The Columbo mold was broken in this story. Usually it's Columbo taking a leisurely pace in finding a killer, someone who has already done the homicide, watching the perpetrator slowly trip himself over those "just one more thing" details.
That Columbo catchphrase was not heard at all. Peter Falk's nephew Thomas Calabro also a cop marries Joanna Going and she is kidnapped right afterward.
In this however Columbo heads a team of police racing against time to find Going because there is no ransom note, this is someone just fixated on Going who is a model.
A lot of little things break this case just as in a regular Columbo episode. A white van spotted by a man working late in the hotel Kitchen, a systematic elimination of suspects at the wedding and reception, and a college ring among other details.
The perpetrator is one real serious fruitcake and deadly. But this is the first Columbo story where no one dies. An achievement itself.
That Columbo catchphrase was not heard at all. Peter Falk's nephew Thomas Calabro also a cop marries Joanna Going and she is kidnapped right afterward.
In this however Columbo heads a team of police racing against time to find Going because there is no ransom note, this is someone just fixated on Going who is a model.
A lot of little things break this case just as in a regular Columbo episode. A white van spotted by a man working late in the hotel Kitchen, a systematic elimination of suspects at the wedding and reception, and a college ring among other details.
The perpetrator is one real serious fruitcake and deadly. But this is the first Columbo story where no one dies. An achievement itself.