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First Aired: 1968-02-20Length: 90 MinStatus: Ended
A Los Angeles homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo, uses his humble ways and shrewd demeanor to ferret out even the most careful criminals. (Source: thetvdb.com)
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| Season 10 (show/hide) | ||
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| 6 | Undercover | 1994-05-02 |
| A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play. Guest stars: Albie Selznick, Alexander Folk, Burt Young, Ed Begley Jr., Edward Hibbert, Hank Garrett, Harrison Page, Jeff Michalski, Joe Chrest, John Dunbar, John Willi, Jon Beshara, Kay Yamamoto, Kristin Bauer, Marianne Muellerleile, Marla Adams, Penny Santon, Robert Donner, Tyne Daly | ||
| 5 | Butterfly in Shades of Grey | 1994-01-10 |
| Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff. Guest stars: Beverly Leech, Brian Markinson, Carolyn Carradine, Christopher Templeton, Denice Kumagai, Deryl Caitlin, Francesca Cappu, Glenn Taranto, Jack Laufer, John C. Anders, Mark Lonow, Molly Hagan, Richard Kline, Robin Clarke, Wayne C. Dvorak, William Shatner, Yorgo Constantine | ||
| 4 | It's All in the Game | 1993-10-31 |
| Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent. Guest stars: Armando Pucci, Bill Macy, Bruce E. Morrow, Claudia Christian, Daniel Trent, Doug Sheehan, Ed, Faye Dunaway, Jack Shearer, Johnny Gardella, June Saruwatari, Lenore Kasdorf, Michele Bernath, Sammy Goldstein, Shashawnee Hall, Shelley Morrison, Stewart J. Zully, Tom Henschell | ||
| 3 | Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star | 1991-04-29 |
| Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man. Guest stars: Ando Miaki, Ann Weldon, B.J. Turner, Chad Bell, Cheryl Paris, Dabney Coleman, Deborah Rose, Grant Heslov, John Martin, Joseph Chapman, Julian Stone, Little Richard, Mar, Sondra Currie, Steve Tschudy, Steven Gilborn, Susie Singer, Tad Horino, Terrence Beasor, Terry G. Warren | ||
| 2 | Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health | 1991-02-20 |
| Wade Anders, a former security expert, hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host, news reader Bud, discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show. Guest stars: Aristides Priakos, Dennis Bailey, Gary Kernick, George Hamilton, Jack Tat, Joanne DiVito, Lawrence Maki, Marie Chambers, Mimi Monaco, Nicole Grey, Patricia Allison, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Haskell, Raymond Lynch, Rick Najera, Robert Donner, Steven Gilborn, Tricia Long | ||
| 1 | Columbo Goes to College | 1990-12-09 |
| Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered. Guest stars: Alf Powers, David Cowgill, Dick Balduzzi, Elizabeth Swackhamer, George C, Gregg Rogen, Guy Stockwell, James Ingersoll, Jane Alden, Jeremy McCollum, Karl Wiedergott, Larry McCormick, Laurence Haddon, Les Lannom, Morgan Jones, Noel Conlon, Robert R. Ross Jr., Shauna Steiner | ||
| Season 9 (show/hide) | ||
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| 6 | Murder in Malibu | 1990-05-14 |
| An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry. Guest stars: Andrew Stevens, Ben Slack, Bill Zuckert, Brenda Vaccaro, Charles Walker, Efrain Figueroa, Floyd Levine, Janet Margolin, Laurie Walters, Mary Margaret Lewis, Robin Gordon, Sondra Currie, Tom Dreesen, Yolanda Lloyd | ||
| 5 | Uneasy Lies the Crown | 1990-04-28 |
| While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle. Guest stars: Dick Sargent, James A. Watson Jr., James Read, Jo Anderson, John Roarke, Lynne Marta, Mark Arnott, Marshall R. Teague, Nancy Walker, Paul Burke, Raymond Singer, Ron Cey, Steven Gilborn, Victor Bevine | ||
| 4 | Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo | 1990-03-31 |
| Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife. Guest stars: Don Calfa, Edward Winter, George Buck, Helen Shaver, Hugh Gillin, Ian McShane, Joe Bellan, Michael Alldredge, Peggy Walton-Walker, Robert Balderson, Rosanna Huffman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Teresa Ganzel, Tom Isbell | ||
