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Troubled Waters - S4-E4

Factual error: The nurse is smoking a cigarette in the sick bay. By 1975, when the show was recorded, that would not happen.

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Troubled Waters - S4-E4

Factual error: The nurse brings Danziger a sedative and takes his blood pressure. She has her stethoscope in her ears backwards. A qualified nurse would not make that mistake. When she comes in after the murder to do it again, she has the stethoscope in correctly.

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Swan Song - S3-E7

Factual error: Columbo asks to borrow Colonel Mayehoff's phone. He dials only six numbers, not the proper seven.

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Ransom for a Dead Man - S1-E1

Factual error: When Mrs. Williams takes Columbo flying, she does some aerobatics. Neither of them is wearing a seatbelt. No pilot would do that.

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Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star - S10-E3

Factual error: Champagne corks have a metal cap between the cork and the wire cage. (They can be seen when both Creighton and Columbo open bottles.) When Creighton injects the chloral hydrate into the champagne, he does not have the difficulty he should have getting through the metal. The needle does not come out damaged as it should, and it did not go far enough into the cork to put the liquid into the champagne-it would get lost in the cork itself.

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