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Information about Columbo's life outside of his police work is scarce and revealed through his rambling anecdotes. Columbo often refers to his wife, who is an unseen character in the show. She later received a spin-off show called Mrs. Columbo, although the canonicity of this show is disputed. [12]
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.
Neither assertion is true. In fact, close-ups in two episodes of a signature on Columbo's police badge reveal that his name is Frank Columbo. Peugeot even ran a 1980s advertising campaign that mentioned "Lt. Philip Columbo" as the most famous driver of the Peugeot convertible.
Lieutenant Columbo, Columbo; FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks; Michael Cordero, Jane the Virgin; Peter Crenshaw, Three Investigators by Robert Arthur Jr. Carland Cross, Carland Cross. Mateo Cruz, BAU Section Chief, Criminal Minds
Detective Olivia Benson (later, Sergeant, then Lieutenant, then Captain) - played by Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order: SVU; Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac – Robert Banks Stewart (played by John Nettles in Bergerac) Detective Chief Inspector David Bilborough – Jimmy McGovern (played by Christopher Eccleston in Cracker)
It is Columbo’s persistence and continued presence that Lawson taps into. “Even at the precinct, she comes around the corner, and some cops are like, ‘Oh, come on. Here she is again.
[30] [31] A short-lived, unsuccessful spin-off series Mrs. Columbo, featuring Kate Mulgrew, was created in 1979 after Columbo had ended its run. Lieutenant Columbo himself never appeared in the spinoff show, which was quickly retconned (and the title character renamed) to remove all associations with the original program. [32] [33]
Columbo was as humble as they come, diligently and methodically solving murders in his rumpled raincoat. His car stood out because, in a world of flashy TV and movie cars, it was equally modest.