It’s hard to describe the sense of joy mixed with relief that washed over me when a videotape of the latest Columbo landed on my desk. It was like spotting a sign on the interstate that reads “clean ...

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” ...

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.

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 ...

ITV has ruthlessly pulled This Morning from its Monday schedule and replaced it with a 1993 crime drama movie Columbo: Butterfly in Shades of Grey. The channel has blown a hole in the routines of This ...

Peter Falk became synonymous with one of TV’s most enduring franchises with his signature role as the disheveled and disarming Lt. Columbo. But his long thesping career also encompassed John ...

In an era when viewers are re-evaluating the cop show, the detective series starring Peter Falk still stands out, the writer argues: Columbo was all about sticking it to the man. By Elisabeth ...