Several episodes have Falk real life wife in them (Shara D.). Is it me or can she be brilliant one minute and then leave you with a "Huh?" feeling the next? I don't particularly have a favorite episode with her in it. However....at the end of Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star we never find out what happens to her. It is left up to the viewer's determination. In "Underrcover" the writers decided to kill her off after what I thought was a mediocre performance. AS Max Barsini's wife, her role was over shadowed by the two other women in Barsini's life.