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.

What comes to mind when you think of murder mysteries? Cozy cottages? Maybe silly satire? Or the sweet and often safe crime-solving exploits of women in bygone eras? Well, we’re here to suggest ...

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 ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

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 ...

After it first premiered in 1968, the TV show Columbo quickly became a ratings hit. Over the course of the crime drama‘s 10 seasons and numerous made-for-TV movie spinoffs, Columbo racked up dozens of ...

Steven Spielberg has always been hard at work. The New Hollywood figure didn’t become the highest-grossing director by accident. His movies tend to wow everyone, and it’s quite a surprise that he has ...

We're in a new golden age of television, but between rubbery pirates, ruthless family succession struggles, and dark superhero romps, nothing compares to Columbo, right? Peter Falk's cigar-chomping ...

The lead character in PowPAC’s first show of its 44th season, “Prescription: Murder,” will be familiar to those who watched “Columbo” on TV. The 1962 play was the basis for the two-hour movie that ...