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** The biggest example was ''Columbo Cries Wolf''- the case had already drawn massive media attention, and Columbo wanted to dig up a significant portion of a large estate to look for a body that may or may not have been buried there, and likely was not as the suspect had dared him to dig up the land. Columbo's reasonings for this were also rather thin(sound, maybe, but thin). Not to mention the massive expense of digging up that much land(which he apparently forgot about from such an endeavor in the first season's ''Blueprint for Murder''). The mayor of Los Angeles decides to approve of this anyway, even based on thin evidence, just because it's Columbo who wants it done.

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: In common with many detective series of the period once their creators got bored with the standard milieu. Wherever Columbo goes to relax, somebody else will die.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Just one more thing..." before he asks the question that gives the offender away.

* [[Conviction by Contradiction]]