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.
Kate overhears a prominent attorney's plot to eliminate his wife.
A retired Scotland Yard inspector kills in self-defense and tries to cover it, but Madame Columbo is on the case and her persistence is second only to her husband's.
The murder of a renowned puppeteer leads Kate to a ventriloquist who believes the dummy controls him.
Kate uncovers evidence connecting the death of a fashionable Beverly Hills caterer to a love triangle.
Kate suspects villainy when a famous clairvoyant predicts her manager's sudden demise.
Kate has divorced her famous husband, changed her last name back to Callahan, and moved to San Fernando with Jenny to work for a new paper. Her first investigation involves a suspect who claims he didn't murder his wife.
After her colleague is murdered, Kate decides to continue the investigation of a shady local elite country club she was working on for the paper at the time of murder.
Kate goes to jail for refusing to divulge a source of information about the murderer of a restaurateur and his wife.
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Angered at public commotion over the arrest of a suspected strangler, Kate starts her own probe.
False leads frustrate Kate in the disappearance of a restaurateur.
The death of a blackmailing woman threatens a politically ambitious lawyer and Kate's romance with him.
Kate joins a sex-therapy group to investigate the shooting of a member.
Murder evidence points to a Czechoslovakian emigrant, but Kate believes he is innocent.