CLODUMBO

COLUMBO
NBC 1968-1978

The copyright holders are really protective, so it's hard to find clips.

TV series about detective (Peter Falk) whose unassuming appearance makes suspects think he's not as smart as he looks. The fact that he appears “stupid” is comedy gold for the parody magazines.

CLODUMBO
MAD #156, January 1973
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

He talks a lot and in a roundabout way too.

The witness is a caricature of Robert Culp.

Peter Falk was one of a long line of celebrities who wrote in showing themselves reading their appearance in the magazine.

One of his ways of solving a crime was his line “Just one more thing...” after what seemed like the end of his questioning.

Columbo had no words to his theme song, so one was written for him in Singable Theme Songs for TV Shows by Frank Jacobs and Angelo Torres in MAD #168, July 1974.

COLUMBORE
Cracked #110, August 1973
a: John Severin

The other two detectives in the last panel are Clint Eastwood and Jack Webb.

The two cops in the middle panel are Don Knotts and Fred MacMurray.

WHAT ARE THE OLD TV AND MOVIE DETECTIVES DOING TODAY?
Cracked #121, November 1974
a: John Severin

Cracked also did a piece about Columbo's retirement.

COLUMBOOB
Sick #96, December 1973
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Tony Tallarico

The woman entering the office is feminism spokesperson Gloria Steinem.
Steinway is a piano brand.
“Should a gentlemen offer a women a Tiparillo” was a cigarette ad campaign.

There was an ad campaign for Right Guard deodorant where two people shared a medicine cabinet.

Back then feminism was even more misunderstood than now and people who wrote things like this believed women really wanted to stay stereotypical housewives underneath it all.

UPDATE:

COLUMBO
cover for Kaputt, German version of Cracked,