Right before we get into HTTP Columbo some context so that I don't need to keep explaining this time lolol:
Inspired by HTTP Cat I first made https://www.keanu.codes/ as a very long mastodon thread, followed by https://www.goldengirls.codes/ and turned both into remixable glitch projects you can use to make your own versions...
Featuring Leonard Nimoy looking like this...
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Any excuse to post one of my favourite talks, from Anjuan Simmons about lending privilege with Leonard Nimoy as an exemplar
One of the things that happens when you grew up watching Columbo on daytime telly is that they tended to show the same handful of episodes, so when you watch the full set you come across episodes you've never seen or rarely seen perhaps because they weren't approved for daytime..
Like this one I'm on now which has the guy who played Sumner Loan, Diane's creepy professor / love interest in Cheers in it