Season five of COLUMBO culminates with ‘Last Salute to the Commodore’, starring John Dehner as the ill-fated boatman. Right up to the moment when he dies he is surrounded by booze-soaked leeches. I mention it because this was the high watermark for cravats and coffee tables of the seventies.

Sometimes,when I’m especially lucky, I spy these details in my dreams. Like Inverted Jenny is telling me my private fortune in smoke.