CLEVELAND, Ohio – We have been reminded that 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of everything from landmark science-fiction movies (“2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Planet of the Apes”) to ...

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.

Few TV show characters have the shelf-life that Peter Falk’s Detective Columbo had from 1968 into the onset of the 21st-century. The fictional detective, who debuted in the early 1960s, was a ...

Considering he’s one of the most iconic of TV characters, the brilliant, rumpled bed of a detective Lt. Columbo had quite an inauspicious start. William Link and his late writing and producing partner ...

On June 14, 1997, I was assembling the Summer issue of The Columbo Newsletter when the phone rang. “Sheldon?” an extremely recognizable gravelly voice rumbled over the line. “This is Peter Falk.” I ...

If I knew it would get me a few days bantering with the greatest TV detective of all time, I’d off someone in a needlessly elaborate manner tomorrow The sound of staccato typing drifts into earshot as ...

Sherlock is smug. Poirot is pompous. Miss Marple has a thing about taking her tea correctly. Morse won’t leave Oxford. The only TV detective without an ego – without any supposedly charming ...

In 1995, Kate Mulgrew made her debut as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Star Trek: Voyager," but it wasn't her first brush with a major franchise. Sixteen years earlier, Mulgrew landed the title role in ...