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Columbo’s Raincoat: 

In our mind’s eye, the immediate image is that the coat is  tattered, wrinkled and stained, scarred with the long years of battle and too many bowls of chili.

What we tend to forget, is that when we first meet Columbo, the coat is quite new (cheesy-looking, but new). And that we have watched this remarkable garment evolve over the years. And so over the decades of episodes, we  watch Peter Falk grow more comfortable and familiar in the role of Columbo, just as we watch Columbo himself grow more comfortable and familiar in the battered old raincoat… [more]