Which actor plays TV detective Columbo?

Like many other TV detectives, Ho was something of a maverick, often using unorthodox methods to solve crimes.

You are not going to get cute with this, like a TV detective.

"TV detectives never suffer heartburn, dandruff, or the heartbreak of psoriasis."

And she stalked the neighborhood like a TV detective.

Jonny, bewildered and sometimes childish, is an unusual kind of TV detective.

He is subsequently murdered - the second TV detective to be killed in six months - and the rest of the film involves the search for his assassin.

(TV detective "Richard Diamond" had one in the late '50s.)

Pull up a chair, take a deep breath, and channel your favourite TV detective.

Your dad and I aren't TV detectives with cute little mannerisms who wrap things up in an hour minus twenty minutes for commercials.