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Make Me a Perfect Murder: Directed by James Frawley. With Peter Falk, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, James McEachin. An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- James Frawley
- 1978-02-25
Dec 8, 2019 · A serious study in the corrupting influence of ambition and power, Make Me a Perfect Murder is a real countermeasure to the lightheartedness of season 7 openers Try & Catch Me and Murder Under Glass – and is a highly impressive addition to the series.
"Columbo" Make Me a Perfect Murder (TV Episode 1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Season 7.
West Coast television production boss Mark McAndrews (Laurence Luckinbill) is promoted to a high-level position in New York. He fails to name as his replacement the logical successor, TV programmer Kay Freestone (Trish Van Devere), because she is also his lover. He gives her, as a consolation prize, a new Mercedes. She is more interested in a gun he holds while he jokingly invites her to shoot him. Freestone takes him up on it during an important preview for a new made-for-TV movie called "The Professional", that she helped produce. She tricks the projectionist (James McEachin) by fiddling with the projector's timer and then sending him on an errand. Freestone sneaks up to McAndrews's office and shoots him, then returns, hiding the gun above the ceiling panels of an elevator, to make the reel change successfully before the projectionist gets back. Patrick O'Neal plays Frank Flanagan, her boss. It was once held that Van Devere's husband, actor George C. Scott, has an uncredited cameo as a television technician, but that claim has been debunked.
Kay sees what she thinks is the murder weapon, now visible against the lights of the elevator ceiling. She recovers and gets rid of it. Columbo reveals that the actual gun had been discovered by the police some time before, and an imitation was put where she would see it, to find out what she would do. That she got rid of what she thought was the m...
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Mitchell decides to take revenge and murder her nephew-by-marriage. She tricks Galvin into a false sense of security by making him her heir. Then she lures him into her large walk-in safe and slams the door shut, locking him in. Locked in an airless and sound-proofed safe for the whole weekend, Galvin suffocates while Mitchell flies off to New ...
Episode: Season 7, Episode 3. Air Date: February 25, 1978. Previous: Murder Under Glass. Next: How to Dial a Murder. Guest Starring: Trish Van Devere, Patrick O'Neal, Lawrence Luckinbill, Bruce Kirby. "Make Me a Perfect Murder" is the third episode of the seventh season of Columbo.
Mark McAndrews a top network programmer is promoted to a New York position. His assistant, who is very ambitious and his lover, expects to get his old job. But of course he feels she is out of her league and needs more experience. Kay, feeling betrayed, decides to seek revenge.
