Detailed description is Just one more thing....Columbo is a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Division [badge #416]. He is married, smokes cigars and is compulsive about tying up loose ends and catching murderers. His wife, referred to as "the missus," is a homemaker. Their family pet is a basset hound named Dog. It likes to go to the ocean and look at the boats.. . Columbo was born and raised in New York City. He lived near Chinatown and shared a home with his close knit Italian family. They included his parents, five brothers, a sister and his grandfather who made wine by stomping the grapes with his feet. During Prohibition his father was a tail-gunner on a beer truck.. . After serving a stint in Korea with the US Army [mostly KP], Columbo joined the New York police and received training at the 12th Precinct from an Irish cop named Sergeant Gilhooley. In 1958 Columbo moved to Los Angeles with his high school sweetheart, a.k.a. Mrs. Columbo.. . On duty, Columbo always wears a rumpled, stained overcoat and chomps on half-smoked cigars [his wife preferred he smoke a pipe]. Once after a suspect looked at Columbo’s attire, he asked "Are you undercover?" Columbo replied "No, underpaid.". . To get to and from crime scenes Columbo drives a dilaidated, Peugeot model 403 Grande Luxe Cabriolet convertible. The car is graying with oxidized paint and an odometer reading over 100,000 miles. Per Lt. Columbo, his car is "a 1950 Peugeot - They're very rare." [License plate: 044 APD].. . While interviewing his suspects, Columbo peppers his conversation with home-spun comments about his wife, her proverbs for any occasion and their family life. Upon leaving his suspect, he invariably utters his famous catchphrase "Oh, just one more thing.". . When hungry, Columbo goes to Barney's Beanery and asks the proprietor Bert for an order of chili [beans or without] with ketchup and handful of crushed crackers. "Y'see, it's the crackers that make the dish," says the Lieutenant. Columbo washes down his chili dinner with a sparkling cream soda or a cup of coffee. He also likes to eat fish, a good steak [rare] and egg rolls [a taste he acquired from his Chinatown days as a kid.]. . To relax Columbo likes pool [his father taught him], cooking [he makes a superb omelet], limericks, bowling, Westerns, Italian Opera, Straus waltzes, golf, classical music and football on television. Medically, Columbo has low blood pressure, allergies, and gets seasick and airsick. He wears size 10 1/2 to 11 socks and he can’t swim. His boyhood hero was Joe DiMaggio.. . Columbo’s hefty but athletic wife [who is not that good of a cook] enjoys dancing, singing, bowling [she cries when she loses], crossword puzzles, Ann Landers, African violets, and a variety of music including Opera, Classical, Country and Rock. Mrs. C. likes to hum the song "This Old Man" while she does chores around the house. In her spare time she does the family taxes, attends an accounting class at night school and urges her husband to exercise. Once she even thought of taking a class in mind control. Every morning, she gives her husband a pencil before he goes to work. Columbo’s handwriting is so bad that he confesses he should have been a doctor.. . The Columbo’s numerous relatives included a nephew who married a girl with a Hungarian accent; a 15-year-old nephew who idolized Francis Ford Coppola and shoots 8mm films; a brother-in-law named George who is a good fisherman; another brother-in-law who is an attorney; and still another brother-in-law who is a waiter; a nephew who wants to be an accountant; a mother-in-law who lives in Fresno [later Albany]; a cousin who wears big, thick glasses who also lives in Albany; a sister-in-law who gets smashed at times; his wife’s niece Marilyn, [she’s divorced, married to a policeman and has six kids]; an uncle who plays the bagpipes in a Scottish band; a 38 year-old brother who still has his sneakers from his younger days; and a nephew who lost his contact lens in a bowl of cereal.. . TRIVIA NOTE: Richard Levinson & William Link, who created the Columbo character, modeled him after Petrovitch, the detective who appeared in the 1866 Russian novel "Crime and Punishment" written by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.. . The Columbo character was first played on Broadway by Thomas Mitchell in 1962. Later singer Bing Crosby was offered the TV role, but declined.. . On the COLUMBO TV series, the first name of Columbo's wife and the names of his children were never revealed. The short-lived NBC series MRS. COLUMBO depicted life at the Columbo household while Lt. Columbo was off at work. On this show, Columbo's wife was named Kate (played by Kate Mulgrew). She worked as a reporter for The Valley Advocate, a weekly newspaper and had a seven-year-old daughter named Jenny. And just as Lt. Columbo's wife was never seen [but often spoken about] in the original COLUMBO series, Lt. Columbo was never seen on MRS. COLUMBO.. . In addition, the first name of Lt. Columbo was never revealed on either series. His name has erroneously been stated as "Philip" in a number of sources. This name was actually invented by Fred L. Worth, the writer of "The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia." He used the name "Philip" (found on page 107 of his book) as a check word to prove whether anyone cited his work in their publications.. . In a lawsuit, against the makers of the Trivial Pursuit game, Worth’s lawyers proved the game’s creators had used Worth’s book as a primary source for their game material because one of their game cards asked "What is Lt. Columbo’s first name." Their game card answer was "Philip." By the way, Fred Worth also listed Columbo's wife name as Mildred. Other sources claiming they have discerned the first name of Columbo from ID badges flashed on the program have attributed his first name to be "Frank" and "Joseph.". . In 1993, the Columbo character began appearing in a series of critically acclaimed novels by William Harrington. http://www.tvacres.com/char_columbo.htm
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Ans: Columbo is a popular detective series featuring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo. The character (who never had a first name), and the series are a creation of the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link. Columbo ran as a television series from 1971 to 1978, but the character had appeared in a short story, a live-television broadcast, and a stage play before making his first network television appearance in the Made-For-Television Movie Prescription: Murder (1968). Originally written for Bing Crosby, the Columbo role went to Falk when Crosby opted not to end his retirement.
