A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
"Murder by the Book" launched a series that made the rumpled detective Columbo into a cultural icon. It also provided career foundations for Steven Bochco and Steven Spielberg, a pair of youngsters ...
From anthology to stage-play, movie to pilot, Columbo took the long road to becoming an icon. “We’re showing this installment of the ‘Chevy Mystery Show,’ not for what it is, but (as) … the ...
It was 50 years ago this month that the classic Columbo episode, ‘By Dawn’s Early Light’ written by Howard Berk, first aired on television. Now, carrying on the family writing tradition, Howard’s son, ...
Before Steven Spielberg was THE Steven Spielberg, he was a young 22-year-old TV director working under contract for Universal Studios. In the early 1970s, directing TV was not nearly as glamorous a ...
Most people remember the “NBC Sunday Mystery Movie” because it included the classic “Columbo,” starring Peter Falk. But the original didn’t have a name, and originated in 1966, when the NBC Television ...
When it comes to television detectives, few are greater than Columbo. From 1971-1978, Peter Falk’s intrepid investigator solved mystery after mystery on prime time. He always ended his investigations ...
From 1968 through 1978, and then again from 1989 to 2003, the rich and powerful, the haughty and the vain, all feared one man; a man who looked like he had forgotten to comb his hair and couldn’t ...