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He's the dishevelled detective, dismissed by his suspects as an erratic pest, but little do they know this keen investigator is lulling them into a false sense of security. His rumpled trench coat, bumbling speech, chomped cigar, battered Peugeot 403 convertible and lazy Basset Hound, simply named "Dog", all help paint a portrait of a cop out of his depth, but we know it's just a matter of time before the evidence is revealed to ensure criminal conviction.

Voted as one of the top TV detectives of all time, Columbo solves L.A.'s most puzzling crimes which involve him cooking up a storm with a celebrity chef, on the playing field after an unscrupulous team manager, stitching up a surgeon who has committed the cleverest of murders and treading the boards on the London stage.