The series' original run was not in weekly hour-long episodes, but as a 90-minute "spoke" in the NBC Mystery Movie "wheel" concept: each week, one of three different series was shown on a rotating basis. Columbo was interspersed with McMillan & Wife (starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James), and McCloud (starring Dennis Weaver. This suited Falk and the producers just fine since the pace of production would be much slower than was usually the case with weekly series. The 90-minute program length also allowed each episode to be more intricate than the typical one-hour installment, and intricacy was stock in trade for the character.
Columbo was not a "who-done-it." Indeed, the most distinguishing aspect of the series is the plot structure itself. Although this structure is just as rigid and successful as that in Perry Mason, Dragnet, or The Rockford Files, each episode is actually an inversion of the classic detective formula. In the classic formula, the crime is committed by an unknown person, a detective comes onto the case, clues are gathered, the detective solves the crime with the aid of his/her assistants, and the ability of the detective is proven true. In each Columbo plot, the crime and the culprit are shown in great detail. The audience sees the murder planned, committed, and covered up by the murderer. Since the audience knows who did it and how, the enigma becomes "how will Columbo figure it out?" The methods of the murderer are presented with such care that there is little doubt that the horrible crime will go unpunished--little doubt until Columbo comes onto the scene.
With his rumpled overcoat, stubby cigar, tousled hair and (apparently) confused attitude, Columbo rambles around in his old Peugeot, doggedly following the suspect of a homicide. The attitude and behavior, however, are all an act. Columbo is not confused but acutely aware, like a falcon circling its prey, waiting for a moment of weakness. Columbo bumbles about, often interfering with the activities of the uniformed police and gathering what seem to be the most unimportant clues. All the while he constantly pesters the person he has pegged as his central suspect.
At first even the murderer is amused at the lieutenant's style and usually seems inclined to assume that if this is the best the Los Angeles police can offer, the murder will never be found out. But whenever the suspect seems to be rid of the Lieutenant, Columbo turns with a bemused remark, something like "Oh, there's just one more thing ...." By the end of the episode, Columbo has taken an apparently minor discrepancy in the murderer's story and wound it into the noose with which to hang the suspect. Conclusions often feature a weary, yet agreeable, criminal admitting to his or her guilt as Columbo, in the form of some imaginative turnabout, delivers the final blow. If the suspect is a magician, the Lieutenant uses a magic "trick". If the crime was done by knowledge of movie special effects, Columbo uses similar special effects.
Columbo is the only regular character in the series. There is no grizzled police commissioner, no confidant with whom the case could be discussed. For Columbo, each guest villain becomes something of an ironic "Watson". Columbo and the murderer spend most of the story playing off each other. The Lieutenant discusses the twists and turns of the case, the possible motives, the implications of clues with his primary suspect, always rich, powerful, and arrogant, always happy to match wits with the apparently witless policeman on the doorstep. In the end the working-class hero overcomes the wealthy, privileged criminal.
Many influential writers, directors, and producers of the 1980s and 1990s worked on this series. Stephen J. Cannell (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Wiseguy), Peter S. Fisher (Murder, She Wrote), and Steven Bochco (L. A. Law, Hill Street Blues) were writers. Dean Hargrove (Matlock, Perry Mason) and Roland Kibbee (Barney Miller) were producers. The premiere episode was directed by a very young Steven Spielberg. Each episode featured a well-known character actor or minor star as the murderer.
