or the niece or the nephew...:).

Not to mention his Wife! 😂

It was his way of playing dumb. Instead of asking the inciteful questions directly, he'd invent a family member to take the credit.

@@KenFullman Ah, but is his wife fictional? 😉

I thought the brother-in-law was a lawyer. The family is proud of him.

He also see details others Don t even notice!!

columbo is 100% the smartest guy in the room at all times. he isn't to most well read, skilled, cultured, or accomplished, but his pattern recognition and ability to read situations is well in advanced of everyone around him. he does his scruffy unassuming guy schtick to help normal people feel comfortable around him, and he does it to annoy the blowhards who automatically assume they have an easy mark

Don't forget his good luck basset hound!

Lol

@aliasannie1 yes that's right. There were a number of actors and actresses who had appeared in Columbo several times. Leslie Nelson played a murder victim and a friend of a murder suspect in two different episodes. George Hamilton and Patrick Macgee (I think that was his name) played murderers in a few episodes too. But there was only ever on Peter Falk and no one could play the role of Columbo.

A favorite of mines, The nun actress and many, many more.

mc finn ( Hear i show you the quickes way down.

mc finn " thanks just go right to it.

Ha ha I remember this one,he was at the soup kitchen looking for a homeless man who had eyewitnessed something,and the nun thought Columbo was homeless LOL.Negative Reaction was the episode's name!!!

Very true

Yeah thanks, we never would have understood it otherwise.

Dr. Bruce Lipton says people dont have problems because they have mind, people have problems because they have two minds, a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. When you do something for the first time you operate from a conscious mind that works 1 - 5 percent. When you do something repetitivelly, like 100 times, you operate from a subconscious mind that works 99 - 95 percent of the day. The conscious mind is very creative and it's about free will and positive thinking, but has a very slow processor only 1 - 5 percent, it works 40 bits of information per second. the subconscious mind is very fast, the subconscious mind is the original brain and body, it works the same way as a computer program it works 40 million bits of information per second. The subconscious mind is habitual, it plays only what it learned. When Columbo learns something for the first time, he is very slow, at focusing, his mind is about free will, very creative, but his mind works only 40 bits of information per second. When he does something repetitively his mind works a million times faster, he operates from the subconscious mind, 40 million bits of information per second. The subconscious mind is a million times faster, but it's habitual, it's not creative and it doesn't contain free will unless you reprogram your mind in some way. Dr. Bruce Lipton says people are aware of 1 - 5 percent of reality. People have 60 - 80,000 thoughts a day, but they are aware only of 100 thoughts a day. Dr. Joe Dispnza says 90 percent have the same thoughts as the day before because most people live in the past. Dr. Bruce Lipton says that when you fall in love with a person, with hobbies or with life, you are much more self-aware because you want to make an impression. You are self-aware up to 5 percent. He calls it the honeymoon effect. Therefore positive thinking rarely works, because positive thinking is a program of conscious mind that works only 1 - 5 percent. so the subconscious mind over-writes the positive thinking, but when you are in love and operate from a place of love, empathy gratitude and you see loving people you become a much more positive person with positive programs. Because it becomes habitual, you practice meditation, metacognition, energy psychology etc.

Yeah, but thats not really humility, in fact it's an even more condescending pride than the out and out variety.

@@1squeamishneophyte Also he doesn't try to intimidate the layman because he doesn't have any interest in doing so. He's eccentric giving the appearance of genuinely humble when in reality under that mask he's a shrewd trickster.

@@1squeamishneophyte It's a trick..he played dumb so the villain would underestimate him...

@@mikepatrick5909 Yeah, that was my point, thanks...............................

I honestly think, and this is a huge part of the charm, is that he really is an average guy who identifies with the average man. He plays it up to lull the arrogant into complacency, but he's really not a genius. He's smart for sure, but most of all he enjoys the work and he has a terrier's tenacity. It's mostly hard work and experience. He has what Malcolm Gladwell calls blink. It seems like an uncanny nose he has, but it's really just been honed through a lot of years of dedication. Basically, we could all be Columbo's in our own way. And he never let any of it go to his head: he knows he's good, but it's the job--the challenge--that he loves. He's not looking for medals; he thrives on the satisfaction of solving the problem. Otherwise, he's happy with his life. That's what makes him so lovable--he's still one of us.

i dont get it

​@@hasan_z A year later, and neither do I.

