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Mrs. Columbo (later called Kate Columbo, Kate the Detective, and Kate Loves a Mystery) is an American crime drama television series, initially based on the wife of Lieutenant Columbo, the title character from the television series Columbo. It was created and produced by Richard Alan Simmons and Universal Television for NBC, and stars Kate ...
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Mrs. Columbo: Created by Richard Alan Simmons. With Kate Mulgrew, Henry Jones, Lili Haydn, Don Stroud. Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her little daughter.
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- 1979-02-26
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 60
Columbo was never seen on Mrs. Columbo; each episode featured the resourceful Mrs. Columbo, here given the first name Kate, solving a murder mystery she encountered in her work as a newspaper reporter.
Oct 10, 2022 · Mrs. Columbo was not a police detective, but an investigative reporter, and was most certainly not slovenly. She still had a laidback and straightforward demeanor, but Mrs. Columbo was...
- Witney Seibold
Oct 21, 2015 · From its first moments, Murder by the Book is genre-defining. The episode features many of the great elements that would make Columbo the best detective drama of all time: a wickedly clever crime; a near-perfect alibi; and an epic confrontation between two supremely contrasting leading stars.
Kate Columbo, the elusive wife of the famous L.A. homicide detective, mother of their loving little daughter, hard-working reporter and master snoop in her own right, overhears the neighbor plotting the death of his wife.
The series also changed its title three times during its run, from Mrs. Columbo to Kate Columbo and then to Kate the Detective and finally to Kate Loves a Mystery, before getting canceled. In all, only one season (1979–80) of about a dozen episodes aired on NBC , giving the show quite possibly the highest titles-to-episodes ratio in TV history.
