Via @jon_rauch I gratefully learn: the classic Columbo series can be viewed on IMDB including this 1971 episode directed by young film upstart, Stephen Spielberg imdb.com/tv/watch/tt006…
@jon_rauch The 1971 episode opens with a sound I had not heard in many many years: the click-click-click of an IBM Selectric typewriter. Felt like home.
@jon_rauch And of course there is a fansite devoted to Columbo's raincoat columbo-site.freeuk.com/raincoat.htm
@jon_rauch Can't decide which I liked more, Lt. Columbo marveling over an elevator in which the buttons don't have to be pressed because they respond to body heat - or the murderer explaining to the victim how to place a direct call to Los Angeles from San Diego. "The area code is 213."
@jon_rauch OTOH, probably nobody now under 16 understands how an area code worked either ...