I don’t get it.

Can someone please explain this joke?

I believe it was Shawshank Redemption, but I may be wrong.

Columbo and The Murder of the Rock Star. The perp is an attorney and he kills his mistress that's cheating on him. That scene cracks me up too.

It was Shawshank Redemption, the movie took place where they just introduced the Miranda Laws, so the officer reading them doesn’t have them memorized. It’s a nice touch

But there was an eyewitness to the crime! 😂

Agreed

Around the year 1983 (?) I seem to remember somebody had a phone in their car, and a beeper on his belt. Not sure if the phone had a wire, attaching it to the console, or no wire (?). The phone was very thick and clunky / heavy.

I might have the year wrong!?

My first one was a Nokia which was just smaller than a brick and almost as heavy. But the battery lasted for days.

When was that? By the mid 60's, there were over a million cell phones in use in the USA.

@@fjccommish I don't know if you actually meant the mid-90s, but your comment is really strange.

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They were close friends, I suppose he was laughing real

Love 'fake' laughs. Always crack me up.

@@MxJuneReese It also ties in the the fact that so many Jewish people were in the garment trade.

Yes it is and, none of his other(three)Columbo baddies laughed that way. All of them were distinctly different and, wonderfully, fully realised characters/portrayals. That's even when he was directing the episode. (BTW, "Candidate For Crime"''s my favourite.)

@@Septymus :last time I viewed the episode(about my 25th as a...it's a favourite and, b...I've got the DVD set)that was the(final)conclusion I drew. Mc.Goohan broke character, there. And, it works!

Tickled me that 😂

Star Trek was ahead of its time.

@@janicesullivan8942 It took me a few moments too :) :)

His raincoat is in the Smithsonian, but not the car.

If you r a true follower you would know that he whistles letting the audience know they the guilty person......when he has it figured out

I always found it ironic like he was asking for a clue, you know give a dog a bone lmao. Too much irony in this show and I love it.

Oh and one more thing. That coffee machine only takes change, right? Can I use it?

It's been very disappointing to come home these past few Saturday afternoons, hoping to see that a new full episode has been uploaded, only to be denied.

I bought the DVD set which reveals how much I love these.

Like a poor man's Vincent Price laugh.

That's what I figured, too. I'd gladly tolerate commercials, just like on regular TV, if it meant being able to see more full episodes.

That makes sense!!

I do love the short Columbo clips.

I enjoy all the episodes on dvd, no commercials and uncut

filmnoir50 they should go like the person who uploaded new episodes of the Golden Girls. About half way thru you get some cool music. You tap twice and it plays the rest of the episode. ( no commercials).

Are you Karen’s sister?

LOL... I never picked up on that one, classic Columbo.

R W. 💜

Love almost all his shows

Please put Columbor back on the weekends sat and sunday at 7 oclock in the morning we miss those shows so much dont be so mean put him on

I’ve seen every episode at least three times ...!!!

You would also need a metal roof for the magnetic light to attach to, not a convertible roof like Columbo had.

Locktwiste72 , Yes makes me want one 2 snack.

Great profile though the Lieutenant doesn't have a first name.

kendall rivers Actually, he does. It’s visible on his ID card in one episode.

It's Frank....

Netflix has some of the Columbo episodes.

Comes with always getting your man (or woman). 💪

Pretty sure detective is a rank above uniformed officers.

Mydrama.cc has it all on their website and you can stream it for free. Thankfully Columbo is one of their free shows.

There's a 1987 movie, Der Himmel über Berlin with Bruno Ganz, and Peter Falk is in it. Falk walks through West Berlin talking to himself about his mother or grandmother I don't remember and "spazieren she used to call it". He walks by an outdoor market and a couple of people say "Columbo". I don't know if it was planned. One thing interesting I noticed there's graffiti all over the west side of the wall and an immaculate east side. The film centers on two angels talking, and they actually fit the look of the east side wall better. I'm also curious about how they got permission to film on the east side next to the wall.