| 3 | Agenda for Murder | 1990-02-10 |
| Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career. Guest stars: Anne Haney, Annie Stewart, Arthur Hill, Bruce Kirby, Carol Barbee, Denis Arndt, Louis Zorich, Michael Goldfinger, Patrick McGoohan, Penny Fuller, Peter Allas, Shaun Toub, Stanley Kamel, Steven Ford | ||
| 2 | Columbo Cries Wolf | 1990-01-20 |
| Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with. Guest stars: Alan Scarfe, Daphne Cheung, Darrell Kunitomi, David Huddleston, Deidre Hall, Gigi Rice, Ian Buchanan, Jeanne Wolf, John Finnegan, Kendra Booth, Mark Margolis, Matt Flynn, Morgan Jones, Paula Trickey, Peter Zapp, Rainell Saunders, Ralph Wilcox, Rebecca Staab, Tom Moses | ||
| 1 | Murder, a Self Portrait | 1989-11-25 |
| A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women. Guest stars: Danny Hassel, David Byrd, Don Bovingloh, Don Schneider, Fionnula Flanagan, Frank L. Wiltse, George Coe, Harold Harris, Isabel García Lorca, Isabel Lorca, Lenny Hicks, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Etienne, Shera Danese, Vito Scotti | ||
| Season 8 (show/hide) | ||
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| 4 | Grand Deceptions | 1989-05-01 |
| Frank Brailie runs a private military foundation for wanabe soldiers owned by the wheelchair bound General Padget. The General has become suspicious of Frank as a great deal of money seems to be going to a Special Projects Fund. The General tells a close colleague to investigate Frank and the Special Projects Fund. Instead of reporting his fraudulent findings back to the General, he decides to blackmail Frank for some of the money, Frank agrees and starts to plan his murder. Guest stars: Andy Romano, Bennett Liss, Christopher Titus, James Lashly, Janet Eilber, John William Gibson, Lee Arenberg, Lynn Clark, Michael McManus, Milt Kogan, Rick Marzan, Robert Foxworth, Stephen Elliott, Stephen Quadros | ||
| 3 | Sex and the Married Detective | 1989-04-03 |
| A sex therapist catches her boyfriend with another woman when he thinks she is out of town. She then disguises herself and manages to kill him while in disguise, not realizing that a potential suitor saw her enter the bathroom as a dark-haired woman and exit as a blonde. Guest stars: Dave Florek, Harry Johnson, Julia Montgomery, Ken Lerner, Leeza Vinnichenko, Lindsay Crouse, Marge Redmond, Michele Lamar Richards, Peter Jurasik, Peter Wise, Pierrino Mascarino, Stephen Macht, Stewart J. Zully, Susan Gibney | ||
| 2 | Murder, Smoke and Shadows | 1989-02-27 |
| An egocentric film director resorts to his mastery of special effects to murder a vengeful friend who discovers the director's role in the movie stunt death of the friend's sister years before. Guest stars: Al Pugliese, Avner Garbi, Elizabeth Ruscio, Fisher Stevens, Gayle Harbor, Jeff Perry, Jerome Guardino, Lisa Barnes, Meg James, Molly Hagan, Nan Martin, Steven Hill, Stewart J. Zully, Time Winters | ||
| 1 | Columbo Goes to the Guillotine | 1989-02-06 |
| Lt. Columbo delves into the world of magic, ESP and slight of hand as he investigates the death of a magician, and there appears to be a tie to a prodigal psychic supported by a government founded institute on parapsychology. Guest stars: Alan Fudge, Anthony Andrews, Anthony Zerbe, Ben Yudell, Charles Howerton, Dana Andersen, Frank Simons, James Greene, Karen Austin, Lenny Hicks, Michael Bacall, Milt Kogan, Nick DeMauro, Peter Noel Duhamel, Rob Garrison, Robert Costanzo, Steve Zettler, Tony Amendola | ||
| Season 7 (show/hide) | ||
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| 5 | The Conspirators | 1978-05-13 |
| An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him. Guest stars: Albert Paulsen, Bernard Behrens, Carole Hemingway, Clive Revill, Deborah White, Donn Whyte, Doreen Murphy, Jeanette Nolan, John McCann, Johnny Silver, Kedric Wolfe, L.Q. Jones, Michael Horton, Michael Prince, Sean McClory, Tony Giorgio | ||
| 4 | How to Dial a Murder | 1978-04-15 |
| A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning reflex on the psychiatrist's dogs. The other part is the word Rosebud as uttered by the victim. When Columbo arrives on the scene, the psychiatrist is very understanding when police say they may have to put his dogs to death. But Columbo notices how friendly the dogs seem, and then there's the telephone that's hanging from it's hook. Guest stars: Ed Begley Jr., Frank Aletter, Fred J. Gordon, Joel Fabiani, Kim Cattrall, Nicol Williamson, Tricia O'Neil | ||
| 3 | Make Me a Perfect Murder | 1978-02-28 |
| Mark McAndrews a top network programmer is promoted to a New York position. His assistant, who is very ambitious and his lover, expects to get his old job. But of course he feels she is out of her league and needs more experience. Kay, feeling betrayed, decides to seek revenge. Guest stars: Dee Timberlake, Don Eitner, George Skaff, H.B. Haggerty, James Frawley, Jerome Guardino, Joe Warfield, Kip Gilman, Lainie Kazan, Laurence Luckinbill, lMilt Kogan, Morgan Upton, Patrick O'Neal, Ron Rifkin, Socorro Swan, Susan Bredhoff, Susan Krebs, Trish Van Devere | ||
| 2 | Murder Under Glass | 1978-01-30 |
| A famous food critic is threatened by a restaurant owner, and so the critic leaves. Soon after, the cook dies. Columbo's involvement is welcomed by all the other chefs in the area, but Columbo wonders why the dead restaurant owner slammed the drawers before he died. And how could the poison that killed him enter an unopened bottle without the killer even being in the room? Could it have been suicide? But then there's the cheques to a mysterious society, and the victim's calender. Can Columbo's cooking skills really match the food critic's taste? Guest stars: Alberto Morin, Antony Alda, Carolyn Martin, France Nuyen, Fred Holliday, Jim Murphy, Larry D. Mann, Louis Jourdan, Mako, Michael V. Gazzo, Miyako Kurata, Richard Dysart, Shera Danese, Todd Martin | ||
| 1 | Try and Catch Me | 1977-11-21 |
| A writer of murder mysteries wreaks revenge on her nephew-in-law by blaiming him for her niece's murder. Guest stars: Charles Frank, G.D. Spradlin, Jerome Guardino, Marie Silva-Alexander, Mariette Hartley, Mary Jackson, Ruth Gordon | ||
| Season 6 (show/hide) | ||
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| 3 | The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case | 1977-05-22 |
| Two former college friends, now partners in an accounting firm, become enemies when one realizes the other has embezzled funds. The reason for his embezzling ways is his wife, she demands nothing but the best. Guest stars: Basil Hoffman, Carlene Watkins, Carol Jones, Dorrie Thomson, Fay DeWitt, George Sperdakos, Howard McGillin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathleen King, Kenneth Mars, Mitzi Rogers, Peter Lampert, Samantha Eggar, Sorrell Booke, Theodore Bikel, Todd Martin | ||
| 2 | Old Fashioned Murder | 1976-11-28 |
| The female head of a museum hires one of the guards to rob the museum to collect the insurance money. But during the robbery she kills him and her own brother, and makes it look like they killed each other. The guard/robber's brother reports a strange message on his answering machine, that makes it seem that he has been killed. And Columbo gets the case. When Columbo first comes to the crime scene, he notices that the lights are off, a gold medallion in the robber's pants, and signs that pointed to the fact that he was going abroad after the heist. And he concluded that these clues mean that someone else was involved. Guest stars: Anthony Holland, Celeste Holm, Eloise Hardt, Gary Krawford, Giles Douglas, Jeannie Berlin, Jess Osuna, Jon Miller, Joyce Van Patten, Lucy Saroyan, Mike Lally, Morris Buchanan, Peter S. Feibleman, Robert Walden, Tim O'Connor | ||
| 1 | Fade in to Murder | 1976-10-10 |
| Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man. Guest stars: Alan Manson, Bert Remsen, Danny Dayton, Dorothy Dells, Frank Emmett Baxter, Fred Draper, Jimmy Joyce, John Finnegan, Lola Albright, Shera Danese, Timothy Carey, Victor Izay, Walter Koenig, William Shatner | ||
| Season 5 (show/hide) | ||
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| 6 | Last Salute to the Commodore | 1976-03-02 |
| The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull. Guest stars: Bruce Kirby, Dennis Dugan, Diane Baker, Fred Draper, Fred Porter, Hanna Hertelendy, Jerry Crews, Jimmy Joyce, John Dehner, John Finnegan, Joseph Roman, Joshua Bryant, Robert Vaughn, Rod McCary, Susan Foster, Tom Williams, Wilfrid Hyde-White | ||
| 5 | Now You See Him | 1976-02-29 |
| Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller, He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret. Guest stars: Bob Dishy, Cynthia Sikes, George Sperdakos, Jack Cassidy, Michael Payne, Nehemiah Persoff, Patrick Culliton, Redmond Gleeson, Robert Gibbons, Robert Loggia, Thayer David, Victor Izay | ||
| 4 | A Matter of Honor | 1976-02-01 |
| The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off, and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun, and lets the bull kill him. Colombo, who is on vacation in Mexico, gets dragged into this case by an admiring colleague, but he has trouble convincing the Mexicans that the accident is really homicide. And how do you prove that the bull is a murder weapon? Guest stars: A Martinez, Emilio Fernández, Enrique Lucero, Evita Muñoz 'Chachita', Jorge Rivero, Maria Grimm, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Ricardo Montalban, Robert Carricart | ||
| 3 | Identity Crisis | 1975-11-02 |
| A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim. Guest stars: Angela May, Barbara Rhoades, Bruce Kirby, Carmen Argenziano, Cliff Carnell, David White, Edward Bach, Leslie Nielsen, Otis Young, Patrick McGoohan, Paul Gleason, Val Avery, Vito Scotti, William Mims | ||
| 2 | A Case of Immunity | 1975-10-12 |
| An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just have problem crushing the ambassador's alibi. And then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem. Guest stars: André Lawrence, Barry Robins, Bart Braverman, Bill Zuckert, Brioni Farrell, Dick Dinman, George Skaff, Harvey Gold, Hector Elizondo, Jay Varela, Kenneth Tobey, Nate Esformes, Sal Mineo | ||
| 1 | Forgotten Lady | 1975-09-14 |
| A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show. Guest stars: Danny Wells, Francine York, Harvey Gold, Janet Leigh, Jerome Guardino, John Payne, Linda Gaye Scott, Maurice Evans, Robert F. Simon, Ross Elliott, Sam Jaffe | ||
| Season 4 (show/hide) | ||
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| 6 | A Deadly State of Mind | 1975-04-27 |
| A doctor kills the husband of the woman,he is having an affair with. but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind. Guest stars: Bruce Kirby, Danny Wells, Fred Draper, George Hamilton, Glorie Kaufman, Jack Manning, Karen Machon, Lesley Ann Warren, Morris Buchanan, Redmond Gleeson, Ryan MacDonald, Stephen Elliott, Vance Davis, William Wintersole | ||
| 5 | Playback | 1975-03-02 |
| An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi. Guest stars: Bart Burns, Gena Rowlands, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Joe Ohar, Martha Scott, Oskar Werner, Patricia Barry, Robert Brown, Steven Marlo, Trisha Noble | ||
| 4 | Troubled Waters | 1975-02-09 |
| While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band. Guest stars: Bernard Fox, Curtis Credel, Dean Stockwell, Jane Greer, Patrick Macnee, Peter Maloney, Poupée Bocar, Robert Douglas, Robert Vaughn, Susan Damante | ||
| 3 | By Dawn's Early Light | 1974-10-27 |
| The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on Founder's Day. Guest stars: Bruce Kirby, Bruno Kirby, Burr DeBenning, Karen Lamm, Madeleine Sherwood, Mark Wheeler, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Clotworthy, Sidney Armus, Tom Simcox | ||
| 2 | Negative Reaction | 1974-10-15 |
| Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money. Guest stars: Adrian Ricard, Alice Backes, Antoinette Bower, Bill Zuckert, David Sheiner, Dick Van Dyke, Don Gordon, Harvey Gold, JoAnna Cameron, Joyce Van Patten, Larry Storch, Michael Strong, Thom Carney, Vito Scotti | ||
| 1 | An Exercise in Fatality | 1974-09-15 |
| A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident Guest stars: Collin Wilcox Paxton, Darrell Zwerling, Dennis Robertson, Eric Mason, Gretchen Corbett, J.R. Clark, Jude Farese, Manuel DePina, Mel Stevens, Pat Harrington Jr., Philip Bruns, Raymond O'Keefe, Robert Conrad, Victor Izay | ||
| Season 3 (show/hide) | ||
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| 8 | A Friend in Deed | 1974-05-05 |
| A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour. Guest stars: Albert Popwell, Alma Beltran, Arlene Martel, Ben Marino, Byron Morrow, Eleanor Zee, Eric Christmas, James V. Christy, John Calvin, John Finnegan, Joshua Bryant, Judson Morgan, Michael McGuire, Richard Kiley, Rosemary Murphy, T.J. Castronova, Val Avery, Victor Campos | ||
| 7 | Swan Song | 1974-03-03 |
| A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety. Guest stars: Bill McKinney, Bonnie Van Dyke, Don Mantooth, Douglas Dirkson, Harry Harvey, Ida Lupino, Janit Baldwin, Jefferson Kibbee, John Dehner, John Randolph, Johnny Cash, Larry Burrell, Lucille Meredith, Mike Lally, Richard Caine, Sorrell Booke, Tom McFadden, Vito Scotti | ||
| 6 | Mind Over Mayhem | 1974-02-18 |
| Dr. Marshal Cahill, head of a think tank, is forced to protect his plagarizing son by killing the professor, Nichols, who discovered the plagarized information. Cahill programs a robot to take his place during a war game exercise that he runs from an isolated room, then fakes a hit-and-run accident on Nichols and plants evidence to make it look like a drug theft gone awry. The first thing Columbo notices upon arrival is a match burned down to the base - something Columbo knows well because it's how you light a cigar. And Dr. Cahill is the only other cigar smoker around. There are a lot of other little things that Columbo notices as well, and with the help of a child prodigy he discovers how Cahill used the robot to provide himself with an alibi. But without one major clue, Columbo arrests the son to force Cahill, who was willing to kill for his son, to confess his crime to protect the boy. Guest stars: Arthur Batanides, Bert Holland, Charles Macaulay, Darrell Zwerling, Deidre Hall, Dianne Turley Travis, Ed Fury, Jefferson Kibbee, Jessica Walter, John Zaremba, José Ferrer, Lee Montgomery, Lew Ayres, Lou Wagner, Robert Walker Jr., William Bryant, William Christopher | ||
| 5 | Publish or Perish | 1974-01-18 |
| A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher. Guest stars: Alan Fudge, George Brenlin, Gregory Sierra, J.S. Johnson, Jack Bender, Jack Cassidy, Jacques Aubuchon, James Millhollin, John Davis Chandler, Lew Palter, Mariette Hartley, Mary Esther Denver, Maurice Marsac, Mickey Spillane, Paul Shenar, Ted Gehring, Vern Rowe | ||
| 4 | Double Exposure | 1973-12-16 |
| A film maker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign Guest stars: Alma Beltran, Ann Driscoll, Chuck McCann, Danny Goldman, Dennis Robertson, E.A. Sirianni, Francis DeSales, George Wyner, Harry Hickox, John Milford, Louise Latham, Manuel DePina, Peter Walker, Richard Stahl, Robert Culp, Robert Middleton, Thomas Bellin | ||
| 3 | Candidate for Crime | 1973-11-04 |
| A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet. Guest stars: Angelo Grisanti, Bill Andes, Clete Roberts, Don Diamond, Jack Riley, Jackie Cooper, James G. Richardson, Jay Varela, Joanne Linville, Jude Farese, Ken Swofford, Lew Brown, Mario Gallo, Regis Cordic, Robert Karnes, Sandy Kenyon, Tisha Sterling, Vito Scotti | ||
| 2 | Any Old Port in a Storm | 1973-10-07 |
| Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in. Guest stars: Charlie Jones, Dana Elcar, Donald Pleasence, Gary Conway, George Gaynes, John McCann, Joyce Jillson, Julie Harris, Mike Lally, Monte Landis, Pamela Campbell, Regis Cordic, Reid Smith, Robert Donner, Robert Ellenstein, Robert Walden, Vito Scotti, Walker Edmiston | ||
| 1 | Lovely but Lethal | 1973-09-23 |
| Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated. Guest stars: Bruce Kirby, Colby Chester, David Toma, Dianne Turley Travis, Fred Draper, Gino Conforti, John Finnegan, Layne Mathess, Marc Hannibal, Martin Sheen, Richard Stahl, Sian Barbara Allen, Vera Miles, Vincent Price | ||
| Season 2 (show/hide) | ||
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| 8 | Double Shock | 1973-03-25 |
| A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime? Guest stars: Dabney Coleman, Gregory Morton, Jeanette Nolan, Julie Newmar, Kate Hawley, Marc Singer, Martin Landau, Michael Richardson, Mike Lally, Paul Stewart, Robert Rothwell, Tim O'Connor, Tony Cristino | ||
| 7 | The Most Dangerous Match | 1973-03-04 |
| A chess grandmaster disposes of the champion, who keeps coming back on him. Guest stars: Abigail Shelton, Heidi Brühl, Jack Kruschen, John Finnegan, Laurence Harvey, Lloyd Bochner, Manuel DePina, Mathias Reitz, Michael Fox, Oscar Beregi Jr., Paul Jenkins, Richard Drout Miller, Stuart Nisbet | ||
| 6 | A Stitch in Crime | 1973-02-11 |
| Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim. Guest stars: Aneta Corsaut, Anne Francis, Jared Martin, Ken Sansom, Leonard Nimoy, Leonard Simon, Murray MacLeod, Nita Talbot, Patsy Garrett, Ron Stokes, Victor Millan, Will Geer | ||
| 5 | Requiem for a Falling Star | 1973-01-21 |
| A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A. Guest stars: Anne Baxter, Bart Burns, Dianne Turley Travis, Edith Head, Frank Converse, Jack Griffin, John Archer, Kevin McCarthy, Mel Ferrer, Pippa Scott, Robert E. Meredith, Sidney Miller, William Bryant | ||
| 4 | Dagger of the Mind | 1972-11-26 |
| While on a work trip to London, to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo gets involved with the murder of Roger Haversham, a rich old businessman who is financing the careers of two rundown theater stars. When Sir Roger threatens to end their careers, because he felt betrayed, he's killed. A short while after, his butler figures out the motives for his master's murder, and blackmails the actors, who have no other choice than to kill him and make it look like he commited suicide due to remorse, because he murdered his employer. Columbo stills manages to catch both the murderers, with the help of a pearl and a new umbrella. Guest stars: Arthur Malet, Bernard Fox, Gerald Peters, Harvey Jason, Hedley Mattingly, Honor Blackman, Ian Abercrombie, John Fraser, John Orchard, John Williams, Peter Church, Richard Basehart, Richard Pearson, Ronald Long, Sharon Johansen, Walker Edmiston, Wilfrid Hyde-White | ||
| 3 | The Most Crucial Game | 1972-11-05 |
| The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder. Guest stars: Cliff Carnell, Dean Jagger, Dean Stockwell, Don Keefer, Harold 'Happy' Hairston, Ivan Naranjo, James Gregory, Jim McMillan, Joe Renteria, Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Keith Erickson, LeRoy Ellis, Pat Riley, Richard Stahl, Robert Culp, Susan Howard, Val Avery, Valerie Harper | ||
| 2 | The Greenhouse Jungle | 1972-10-15 |
| Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner. Guest stars: Arlene Martel, Bob Dishy, Bradford Dillman, Larry Watson, Milton Frome, Peggy Mondo, Ray Milland, Richard Annis, Robert Karnes, Sandra Smith, William Smith | ||
| 1 | Étude in Black | 1972-09-17 |
| The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife. Guest stars: Anjanette Comer, Blythe Danner, Charles Macaulay, Dawn Frame, Don Knight, George Gaynes, Henry Beckman, James McEachin, James Olson, John Cassavetes, Michael Fox, Michael Pataki, Mike Lally, Myrna Loy, Pat Morita, Wallace Chadwell | ||
| Season 1 (show/hide) | ||
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| 9 | Blueprint for Murder | 1972-02-09 |
| An architect kills his business partner and deliberately lets Columbo suspect him, leading Columbo to think that he's hidden the body in the foundation of a building under construction. He plans to let Columbo dig up the site and find nothing, knowing that its the perfect place to hide the body since Columbo would never look in the same place twice. Guest stars: Bettye Ackerman, Cliff Carnell, Forrest Tucker, Janis Paige, Jimmy Joyce, John Fiedler, John Finnegan, Nick Dennis, Pamela Austin, Patrick O'Neal, Robert Gibbons | ||
| 8 | Short Fuse | 1972-01-19 |
