Calling Any Colombo Fans Out There

[Kramer21]

If my memory serves me correctly there was an episode where two youths were selling drugs in an alleyway and there was some kind of party by the swimming pool resulting in one of the youths who had got drugs (pills i think) from the two in the alleyway overdosing and dying in the pool.
Does anyone know the name of this particular episode please?

[excelsior-1]

hope someone with a falk-less memory can help you

[Kramer21]

Very good excelsior.

[DJHawkes]

I can't spot the episode but maybe something will ring a bell for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Columbo_episodes#Season_10_and_specials

[sir.prize]

Slight chance this may help

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/the-x-factor/news/a511069/the-x-factor-louis-walsh-plays-down-exit-i-may-come-back.html

[mushroom25]

how will an article about louis walsh help someone with a query about columbo?

[Kramer21]

Thanks djhawkes i'll have a gander when i come back. Thank you also sirprize but fail to see the link between x-factor and colombo unless i'm missing something?

[Zeuhl]

There's also this that might help

http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/

[Kramer21]

Thank you zehl i'll have a search later on. Have a pleasant afternoon all.

[sir.prize]

Sorry about the Louis Walsh link. Try this one

http://python.net/crew/manus/columbo.html

[Octavius]

Are you sure it wasn't Quincy ?

[DJHawkes]

that would make more sense actually Octavius because Colombo's perps were always famous or wealthy people and also not very many involved drug dealing as it was a family show and they avoided such like. Quincy had a grittier storyline usually and tended to air after 9pm originally,

[Octavius]

Thats what I thought Dot, a kid buying backstreet drugs and overdosing doesn't sound much like Columbo.

[mccfluff]

sounds a bit like an episode of ironside

[wolf63]

Frank Cannon ?

[Canary42]

Michael Barrymore ?

[DJHawkes]

no i doubt it was Ironside, back in the 60s and 70s there just was not the use of drug related storylines, the Mob were the bad guys and they weren't portrayed as drug dealers back then, they were into protection and gambling and money laundering and prostitution, Starsky and Hutch and Kojak started with the darker stories slightly but drugs did not feature the way they did when you get into the eighties and nineties and you leave the glamorous shows behind and get Hill Street Blues changing the whole genre.

[Octavius]

Hutch (Starsky &) was abducted and force-addicted to heroin in one episode, filmed in 1975 but banned in the UK until 1999!

[DJHawkes]

I can remember seeing it, the way they portrayed it was to make the screen all woozy and wavy as though that was what he was seeing.

[DJHawkes]

The BBC were so sensitive of our capacity to watch serious issues, they banned an episode of Star Trek once and even an episode of Alias Smith and Jones!

[mccfluff]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0612506/