Columbo
Created by William Link, Richard Levinson
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. From TMDB
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Columbo received numerous awards and nominations from 1971 to 2005, including 13 Emmys, two Golden Globe Awards, two Edgar Awards and a TV Land Award nomination in 2005 for Peter Falk. The 1971 episode "Murder by the Book", directed by Steven Spielberg, 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 ranked 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 33rd on its list of the 60 Best Series. Also in 2013, the Writers…
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60 of 376 · most liked firstStarted watching Columbo. This may be the greatest show ever made. My prior Columbo experience outside of pop culture osmosis is Peter Falk in Wings Of Desire. Wenders told us the truth: he was an angel.
positive · AI labelView post →Poker Face season 2 launches TODAY on Peacock! It’s a case-of-the-week episodic show, an ode to stuff like Columbo, Rockford… fun guest stars each week, truly episodic so you can pretty much drop into any episode. No heavy lifting, just a good time every time. Share & enjoy!
neutral · AI labelView post →I would like funding for COLUMBO: ONE MORE THING—THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME OF THE TV SERIES
neutral · AI labelView post →COLUMBO starring Peter Falk debuted as a series #OTD in 1971. “He was perfect,” co-creator William Link said. "And then he got better.” #TVSky #Columbo #ClassicTV
neutral · AI labelView post →If I had the money, I’d start a Columbo spiritual successor web series and have various YouTubers I like guest as a killer each episode
positive · AI labelView post →Every episode of Columbo includes a scene where he tells the killer that his wife is a huge fan of their music, acting, cooking, art, etc. And then he arrests them for murder. The whole show is all about Columbo destroying all the things his wife loves. Pure emotional terrorism.
positive · AI labelView post →Another TV show that canonically exists in Trider G7 – Columbo!
neutral · AI labelView post →Columbo knew... From the episode 'Old Fashioned Murder', series 6, episode 2, 1968.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Columbo!
neutral · AI labelView post →Columbo is a show about the dangers of answering questions without your lawyer present
positive · AI labelView post →no, both were TV shows - both Groucho and Kaye were TV actors by the time in their careers when they were age-appropriate/the show would have aired. however Kaye's was the first to simply be called COLUMBO. Groucho's show was formally titled MERRIAM-WEBSTER THEATRE PRESENTS: COLUMBO
neutral · AI labelView post →Feel free to make fun of me but I got the complete series of Columbo on my laptop so that I can always have it on hand whenever I need to relax and fall asleep
positive · AI labelView post →On this date 55 years ago the first regular series episode of Columbo was broadcast on NBC (after two pilots). "Murder by the Book" was written by Steven Bochco and directed by Steven Spielberg with Jack Cassidy appearing in his first of three times as the killer. #tvsky #columbo
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're looking for a cozy mystery series to enjoy I highly recommend Cadfael, starring Derek Jacobi. It's kind of like Columbo set in a 12th century monastery, and the first episode's available to watch for free on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ig...
neutral · AI labelView post →Enjoying Columbo, an endlessly rewatchable series. Falk's sly timing raises the level of every scene, as in "Blueprint for Murder," where he questions the arrogant architect, drops an incriminating fact, then reaches in his coat pocket and asks, "Ya want half a candy bar?"
positive · AI labelView post →Dear DC Editorial, Where's my Renee Montoya and Columbo crossover series? You could call it JUST ONE MORE QUESTION You're welcome
neutral · AI labelView post →watching Columbo for the first time 'n so far every murderer has been an extremely rich asshole. I didn't expect this show to be this based?? Like, I've never seen this many mansions in short succession, and I never even knew car phones were a thing that existed
positive · AI labelView post →That time Columbo came to see my headlining standup show.
neutral · AI labelView post →'70s Columbo is not only a series of mostly excellent mysteries (not whodunits but howshecatchems) but also a terrific chronicle of interior decor and style among the upper crust of 1970s L.A.
positive · AI labelView post →COLUMBO starring Peter Falk debuted as a series #OTD in 1971. “He was perfect,” co-creator William Link said. "And then he got better.” #TVSky #Columbo #ClassicTV
neutral · AI labelView post →the best Columbo episodes where they introduce some cutting edge new technology, and they show Columbo talking to the nerd at Future Inventions Inc. or whatever like "so this machine... it can make a recording... and play it at another time? isn't that something" and you know the suspect is FUCKED
positive · AI labelView post →Columbo is the best television show ever made
positive · AI labelView post →she also mentioned due to his increasing length she wonders if there might be basset in him, which would be hilarious considering his name is Columbo and (for those unaware) in the show, Columbo has a basset hound
neutral · AI labelView post →Made my kid a custom Mego style Columbo figure for her birthday. She loves that show!
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite old tv show is Columbo. There's nothing quite like a policeman who never uses a gun, a regular guy who is underestimated by those in power, and only arrests rich people who think they are above the law.
positive · AI labelView post →Give Benedict Wong his own detective show where he only busts rich assholes, Columbo-style
neutral · AI labelView post →Columbo is a great show.. if you can figure out who the killer is
positive · AI labelView post →Digging through the back catalogue and found my line-up of TV detectives and a plan for a bunch more, I guess I was going through a crime phase 🔪 #art #characterart #columbo #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →I could start a series called “Mud and Mystery”, where I throw mugs and bowls and vases while talking about Columbo.
neutral · AI labelView post →Columbo isn't human, he's feyfolk. I read somewhere or other that the actual writers for the Columbo series/movies treated Columbo as if he popped into existence the moment the murder investigation began and vanished after the perp was in handcuffs. Which prolly sucks for Mrs. Columbo, but...
