Julia is a writer for Collider with a penchant for peanut sauce, Savage Garden, and the great outdoors (provided she's observing from indoors). There are many reasons Columbo stands out from the pack ...

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.

Hannah R. Wing is a freelance writer. Hannah has over eight years of experience as a theatre critic for BroadwayWorld.com. When she isn't reviewing plays or musicals, she is diving into the world of ...

It's hard to picture anyone other than Peter Falk playing Detective Columbo, but the show's creators had a completely ...

A second TV movie followed in 1971, then Columbo joined The NBC Mystery Movie that September. Its rotating 90-minute slot gave each case time to establish the killer before exploring the slow contest ...

Peter Falk played the brilliant detective Columbo over a period of 35 years, but he wrote only one Columbo TV movie — the only writing credit of his career.

While not the first to do it, Columbo is the best-known example of the "howcatchem" mystery series, inspiring series like Elsbeth or Poker Face, where an eccentric character pieces together the clues ...