New Columbo DVD out 31 March

By John Freeman on 12 March 2008

The next volume of Columbo DVDs is due out in the UK on 31 March.

The Season 8 box set comprises the four episodes which made up the 1989 season – at the time of broadcast they were the first Columbo episodes to be made and shown since 1978.

Featuring top guest stars including Anthony Andrews, the four stories are ‘Columbo Goes to the Guillotine’, ‘Murder, Smoke and Shadows’, ‘Sex and the Married Detective’ and ‘Grand Deceptions’.

Columbo, whose cast and crew include scifi cult names such as Patrick McGoohan, continues to be extremely popular in the UK – in the last few weeks ITV1, Channel 4, Hallmark, Movies24 and Channel 5 have all shown episodes. Quite right too!

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.