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      • Lieutenant Columbo: Peter Falk Kay Freestone: Trish Van Devere Mark McAndrews: Laurence Luckinbill Frank Flanagan: Patrick O’Neal Walter Mearhead: James McEachin Valerie Kirk: Lainie Kazan Luther: Ron Rifkin Jonathan: Kip Gilman Sergeant Burke: Jerome Guardino TV repairman: Bruce Kirby Dog: As himself Written by: Robert Blees Directed by: James Frawley Score by: Patrick Williams Significant locations: CNC Network HQ (3944 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, LA); Mark McAndrews beach house (26646...
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  1. 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
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  3. Dec 8, 2019 · Laurence Luckinbill does a fine job in a few minutes of screen-time as Mark McAndrews to get viewers fully off-side, while his stern, God-like boss Frank Flanagan is given all the authority we could ask for by Patrick O’Neal, here making his second Columbo appearance after starring as murderer Elliott Markham in season 1’s Blueprint for Murder.

  4. "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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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Sep 17, 2015 · James McEachin ‘s Walter Mearhead is a projectionist, unwittingly recruited to support Freestone’s alibi, while Patrick O’Neal returns to the show, after featuring in Season One’s Blueprint for Murder, as network boss Frank Flanagan.