COLUMBO.

Haven't watched it this weekend but it seems that there have been about eight episodes screened on two or three channels

The channels must buy them as a package - the royalties must be tremendous.

I admire his dress sense..I follow him

He is really loved is he not, he deserves to be

I have seen most of them at least twice

My car is a little better than his though...I am amazed his ever passed the MOT

The car the eye the dog the raincoat the cigar the shoes the wife the chilli the boiled egg the turning back the one more question the pretending to be dumb

I can't understand what he did with his money. He was a police inspector on decent wages.
You'd think he could afford to run a decent car.

It's a RUSE, Dr. Crippen - it's all a feckin' ruse!

Eh what, I thought he played it straight.

I saw Falk as a killer in an early 60s Hitchcock tv show, he was a seriously good actor and that comes out in Columbo if you watch enough of them. Combine that with imaginative story lines and they really stand the test of time, for me. By contrast, I saw a couple of Starsky and Hutches over the weekend and it's like they were written by a 4 year old. The essence of Columbo is that people act in certain ways and when they deviate from that, it must be for a reason.

In case you are as sad an addict as I, you can watch almost all of them in good quality here:

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http://watchseries.lt/serie/columbo

So did I !

You only made the one mistake. Just one more question. I'm sorry to trouble you. It was Mrs Columbo who worked it out. Do you mind if I smoke?

Johnny Cash episode was good.Leonard Nimrod as a nasty surgeon and that weird kid with the robot. Liked the bloodhound. Tyne Daly appeared in two episodes, one as the accused and one as a ****.

I can't understand what he did with his money. He was a police inspector on decent wages.

I forget what his wages were but he often discussed it. Robert Culp even offered him three times as much if he'd come and work for him. But Columbo refused because he'd have to be taken off the case Culp was working, in which Culp was the killer.

''Just one other thing before I forget....I'm arresting you for murder.''

*case he was working on, in which Culp was the killer.

Why does he nearly always ask his "suspect" the following?

"I was wondering if you could help me with an aspect of the case that's been bothering me, sir."

All the "suspect" needs to say is "No" or "Sorry I've got no idea about that."

But they ALL say far too much and drop themselves right in the shoite.

I think it's great, by the way.

Anyone know his first name?
I seem to remember him being called Joe but may be mistaken.

Frank, he showed his badge often and in the digital age it's been frozen and blown up.

Frank.

Francis Albert Sinatra Columbo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7JkTfo1_4

Peter Falk (as Columbo) doing the Frank Sinatra "roast"...