Columbo: Difference between revisions

* [[Actor Allusion]]: George Costanzo has a cameo in ''Columbo Goes To The Guillotine'', playing a bar owner who happens to be a retired police sergeant. Costanzo was a police officer before he became an actor.

* [[The Alleged Car]]: An ancient silver Peugeot, of all things. Asked about it, Columbo affects great pride in owning "a classic car. Yeah, my car's a French car."

* [[Always Gets His Man]]: In the final Patrick McGoohan episode, Columbo tells him that yes, he ''does'' always get his man.

** Well, almost always. In one case, he let the perp go (she was dying of a brain disease, and had actually forgotten she had committed the murder), and in another he accepted one killer's confession on the condition that her accomplice (her daughter) would not be arrested.

** The suspect in "No Time To Die" wasn't technically caught either, as he was shot dead by police officers.

*** And in "A Deadly State Of Mind," Dr. Mark Collier actually gets away with Carl Donner's murder, then uses hypnosis to trick the late Donner's wife (Collier's lover) Nadia into diving off a balcony to her death, and in the denouement Columbo, ''for the only time'', admits defeat. Sort of...

* [[And Another Thing]]: The entire show lives off this trope; it's Columbo's speciality, but many other characters end up doing it once or twice in their episode as well.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: He's a police Lieutenant who wears a raincoat, drives a car that [[The Alleged Car|literally falls apart when he parks it]], and keeps popping up when the villians least expect it. Oh, just one more thing... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcYILNS6Ds&NR=1 he's played by the dog from "Wacky Races"].