One would agree Billy Goldenberg's et Gil Melle's Columbo scores more or less defined a good part of american tv of the seventies. That being said, among their successors on the show, Patrick Williams was the one composer who managed the most successfully to make it his own – no offence meant to Dick DeBenedictis or Bernado Segall.
A Case in point would be his score for the seventh-season episode Make Me A Perfect Murder. Mr Williams wrote what remains one of the musical higlights of the whole show, an elegant counterpoint to the murder preparation and its perpretration, set in a closed classical form. I do not think it would be reasonable to pin our hopes on a future release of the Columbo scores – yet, one never knows - so,for the time being, let us simply enjoy it, as another testament to Patrick Williams' talent.
