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Columbo - The Complete Series 35 DVDs / Created by Richard Levinson, William Link / Starring: Peter Falk / Sealed DVD Pack - Seasons 1 - 10.2
UPC 5053083193027
REGION 2,4 PAL DVD (Season 1)
REGION 2, 4, 5 PAL DVD (Season 2 - 10.2)
MADE IN THE UK
AUDIO: English 2.0 mono (Season 1-8), English 2.0 Stereo (Season 9-10.2)
SUBTITLES: Seasons 1, 3, 4, 6-10: English.
Season 2: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish.
Season 5: English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish.
Runtime: 86 hrs 51 minutes
English Summary:
Columbo (/kəˈlʌmboʊ/) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less frequently on ABC from 1989 to 2003.
The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective story format, which begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the plot therefore usually has no "whodunit" element, and instead revolves around how a perpetrator known to the audience will finally be caught and exposed (sometimes referred to as a "howcatchem").
All ten seasons of the American detective drama featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo.
Columbo uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.
Season 1 episodes are: 'Murder By the Book', 'Death Lends a Hand', 'Dead Weight', 'Suitable for Framing', 'Lady in Waiting', 'Short Fuse' and 'Blueprint for Murder'.
Season 2 episodes are: 'Étude in Black', 'The Greenhouse Jungle', 'The Most Crucial Game', 'Dagger of the Mind', 'Requiem for a Falling Star', 'A Stitch in Crime', 'The Most Dangerous Match' and 'Double Shock'.
Season 3 episodes are: 'Lovely But Lethal', 'Any Old Port in a Storm', 'Candidate for Crime', 'Double Exposure', 'Publish Or Perish', 'Mind Over Mayhem', 'Swan Song' and 'A Friend in Deed'.
Season 4 episodes are: 'An Exercise in Fatality', 'Negative Reaction', 'By Dawn's Early Light', 'Troubled Waters', 'Playback' and 'A Deadly Sate of Mind'.
Season 5 episodes are: 'Forgotten Lady', 'A Case of Immunity', 'Identity Crisis', 'A Matter of Honor', 'Now You See Him...' and 'Last Salute to the Commodore'.
Season 6 episodes are: 'Fade in to Murder', 'Old Fashioned Murder' and 'The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case'.
Season 7 episodes are: 'Try and Catch Me', 'Murder Under Glass', 'Make Me a Perfect Murder', 'How to Dial a Murder' and 'The Conspirators'.
Season 8 episodes are: 'Columbo Goes to the Guillotine', 'Murder, Smoke and Shadows', 'Sex and the Married Detective' and 'Grand Deceptions'.
Season 9 episodes are: 'Murder: A Self Portrait', 'Columbo Cries Wolf', 'Agenda for Murder', 'Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo', 'Uneasy Lies the Crown' and 'Murder in Malibu'.
Season 10 episodes are: 'Columbo Goes to College', 'Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health', 'Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star', 'Death Hits the Jackpot', 'No Time to Die', 'A Bird in the Hand...', 'It's All in the Game', 'Butterfly in Shades of Grey', 'Undercover', 'Strange Bedfellows', 'A Trace of Murder', 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Murder With Too Many Notes' and 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife'.
Contributors:
Guest Stars
- Robert Culp as Carl Brimmer (Episode: Death Lends a Hand), Paul Hanlon (Episode: The Most Crucial Game), and Dr. Bart Keppel (Episode: Double Exposure)
- Jack Cassidy as Ken Franklin (Episode: Murder by the Book), Riley Greenleaf (Episode: Publish or Perish), and The Great Santini (Episode: Now You See Him...)
- John Cassavetes as Alex Benedict (Episode: Etude in Black)
- Johnny Cash as Tommy Brown (Episode: Swan Song)
- Dick Van Dyke as Paul Galesko (Episode: Negative Reaction)
- Ray Milland as Jarvis Goodland (Episode: The Greenhouse Jungle)
- Jose Ferrer as Dr. Marshall Cahill (Episode: Mind Over Mayhem)
- Donald Pleasence as Adrian Carsini (Episode: Any Old Port in a Storm)
- Louis Jourdan as Paul Gerard (Episode: Murder Under Glass")
- Faye Dunaway as Lauren Staton (Episode: It's All in the Game)
- Lee Grant as Leslie Williams (Episode: Ransom for a Dead Man)
- Ruth Gordon as Abigail Mitchell (Episode: Try and Catch Me)
- Anne Baxter as Nora Chandler (Episode: Requiem for a Falling Star)
- Martin Landau as Dexter/Norman Paris (Episode: Double Shock)
- Walter Koenig as Sgt. Johnson (Episode: Fade in to Murder)
- William Shatner as Ward Fowler (Episode: Fade in to Murder), Fielding Chase (Episode: Butterfly in Shades of Grey)
- Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Barry Mayfield (Episode: A Stitch in Crime)
- Eddie Albert as Maj. Gen. Martin Hollister (Episode: Dead Weight)
- Roddy McDowell as Roger Stanford (Episode: Short Fuse)
- Billy Connolly as Findlay Crawford (Episode: Murder With Too Many Notes)
- Dabney Coleman as Hugh Creighton in (Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star)
- Rip Torn as Leon Lamarr in (Episode: Death Hits the Jackpot)
- Jackie Cooper as Nelson Hayward (Episode: Candidate for Crime)
- Laurence Harvey as Emmett Clayton (Episode: The Most Dangerous Match)
- Robert Vaughn as Hayden Danziger (Episode: Troubled Waters), Charles Clay (Last Salute to the Commodore)
- Janet Leigh as Grace Wheeler (Episode: Forgotten Lady)
- Vera Miles as Viveca Scott (Episode: Lovely But Lethal)
- Ross Martin as Dale Kingston (Episode: Suitable for Framing)
- Gene Barry as Dr. Ray Fleming (Episode: Prescription: Murder)
- Matthew Rhys as Justin Price (Episode: Columbo Likes the Nightlife)
| Genre | Crime drama Detective fiction Neo-noir |
|---|---|
| Created by | Richard Levinson William Link |
| Starring | Peter Falk |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 69 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Philip Saltzman[1] |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 73–98 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television (1971–78, 1989–98, 2002–03) Studios USA (1998–2002) |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC (1968–1978) ABC (1989–2003) |
| Picture format | Film |
| Audio format | Mono (1968-1978) Stereo (1989-2003) |
| Original release | February 20, 1968 – January 30, 2003 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Mrs. Columbo (1979–1980) |
Legendary Peter Falk is a four-time Prime time Emmy®Award winner for his iconic role as the beloved, trenchcoat-wearing Police Lieutenant Columbo. Columbois the landmark series that inspired a genre. Every criminal, every innocent victim (and some not-soinnocentones), and every wily deduction are here in one definitive collection. Seemingly befuddled but always brilliant, the cigar-chomping detective will have youfollowing the clues and asking "just one more thing"until the last case is cracked.
