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Mrs. Columbo
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is the short-lived Spin-Off of Mystery of the Week series Columbo. It is unusual for spinning off a character who hadn't appeared on-camera on the parent series. It starred Kate Mulgrew (later of Star Trek: Voyager) as Kate Columbo, the heretofore unseen wife of Lieutenant Columbo and an Amateur Sleuth in her own right.When Mrs. Columbo failed to perform as hoped, the show was retooled: Kate divorced her husband, changed her surname to Callahan, and carried out her amateur sleuthing under the auspices of her new job as a small-town newspaper reporter.The series also changed its title three times during its run, from Mrs. Columbo to Kate Columbo and then to Kate the Detective and finally to Kate Loves a Mystery, before getting canceled. In all, only one season (1979–80) of about a dozen episodes aired on NBC, giving the show quite possibly the highest titles-to-episodes ratio in TV history.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Levinson and Link (the creators of Columbo) have emphatically maintained that Kate Columbo was not the unseen wife of their character, but the wife of some other detective of the same name (who just happens to also have a beat-up Peugeot convertible and a basset hound named "Dog"). | |
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Richard, Sybil's husband who divorced her shortly before the events of the episode. He claimed to have left Sybil because he couldn't stand being given everything he wanted, finding it humiliating. In reality, he found it inconvenient that he was forced to sign an agreement that would keep him away from Sybil's money she made in the catering business. He then decided to court Patty, his wife's business partner and best friend, who presumably would share her money with him post-retirement, and is far younger and more beautiful. After Patty's death, he immediately returns to Sybil under the guise that he was too in love with her to leave her. However, he inadvertently makes it clear that he's definitely not over Patty. | |
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Asshole Victim: The episode "Caviar with Everything" manages to put the lid on this. In short, the only character in this episode to not be an asshole is Kate Columbo herself. The murder victim, Patty, wooed her best friend Sybil's husband, Richard, away from her without her knowledge—at first. When we first hear Patty suggesting that Sybil cater her wedding, we first think it's a friendly offer. When we watch the entire episode a second time, it almost sounds like Patty is taunting her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Action Mom: Working mom Kate gets into plenty of scrapes throughout the series, whether it's fighting with assassins or getting into car chases. | |
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