Peter Falk

I’m thinking a lot about the career of Peter Falk. To most people he’ll always be Columbo, but even if he never played Columbo, he had one heck of a career. There’s Mikey and Nicky, A Woman Under the Influence (both made during his Columbo years) and the original (and far superior) The In-Laws ("Serpentine, Shel."), with Alan Arkin. He even plays himself as a fallen angel in Wings of Desire. Not too shabby.
The Columbo season one disk brought memories of watching the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie as a little kid. Disk one had two early Columbo made for TV movies, Prescription: Murder (1968) and Ransom for a Dead Man (1971). The basics were there in 1968, but he was a bit edgier then. (In one scene he brow beats a young actress!) But by 1971, he was the Columbo I remember. I’m looking forward to disk two.