My favourite TV detective has always been Columbo (played by Peter Falk) and it was 50 years ago today that the very first episode aired in the U.S. This column is called 'In Excess' and I have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-1960s, a young actor named Peter Falk got caught in a rainstorm in New York City. He ducked into a shop and purchased a ...

From the moment he shuffled onto television screens in a rumpled raincoat, cigar dangling from his fingers, Columbo-in the form of actor Peter Falk-announced that he was going to play by different ...

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 ...

Columbo and his catchphrase — “Just one more thing” — are needed more than ever in this crazy mixed-up world. The deceptively rumpled detective pestered the so-called great and good, getting under the ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with Falk in ...

My favourite TV detective has always been Columbo (played by Peter Falk) and it was 50 years ago today that the very first episode aired in the U.S. This column is called 'In Excess' and I have ...