Kojak or Columbo?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[House of Roberts]

1. Kojak

'Who loves ya, baby?'

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. 🤗🍭

[luvallpeeps]

3. Columbo

Although I do dig Kojak, I love Columbo.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 🤗

[LoisB]

4. As much as I liked Kojak, it's Columbo hands down for me.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. 🤗

[Ptah]

5. If Columbo is talking to me

I'm calling Perry Mason.

[jrthin]

9. This is perfect. I cracked up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 😁

[marble falls]

6. Peter Gunn ...

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Second choice: Frank Ballinger (Lee Marvin) in M Squad

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Some of the guest stars:

Joanna Barnes
Charles Bronson
Mike Connor
Terry Burnham
James Coburn
Francis De Sales
Angie Dickinson
Joe Flynn
Alan Hale Jr.
Werner Klemperer
Tom Laughlin
Ruta Lee
DeForest Kelley
John Mitchum
Ed Nelson
Leonard Nimoy
Burt Reynolds
Don Rickles
Rose Marie

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 😵‍💫

[MuseRider]

7. Hands down

Columbo.

Too smart and funny at the same time!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 🤗

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Rewatch a few before your decision

Those 1970s scripts and pace don't age well.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 😬

[jrthin]

10. Columbo, hands down.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 🤗

[Solly Mack]

11. Kolchak. :)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. 😱

[marble falls]

24. My number three choice.

[Solly Mack]

35. I watched some of the other two, but I like a little spark of fear.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Mannix

He was a tough sumbitch.

Mannix is notable for the high level of physical punishment he withstands. During the course of the series, he is shot and wounded over a dozen separate times, and knocked unconscious around 55 times. He frequently takes brutal beatings to the abdomen; some of these went on quite a long time, particularly by the television standards of the era.

He had the foxiest secretary...




...and the hippest theme music.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 😵‍💫

[marble falls]

25. I loved Gail Fisher on Mannix, but she had other talent, too ...

She was a lyricist ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1034

I know she put words to at least two songs.

[True Dough]

13. I'm going with Columbo

Did you know there was a "Mrs. Columbo" series based on his (TV) wife? It only lasted two seasons.

A couple other notable detectives from that era:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. 🤔

[marble falls]

26. How did I forget Rockfort?????

[ms liberty]

27. And Captain Janeaway (Kate Mulgrew) was Mrs Columbo.

I haven't thought about that in years.

[XanaDUer2]

28. Columbo

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. 🤗

[Emile]

30. I always liked Kojak.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. 🤗🍭

[Dorothy V]

32. Sorry, Kojack, I love ya, but ... one other thing ...

it's Gotta be Columbo!
One of his trenchcoats is in the Smithsonian.
His car should be a national monument to moving in spite of itself.
And that dog! Epitome of laziness.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. 🤗

[ArnoldLayne]

34. Mannix, Columbo and McCloud

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. 🤗

[Eugene]

36. Columbo by a hair. Love them both.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 😁

[LogDog75]

37. Columbo, he's smarter than he looks

The thing I like about Columbo is he made the people he was questioning thing they were smart than he was. His style let them answer questions he didn't ask and in the end they hanged themselves. I/ used his technique, to a degree, in the AF when I had to find out who screwed up and no one would own up to it. I did an investigation for a HIPPA violation when someone released some medical information on a female to their friends. I questioned about 10 people recording them, with their knowledge. The final person, whom I suspected of leaking the information, thought he could outfox me so I played like Columbo and got him on tape confessing he leaked the information. Case closed. I still use Columbo's method when I'm talking to people, mainly those I've just met or are acquaintances, when the make an unbelievable statement of fact. Yes, I include "just one more thing."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. 🤗

[Paladin]

41. "Hill Street Blues"

As long as we're talking about great vintage TV cop shows...

(Between the two subject series, I'd go with "Columbo" by a narrow margin.)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. 🤗

[LuckyCharms]

43. I LOVED that show!

[Paladin]

44. I never missed an episode.

Genuinely revolutionary series, for its time.