Well once you've stuffed your ears with cheese and navigated the cobwebs, she might as well be any other relatively attractive 47 year old woman. How physical was Kate's relationship with Columbo?
Kate has always liked older uglier people. Though I have heard KM talking about how ridiculous this was, that she was married to Columbo.
What 70s cop would she have preferred to have been married to? Kojack? Baretta? McMillian an... No, that Show came with a wife. Susan Saint James. Is the drool apparent? Barney Miller? Jim Rockford? Or Kate could have been the meat in a Starsky and Hutch sandwhich?
I bet she bakes him pies. He comes home after a hard day of patrolling and the whole house smells of cinnamon and apple. The lovely Mrs. Hooker..
All the times this pleasant homemaker takes his forgotten lunch pail to the station, she accidentally gets locked up because whenever admissions asks her if she's a hooker, and she honestly replies "Yes I'm a hooker." Every damn time.
That's a ruse she and TJ have worked out so he can have some special attention during the day while still in the office.
Just look at this sweet face. You know she only wants to make TJ happy, she's not there for that kind of blow.
Nothing depraved, that's just what civilized people did with their friends in the suburbs on A Saturday night in 1979. The substance wasn't yet skeevy as a general consensus.