“Was Columbo always a show for older people, depending on how you define ‘older’? A friend, who is about seven years younger than me, who grew up in a multigenerational home in the Midwest, tells me she was ‘a Columbo kid because I was raised with old folks.’ Another younger friend, whose father was in the Army and whose family moved around a lot—to bases in Massachusetts, Alaska, Illinois, and Washington state—was introduced to Columbo by his grandparents, who’d recorded the show on their VCR. They had just about every episode on tape, he tells me.” - Watching the Detective author Deborah Shapiro in Oldster Magazine.