[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I got the original “Presciption Murder” on TiVo and DVD.

Change the setting, characters names and professions, not necessarily actors. The same guy can be a murdering doctor in one episode and a lawyer in another. Who was it, Patrick McGoonan, he musta killed half a dozen people, as a CIA agent, campaign manager, military school commandant...

[laotzu]

You remember details very well. That Patrick McGoohan was arrested more than any other is an important, and relevant detail.

'Columbo' was a project, from inception, of McGoohans. Few had as much to do with it as he, none had more. It was McGoohan that brought Peter Falk in. I believe he directed some as well.