Before forensic labs, digital tracking, and streaming mega-franchises like CSI or True Detective, television’s sleuths solved crimes with sharp instincts, trench coats, and charm. The 1970s and ’80s ...

The series stars Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective working for the Los Angeles Police Department. His trademarks, the rumpled raincoat, soft-spoken questions, cigar and the famous ...