A small dataset that contains information related to Columbo - the American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk.
The data has been taken from multiple sources
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo_(season_1)
- Mark Longair https://longair.net/blog/2017/06/04/when-does-columbo-first-appear-in-each-episode/
This work is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
The .csv dataset is stored in this repository as columbo_data.csv
- I have tried to remove text parsing problems caused by special characters but some certainly still remain
- Warning! The
descriptionfield contains spoilers about the episodes
| column name | description | attribution |
|---|---|---|
| season | Season 0 is for pilot episodes. Season 10 collates several episodes and specials | Wikipedia |
| episode | Episode number (within season) | Wikipedia |
| episode_index | Episode number (over all seasons) | Wikipedia |
| title | Episode title | Wikipedia |
| directed_by | Director | Wikipedia |
| written_by | (S) = Story by (T) = Teleplay by | Wikipedia |
| murderer_played_by | Actor(s) who played the murderer(s) | Wikipedia |
| victim_played_by | Actor(s) who played the victims(s) | Wikipedia |
| original_air_date | Episode original air date | Wikipedia |
| columbo_first_appearance | Time of Columbo’s first appearance in episode (seconds) | Mark Longair (https://longair.net/blog/) |
| run_time | Episode run time | Mark Longair (https://longair.net/blog/) |
| occupation_of_murderer | Occupation of the murderer | Mark Longair (https://longair.net/blog/) |
| network | Broadcasting network | Wikipedia |
| description | Episode description (SPOILERS!) | Wikipedia |
A quick visualisation showing the two distinct time periods when
episodes of Columbo were being aired
