Columbo(1971)

series - first aired/released 1971-09-15 - audience 8.1

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Directed by Alan J. Levi, Alf Kjellin, Ben Gazzara, Bernard L. Kowalski, Boris Sagal, Daryl Duke, Dennis Dugan, Edward M. Abroms, E.W. Swackhamer, Harvey Hart, Hy Averback, Jack Smight, James Frawley, Jeannot Szwarc, Jeffrey Reiner, Jeremy Kagan, Jonathan Demme, Leo Penn, Nicholas Colasanto, Norman Lloyd, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Falk, Richard Quine, Robert Butler, Robert Douglas, Sam Wanamaker, Steven Spielberg, Ted Post, Vincent McEveety, Walter Grauman

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.