The very best episodes of "Columbo" feature a ... A Murder Mystery Is Just The Setting, Not The Point Of Columbo Procedurals like "Law & Order" and "NCIS" have some great characters but don ...

Shaun Curran explores the series' timeless appeal. Even 50 years since its first season began on 15th September 1971, Columbo remains a TV show like no other. The US series with Peter Falk in the ...

During an interview with Empire, Spielberg described working on Columbo as his film school ... producers would beg me not to.” The episode Spielberg directed is called “Murder by the ...

Get familiar with one of TV's most unique heroes with facts about Columbo. 1. BING CROSBY WAS ORIGINALLY EYED FOR THE ROLE. Columbo creators Richard Levinson and William Link's first choice to ...

First, there’s the appealingly unconventional structure: Columbo episodes are not traditional murder-mystery whodunits, rather they are “inverted mysteries” in which the audience sees ...

“Columbo” was an interesting show in that it wasn’t a “Whodunit?” because we see the killer do the dead at the beginning of every episode. Then it’s about watching Columbo spring the tra ...