The lead character in PowPAC’s first show of its 44th season, “Prescription: Murder,” will be familiar to those who watched “Columbo” on TV. The 1962 play was the basis for the two-hour movie that ...

The television landscape of the 1970s was filled with peak storytelling, and the detective shows of the decade are shining ...

Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.

The character of police detective Columbo first appeared in a long-forgotten episode of 1950s television. But its scripters, William Link and Richard L. Levinson, sensed potential and retooled their ...

The fourth in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery ...