1971 · ABC · Crime, Drama
How long does it take to watch Columbo?
Columbo takes about 97 hours to watch: 67 episodes across 10 seasons, 5,834 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 67
- Seasons
- 10
- Per episode
- 87 min
- Status
- Ended in 2003
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 8.8h | 7 eps | |
| Season 2 | 10.7h | 8 eps | |
| Season 3 | 11.3h | 8 eps | |
| Season 4 | 8.9h | 6 eps | |
| Season 5 | 8.7h | 6 eps | |
| Season 6 | 3.7h | 3 eps | |
| Season 7 | 7.0h | 5 eps | |
| Season 8 | 6.4h | 4 eps | |
| Season 9 | 9.6h | 6 eps | |
| Season 10 | 22h | 14 eps |
Longest: season 10, 22 hours. Shortest: season 6, 3.7 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 67 nights, about 2 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 23 nights, about 3 weeks
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 7 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 4 days, 1 hour
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 3 7.6
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 8 6.6
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2003
- Networks
- ABC, NBC
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- First aired
- 1971
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