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QUESTION: In the TV detective series Columbo, his wife is often mentioned but never makes an appearance. Likewise, in Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinths son Sheridan is often on the phone but never on screen. Has any other character on a long-running TV series never appeared in it?
FURTHER to earlier answers, Columbos wife didnt remain a figment of the writers imagination. When actor Peter Falk bowed out of the Columbo series in 1978, Universals mystery movie slot on NBC was promptly occupied by Mrs Columbo now revealed to be a journalist on a small local Los Angeles newspaper.See the full content of this document
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Mrs Columbo Takes Over ; Answers to Correspondents
Kate Mulgrew, a virtually unknown 23-year-old actress from Iowa, mad...
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