Columbo – The Complete First Season Columbo The Complete First Season 1971 (Universal-2004) Columbo had them at hello. The fun in watching TV’s greatest detective is not merely in piecing together murder mysteries along with him – he’s way past the sniffing stage, and besides, we’ve already spent the first twenty-five minutes witnessing the actual killing, the reasons leading up to the murder (usually strangely justified) and the careful steps of the cover up (usually air tig