TOP 10 VILLAINS
Every fan of the show has their favourite Columbo villain. There have been many fine performances over the years and singling a few out is difficult.

1 Dr. Ray Flemming (Gene Barry)
2 Riley Greenleaf (Jack Cassidy)
3 Adrian Carsini (Donald Pleasence)
4 Colonel Rumford (Patrick McGoohan)
5 Dr. Bart Kepple (Robert Culp)
6 Oscar Finch (Patrick McGoohan)
7 Paul Gerard (Louis Jourdan)
8 Milo Janus (Robert Conrad)
9 The Great Santini (Jack Cassidy)
10 Abigail Mitchell (Ruth Gordon)


TOP 10 EPISODES
There have been 69 episodes made. Here is this website's top ten. There are three or four classic episodes that just miss out on a place in the top ten.

1 Prescription: Murder
2 Publish or perish
3 A stitch in crime
4 Any old port in a storm
5 Columbo Cries Wolf
6 Agenda for murder
7 Try and catch me
8 Murder under glass
9 An exercise in fatality
10 Playback


TOP 5 WORST VILLAINS
A poor villain can be the result of a poorly formed character in the script, rather than poor acting, though the two sometimes go hand in hand.

1 Nicholas Frame & Lilian Stanhope (Richard Basehart & Honor Blackman)
2 Wayne Jennings (Andrew Stevens)
3 Viveca Scott (Vera Miles)
4 Vivian Dmitri (Helen Shaver)
5 Colonel Frank Braillie (Robert Foxworth)


TOP 5 WORST EPISODES
These episodes all had a very weak plot.

1 Murder in Malibu
2 Dagger of the mind
3 Undercover
4 Lovely but lethal
5 A bird in the hand