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.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 11:51, archived)

No doubt there is a fandom wiki telling us which production assistant purchased it and in which shop and how much they paid for it

( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 11:58, archived)

The best episode of Columbo is the one where Johnny Cash plays the murderer.

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Fri 23 Jun 2023, 12:10, archived)

Does a man in Reno get shot?

( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 12:20, archived)

My favourite one was on American IV when he murdered The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 12:33, archived)