The official pronouncement of everyone associated with "Columbo" is thatthe character played by Kate Mulgrew, in the series initially called "Mrs Columbo," was married to some other cop who happened to also be named Columbo."Mrs Columbo" was the brainchild of NBC entertainment president Fred Silverman, who hoped to carry on a little of the "Columbo" mystique without Columbo, soon after "Columbo" ended its NBC run. Richard Levinson and William Link regarded the idea as heresy, but Silverman said he'd do it without them. "The magic of Columbo's wife is that you never see her," Levinson protested.Mulgrew's Kate Columbo was a part-time reporter for a pennysaver newspaper, who often found herself engaged in crime-solving.Apart from the off-camera statements by the "Columbo" creators, the shows themselves provide evidence that the Kate Mulgrew character was not the wife of the famous Lieutenant. In one of several major changes over the series, Kate Mulgrew's character was DIVORCED and took on the name Kate Callahan.But it is clearly known in "Columbo" that the Lieutenant has never been divorced. |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: No Rating | |
Released: | February 26, 1979 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Drama Crime Mystery | |
AKA: | Kate Columbo, Kate Loves a Mystery, Kate the Detective, Madame Columbo, Mme Columbo | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | NBC Gambit Productions Bill Driskill Productions Universal Television | |
Cast: | Don Stroud Kate Mulgrew Henry Jones Lili Haydn | |
Crew: | Richard Alan Simmons David Levinson Lawrence Hertzog William Driskill Merwin Gerard Robert Watts Howard Berk James Duff McAdams Larry D. Lester David Nicksay Robert Villar 16 more Thomas Del Ruth Ron Stephenson Bob Manahan Howard S. Deane Dan Franklin Stuart Cohen Carl Vitale John Cacavas Isidore Mankofsky Robert Mayer Brienne Von Glyttov D. Lowell Harris Kenneth D. Peach Jr. John Leimanis Chuck Haggin Samm Smith | |
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