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Columbo"Columbo" isn't the typical detective whodunit TV show. On most detective shows, viewers don't know who committed the crime until the detective pieces the clues together and figures it out. On this show, however, viewers see the crime unfold at the beginning of most episodes, including who the perpetrator is. The mystery and fun for viewers is trying to spot the clues that will lead Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) to discover the culprit and watching the tricks he uses to get a confession. Episodes of "Columbo" were movie-length and ran sporadically on multiple networks during its run.S5, EP1 "Forgotten Lady"A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.
S2, EP3 "The Most Crucial Game"A football-team manager (Robert Culp) establishes an electronic alibi for the murder of the team owner (Dean Stockwell) during a game; guests Valerie Harper, Susan Howard, James Gregory, Dean Jagger.
S2, EP5 "Requiem for a Falling Star"The ongoing feud between an out-of-favor Hollywood actress and a gossip columnist results in murder. Guest star: Anne Baxter.
S1, EP5 "Lady in Waiting"Bitter sibling competition for control of a family-owned corporation escalates into murder.
S1, EP6 "Short Fuse"An explosion kills an executive as he calls his wife from a car phone, and suspicion falls on a company attorney.
S10, EP14 "Columbo Likes the Nightlife"Columbo investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter in the Los Angeles rave scene.
S1, EP7 "Blueprint for Murder"At tremendous expense to the city, Columbo excavates the area surrounding the newly poured foundation of a building to search for a corpse.
S2, EP2 "The Greenhouse Jungle"A botanical collector involves his nephew in a kidnapping to break a trust fund, then murders him to finance his hobby.
"Ransom for a Dead Man"An attorney murders her husband, fakes his kidnapping and keeps the ransom.
S2, EP1 "Étude in Black"The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.
S2, EP4 "Dagger of the Mind"Columbo journeys to London to observe Scotland Yard, but winds up investigating murders committed by two Shakespearean actors.
S3, EP2 "Any Old Port in a Storm"A wine connoisseur kills his playboy brother to prevent his selling the family winery to expiate his latest scandal.
S2, EP6 "A Stitch in Crime"A surgeon kills a nurse who suspects him of intentionally botching the heart surgery of his colleague, a cardiac expert.
S2, EP7 "The Most Dangerous Match"An American chess champion plays a private match with his challenger and kills him because the man is a better player.
S3, EP3 "Candidate for a Crime"A senatorial candidate exploits death threats, fabricated for publicity, to kill his manager.
S3, EP7 "Swan Song"A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.
S2, EP8 "Double Shock"Twins (Martin Landau in a dual role) kill their wealthy uncle just before his marriage to a younger woman.
S3, EP1 "Lovely but Lethal"A cosmetics manufacturer is suspected of murdering an employee (Martin Sheen) who stole a wrinkle-removing formula.
S3, EP8 "A Friend in Deed"A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend blackmail him into doing the same favor in return.
S4, EP1 "An Exercise in Fatality"Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.
S5, EP3 "Identity Crisis"A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.
S3, EP4 "Double Exposure"A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's wife.
S3, EP5 "Publish or Perish"An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.
S4, EP2 "Negative Reaction"A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.
S4, EP3 "By Dawn's Early Light"A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a coed junior college.
S3, EP6 "Mind Over Mayhem"A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son.
S4, EP5 "Playback"After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.
S4, EP4 "Troubled Waters"Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician.
S4, EP6 "A Deadly State of Mind"A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott).
S5, EP2 "A Case of Immunity"A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on college protesters.
S5, EP5 "Now You See Him"A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate.
S5, EP4 "A Matter of Honor"A retired bullfighter credited with saving a young man from a bull arranges the death of the boy's father to protect his own reputation.
S6, EP1 "Fade In to Murder"An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer , a former lover and current blackmailer.
S5, EP6 "Last Salute to the Commodore"Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.
S7, EP3 "Make Me a Perfect Murder"A TV-network executive murders her boss and lover when he fails to promote her.
S6, EP2 "Old-Fashioned Murder"The curator (Joyce Van Patten) of a strapped family-owned museum stages a robbery, for insurance, then murders to hide her crime; guests Celeste Holm, Tim O'Connor.
S6, EP3 "The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case"An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man discovers his crimes.
S7, EP5 "The Conspirators"An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him.
S8, EP1 "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine"An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick.
S10, EP13 "Murder With Too Many Notes"A Hollywood film composer and conductor murders a talented, young musician out of jealousy.
S10, EP12 "Ashes to Ashes"The inimitable cop must prove that a flamboyant Hollywood gossip reporter was murdered by her former lover.
S10, EP11 "A Trace of Murder"Columbo matches wits with a forensics specialist, helping his girlfriend to frame her husband for a stock broker's murder.
S10, EP10 "Strange Bedfellows"The detective is put on the case of a man who murders his brother.
S10, EP9 "Undercover"The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.
S10, EP8 "Butterfly in Shades of Grey"Columbo investigates a case involving argumentative radio talk show host Fielding Chase.
S7, EP4 "How to Dial a Murder"Columbo suspects a psychologist (Nicol Williamson), a noted expert in mind control, is guilty of murder.
S7, EP2 "Murder Under Glass"Columbo investigates the murder of a gourmet restaurant owner who had been the victim of an extortionist.
S1, EP4 "Suitable for Framing"Evidence points to an innocent woman after an art critic and his protege murder an uncle to inherit a collection.
S1, EP3 "Dead Weight"No body, no weapon and a witness courted by the war hero she thinks committed murder, complicate a case.
S1, EP2 "Death Lends a Hand"Columbo investigates the case of an unfaithful wife who was murdered when she refused to be blackmailed.
S1, EP1 "Murder by the Book"A blackmailer interferes with a mystery writer's scheme to kill his former partner in a perfect crime.
"Columbo" isn't the typical detective whodunit TV show. On most detective shows, viewers don't know who committed the crime until the detective pieces the clues together and figures it out. On this show, however, viewers see the crime unfold at the beginning of most episodes, including who the perpetrator is. The mystery and fun for viewers is trying to spot the clues that will lead Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) to discover the culprit and watching the tricks he uses to get a confession. Episodes of "Columbo" were movie-length and ran sporadically on multiple networks during its run.
Original Air Date: Sep 15, 1971
Genres: DramaTV Series
Rating: TVG
Playback: HD
3 seasons available on demand (12 episodes)
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