Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less frequently on ABC from 1989 to 2003.
DVD cover art for the first season
Martin Landau and Falk in the 1973 episode "Double Shock," in which Landau played a dual role as twins
Richard Kiley and Falk in Season 3 Episode 8, "A Friend in Deed", 1974
Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo, 1973
Peter Michael Falk was an American film and television actor, comedian, singer and television director and producer. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award (1973). In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk No. 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.
Falk as Lt. Columbo in 1973
On the television game show You Don't Say! in 1967
Peter Falk in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
With Natalie Wood in Penelope (1966)
