In "By Dawn's Early Light" (1974), Colonel Lyle Rumford (Patrick McGoohan) rigs a cannon to eliminate the man who wants to turn he beloved military academy into a boarding school. It looks like an accident...at least until Lieutenant Columbo arrives on the scene and strips away Rumford's slick veneer like an artichoke. Is this one worthy of a ten-gun salute? Or does it deserve a dishonorable discharge? Listen in and find out what Steve and Sean thought about it!

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