Before Dahon, before Brompton and other present day folder companies were even in existance, there were folders even in the US. They were elusive, they where hidden from from public awareness, but they were here! They were even on network tv as an important prop on an episode of Columbo. In that episode it was used as an escape vehicle from the murder scene by hiding it in the trunk of the murder victim's car and the murderer pulling it out of the car, unfolding it and riding off in a supposed perfect getaway.

Episode

Any Old Port in a Storm

Community Score 9.1
Superb
First aired: 10/7/1973

Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in.

Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
Director: Leo Penn
Guest star: Vito Scotti (Maitre'd) , Gary Conway (Enrico Carsini), Donald Pleasence (Adrian Carsino), Joyce Jilson (Joan Stacey), Dana Elcar (Falcon), Julie Harris (Karen Fielding), George Gaynes (Fisherman), Robert Walden (Billy Fine), Reid Smith (Andy Stevens), Regis Cordic (Lewis), Robert Ellenstein (Stein), Pamela Campbell (Cassie Marlowe), Robert Donner (Drunk), John McCann (Officer), George Gaynes (Frenchman), Monte Landis (Steward), Walker Edmiston (Auctioneer)

You really are a totally boring bastard, aren't you?

Call the thread police. We are more civil than that to fellow folders.

[QUOTE=folder fanatic]Before Dahon, before Brompton and other present day folder companies were even in existance, there were folders even in the US. They were elusive, they where hidden from from public awareness, but they were here! They were even on network tv as an important prop on an episode of Columbo. In that episode it was used as an escape vehicle from the murder scene by hiding it in the trunk of the murder victim's car and the murderer pulling it out of the car, unfolding it and riding off in a supposed perfect getaway. . .QUOTE]

Any idea what kind? Raleigh Twenty? Raleigh RSW? One of those old U-Framed jobs, like a Peugeot?

Cruizzzer. This is the best you can do on your first post?

Hopefully it's your last.

Grow up.

For those with an eagle eye there's a Raleigh Twenty in the back yard of one of the Sheffield houses in the 1980s "laugh fest" that was 'Threads' by the BBC - A dramatised version of what would happen if one of Ivan's nukes came down on the North of England.

Am I more boring?

Any idea what kind? Raleigh Twenty? Raleigh RSW? One of those old U-Framed jobs, like a Peugeot? -DaFriMon

I am not sure. I only got a quick glimpse of it as I was out of the room when the bike made it's appearance. My mother yelled "Look, there's your bike!" I think it could be either a Bickerton or a Raleigh Twenty. I thinking of buying the DVD and seeing that episode again as generally my television viewing habits are rather spotty. I usually do other things as I "watch" noncable tv. I will post my observations just as soon as I can.

Raleigh RSW Compacts in 'The Prisoner' (actually late 1960s)!

The alf cycle in Batman was a separable Moulton.