| A chemist rigs a bomb in his uncle's car to gain control of his uncle's company, then plants clues to make Columbo suspicious of the company's Vice-President. Guest stars: Anne Francis, Annette Molen, Eddie Quillan, George Sawaya, Ida Lupino, James Gregory, Jason Wingreen, Jim Neumarker, Lawrence Cook, Lew Brown, Roddy McDowall, Rosalind Miles, Steve Gravers, Stuart Nisbet, William Windom | ||
| 7 | Lady in Waiting | 1971-12-15 |
| A woman shoots her overbearing brother, claiming she thought he was a burglar. Columbo doesn't buy the self-defense claim - he know's it's murder Guest stars: Barbara Rhoades, Frances E. Nealy, Frank Baxter, Fred Draper, Garry Walberg, Jessie Royce Landis, Joel Fluellen, Jon Lormer, Leslie Nielsen, Marcia Wallace, Richard Anderson, Richard Bull, Susan Barrister, Susan Clark | ||
| 6 | Suitable for Framing | 1971-11-17 |
| An art critic, Dale Kingston, kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. All the clues lead to the dead man's first wife. Can Columbo correct the Lieutenant's error before it is too late? Guest stars: Barney Phillips, Claude Johnson, Curt Conway, Dennis Rucker, Don Ameche, Joan Shawlee, Kenny Salvatt, Kim Hunter, Mary Wickes, Rosanna Huffman, Ross Martin, Sandra Gould, Vic Tayback | ||
| 5 | Dead Weight | 1971-10-27 |
| A famous general kills a business associate, then woos a neurotic female witness to thwart Columbo's investigation. Guest stars: Clete Roberts, Eddie Albert, Glen Vernon, James Halferty, Jim Pelham, John Kerr, Kate Reid, Ron Castro, Suzanne Pleshette, Timothy Carey, Val Avery | ||
| 4 | Death Lends a Hand | 1971-10-06 |
| A private investigator kills his client's wife after she threatens to expose his blackmail scheme. The client then hires the detective to assist Columbo in the search for the killer. Guest stars: Barbara Baldavin, Bill Hickman, Brett Halsey, Don Keefer, Eric James, Len Wayland, Lieux Dressler, Pat Crowley, Ray Milland, Robert Culp | ||
| 3 | Murder by the Book | 1971-09-15 |
| One member of a mystery-writing-team decides to kill his more talented partner when the better writer decides to go solo. Guest stars: Anitra Ford, Barbara Colby, Bernie Kuby, Haven Earle Haley, Hoke Howell, Jack Cassidy, Lynette Mettey, Marcia Wallace, Martin Milner, Rosemary Forsyth | ||
| 2 | Ransom for a Dead Man | 1971-03-01 |
| A high-flying lady lawyer kills her husband for the insurance money, and tries to makes It look like a kidnapping gone wrong. Guest stars: Bill Walker, Celeste Yarnall, Charles Macaulay, Hank Brandt, Harlan Warde, Harold Gould, Jean Byron, Jed Allan, John Fink, Judson Morgan, Lee Grant, Lisa Moore, Lois Battle, Norma Connolly, Patricia Mattick, Paul Carr, Richard O'Brien, Richard Roat, Timothy Carey | ||
| 1 | Prescription: Murder | 1968-02-20 |
| Columbo's first mystery pits him against a cheating doctor out to get rid of his wife in favor of his young, pretty actress girlfriend. Guest stars: Andrea King, Anthony James, Clark Howat, Don Stewart, Ena Hartman, Gene Barry, Jim Creech, Katherine Justice, Nina Foch, Sherry Boucher, Susanne Benton, Tom Williams, Virginia Gregg, William Windom | ||
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| 8 | Columbo Likes the Nightlife | 2003-01-30 |
| The final Columbo story starring Peter Falk, Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price (Matthew Rhys) helps his girlfriend Vanessa (Jennifer Sky) get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. When an investigative reporter pieces the crime together and threatens to blackmail Justin, Justin kills him. Guest stars: Audrey Wasilewski, Carmine Giovinazzo, Douglas Roberts, Eve Kagan, Iris Bahr, Jamison Yang, Jennifer Sky, Jorge Garcia, Julius Carry, Karen Maruyama, Katie O'Rourke, Matthew Rhys, Patrick Cupo, Steve Schirripa | ||
| 7 | Murder With Too Many Notes | 2001-03-12 |
| Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford (Billy Connolly) has been mentor to a talented young composer who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years, and penned Crawford's entire last movie score, which won an Oscar. When the protege wants to venture out on his own, Crawford, whose own talent seems to have run dry, concocts the perfect murder, made to look like a suicide. Guest stars: Anne McGoohan, Billy Connolly, Charles Cioffi, Douglas Callan, Harry Danner, Hillary Danner, Jennifer Fabos, Joanne Lara, Larry Gilman, Luis Avalos, Michael P. Byrne, Miguel Perez, Obi Ndefo, Randy Ogles, Richard Riehle, Rob Elk, Steve O'Connor, Susan Edwards, Van Epperson | ||
