COLUMBO: ASHES TO ASHES. Tonight, 9 o’clock, ABC. WHEN two perfectionists get together, what’s the result? In the case of “Columbo,” whenever star Peter Falk links up with guest star Patrick McGoohan, ...

Remember when episodes of Columbo would start with a cleverly planned and, er, executed killing in which the perp took great pains in trying to throw the cops off his trail? Well, the creators of that ...

A jury decides that William Link and Richard Levinson didn't wait too long to bring suit and that Universal couldn't deduct distribution fees for the 1970s detective series. By Eriq Gardner Former ...

In the mid-1960s, a young actor named Peter Falk got caught in a rainstorm in New York City. He ducked into a shop and purchased a tan raincoat for $15. Years later, that tatty raincoat would become ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with Falk in ...