Columbo won seven Emmys over the first run of the series, including three for Falk and one for the series itself. Columbo spawned only one spin-off, NBC's short-lived, Mrs. Columbo (name later changed to Kate Columbo, Kate the Detective, and Kate Loves a Mystery) with Kate Mulgrew in the title role. This series played against Columbo in several ways. Instead of Mrs. Columbo being absent each episode, the lieutenant was "unavailable". And here the plot followed the traditional detective format instead of the inverted one. It is not clear what caused this series to fail, but Mrs. Columbo was ill fated and ill advised. Both Link and Levinson disavowed it and Falk disliked the concept.
Following the success of Raymond Burr's return as Perry Mason in a series of Made-for-Television Movies, Falk returned to Columbo on 6 February 1989, for a new "mystery wheel" concept (this time on ABC and alternating with Burt Reynolds in B. L. Stryker and Lou Gossett, Jr., in Gideon Oliver). Just as he left Rock Hudson and Dennis Weaver behind during his original run, the rumpled detective was the only one of the new "wheel" to survive. Indeed, like the character, Columbo always seems to be coming back as if to say "Oh, there's just one more thing..." Written by Dennis Bounds
TV PILOT EPISODES:
(As NBC World Premiere Movies)
Prescription: Murder (2/20/1968)
Ransom For A Dead Man (3/1/1971)
EPISODES LIST WITH ORIGINAL AIR DATES: The First Season 1. Murder By The Book (9/15/1971) 2. Death Lends A Hand (10/6/1971) 3. Dead Weight (10/27/1971) 4. Suitable For Framing (11/17/1971) 5. Lady In Waiting (12/15/1971) 6. Short Fuse (1/19/1972) 7. Blueprint For Murder (2/9/1972)
The Second Season 8. Etude In Black (9/17/1972) 9. The Greenhouse Jungle (10/15/1972) 10. The Most Crucial Game (11/5/1972) 11. Dagger Of The Mind (11/26/1972) 12. Requiem For A Falling Star (1/21/1973) 13. A Stitch In Crime (2/11/1973) 14. The Most Dangerous Match (3/4/1973) 15. Double Shock (3/25/1973)
The Third Season 16. Lovely But Lethal (9/23/1973) 17. Any Old Port In A Storm (10/7/1973) 18. Candidate For Crime (11/4/1973) 19. Double Exposure (12/16/1973) 20. Publish Or Perish (1/18/1974) 21. Mind Over Mayhem (2/10/1974) 22. Swan Song (3/3/1974) 23. A Friend In Deed (5/5/1974)
The Fourth Season 24. An Exercise In Fatality (9/15/1974) 25. Negative Reaction (10/6/1974) 26. By Dawn's Early Light (10/27/1974) 27. Troubled Waters (2/9/1975) 28. Playback (3/2/1975) 29. A Deadly State Of Mind (4/27/1975)
The Fifth Season 30. Forgotten Lady (9/14/1975) 31. A Case Of Immunity (10/12/1975) 32. Identity Crisis (11/2/1975) 33. A Matter Of Honor (2/1/1976) 34. Now You See Him (2/29/1976) 35. Last Salute To The Commodore (5/2/1976)
The Sixth Season 36. Fade In To Murder (10/10/1976) 37. Old Fashioned Murder (11/28/1976) 38. The Bye Bye Sky/High I.Q. Murder Case (5/22/1977)
The Seventh Season 39. Try And Catch Me (11/21/1977) 40. Murder Under Glass (1/30/1978) 41. Make Me A Perfect Murder (2/28/1978) 42. How To Dial A Murder (4/15/1978) 43. The Conspirators (5/13/1978)
The Eighth Season 44. Columbo Goes To The Guillotine (2/6/1989) 45. Murder, Smoke, And Shadows (2/27/1989) 46. Sex And The Married Detective (4/3/1989) 47. Grand Deceptions (5/1/1989)
The Ninth Season 48. Murder, A Self Portrait (11/25/1989) 49. Columbo Cries Wolf (1/20/1990) 50. Agenda For Murder (2/10/1990) 51. Rest In Peace, Mrs Columbo (3/31/1990) 52. Uneasy Lies The Crown (4/28/1990) 53. Murder In Malibu (5/14/1990)
The Tenth Season 54. Columbo Goes To College (12/9/1990) 55. Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health (2/20/1991) 56. The Murder Of A Rock Star (4/29/1991)
The Eleventh Season 57. It's All In The Game (10/31/1993) 58. Butterfly In Shades Of Grey (1/10/1994) 59. Undercover (5/2/1994)
TV Specials:
Death Hits The Jackpot (12/15/1991)
No Time To Die (3/15/1992)
A Bird In The Hand (11/22/1992)
Strange Bedfellows (5/8/1995)
A Trace of Murder - 25th Anniversary (5/15/1997)
Ashes to Ashes (10/8/1998)
Murder With Too Many Notes (1999)
Columbo Like the Nightlife (2003)
Qus: 5).What is the phone number Of the location?
Ans: Phone number of the location is - Police dep. : 911
