Too bad, if it's true:
The daughter of Hollywood legend Peter Falk says her father is no longer competent to run his own life because he suffers from Alzheimer's disease and dementia,
Of all the old copt stuff on TV, "Columbo: is the best, due partly to the scripts but mostly to Falk's laid-back approach to the character, so often parodied.
Nothing like the real thing, though:
