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Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
October 6, 1971. (1971-10-06) 72 min. Carl Brimmer (Robert Culp), the very tough, hard-nosed head of a private detective agency, with unfortunate and fateful anger issues, is hired by Arthur Kennicut (Ray Milland), a powerful publishing magnate who suspects his wife, Lenore (Pat Crowley), of infidelity.
Columbo. Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [2][3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie.
Peter Falk. Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC / ABC series Columbo (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a ...
Richard Levinson. William Link. Portrayed by. Bert Freed (1960, TV) Thomas Mitchell (1962, stage) Peter Falk (1968–2003, TV) Dirk Benedict (2010, stage) John Guerrasio (2011, stage) Lieutenant Columbo is the main character in the American detective crime drama television series Columbo created by Richard Levinson and William Link.
October 10, 1976. (1976-10-10) 70 min. Egocentric actor Ward Fowler (William Shatner), who portrays Detective Lucerne on a weekly TV show, is being blackmailed by his producer and ex-paramour, Claire Daley (Lola Albright), over the fact that he was a deserter in the Korean War. Fowler drugs a friend staying at his house watching a baseball game ...
February 6, 1989. (1989-02-06) 88 min. Elliott Blake (Anthony Andrews) is a "psychic" who, with his girlfriend/partner in crime Dr. Paula Hall (Karen Austin), is attempting to scam U.S. military intelligence into hiring him to use his ESP abilities against the Soviets. Blake and Hall rig a test with a stock set of Zener cards, but the Army ...
November 26, 1972. (1972-11-26) 92 min. Sir Roger Haversham (John Williams) realizes that actors Nicholas Frame (Richard Basehart) and his wife, Lillian Stanhope (Honor Blackman), have manipulated him into backing their theater production. He confronts the couple, and is accidentally killed during the ensuing scuffle.