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Columbo

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Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The character and show, created by William Link and Richard Levinson, popularized the inverted detective story format which begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the series therefore has no "whodunit" element. The plot revolves around how a perpetrator whose identity is already known to the audience will finally be caught and exposed (which the show's writers called a 'howcatchem', rather than a 'whodunit').

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled police detective of Italian descent, whose trademarks include wearing a rumpled, beige raincoat over his suit, and smoking a cigar. He is consistently underestimated by his suspects, who are initially reassured and distracted by his circumstantial speech, then increasingly irritated by his pestering behavior. Despite his unassuming appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for a conviction. His formidable eye for detail and relentlessly dedicated approach, though apparent to the viewer, often become clear to the killer only late in the story line.

The episodes are all movie-length, between 73 and 100 minutes long, and have been broadcast in forty-four countries. In 1997, "Murder by the Book" was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time and in 1999, the magazine ranked Lt. Columbo No. 7 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In 2012, the program was chosen as the third-best cop or legal show on Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time. In 2013, TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time and ranked it at #33 on its list of the 60 Best Series. Also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it No. 57 in the list of 101 Best Written TV Series.

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Columbo episodes (and pilots)

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Basic list (showing who played the Murderer each episode)

Pilot episodes
Prescription Murder: Gene Barry (1968)
Ransom for a Dead Man: Lee Grant (1971)

Season 1 (1971–1972)
Murder by the Book: Jack Cassidy
Death Lends a Hand: Robert Culp
Dead Weight: Eddie Albert
Suitable for Framing: Ross Martin
Lady in Waiting: Susan Clark
Short Fuse: Roddy McDowall
Blueprint for Murder: Patrick O'Neal

Season 2 (1972–1973)
Étude in Black: John Cassavetes
The Greenhouse Jungle: Ray Milland
The Most Crucial Game: Robert Culp
Dagger of the Mind: Richard Basehart and Honor Blackman
Requiem for a Falling Star: Anne Baxter
A Stitch in Crime: Leonard Nimoy
The Most Dangerous Match: Laurence Harvey
Double Shock: Martin Landau

Season 3 (1973–1974)
Lovely But Lethal: Vera Miles
Any Old Port in a Storm: Donald Pleasence
Candidate for Crime: Jackie Cooper
Double Exposure: Robert Culp
Publish or Perish: Jack Cassidy
Mind Over Mayhem: José Ferrer
Swan Song: Johnny Cash
A Friend in Deed: Richard Kiley and Michael McGuire

Season 4 (1974–1975)
An Exercise in Fatality: Robert Conrad
Negative Reaction: Dick Van Dyke
By Dawn's Early Light: Patrick McGoohan
Troubled Waters: Robert Vaughn
Playback: Oskar Werner
A Deadly State of Mind: George Hamilton

Season 5 (1975–1976)
Forgotten Lady: Janet Leigh
A Case of Immunity: Hector Elizondo
Identity Crisis: Patrick McGoohan
A Matter of Honor: Ricardo Montalban
Now You See Him...: Jack Cassidy
Last Salute to the Commodore: Fred Draper

Season 6 (1976–1977)
Fade in to Murder: William Shatner
Old Fashioned Murder: Joyce Van Patten
The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case: Theodore Bikel

Season 7 (1977–1978)
Try and Catch Me: Ruth Gordon
Murder Under Glass: Louis Jourdan
Make Me a Perfect Murder: Trish Van Devere
How to Dial a Murder: Nicol Williamson
The Conspirators: Clive Revill

Season 8 (1989)
Columbo Goes to the Guillotine: Anthony Andrews
Murder, Smoke, and Shadows: Fisher Stevens
Sex and the Married Detective: Lindsay Crouse
Grand Deceptions: Robert Foxworth

Season 9 (1989–1990)
Murder: A Self Portrait: Patrick Bauchau
Columbo Cries Wolf: Ian Buchanan
Agenda for Murder: Patrick McGoohan
Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo: Helen Shaver
Uneasy Lies the Crown: James Read
Murder in Malibu: Andrew Stevens

Season 10 and specials (1990–2003)
Columbo Goes to College: Stephen Caffrey and Gary Hershberger (1990)
Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: George Hamilton (1991)
Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star: Dabney Coleman (1991)
Death Hits the Jackpot: Rip Torn (1991)
No Time to Die: (This is the only episode where no one is murdered. Daniel McDonald plays the villain.) (1992)
A Bird in the Hand...: Tyne Daly and Greg Evigan (1992)
It's All in the Game: Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian (1993)
Butterfly in Shades of Grey: William Shatner (1994)
Undercover: Ed Begley Jr. (1994)
Strange Bedfellows: George Wendt (1995)
A Trace of Murder - 25th Anniversary Movie: David Rasche (1997)
Ashes to Ashes: Patrick McGoohan (1998)
Murder With Too Many Notes: Billy Connolly (2001)
Columbo Likes the Nightlife: Jennifer Sky and Matthew Rhys (2003)

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1st Pilot:
PRESCRIPTION: MURDER (1968)

http://www.tubeplus.is/player/429428/Pr ... 3A_Murder/



2nd Pilot:
Columbo Ransom For A Dead Man


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Columbo Season 1 Episode 1 Murder By The Book

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