Thanks to all of you people for your wonderful replies and all so quick. I did realise after typing that I had asked a very toguh question bout top 3s.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Prescription: Murder, perhaps because it wasn't techically an episode; but everyone should have fun seeing Falk's debut--the beginning of the role.
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I agree and I think the character seemed to grow right before our eyes when he gave Miss Hudson that "You'll be followed . . .and you'll be hounded" speech.
That was a great scene. "You seem worried, Miss Hudson. Whatsamatter, you've never seen a pair of sunglasses before?"
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I think Columbo's character is quite
well developed in "Prescription Murder".
Peter Falk already had the role down
when he did it, and he kept it up faithfully for several seasons (i.e. his
"modest, mildly eccentric" persona) until
"Last Salute to the Commodore", which as others point out is a very poor episode, and the one in which Peter Falk decided to change the role to "arrogant and goofy" which he was in many, but not all, of the remaining episodes of the original 1970's series.