The fact that they did that "divorce" bit before they decided to abandon the Columbo association and make her "Kate Callahan" is why I can't bring myself to watch any of those episodes. To me, that just was a sign of absolute broken trust that made even a bad idea worse than it could get.

I'll only say that the only thing that topped "Mrs. Columbo" for worst spin off idea ever was "Galactica 1980" when they brought back my favorite sci-fi show and turned it into something that I still have bad nightmares about all these years later!

Eric, I couldn't agree with you more. The whole divorce thing was ridiculous. It really put the punctuation mark on a bad idea right from the start.

Always seemed a bit odd they claimed Columbo was a tired format and people had enough, yet they invent Mrs Columbo! The viewer would I suppose always be attracted to the Mrs because of the success of Mr !! Bizarre!!

I must disagree. True, the show never rose to the level of Columbo, but, really how many other shows from that time period did? I purchased the two season box set from France so I could reacquaint myself with this show. I know that Caviar With Everything and Murder is A Parlor Game were very entertaining. Caviar has some fun dialogue and some amazing interiors from that time period.