"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Not sure of the movies and TV shows, but "She Who Must Be Obeyed"
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
That's so stupid. Using that kind of reasoning you could say Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes was paired with a corpse as Watson -- Nigel Bruce. Obviously actors portray roles at different real times that are supposed to exist in the same fictional times. Ok, the Cumberbatch example isn't good but you get the idea.
Wasn't Columbo's Wife Played By Kate Mulgrew?
Not Mrs Columbo
No. 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.
The "Columbo" creators wanted no part of the concept, but they urged Silverman that if the show had to be done at all, a suitable actress would be Maureen Stapleton. Fred Silverman refused, insisting that Mrs Columbo would be young
and gorgeous. Link and Levinson stormed out, and the talented but miscast Kate Mulgrew got the role.
Mulgrew's Kate Columbo was a part-time reporter for a pennysaver newspaper, who often found herself engaged in crime-solving.
Peter Falk was blunt: "It was a bad idea. It was disgraceful."
The show ran from February, 1979 through December, 1979. In that short time, the show underwent several major overhauls and had four titles, going from "Mrs Columbo" to "Kate Columbo" to "Kate the Detective," then "Kate Loves a Mystery."
The show was long gone before the real "Columbo" made his return on ABC, but Levinson and Link had an idea of how to treat this series on "Columbo". They wanted to have Columbo complaining, "There's a woman who's running around pretending to be my wife. She's a young girl. She's charging things. I wish my wife was like that. She's an imposter."
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 -- "Heaven forbid!"
As further proof that Mulgrew's "Kate" was not married to the "Columbo" character, consider her age. Even if we accept Fred Silverman's notion that Columbo married a younger woman, Kate was so young that the marriage not only would be a stretch -- it would be illegal almost anywhere in America!
Kate Mulgrew was age 24 when cast by Silverman in 1979, which means that when we first heard Columbo discussing his wife in "Prescription: Murder," she was 13 years old.
So, "Columbo" fans are welcome to enjoy the Kate Mulgrew show on its own merits, or as an amusing footnote in "Columbo" history. But do not be fooled -- the real Mrs Columbo has never been seen, and probably never will be.
http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/mrsc.htm
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
^ That left out the title "Female Columbo."
<<As further proof that Mulgrew's "Kate" was not married to the "Columbo" character, consider her age. Even if we accept Fred Silverman's notion that Columbo married a younger woman, Kate was so young that the marriage not only would be a stretch -- it would be illegal almost anywhere in America!>>
But it obviously was supposed to begin about 20 years before Columbo. She was Columbo's wife!! She might even have been a little older than him.
There's probably a lot of x-rated Columbo and Mrs. Columbo fanfiction out there...
Last edited by JKL2000; 02-23-2017 at 01:24 PM.
Married With Children -- Peggy's mom. Although, I think she was shown in the final season.
Bassett
There was also a Peugeot in the driveway
"It's not Colombo! Just another police lieutenant named Colombo....with a bassett hound....and a 1959 Peugeot 403 convertible..."
Last edited by Rune Blackwings; 02-28-2017 at 09:56 AM. Reason: it was the hot car to have in LA those days
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