Lt. Columbo, of rum pled trench coat, cigar and absent-minded-detective-work fame, is coming to Broadway. “Columbo Takes the Rap,” a new mystery by William Link, who, with his writing partner, Richard ...

You probably remember actor Peter Falk as the cigar-chomping TV detective Lt. Columbo, the cop who inevitably arrived at the scene of a high-society crime in a wheezing jalopy and a rumpled raincoat.

I used to say that Lt. Columbo was an ageless character. Well, age may have just caught up with one of television’s most durable, delightful and beloved detectives. Universal Television, which has ...

What the commentaries about Columbo I have read today miss, and what explains a large measure of its international appeal, is that Columbo is the ultimate show about working class resentment of and ...