New “Columbo” episodes usually don’t offer much reason for comment. What’s the point? After 24 years and 59 cases, we know the routine. We see an elaborately planned murder. We know who the murderer ...

Back in the ’70s, NBC aired a police procedural TV show which featured an unrefined detective called Columbo. Columbo was known for his brown coat and famous one-line catchphrase “just one more thing” ...

From 1968 through 1978, and then again from 1989 to 2003, the rich and powerful, the haughty and the vain, all feared one man; a man who looked like he had forgotten to comb his hair and couldn’t ...

Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.