Columbo actor Peter Falk “couldn’t remember” his award-winning role near the end of his life

Crumpled raincoat-wearing ‘Columbo’ is one of the most famous TV detectives of our time; he never failed to leave us on the edge of our seats.

Just when you thought the bad guy might get away with it, the cigar-smoking super sleuth would show up with just “one nagging detail” that he couldn’t let go.

Throughout the 70s the show featured on prime-time television and was then shown less frequently from the late 80s right up to 2003.

For years TV detectives had always been a cut above the criminal masterminds they pursued but Columbo turned that stereotype on its head as a shrewd but scruffy blue-collar homicide detective who outwitted the most influential and wealthy of criminals.Continue reading…