Has a lot of memorable things for Classic TV Detective Columbus It separated it from the average TV police officer. From his disappointed appearance and the trademark tan with a coat to his constantly lit a cigarette, the Peter Folk Lieutenant Columbus is clearly cut from a different, less rigid cloth. He regularly carries the rich and powerful down a few degrees and always catches the killer through a combination of detail and willingness to be a little disturbing, and through the latter uses his most famous phase: "Another thing". While he doesn't always True Say "one more thing", he uses a particular variation of that To inform the killer that he is caught on them, asking a vital last question or indicating their fatal deficiency. It is one of the elements of the character that most often invokes and parodies (besides the perfect folk performance, which No other actor really could do), but it should not have been an important part of the character.

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In the book Columbus Fule: Xile, (through Metv. In fact, you can even call it a little lazy.

"Columbus" was originally a long -length theatrical performance, called "Murder: Murder", written by Levinson and Link, which would serve as the basis for the NBC's long -standing series. In the original play, Columbus was not as leisurely as it would one day become, but the writers' own ordinary decisions had a great influence. There was a scene that they wrote where Columbus was already heading out of the stage, but the stage felt too short. They simply wrote "just one more thing" in the dialog, with the intention of returning and adding something more important later. It never happened, as Levinson explained:

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"We were too lazy to repeat the scene. So we made him come back and say," Oh, just one more thing ... "It was never planned."

Columbus's first season is sincerely quite incredible, with Episode directed by Early Career Steven SpielbergBut it is clear that they make up part of the character and canon as they walked together. Some inconsistencies on the road (especially In terms of Mrs Columbus) Make Levinson's story feel pretty reliable. It seems that writers And The detective and both were flying by the pants seat and honestly? That makes Columbus much more attractive.