History Trivia / Columbo

* ReferencedBy: The Nifty version of ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'' says that the detective series that Jamie watches at Graham's house is , the ASSTR version drops the explicit reference to the name but still refers to a detective with a raincoat.

* BetterExportForYou: The entire series was released on Blu-ray as a set, even including the NBC revival...albeit only in Japan in 2011. It wouldn't be until 2024 when the US would finally have the show released in that format with a similar set in some form as well, 13 years later. (And even then it actually still isn't even the complete series per say, as it only included the original NBC run/first seven seasons and not the NBC revival, being left out, whereas the Japanese set had both runs. The last three seasons/ABC seasons have yet to be released in the format, so this is still an example of this trope.)

* ReferencedBy: The Nifty version of ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'' says that the detective series that Jamie watches at Graham's house is '''', the ASSTR version drops the explicit reference to the name but still refers to a detective with a raincoat.

* BetterExportForYou: The entire series was released on Blu-ray as a set, even including the NBC revival...albeit only in Japan in 2011. It wouldn't be until 2024 when the US would finally have the show released in that format with a similar set as well, 13 years later. (And even then it actually still isn't even the complete series per say, as it only included the original NBC run/first seven seasons and not the NBC revival, whereas the Japanese set had both runs. The last three seasons/ABC seasons have yet to be released in the format, so this is still a example of this trope.

* BetterExportForYou: The show doesn't have an American Blu-ray release, but did receive a complete series Blu-ray in Japan.

* UnfinishedEpisode: A few years prior to his death, Creator/PeterFalk had expressed interest in returning to the role. In 2007, he claimed he had chosen a script for one last episode, "Columbo: Hear No Evil". The script was renamed "Columbo's Last Case". Creator/{{ABC}} declined the project. In response, producers for the series announced that they were attempting to shop the project to foreign production companies. However, Falk was diagnosed with dementia in late 2007.

* FakeBrit: Richard Basehart is a British actor in "Dagger of the Mind".

** Creator/PeterFalk directed "Blueprint for Murder" (given he was the show's only regular, it could hardly be anyone else). Richard Levinson and William Link, then the show's producers, admitted that they'd given Falk an episode to direct to shut him up, and furthermore, gave him what they felt was the hardest script to film. They were surprised, not only by the fantastic job he did directing the episode, but also by the fact that he brought it in well under budget.

** Falk has said in his opinion during the NBC run Columbo was not actually married. The stories of his wife were all part of his ruse to make suspects underestimate him. In the ABC episodes this theory could no longer hold water, as they included mentions of other characters interacting with the wife, one episode ("Troubled Waters") where she is stated to be present aboard the cruise liner where the episode takes place but is never directly seen, as well as an entire episode in which the wife of a former arrest tried to murder her, which ends with him speaking to her on the phone.

** Falk has said in his opinion during the NBC run Columbo was not actually married. The stories of his wife were all part of his ruse to make suspects underestimate him. In the ABC episodes this theory could no longer hold water, as they included mentions of other characters interacting with the wife, one episode ("Troubled Waters") where she is stated to be present aboard the cruise liner but never directly seen, as well as an entire episode in which the wife of a former arrest tried to murder her, which ends with him speaking to her on the phone.

** Falk has said in his opinion during the NBC run Columbo was not actually married. The stories of his wife were all part of his ruse to make suspects underestimate him. In the ABC episodes this theory could no longer hold water, as they included mentions of other characters interacting with the wife (although the episode "Troubled Waters" also mentions her existence as seen by the ship's crew) as well as an entire episode in which the wife of a former arrest tried to murder her, which ends with him speaking to her on the phone.