positive · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, but instincts only— DRAGNET THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW THE SIMPSONS MAD MEN THE SOPRANOS MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL GILMORE GIRLS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU? SGT BILKO DICK VAN DYKE SHOW MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW ROCKFORD FILES NEW GIRL COLUMBO
positive · AI labelView post →Patrick McGoohan is one of the best things to happen to Columbo. And Columbo was already one of the best things ever when he first got involved in the show.
positive · AI labelView post →I needed a new work show and wow every episode of Columbo really is just— Villain: haha I've gotten away with it Columbo: oh and just one more thing...
neutral · AI labelView post →William Shatner in an episode of Columbo plays a washed up actor in an extremely lucrative but creatively unfulfilling detective show who helps Columbo while in character but is the murderer out of character. Amazing
positive · AI labelView post →Cillian Murphy is 49. *clicks record* ‘Idea for series: Cillian Murphy as Columbo - but it’s in The Matrix’
neutral · AI labelView post →Today on The Spiel: @rianjohnson.bsky.social joins me to talk about whodunnits, howcatchems, Steven Spielberg’s early work directing the Columbo pilot, and how that series became a living document of Los Angeles over four decades!
neutral · AI labelView post →If DC wanted to greenlight a full series, not just the latest issue of Wonder Woman, with Detective Chimp channelling Columbo, I would not be opposed. @tomking.bsky.social @brunoredondo.bsky.social @claytoncowles.bsky.social @msbrittanyjean.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →See, on the show, his name is COLUMBO, and for the Mad parody, they switched to CLODUMBO! hahahahaha MY SIDES.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred referring to Harvey Bullock as "That detective that looks like an unmade bed," in Batman: The Animated Series is a Columbo reference. A woman says the exact same of Columbo in "Dead Weight."
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Trek is mostly Columbo, but has approximately 2-3 episodes a season of Muppet Show
neutral · AI labelView post →Did I just find the entire series of Columbo on DVD and now I'm making my own custom VHS series set? Absolutely.
positive · AI labelView post →A friend got me into Furuhata Ninzaburo, a live action "Columbo-like" Japanese detective series. Then it sparked me to finally look up episodes of Abunai-Deka since... I actually own figures of the main characters for some reason
neutral · AI labelView post →🧵1/7 Remember the 1970s TV series Columbo starring Peter Falk? Lt. Columbo was a detective with the LAPD. Most episodes pertained to homicides committed by the wealthy or connected elites of society. Anyway, Columbo had a unique format for crime genres that feels out of place in today's world.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gotta love Columbo just randomly coming along halfway through The Great Muppet Caper and stealing the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning, Bluesky. Things I’ve learned from Columbo (An ongoing series): Don’t change the radio station in the dead man’s car if you’re trying to make it look as if he’s still alive. (Blueprint for Murder, starring Forrest Tucker, for whom my summer camp’s theater was named.)
positive · AI labelView post →describing a show i like to watch reruns of on tubi and it becomes increasingly apparent that the show i am talking about is Columbo
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, one more thing. We're talking about Columbo on the show this week.
neutral · AI labelView post →I find it odd how much affection Columbo the show (and character) have retained. Not odd cos I think it is unmerited; Columbo really is great! It's just... I dunno, I feel like usually even very good day time TV of this sort is basically forgot as soon as it stops airing? Why did this one survive?
positive · AI labelView post →The most gratuitous part of the late-series COLUMBO episode that has a murderous sex therapist is an unmotivated extended tuba solo.
negative · AI labelView post →Comparing x265 to AV1 with Grain Synthesis. I wanted to document an experiment I undertook trying out AV1 with Grain Synthesis on particularly grainy footage. I'll go over my thoughts and explore Plex compatibility with this feature. This is going to be another one of my rare highly-detailed technical posts, so feel free to skip to the conclusion if you'd like. ## What kicked this off? I've been ripping Blu-rays and transcoding them for my Plex server for about 7 years now. In that time I have…
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a dream that there was a TV show called "Goose Columbo", which was exactly the same as the existing "Columbo" except that Peter Falk was replaced by a live goose
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS DR. BREEN WAS IN MULTIPLE COLUMBO EPISODES IM LOSING MY MIND
neutral · AI labelView post →They must be REALLY confused by shows like Columbo or Elsbeth where the killer is revealed in the opening teaser and the show is about how the main character proves this.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's never mentioned about the old Columbo series, is that the show leaned on class resentment. The murderers were always wealthy, condescending snobs and intellectuals that looked down on bumbling, rumpled Columbo. They never recognized him as a threat until he finally dropped the hammer on them.
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a line that keeps coming up in my head which goes “columbo is still copaganda, you know” and it’s just increasingly relevant and perhaps important, as a lens Like, Columbo is a great show. They don’t make’em like this anymore. I strongly recommend it. Top to bottom, right?
positive · AI labelView post →I'm reading David Koenig's book Unshot Columbo and I have to say I am surprised by my own appetite for the details of unmade episodes of this show, the awakening of a terrible demon within I fear. In all seriousness: a great book for writers dissecting the process of failure.
positive · AI labelView post →I just started watching Columbo for the first time and this thread perfectly captures why I've been enjoying this show. The slower pacing is doing something good for my brain.
positive · AI labelView post →I didn't know someone made a meme of a 50 year old Columbo episode, but this is gold. #Warhammer40k #ttrpg #Columbo #memes
neutral · AI labelView post →COLUMBO starring Peter Falk debuted as a series tonight in 1971. “He was perfect,” co-creator William Link said. "And then he got better.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I watch Columbo and the Mary Tyler Moore Show and see what I have been denied
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