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1968

Pilot TV Movies

  1. Prescription: Murder
    (Guest stars: Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom & Nina Foch.)

    Psychiatrist Roy Fleming and his wife are celebrating their anniversary when he is called to deal with a patient - Susan Hudson. On returning he has to soothe his angry wife with the promise of a trip to Acapulco. When Fleming's wife is found dead, Columbo is brought into investigate and seeds of doubt are planted in his mind which typically he will not ignore.
  2. Ransom For a Dead Man

1st Season 1971

  1. Murder By the Book
  2. Death Lends a Hand
  3. Dead Weight
  4. Suitable For Framing
    (Guest stars: Ross Martin and Don Ameche)
    Detective Lt. Columbo is introduced into the art world, when he is called upon to investigate a complicated case of stolen paintings and murder when powerful art critic Dale Kingston, aided by his young protégé, Tracy O'Conner, kill his multimillionaire, greedy art collector uncle, in order to inherit his priceless collection of paintings.
  5. Lady in Waiting
  6. Short Fuse
  7. Blueprint for Murder

2nd Season 1972

  1. Etude in Black
    (Guest stars: John Cassauetes & James Olson)
    Columbo has to unravel a musical murder mystery set around the famous Hollywood Bowl, after a brilliant symphony orchestra conductor, Alex Benedict, takes matters into his own hands when his career is threatened by scandal, after his mistress, young and talented concert pianist, Jenefer Welles, threatens to go public and tell his wife of their relationship, who's mother just happens to be 'Patron Of The Arts'.
  2. The Greenhouse Jungle
  3. The Most Crucial Game
  4. Dagger of the Mind
  5. Requiem For a Fallen Star
  6. A Stitch in Crime
  7. The Most Dangerous Match
  8. Double Shock
    (Guest stars: Martin Landau, Jeanette Nolan, Tim O'Connor, Julie Newmar & Paul Stewart.)
    When their elderly, wealthy uncle, Clifford Paris, is about to marry a much younger woman, twin brothers Dexter and Norman believe that they are about to be written out of his will and lose out on their inheritance. Although they have not spoken to each other in years, the two brothers unite to hatch a plan to kill their fitness enthusiast uncle and inherit his fortune.

3rd Season 1973

  1. Lovely but Lethal
  2. Any Old Port in a Storm
  3. Candidate for Crime
    (Guest stars: Jackie Cooper & Ken Swofford.)
    Campaign manager Harry Stone manufactures a story that senatorial candidate, Nelson Hayward, is the target of a murder plot. Hayward seizes the opportunity to carry out his own murder plan - the cold-blooded killing of Harry Stone - making it look as if he himself was the intended victim. Columbo hits the election campaign trail with the candidate, only to learn that behind the smiles and the political rhetoric, Hayward is the prize in a love triangle involving his wife Victoria's secretary.
  4. Double Exposure
  5. Publish or Perish
  6. Mind Over Mayhem
  7. Swan Song
  8. A Friend in Deed

4th Season 1974

  1. An Exercise in Fatality
  2. Negative Reaction
  3. Dawn's Early Light
  4. Troubled Waters
  5. Playback
  6. A Deadly State of Mind

5th Season 1975

  1. Forgotten Lady
  2. A Case of Immunity
  3. Identity Crisis
  4. A Matter of Honor
  5. Now You See Him...
  6. Last Salute to the Commodore

6th Season 1976

  1. Fade in to Murder
    (Special guest star: Lola Albright. Guest stars: William Shatner, Bert Remsen & Alan Manson.)
    Ward Fowler, a star with a reputation for being difficult and demanding, seems always to get what he wants. However, he has a dark secret - which if it ever came out would destroy his life. A producer of his hit TV show - Claire Daley - discovers his secret and is blackmailing Ward, until one day in Canada when Ward thinks he at last has the opportunity to close the deal for good.
  2. Old-Fashioned Murder
  3. The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case

7th Season 1977

  1. Try and Catch Me
  2. Murder Under Glass
  3. Make Me a Perfect Murder
  4. How to Dial a Murder
  5. The Conspirators

1989

1st Season 1989

  1. Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
  2. Murder, Smoke and Shadows
  3. Sex and the Married Detective
  4. Grand Deception

2nd Season 1989

  1. Murder: a Self Portrait
  2. Columbo Cries Wolf
  3. Agenda for Murder
  4. Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo
  5. Uneasy Lies the Crown
  6. Murder in Malibu

Additional TV Movies

  1. Columbo Goes to College
  2. Caution! Murder can be Hazardous to Your Health
  3. Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
  4. Death Hits the Jackpot
  5. No Time to Die
  6. A Bird in the Hand...
  7. It's All in the Game
  8. Butterfly in Shades of Grey
  9. Undercover
  10. Strange Bedfellows
  11. A Trace of Murder
  12. Ashes to Ashes
  13. Murder with Too Many Notes (2000, 86min)
  14. Murder by Suicide
  15. The Man Who Murdered Himself
  16. Columbo Like the Nightlife (2003)


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