That almost sounds like a "Quincy" scene I think because I remember a "Quincy" where there was a cemetery scene and the reaction sounds more like angry arrogant Quincy than Columbo.

Thanks for your replies - it is decades ago, so sure I could be wrong. Quincy? Didn't think so. A cop show, more likely. Oh well.

I never got to know it very well, but QUINCY was largely a detective show, and it had its own regular police detective character.

Quincy WAS a detective show - just with a pathologist doing the detecting, so it is very plausible it could have been.