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Luckily for the studio they made the offer and Peter Falk accepted and thus was born a television icon.
The vehicle was called\'Di.
So Universal was down to their 7th choice to play the unprepossessing, overly polite, apparently not-too-bright police lieutenant in their upcoming Movie of the Week.
Too time consuming, too much like work and it would definitely interfere with his golf game.
Finally Bing Crosby was offered the part and turned it down.
So did a few other people.
Cobb said no.
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