This Scene Wasn’t Edited, Look Closer at the Columbo Blooper

Who’s your favorite TV detective? The classic era gave plenty of choices, but Columbo stands out as one of the most unique.

▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Columbo the Evidence Tamperer
01:07 - Obfuscating Stupidity
01:52 - Reaching Confessions
02:12 - Does Columbo Have One Eye?
02:47 - Disappearing/Reappearing Items
03:53 - Eyes Open
04:20 - Name Changes
05:12 - Facts About Columbo the Show
07:58 - Outro

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The character has been spoofed on TV shows and magazines around the world. There’s even a statue of him in Hungary. Columbo had an uncanny ability to find the exact evidence to get a confession, even if it was as small as a shoelace. Like the best TV cops, his exceptional skills didn’t keep him from being relatable.

Columbo was always portrayed as a regular man from New York whose focus was on doing his job. His goal was to make sure no one could get away with a crime just because they were well-off. All he needed was a cigar, his dog, and his wife, who the world never saw on screen. The show lasted for decades, and fans started to ask questions. Did Columbo actually have a glass eye like the actor who portrayed him? Why did he hide what he knew or hide evidence in his pocket so often? How does he always manage to get a confession?

Eagle-eyed fans also noticed a few bloopers. Items tended to disappear or reappear between shots. Characters would refer to buildings with different names in the same episode. If you looked closely enough, you could even spot corpses suddenly opening their eyes. These goofs didn’t make fans stop loving the crime show. They’d tune in to every episode to see how Columbo would solve his next case.

The show also attracted actors who would become major names. Dick Van Dyke, Faye Dunaway, Leonard Nimoy, and Johnny Cash all showed up for a piece of the action.Like and subscribe for more investigations into great classic crime shows. Watch our video to learn about the best Columbo facts and bloopers.

This Scene Wasn’t Edited, Look Closer at the Columbo Blooper

[thisisme]

Columbo is and always will be my favorite show. Peter Faulk has such a unique personality and always makes any episode interesting, no matter how many times you've seen a particular episode. Wasn't aware that "Columbo" episodes ran 30+ years...thanks for the update, Facts Verse!

[YOUR-LOCAL]

I don’t care if there were bloopers. I loved every episode!

[roberttelarket]

One of the greatest episodes is the one with Leonard Nimoy as a surgeon and the surgical sutures!

[kimkelly]

Peter Falk was a wonderful actor, and nobody could do Columbo like him.

[robertwheatley]

Iconic show. The show's first run in the 70's had better episodes mainly due to the writing and the storylines. The villains were household names which made them better as well..

[castielmaverickwentworth]

Peter Falk actually made up that famous line he always says just one more thing... lmao 🤣 there was one time where the scene was over and there were no more lines and he just put it in there. Lmao 🤣

[StanSwan]

Something about the show on a lazy Sunday watching an episode just feels like being at home. Even seeing them all many times you still notice details you did not think mattered after all those years. Just very well done. The 90s episodes lack the feel of the old ones but still are fun to watch.

[jackdavis]

Mark Wilson was the technical advisor for the Bill Bixby series, "The Magician"

[michaeltaylor]

My mom turned me into the show. The same ones Peter liked "I" liked. The murderers became even MORE interesting as time went on. Patrick McGoohan was one of my favs. Murder Under Glass & The Conspirators are among my favorites as well. When he whistles "This old man" It "breaks me UP" You know the booM is about to be lowered!

[fmj]

I love Columbo. I was a kid in the 70s and watched it then. My wife gave me a few of the seasons on DVD so now we watch it together. She had never heard of it until I got her to watch it with me.

[Saor_Alba]

I was a big fan of the Columbo series when I was a teenager, I recently began watching it again when a friend told me they had acquired the complete series on DVD and knowing I was once a huge fan she loaned them to me. I found it a rather strange experience to watch it again after so many years, it is amazing how your memory plays tricks on you and you misremember events that you thought happened and didn't. Especially noticed the obvious plot holes I missed when I first watched the series, and the slightly comedic palaver about some high-tech Columbo had run across in an episode. Like the Fax Machine in Agenda For Murder, the golfball electric Typewriter in Now You See Him, and not to forget the miraculous (Roby) Robot in Mind Over Mayhem. :)

[jeanjerome]

My favourite episode is Swan Song with Johnny Cash. I like the bit in the parachute factory.

[gregorylapointe]

Columbo hums "this old man" when he figures out the crime. That was an unofficial way of letting the audience know he was on to the killer. That's my opinion any way after watching his episodes a lot.

[noahellis]

I have so many favorites that it's hard to pick one as the best. In an interview he did with someone I remember how he enjoyed making the episode where he uncovered the food critic, played by Louis Jourdan, as the murderer who was blackmailing restaurant owners that if they pay what he wants he will give them regular good reviews. Falk said that his character, Columbo, was supposed to eat or sample fancy foods at a variety of restaurants as he tries to uncover the clues to the murderer. He had to do several takes for some of these scenes which he said was okay with him because he had to sample really delicious foods but by the end of shooting that episode he said he may have picked up 5 or 10 pounds. I get hungry every time I watch that episode but also smile about him eating all that food in multiple takes.

[lilythomas]

In etude in black he points out suspects car had exact mileage from his orchestra to murder scene. He called it speedometer instead of odometer.

[roosatlgany]

You missed two things: (1) Faulk was not Italian, but Jewish; and (2) his real life wife played characters in several episodes.

[roberttelarket]

One of the greatest episodes and my favorite is the one with Leonard Nimoy as a surgeon and the surgical sutures!

[michaelgutman]

I like the episode on the screenshot. Columbo genuinely likes the murderer, Donald Pleasance. I think that Columbo knows what a rotten brother he had and feels sorry for him. Columbo shares a bottle of wine with him before arresting him.
Touching and great.

[jamesporter]

My Top 5 Columbo Episodes (in no order)
- Any Port in a Storm
- Double Exposure
- Try and Catch Me
- Identity Crisis
- Now You See Him

[stevemcnary]

I liked the episodes with Robert Conrad, Patrick MacGoohan, Jack Cassidy, Leslie Nielsen among others.