Columbo - One Original Detective

[darren]

Re: Columbo - One Original Detective

love it.

he always acts as if he has not clue not the full shilling.
it makes the people involved in the crime he is investigating not take him serious and they let things slip.

but he is a very clever man.


yeah this wife of his must be quite a woman.

[spuggybridge]

Re: Columbo - One Original Detective

My other half used to hate this, but after watching the re-runs again she loves Columbo. love the way something innoquous from the begining leads to the eventual downfall of the murderer

[Wirral Writer]

Do all you Columbo fans think that he was one original - and quite quirky - detective? Peter Falk brought such character and charsima to that role, depicting the character so consummately that you almost thought he was real.

Iconic character traits of Columbo were is his ability to have the suspect flustered and tied up in knots as they attempted to evade Columbo's clever questioning and keen eye for the slightest slip up; his crafty way of feigning stupidity, when all the time he certainly knew what he was doing; and, of course, his status symbols like the creased trenchcoat, the old-fashioned-looking car, the dog, and his constant verbal referrals to his "wife", whom we never ever see in the series. The bits of wise-cracking humour he often injected into his character was also a very enjoyable trait.

Like Sherlock Holmes with his deerstalker and Kojak with his lollipops, Columbo is certainly a fictional detective that will never ever be forgotten. Do you all agree?