UNCOVERS THE EPISODES THAT WERE SCRIPTED BUT NEVER FILMED, INCLUDING DE PALMA'S
Thanks to Dene for sending along word of a book being published mid-April: Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, by David Koenig. Here's the description at BonAventure Press:
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.
Previously:
Brian De Palma & Jay Cocks' unproduced 1973 Columbo script discovered
David Koenig's Shooting Columbo details lost De Palma episode