Steven Spielberg wasn't a household name when he directed the first episode of Columbo, but the twentysomething director already showed promise.

‘Columbo’ was Peter Falk’s defining role According to IMDb, Columbo ran from 1971-2003, with the frequency of episodes declining as the years passed. The show was movie-length.

Though noirs and police procedurals were by no means new when Columbo initially premiered as a one-off made-for-TV movie in 1968, Levinson and Link’s show offered a mix of tried and true tropes ...

Columbo ’s circumstantial way of solving a TV crime now has a real-life judicial aspect too, it seems. Just over a month after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge awarded $70.3 million in profit ...