mostly david ephgrave

I’m going to watch Leonard Nimoy’s episode of Columbo today to mark his passing. It’s a fitting tribute as it’s a good one. It’s far better than William Shatner’s two appearances, which are only enjoyable for the wrong reasons. In the first of the two, ‘Fade in to Murder’, he plays a TV actor who knocks off his blackmailing producer. He does it in the most ineffectual disguise of all time . If I were in the midst of the Gobi Desert and he accosted me in that outfit, I’d know it was Shatner in an instant. Even without prior knowledge or expectation of him being in the vicinity. No-one else leaves that many pauses in their dialogue, save Harold Pinter. I’ve been aware of Nimoy since early childhood, when I used to sit in the conservatory of my parents’ house (I wasn’t on the mortgage) watching episodes of the original series of Star Trek. I was a huge fan of the show; so much so that I borrowed my friend Stephen’s dad’s copy of the ‘Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual’ a...