Coming Soon To the Blog: MONDAYS WITH COLUMBO

(Revised 11/28/2025)

You know, it's been a while since I've live blogged a show without the words "Doctor" and "Who" in the title. Although I fully intend to do that for Series Nine, I thought I would take advantage of a currently up-and-coming trend.

With two podcasts and a blog focusing on the show, the Columbo series is making a bit of a comeback. Perhaps a slow, deliberate style of storytelling seems antiquated in this multi-arc, rapid-fire media climate....but there's something genuinely unique about Columbo

It's one of the few franchises that I remember (barely) as a child but reconnected with during the 1980s revival. (The release of The Columbo Phile: A Casebook  helped immensely, and it's also available for free streaming via Tubi). It was also one of the early spurs of my then-college-era writing career, leading me to develop a spec treatment for a possible episode.

(You can see the results here. and no, I can't find the treatment. Nor my high-school-era story proposal for Doctor Who).

So here's how this will (more than likely) work:

• My focus will be on the 1970s "NBC" era - I don't have copies of the ABC movies, and if memory serves, they weren't necessarily that good.
• Posts would happen every other Monday, giving me time to enjoy the episodes and providing a cushion for writing delays. 
• I'll review the episodes in random order, simply because going chronologically would get boring. Plus, there's a greater sense of discovery (in addition to the fact that, with each episode being 70 - 90 minutes, it can get boring).

So please hop onto Tubi if you want to watch along! 

Oh, and just one more thing: I'm open to debate. I'll just be posting my reactions and insights, rather than plain information. You're more than welcome to debate me at any time.

Looking forward to this - if anything, it should help me reflex my blogging muscles.