Tonight at a glance
- Length
- 10 seasons · 67 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
- detective
- affectation
- murder
- police detective
- basset hound
- raincoat
- criminal investigation
- murder investigation
- homicide detective
- peugeot
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Danny Goldman
- Gregory Sierra
- Robert Walker Jr.
- Johnny Cash
- Richard Basehart
- Kevin McCarthy
- Aneta Corsaut
- Lloyd Bochner
- Janet Leigh
- Sal Mineo
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
- Directed
- Dennis Dugan, Sam Wanamaker, Jonathan Demme, Peter Falk, Daryl Duke, E.W. Swackhamer & 24 more
- Created
- William Link, Richard Levinson
- Written
- Peter Falk, Evan Hunter, Jonathan Latimer, Pat Robison, Michael Sloan, Charles Kipps & 43 more
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 843 ratings
- Network & studio
- ABC, NBC, Universal Television, Studios USA, Universal Television Entertainment, NBC Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
