The up-and-coming director of the very first episode of the very first season of Columbo on NBC left a big impression on star Peter Falk.

While not the first to do it, Columbo is the best-known example of the "howcatchem" mystery series, inspiring series like Elsbeth or Poker Face, where an eccentric character pieces together the clues ...

There’s this beat early in every Columbo episode — that quiet pocket of time right after the killer fixes one last detail, the sort of tiny adjustment a person only makes when they’re convinced the ...

It was 50 years ago this month that the classic Columbo episode, ‘By Dawn’s Early Light’ written by Howard Berk, first aired on television. Now, carrying on the family writing tradition, Howard’s son, ...

Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) had many mysteries throughout his long-running TV series. For one, he made frequent allusions to "The Missus," his wife, an off-screen character whom the detective ...

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William Link, a writer and producer known for co-creating “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote,” died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on Sunday, his niece confirmed to Variety. He was 87. Over ...

Certain directors deliver stylistic flourishes that instantly separate their efforts from other TV shows airing alongside their episodes. In Peter Falk's time on "Columbo," he crossed paths with some ...