Columbo broadcast history

The following is a broadcast history for the crime fiction television film series Columbo.

United States

Season	Number of episodes	From/on	To	Network
Pilots	2	February 20, 1968 March 1, 1971		NBC
1	7	September 15, 1971	February 9, 1972
2	8	September 17, 1972	March 25, 1973
3	8	September 23, 1973	May 5, 1974
4	6	September 15, 1974	April 27, 1975
5	6	September 14, 1975	May 2, 1976
6	3	October 10, 1976	May 22, 1977
7	5	November 21, 1977	May 13, 1978
8	4	February 6, 1989	May 1, 1989	ABC
9	6	November 25, 1989	May 14, 1990
10	3	December 9, 1990	April 29, 1991
Specials	3	December 15, 1991 March 15, 1992 November 22, 1992
Specials	3	October 31, 1993	May 2, 1994
Specials	5	May 8, 1995 May 15, 1997 October 8, 1998 May 12, 2000 January 30, 2003

International

Country	Foreign Title	Translation	Network(s)	Notes
Arab World (Middle East and North Africa)	Columbo	Subtitled	MBC 2	Not currently airing[1]
Argentina	Columbo	Dubbed	Retro
Australia	Columbo	None	TV1	[2]
Austria	Columbo	Dubbed	ORF1	[3]
Belgium  Flemish Region	Columbo	Subtitled	vtm, VijfTV
Belgium French Community	Columbo	Dubbed	RTBF, RTL-TVi, AB4
Bulgaria	Коломбо (Columbo)	Subtitled/Dubbed	Fox Crime Diema AXN Crime	Dubbed in Bulgarian on Fox Crime and Diema, Subtitled on AXN Crime.[4]
Canada	Columbo	N/A	Vision TV	Episodes being shown weekdays at 3 p.m. EST as of 2012.[5]
Canada	Columbo	Dubbed	Prise 2	Dubbed in French.[6]
Catalonia (Spain)	Colombo	Dubbed	TVC and 8tv (currently)
Croatia	Columbo	Subtitled	HRT, RTL Televizija
Czech Republic	Columbo	Dubbed	TV Nova Prima family others	[7][8]
Denmark	Columbo	Subtitled	DR2	[9]
Finland	Columbo	Subtitled	MTV	[10]
France	Columbo	Dubbed	TF1 TV Breizh	[11]
Galicia (Spain)	Colombo	Dubbed	TVG
Germany	Columbo	Dubbed	Super RTL	the show was originally broadcast on Das Erste (access prime time), later on RTL (prime time).[12]
Hong Kong	哥伦布督察 哥伦布探长 哥伦布探案	Dubbed	RTV	originally shown in rotation with the other "NBC Mystery Movies" and later being played as a stand-alone program.zh:神探可伦坡
Hungary	Columbo	Dubbed	Magyar Televízió TV2 Viasat3
Iceland	Columbo	Subtitled	RÚV
Iran	ستوان کلمبو (Lieutenant Columbo)	Dubbed	Channel 1 شبكه’ يك	The 1971–1978 series was broadcast by Channel 1
Ireland	Columbo	None	RTÉ ONE
Israel	קולומבו	Subtitled	Channel 1 Israel 10
Italy	Colombo	Dubbed	Rai Due Rete 4 Fox Crime Fox Retro	Rai Due (first TV: 1968 film TV and 1971–1978 series; except pilot and the episodes 2.1, 2.4, 3.8 transmitted in first TV in the 1987 from Rete 4), Rete 4 (first TV: 1989–2003 series, now replicate all the episodes of both series), Fox Crime (pay TV, replicate all the episodes)
Japan	刑事コロンボ (Detective Columbo)	Subtitled/Dubbed	NHK NTV Super Channel The Mystery Channel	It was renamed to 新刑事コロンボ(New Detective Columbo) starting the 8th season. ja:刑事コロンボ
South Korea	형사 콜롬보 (Detective Columbo)	Subtitled/Dubbed	SBS	[13]
Netherlands	Columbo	Subtitled	RTL 4 RTL 8 SBS 6
Norway	Columbo	Subtitled	NRK1	[14]
Pakistan	Columbo	None	Shalimar Television Network
Poland	Columbo	Voice-over translation	TVP TVN7 Universal
Portugal	Columbo	Subtitled	RTP1	[15]
Romania	Columbo	Subtitled/Dubbed	TVR1	Pro TV
Russia	Коломбо (Columbo)	Dubbed	Channel One	Currently airing in Domashniy.[16]
South Africa	Columbo	None	Dstv	[17][18]
Slovakia	Columbo	Dubbed	TV Markíza STV 1 others	Czech-dubbed version used as there is no Slovak dubbing
Slovenia	Columbo	Subtitled	Kanal A, POP TV
Spain	Colombo	Dubbed	TVE TV3 Antena3	Currently airing in Nitro.[19][20]
Sweden	Columbo	Subtitled	SVT, TV3, TV4 Guld	[21]
Switzerland	Columbo	Dubbed	Télévision Suisse Romande	the show is still shown on Télévision Suisse Romande, a French language Swiss TV channel in Zweikanalton (French/English)
Switzerland	Colombo	Dubbed	Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana	the show is still shown on RSI, an Italian language Swiss TV channel in Zweikanalton (Italian/English).[22]
Republic of China	神探可倫坡 (Detective Columbo)		CTV, Cinemax, HBO	zh:神探可伦坡
Turkey	Komiser Kolombo (Lieutenant Columbo)	Dubbed	TRT 1
Ukraine	Коломбо	Dubbed	Inter, STB, Ukraine
United Kingdom	Columbo	None	ITV ITV3 BBC Two Channel 5 Universal Channel Movies 24 Sky Movies	The show was originally broadcast on ITV. Nowadays the main series is shown on ITV3, BBC Two, Channel 5, and Universal Channel while the TV movies are shown on ITV, Movies 24 and Sky Movies.[23][24][25][26]
Venezuela	Columbo	Dubbed	Venevisión
Yugoslavia (former)	Inspektor Kolombo	Subtitled	RTV Beograd	Sunday evening 20:00, top time

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