Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.

Saturday marks 96 years since the great Peter Falk was born (9-16-27), which strikes us as a great reason to revisit a detective drama as timeless as it is entertaining. In the whole of television ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It was a classic TV series that launched and defined an entire genre. Its title character is one ...