Columbo Clothes and Laughs

Season 7, Episode 4, Columbo - How to Dial a Murder (1978)   This episode was directed by James Frawley, and written by Tom Lazarus, Anthony Lawrence, and Richard Levinson.   The dog episode!    The three best outfits in this episode are:  1) Miss Cochran the dog trainer's outfit:      She is wearing a light brown plaid butterfly collar blouse with a khaki denim western coat along with dark jeans tucked into high saddle leather boots.   Love her matching saddle leather dog treat pouch.  Bonus points for her orange 70s Chevy Blazer truck   And bonus points for her assistant Henry's "funny suit."  2) Charlie Hunter's tennis outfit:    He's sporting a two-tone brown matching sweatsuit with a green and white rugby stripe polo golf shirt  Unfortunately this will be his final outfit. The rainbow Head tennis racquet cover is a nice touch.  3) Joanne Nicholl's (Kim Cattrall) red cardigan outfit:  She is in a ch...

Season 6, Episode 3 - Columbo - "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case" (1977)   This episode was directed by Sam Wanamaker, and written by  Robert Malcolm Young and William Link, and Richard Levinson.  The three best outfits from this episode are:    1) Vivian Brandt's red sheer tunic outfit:      Here she is wearing a wide leg bright red jumpsuit with a silver belt and a long sheer boatneck tunic on top.  She really loves clothes, expensive clothes, and spending money she doesn't have on them.  The red dots on the tunic are 3D texturized, almost looking like pussy willows, and there are sequins. It looks great with her hair.    2) Vivian Brandt's new nightgown:     She vies for her husband's attention in this dramatic entrance wearing her new pale pink silky negligee with matching robe with giant emu feather sleeves.  She bought it for him, but unfortunately he felt compelled to embezzle from his firm and...

Season 4, Episode 6, Columbo - A Deadly State of Mind (1975)   This episode was directed by Harvey Hart, and written by Peter Fischer, William Link and Richard Levinson.    The three best outfits in this episode are:    1)  Giving Lieutenant Columbo a run for his money in the all-brown arena, Dr. Mark Collier in a brown-on-brown-on-brown-on-brown get up:  Mark is wearing a camel cashmere turtleneck, under a khaki camp shirt button down, under a shiny khaki jazzed up trench coat with wide collar and shoulder epaulets.  He's paired these layers of tan with chocolate brown suede leather pants.  Even his murder weapon of choice, the fire place poker, is brown.  2) Dr. Anita Bolden's pink on pink outfit:  She's sporting wide cotton candy pink pants and sweater with a big collared maroon blouse (or Dickey collar) underneath.      She's wearing white loafer heels on the color coded lined hallway floor as she subliminally rem...