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Highest rated columbo episodes8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() As an example, one reviewer for the above-average episode “Troubled Waters,” rated at 7.8, said that no time in the episode was wasted. A low-rated episode (like “Last Salute to the Commodore”) will have more complaints about its boring scenes, padded content, and slow pacing compared to high-rated episodes. I found that there was a mild relationship between an episode’s quality with the number of reviewers complaining about its pacing. So I compared an episode’s IMDB rating with the percentage of pacing complaints and made a scatterplot graph. Perhaps one of the reasons reviewers gave a lower score was because they found it boring, slow or packed with too many filler scenes.Īverage rating of 90 minute Columbo episodes compared to the number of reviewers complaining about the pacing or padding. This got me curious though and I wondered if low-rated 90 minute episodes had a higher amount of pacing complaints compared to high-rated episodes. ![]() In fact, only 6% of the 90 minute IMDB reviews complained about an episode’s padding, filler, or slow pacing. They were able to effectively use their time to write necessary scenes that help the plot move forward. Viewers do not think that long episodes are worse than short episodes.įrom this, I think that the Columbo writers were, for the most part, able to craft stories well enough without them feeling too padded, slow, or boring. What does this tell us? To me, this says that there is no relationship between an episode’s time to its overall quality. Regardless, these results are so close to each other that they’re not significantly different (there’s an overlap in their confidence intervals). The 90 rating would’ve been 7.8 if it wasn’t for it having the worst episode in the 70’s series, “Last Salute to the Commodore,” with a 6.5 rating. Overall, the results were the opposite of what I expect! The 90’s group was rated slightly higher than the 70’s group which makes sense as we see a lot of high quality episodes in the 90 minute group (e.g., “Any Old Port in a Storm”). I then applied the IMDB rating to each episode and calculate their average with a confidence interval of 95% and compared the two groups. I then divided the episodes into two groups 70 minutes and 90 minutes. So first, I went to IMDB and focused solely on the 70’s era seasons which is widely regarded as the Golden Era of Columbo. So that got me thinking Are the 90 minute episodes overall worse than the 70 minute episodes? And is the padding detracting the quality of them?įans of my blog know that I like to do statistical analysis on trivial subjects and this was going to be no different! I want to compare these two groups of episodes and see if there was a difference in quality. If these scenes were cut, this already good episode could’ve been top-tier. After I noticed this, I read Columbophile’s opinion on the episode and sure enough, they agreed with me this episode was padded out. Even Columbo seems more… Columbo-ey than usual. ![]() This makes sense given that the 70 minute episodes have to be smart about their pacing and choose their scenes carefully whereas the 90 minute episodes can take their time and flesh out the story.īut is it too fleshed out? Is there too much inconsequential scenes, padding, and filler in these episodes? After I watched the Candidate for Crime episode, which is about 98 minutes long, I noticed there were scenes that seem pointless like the traffic stop scene, the dentist scene, and other scenes which seem way too overdrawn like the initial investigation scene. Although there are many good Columbo episodes in the 90 minute category (e.g., Forgotten Lady, Any Old Port in the Storm, A Friend in Deed, and etc.) a common complaint the Columbophile has about some of the episodes is the predominance of filler and padding scenes, and the sometimes lethargic pacing. ![]() You see, some Columbo episodes are about 70 minutes long while others are about 90 minutes long. I’ve actually started a habit recently where after I watch a Columbo episode I read what the Columbophile thought of it and I started noticing a bias the author seems to hold for the longer Columbo episodes. The blog also has a lot of interesting trivia on the Columbo guests, episodes, and scenery so if you can’t get enough Columbo you should really check it out! I’ve become a big fan recently of the Columbophile blog and if you’re a Columbo fan like me you should check it out! The author goes through each Columbo episode and really dissects the strengths and weaknesses of each episode without being too critical or fawn-like (with some understandable exceptions). He would always go on tangents and thought patterns and will keep yapping and before you know it, it’s bedtime! Gee…you remind me of my…uh…cousin Nickolas…and he could never…uh…finish his story. ![]()
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