Patrick McGoohan was fantastic in all 4 episodes he was in. My favorite one with him is playing Oscar Finch. He portrays a lawyer perfectly ( i.e. arrogant as hell)
I had a difficult time understanding the episode, "Identity Crisis." It was confusing with Stymetz and Leslie Nielsen's part. Columbo's reaction to the belly dancer was quite interesting. "Ashes to Ashes" was alright but like I mentioned, "By Dawn's Early Light," was my favorite episode.
In "Identity Crisis," another example of Columbo with children is when Stymetz and Geronimo had won large panda bears and Stymetz finds a girl and presents her with "Archibald". Both of them stand next to the girl and there is no parent around. That would not go over in this society today.