Thanks for the compliment, Eric. Yes, my original source material was PAL-based, which has a 4% speedup as opposed to NTSC. The funny thing is that just after I did these - I managed to get hold of the BluRay Columbos which are the correct speed and pitch. I remember Tom Selleck saying many years ago that when he watches episodes of Magnum PI on British TV, his voice sounds much higher because of the Pal speedup.

I used Audacity incidentally to make the 4% downward adjustment on each track BTW, and the results came out perfect. I also incidentally had my own rip of the ending and end credits for "Blueprint For Murder" that while a recycled Melle cue from earlier in the season did provide a more "clean" version of the two best arrangements of his "Columbo" theme that I wish had been maintained throughout the course of the series as I always felt that Melle captured the essence of Columbo brilliantly there.

The Universal music vaults have been opening up in recent years so there is always a chance that Columbo music might finally make it to CD one day. We just have to hope that the labels responsible for putting out film and TV music (Intrada, Varese etc. Film Score Monthly alas, is now out of the business) will one day see the value of it too.