From the moment he shuffled onto television screens in a rumpled raincoat, cigar dangling from his fingers, Columbo—in the form of actor Peter Falk—announced that he was going to play by different ...

There's a lot to love about the classic detective series "Columbo," and over the years, people have tried to figure out exactly what has made it so darn watchable. Seriously, it's incredibly easy to ...

Columbo Season 1 is an American crime drama series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. The opening chapter of the show puts Lieutenant Columbo, a cunning and unorthodox detective, in the ...

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.

This month, Peacock is running the second season of Poker Face, a mystery show that owes a lot to Columbo, the hit series that ran from 1971 to 1978. Columbo has had a big resurgence of popularity in ...

Before Steven Spielberg was THE Steven Spielberg, he was a young 22-year-old TV director working under contract for Universal Studios. In the early 1970s, directing TV was not nearly as glamorous a ...

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 ...

Peter Falk had some fun in what he thought would be his final days working on Columbo. What was at the time the final season ...

Released on Blu-ray in late 2023, Columbo’s original seven-season run retailed for $150 when it was first announced, but these days it’s often available for $75-$85 (like now). Meanwhile, Columbo: The ...