"Columbo" was so popular, co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as "The Columbo Collection" (Crippen & Landru, 2010) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk/Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.
Falk je za svojo vlogo Columba prejel štiri emmyje.