With his rumpled trench coat and half-chewed cigars, not to mention his constantly breaking, decrepit car, Detective Columbo certainly looks like an underdog. But after just a few episodes it becomes ...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective of all, but on TV, there have been other detectives who have been better than ...

Detective Chimp is one of the stranger characters in DC Comics. Despite this, even Batman acknowledges him as the true “World’s Greatest Detective.” However, to help out his old Justice League Dark ...

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Falk, who was best known as the disheveled but deceptively smart TV detective "Columbo," has died at the age of 83. Family members said the actor died peacefully Thursday night at ...

FILE - In this 1974 file photo originally released by NBC, Peter Falk is ahown as homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo in the NBC series, "Columbo." Falk, the stage and movie actor who became ...

There’s something I’ve never loved about the way shows like Columbo, Elsbeth, and Poker Face are structured. We know who did it before the detective even walks into the room. The body’s still warm, ...

The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery ...

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This month, Peacock is running the second season of Poker Face, a mystery show that owes a lot to Columbo, the hit series that ran from 1971 to 1978. Columbo has had a big resurgence of popularity in ...

The single greatest, 10-second television moment of all time didn't happen on Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or on some other modern prestige TV program. It happened in 1971 on the television show ...

The "women in refrigerators" trope as coined by Gail Simone, with "fridging" now a ubiquitous term, sees the partner or loved one of a protagonist murdered or maimed, often in a cruel and unusual ...