Lt. Columbo, of rum pled trench coat, cigar and absent-minded-detective-work fame, is coming to Broadway. “Columbo Takes the Rap,” a new mystery by William Link, who, with his writing partner, Richard ...

I used to say that Lt. Columbo was an ageless character. Well, age may have just caught up with one of television’s most durable, delightful and beloved detectives. Universal Television, which has ...

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 ...

From the moment he shuffled onto television screens in a rumpled raincoat, cigar dangling from his fingers, Columbo-in the ...

Richard Hunsaker has played many iconic characters on stage during his 78 years, but donning police detective Lt. Columbo’s trademark rumpled Mackintosh raincoat has been a particularly memorable ...

What the commentaries about Columbo I have read today miss, and what explains a large measure of its international appeal, is that Columbo is the ultimate show about working class resentment of and ...

You probably remember actor Peter Falk as the cigar-chomping TV detective Lt. Columbo, the cop who inevitably arrived at the scene of a high-society crime in a wheezing jalopy and a rumpled raincoat.

Peter Falk, the raspy-voiced actor who won four Emmy Awards as the deceptively rumpled homicide detective Lt. Columbo, a character he played on television for more than 30 years, died June 23 at his ...