| 6 | Ashes to Ashes | 1998-08-10 |
| Mortician to the stars Eric Prince (Patrick McGoohan), kills gossip reporter Verity Chandler (Rue McClanahan), who had knowledge of skeletons in Prince's closet. Columbo must figure out what happened to her and why. Guest stars: Arthur Duncan, Aubrey Morris, Conrad Bachmann, Edie McClurg, Karissa Corday, Ken Weiler, Patrick McGoohan, Richard Libertini, Richard Riehle, Roberta Hamlen, Ron Masak, Rue McClanahan, Sally Kellerman, Sid Burston, Spencer Garrett | ||
| 5 | A Trace of Murder | 1997-05-15 |
| Cathleen Calvert (Shera Danese) and her lover, crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley (David Rasche), plot to get rid of Calvert's husband, Clifford (Barry Corbin), a powerful businessman, by killing an investment broker with whom he is currently feuding, and pinning the murder on Clifford. As long as he is alive and in prison, Cathleen has access to all his money. Columbo must uncover a criminal who is part of the team handling the investigation. Guest stars: Alice Backes, Barry Corbin, Cady Huffman, David Rasche, Dion Anderson, Donna Bullock, Dyana Ortelli, Franklin Cover, James Almanzar, Jeffrey King, John F. O'Donohue, Kymberly Newberry, Maury Sterling, Raye Birk, Richard Saxton, Roma Alvarez, Vincent J. McEveety, Will Nye | ||
| 4 | Strange Bedfellows | 1995-05-08 |
| Graham McVeigh (George Wendt), a thoroughbred ranch owner, kills his brother, and frames a local mob bookie. Then, under the guise of making good on his brother's debt, he kills the bookie as well, claiming self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli (Rod Steiger) starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster. Guest stars: Alex Henteloff, Bruce Kirby, David Sobel, Don Calfa, Ed McCready, Frantz Turner, George Wendt, Gerry Gibson, Jay Acovone, Jeff Yagher, John Finnegan, Justin Lord, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Kate Benton, Linda Gehringer, Richard Epcar, Rod Steiger, Shani Wallis, William Bogert | ||
| 3 | A Bird in the Hand | 1992-11-22 |
| Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold (Greg Evigan) plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred (Steve Forrest). However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead. Guest stars: Buddy Joe Hooker, Carol Swarbrick, Dick Baker, Don S. Davis, Ed McCreeady, Elven Havard, Frank McRae, G.F. Smith, Gerry Okuneff, Greg Evigan, Joanna Sanchez, Joel Beeson, John Petlock, Lenny Citrano, Leon Singer, Michael Gregory, Stephen Liska, Steve Forrest, Tyne Daly | ||
| 2 | No Time to Die | 1992-03-15 |
| Columbo attends the wedding of his police officer nephew. While her husband takes a shower, the bride disappears from the bridal suite. The groom enlists Uncle Columbo's help in unraveling the case. Seems she has been kidnapped by a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates "their" marriage. Guest stars: Beth Chamberlin, Cliff Emmich, Darnell Harrison, Don Swayze, Donald Moffat, Doug Savant, Gary Hollis, Joanna Going, Jose Rey, Juliet Mills, Kelly Nelson, Lance LeGault, Patricia Huston, Richard Assad, Siobhan McCafferty, Stack Pierce, Thomas Calabro, Tom Marvich, Yvonne Fa | ||
| 1 | Death Hits the Jackpot | 1991-12-15 |
| After winning a $30 million lottery, photographer Fredy Brower, who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him, arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr, to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's, until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself. Guest stars: Antony Ponzini, Betsy Palmer, Brit Lind, Daniel Trent, Dona Speir, Donald Craig, Gary Kroeger, Gerry Okuneff, Jamie Rose, Locky Lambert, Marilyn Tokuda, Penny Santon, Peter Schreiner, Rip Torn, Robert Alan Browne, Shane McCabe, Warren Berlinger, Webster Williams | ||
(Source: thetvdb.com)
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