COLUMBO: A TRACE OF MURDER Tonight, 9 o’clock, ABC. WHEN Peter Falk first played the character of Columbo on television, in the 1968 “Prescription: Murder” telemovie, his fellow TV detectives included ...

QUESTION: While watching the recent Columbo movie, I remembered reading that Peter Falk wasn’t the only actor to play Columbo. Am I confused? C.R., Altamonte Springs. ANSWER: Not at all. Although Falk ...

“Columbo: A Trace of Murder”: It has been 25 years since Peter Falk’s trenchcoated, seemingly squirrelly Los Angeles detective made his first television appearance. And while the original series ran ...

One of the most accomplished television, movie, and stage actors to ever create a pop culture icon, Peter Falk was Columbo, and he was also a helluva a lot more than that, too. His work in movies such ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. On June 14, 1997 ...