patten ... Ruth Lytton: Jeannie Berlin ... Janie Brandt: Tim O'Connor ... Edward Lytton: Celeste Holm ... Phyllis Lytton Brandt: Peter S. Feibleman ... Milton Shaeffer: Jon Miller ... Sgt. Miller: Jess Osuna ... Dr. Tim Shaeffer: Anthony Holland ... Darryl
Van Patten is well-remembered by Columbo fans for her brief, humourous role in the 1974 episode Negative Reaction, playing a well-meaning nun at a homeless mission who mistakes Lieutenant Columbo for a vagrant. In 1976 she had a much larger role as Ruth Lytton, the murderous museum curator in Old Fashioned Murder.
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Sep 15, 2019 · Things I like about this episode: Joyce van Patten plays a down-to-earth lead, and finally a good female lead in Columbo! I like her better than the women playing out-dated stars. I found it funny that the other three women in the house reacted to Columbo by either fainting, dropping dishes, or mentioning their love life, making him ...
Apr 8, 2024 · 9 Apr 2024. A dowdy but deadly spinster bumps off her brother to save the family museum … and maybe because it’s what she’s good at. Ruth Lytton (Joyce Van Patten) loves the family museum so much that when brother Edward threatens to sell it, she takes a stand.
