The Color Purple

Columbo (1971–2003) is the classic NBC and ABC crime series you can watch online on iFILM — 10 seasons, 67 episodes, and one permanently rumpled raincoat. Peter Falk played the Los Angeles homicide lieutenant for over three decades and never needed a second outfit.

The show flips the detective format. Each episode opens by showing the audience exactly how the murder was done and who did it. Then Columbo shuffles in — distracted, driving a battered Peugeot, asking questions that seem to go nowhere. The suspects are usually wealthy, polished, and completely certain they've outplayed him. They haven't. His habit of doubling back — "Oh, just one more thing…" — became one of television's most imitated lines.

Produced by Universal Television and NBC Studios, the series earned Falk two Emmy Awards for the role and a place on virtually every list of the greatest TV detectives ever put on screen. Stream all seasons of Columbo online on iFILM.