Columbo as fans know it wouldn't be the same without Steven Spielberg setting the series' tone in a major episode he worked on with a crime TV icon.

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he ...

You can watch Peter Falk’s pièce de résistance performance as Lt. Columbo right now on Peacock.

Fifty years on, the cop show featuring a bumbling but brilliant homicide detective has attracted a new generation of fans. Shaun Curran explores the series' timeless appeal. Even 50 years since its ...