Columbo: But by the way, what is the name of the famous cult series?

If there is one name of the world -famous series heroes, it is Columbo. For 35 years and 69 episodes by Peter Folk, the world’s most famous policeman has painted a small screen. During all this time, the investigator fans named mythical waterproof fans: What is his name?

Anxious secret

Indeed, as the Tiktok Detective Series report explains, Columbo holds the subject every time when one of the protagonists asks him a famous question. He abuses that his name is a “lieutenant”, or when his wife is the only one who will use it. However, the answer is given in the episode of the series and almost no one noticed!

This is the 3rd episode of Columbo’s first season called “Dead Weight” (1971). During his visit to his investigation, he took his badge to show him his interlocutor. If you make the image and stop on the map, you can read your name: “Frank”.

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At the same time, it was difficult for the viewer to see this detail, without the technical capability to write a live episode and as much as possible you can expand your screen to see the badge. VCR will not be democratized in households in the late 1970s.

“Call me Frank!”

Peter Folk’s opinion

What did the main stakeholder think, Peter Folk, the legendary translator of a discerning lieutenant? In 1999, at the Talk-Show Guest at the Actors Studio, he spoke about James Lipton’s interview: “I like something about this character. This is the fact that he’s his name awkward. I like it!He said.

There is something that I like in this character, this is the fact that he has his name awkward.

For his part, the creator of the series, William Link, really wanted to keep the secrets on his behalf. “I’ve never got a name and never do it. Columbo has never had it”He vigorously said in 2002 during an interview with the Fund of the TV Academy.

For the show business, Columbo will stay Columbo forever. As it may be, if its first name appears in the episode, it is also seen in the DVD boxes published in the 2000s, published by Frank Kolumbo.