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Columbo TV Series
I looked at the IMDB TV series Columbo and I noticed all the seasons and episodes after the first seven years have now been deleted. It used to show all the seasons / episodes (60+) which I believe were 19 years. What happened?
Col_Needham
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2 years ago
@Heinz57 There’s always been some debate over how to best list this “series” which started as a 1-off TV-movie in 1968 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061496/trivia/?item=tr5289566) then returned in 1971, first as another TV-movie, Ransom for a Dead Man and then as part of a run of The NBC Mystery Movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165051/plotsummary/) which forms the core original “Columbo” series from 1971-1978 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1466074/).
The character returned to TV in a set of TV-movies in 1989 for The ABC Mystery Movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249272/) and beyond, which were marketed less as a series and more a distinct set of separate TV-movies, starting with Columbo Goes to the Guillotine in 1989 -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097083/trivia/ which you can see across Peter Falk’s later filmography -> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000393/
It looks like there’s a year range to tidy-up and some missing “followed by” connections to add so these changes look likely on-going at the moment.
Interestingly, absent of the movie-connections, this keyword view appears to be the best way to list them all in chronological order https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?explore=keywords&role=nm0000393&ref_=filmo_nxt&sort=year,asc&mode=detail&page=1&keywords=howcatchem
Hope this helps.
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Topcat
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2 years ago
The Columbo topic for the TV Show now stops at the end of season 7, and I can't find the episodes from 1989-2003 anywhere!
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awhatrick
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2 years ago
Recently, the dating for Columbo (1971-1978) was extended to included an end-date to the series in 2003, the date of the last television movie. Reading this thread, I see that this is a matter of debate where the series should officially end, but I want to register my complaint that I believe it to have been concluded on the wrong side. Although streaming platforms are retconning (if you will) the television movies that came out between 1989-2003 as eighth, ninth, and tenth seasons, of course, this was not how they were perceived when they were aired. They were television movies. I think that IMDb ought to be faithful to the generic intention of the creators at the time of release rather than to a new perception after the elapse of two decades.
Sincerely,
Aaron Hatrick
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