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Columbo FAQ (actual questions with answers)

Question: Who has got the original raincoat of Columbo nowadays?
Answer: The original raincoat is owned by Peter Falk, who keeps it at his home. The second one is perhaps still at Universal Studios and they use it for each new episode.
Question: What is the title and the author of the music in the film "Make me a perfect murder"?
Answer: The film music was written by Patrick Williams, who has written the music for seven films in the Columbo series, but you can't buy this sound track.
Question: What was the make and model of Columbo's car?
Answer: In the film "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health" Columbo says it is "a 1950 Peugeot - They're very rare". In fact it is a 1959 Peugeot convertible, Model 403. (from: ULCS)
Question: What is Peter Falk's autograph address?
Answer: Peter Falk, Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, USA
Question: In what film can you see Columbo's (not Peter Falk's!) woman?
Answer: In the Columbo films themselves you can't see Mrs. Columbo. In the Film "Kate Loves a Mystery" a Mrs. Columbo is played by Kate Mulgrew, but that isn't a real Columbo film.
Question: Who is Peter Falk's wife?
Answer: Shera Danese
Question: What kind of cigars does Columbo smoke?
Answer: Columbo doesn't smoke a special kind of cigars. In an episode he says that Mrs. Columbo buys his cigars in a supermarket. Indeed, the cigars you can see in the episodes differ in shape and color.
Question: Where can someone acquire information about "The Trials of O'Brien", starring Peter Falk, Joanna Barnes, Elaine Stritch, and Dolph Sweet? Broadcast on CBS Television Network. Lasting only one season, the episodes totalled 22.
Answer: Peter Falk produced this weekly broadcasted one hour comedy with his own firm "Mayo Productions". He plays the chaotic lawyer Daniel J. O'Brien. The series had good critics, but only few people watched it.
More information on this can be found for example in the (german) book "Columbo-das große Buch für Fans", Block/Fuchs, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag.
Question: Do you know in which month the last Columbo from the seventh series (1977/1978) was broadcast in the US?
Answer: The Columbo film "The Conspirators" was originally aired on May 13th, 1978 in the USA.
Question: Does a book about Columbo exist?
Answer: Yes, for example "The Columbo Phile" (with 45 Columbo episodes).

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