Unshot Columbo
Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, By David Koenig
Can’t get your fill of Columbo? Then sink your teeth into 19 adventures that the show almost filmed.
From the author of the best-selling Shooting Columbo comes this unique, behind-the-scenes peek at the un-making of episodes that were shot down—and why.
Discover the early 1970s tales by “murder consultant” Larry Cohen and by a young, pre-Carrie Brian De Palma… the aborted pilot for Mrs. Columbo that was reimagined for Columbo… as well as the unmade masterpiece that Peter Falk desperately wanted to close out the series with as his final case. Find out why he never got the chance.
198 Pages * ISBN 978-1-937878-23-8
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Reviews for Shooting Columbo
“A brilliant, fly-on-the-wall history of the entire run of the series (including the later ABC episodes from 1989 through 2002). Considering how much time and how many people have passed, that Koenig managed to dig this deep and get this much hard data and anecdotal (but apparently all verified) evidence and recollection is nothing short of mind-blowing. It’s structured a bit differently than your usual history-of-a-series book too. He doesn’t interrupt the historical flow with episode synopses—the book presents a continuous narrative, as much a howdunit as any of the best COLUMBO episodes. If you’ve read Mark Dawidziak’s still-available 1989 THE COLUMBO PHILE: A CASEBOOK, which is also excellent, you’ll have very little sense of deja vu. This is next-level, top-notch investigative journalism, and in the annals of TV history, it deserves to become a classic.”
- David Spencer, Men’s Adventure Paperbacks of the 20th Century
“COLUMBO fans, take note. This is an unqualified endorsement for David Koenig’s superb new book now available for pre-order, SHOOTING COLUMBO. You might imagine that I don’t impress easily when it comes to the good lieutenant, and you’d imagine right. But David’s book is a must-have for any COLUMBO fan. Fascinating reading — packed with fresh behind-the-scenes details. Really, really well done. It is the next major step in COLUMBO scholarship and precisely the kind of carry-it-on research I’ve been hoping for all of these years (decades) since the 1989 publication of THE COLUMBO PHILE David did not ask me for an endorsement, but he’s going to get one, anyway. SHOOTING COLUMBO is everything I hoped it could be, and so much more. It’s not as if I was learning something new on every page of SHOOTING COLUMBO. I was learning something new in almost every paragraph. The detail is just that impressive. Again and again, I found myself saying, very Columbo-like, “I’ll be a son of a gun.” Oh, one more thing: I hesitate to say anything like this is building on the legacy of THE COLUMBO PHILE, because this is such an impressive accomplishment in its own right (write).”
- Mark Dawidziak, author, THE COLUMBO PHILE
Author
David Koenig
Raised in the shadow of the Matterhorn, David Koenig has become the theme park industry’s best-known outsider, writing six unauthorized books about the inner workings of the Mouse House. From his first book, the best-selling MOUSE TALES (1994) to his latest, THE 55ers, he has spent more than 25 years scraping off the pixie dust to give fans an unvarnished, but always appreciative, peek inside the magic.
David also is editorial director of 526 Media Group and a sporadic contributor to MiceChat.com.
