There might of been one of the Columbo episodes that featured a murder on the movie set, but one of the later movies, "MUrder, Smoke, and Shadows" had Fisher Stevens as a Spielberg type director do someone in.
Matlock did a show set on a horror movie, and 90's revival of of Burke's Law , Murder She rote did on set of a Friends like sit-com and on a kids TV show.
All TV mysteries did this, I think because the set was cheap. Usually involved Hollywood wanting to make a movie based on the detective. Murder She Wrote did this twice because she was a mystery writer of books being made into movies. Matlock, Ellery Queen and Father Dowling all had plots involving movies being made about them so we got to see other actors playing their characters. Others like Mannix and McCloud were hired as body guards on set that resulted in a murder. And Columbo investigating a murder at a film studio where he meets a spoof of a young Steven Spielberg. Etc. The two things to look out for when watching a detective series of the 60s or 70s is the trip to the film studio trope or a guest appearance by William Shatner. Sometimes you get both as when Shatner played an actor playing a detective investigated by Columbo at the studio.
I live in New Mexico Barkey and I am no fan of Alec Baldwin, but I was nowhere near the Rust set on the day that the Colt 45 was loaded with live ammunition. Just setting the record straight. By the way, if anyone wants to make a movie about "Rust" that's shot (no pun intended) also in New Mexico, I'm available.
the Falcon in Hollywood all star Babara Hale and Veda Ann Borg who play margo lane in the Shadow seiral it all so great there was murder on set as well it good movie
Sorry to correct you Barkey, but at 13:00 when you call “The Final Fadeout” the ‘penultimate’ episode of Perry Mason, you are mistaken because penultimate means: next to last. As a retired teacher I feel compelled to correct all grammar mistakes when I see hear them. 🍎
Ah, but I will split a hair and say it qualifies, since at the very end, Perry, Della, and Paul Drake begin discussing their next case! There wasn't another episode, but they act as if there would be!
