Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show popularized the inverted detective story format; each episode began by showing the commission of the crime and the perpetrator.
These are all of the greatest 1960's and 1970's detective, crime, police and procedural dramas; many of them, such as "The Rockford Files," also being quite comedic in their own right.