Hi folks. List a couple of what you think are Columbo's best arrests. Here's mine. Not in any particular order

Milo Janus Arrogant. Cocky. Thinks his **** doesn't stink.

Wesley Corman. The creepiest murderer. He was going to let his very sick wife take the heat for the murder.

Three-timing Max Barsini. So full of himself you don't know what he was capable of next.

And for the ladies it has to be Vivian Dimitri. Attempted to kill both Columbo and his wife and as he said "I take that very personally".

Great topic! I agree with the Milo Janus arrest. He was SUCH a smug *******. Somehow, I've always felt Janus would have simply pummeled Columbo into a pile of rumpled raincoats and left for the Adriatic Sea on the next plane.

My personal favorites:

* Dr. Barry Mayfield (A Stitch in Crime) - Columbo coming back into the room and finding the missing sutures and watching the serial killer Mayfield's face turn from one of victory and relief to resignation and disgust = priceless.

* Justin and Cooper (Columbo Goes to College)- the cocky college collaborators get their justice delivered to them in front of their peers and are removed kicking and screaming empty threats to the same detective they earlier mocked (in hilarious fashion) = a deserving comeuppance

* Justin Price (Columbo Loves the Nightlife) - Price, the smarmy nightclub wheeler-dealer, feels his world falling apart as Columbo closes in, but he never imagines our favorite detective will find the body 'swimming with the fishes'. The scanning radar scene is gripping - right down to the well-acted scenes of bystanders who display real, complete shock at the findings. Price's hopeless look of despair and disbelief is terrific!

* Dr. Ray Fleming (Prescription Murder) - Dr. Fleming, one of the most calculating of all Columbo villains, meets his match in our wily detective, who has correctly forecasted the one weak spot in Fleming - his choice of a criminal partner. Using the vulnerable Joan Hudson against the overconfident Fleming, Columbo starts off the show with one of the great gotchas!

Soooo many great arrests....but I think the one I take the most pleasure in watching again and again is Dale Kingston in "Suitable for Framing." He was so cocky, so condescending, just such a bad, bad person. He's ready to send his sweet Aunt Edna to jail for life so he can get his hands on his dad's priceless art collection.

The very end, when an exasperated Kingston questions Columbo, "You..touched..them?" Claims it was a trap, that he set him up just then and in one of the best closing scenes of all time, out come Columbo's hands from his pockets in latex gloves.

Brilliant.