Columbo didn't operate like the typical detective series, and star Peter Falk knows why audience loved the character from the very start.

For more than 40 years, Peter Falk entered living rooms around the world as Lieutenant Columbo, an unconventional L.A. homicide detective known for his rumpled raincoat and trademark cigar.

Five-time Emmy winner Peter Falk, detective " Lt. Columbo," and executive producer on the ABC television network's "Columbo Like The Nightlife," comments Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003, on the return of ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with ...

The star, who died in 2011, won four Emmys for the role and called himself “grateful” to the fans who embraced Lieutenant Columbo. “I fell in love with the character,” Peter said.

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 ...

Peter Falk , the raspy-voiced actor who won four Emmy Awards as the deceptively rumpled homicide detective Lt. Columbo, a character he played on television for more than 30 years, died June 23 at h… ...

Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo in a 1974 publicity image for the season three episode "Swan Song." (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images) It delights me no end that Peter Falk and ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with ...