My wife has been assembling a whole library of Columbo episodes, and we’ve been enjoying them very much. She most recently acquired “Peter Falk’s 7 Final Columbo Mysteries”–TV specials that aired between 1994-2003. There’s a problem with some of these late Columbo specials: they aren’t Columbo episodes at all. That is, the whole format is … Continue reading When is ‘Columbo’ Not ‘Columbo’?