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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.S8, EP2 "Murder, Smoke and Shadows"A Hollywood director tries to fool Columbo when a studio becomes a murder scene.
S8, EP3 "Sex and the Married Detective"The disheveled detective gets some free advice from a world famous sex therapist.
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.
S8, EP4 "Grand Deceptions"The detective is called in to investigate the death of a sergeant major at a training camp.
S9, EP1 "Murder, a Self Portrait"Homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo investigates the murder of a famous painter's ex-wife.
S4, EP2 "Negative Reaction"A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.
S9, EP5 "Uneasy Lies the Crown"A dentist frames his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.
S9, EP6 "Murder in Malibu"A famous romance novelist is shot dead in the course of what looks like a robbery.
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.
S7, EP4 "How to Dial a Murder"Columbo suspects a psychologist (Nicol Williamson), a noted expert in mind control, is guilty of murder.
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.
S9, EP2 "Columbo Cries Wolf"Columbo investigates the disappearance of the director of a men's magazine.
S9, EP3 "Agenda for Murder"The disheveled detective investigates the apparent suicide of a notorious racketeer who was facing an indictment.
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.
S9, EP4 "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo"When a crooked estate agent dies in prison, his widow vows to exact her revenge on the two men that put him there. After killing her husband's informing boss, she sets her sights on Lieutenant Columbo.
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.
S10, EP1 "Columbo Goes to College"The rumpled lieutenant is invited to give a college lecture on criminology but ends up investigating the murder of one of the institution's professors.
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.
S10, EP2 "Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health"Columbo investigates the murder of a crime show host's rival with incriminating evidence.
S10, EP3 "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star"Columbo is put to the test against an equally brilliant, criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend.
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.
S10, EP4 "Death Hits the Jackpot"A police detective questions a jewelry-store owner whose late nephew had a winning lottery ticket.
S10, EP5 "No Time to Die"Columbo attends his nephew's wedding and as the couple get ready to leave on their honeymoon, the bride disappears; Columbo investigates and suspects his nephew may have made a few enemies on the police force.
S5, EP1 "Forgotten Lady"A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.
"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.
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.
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.
S7, EP3 "Make Me a Perfect Murder"A TV-network executive murders her boss and lover when he fails to promote her.
S5, EP6 "Last Salute to the Commodore"Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.
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, EP3 "Identity Crisis"A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.
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.
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.
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.
S1, EP5 "Lady in Waiting"Bitter sibling competition for control of a family-owned corporation escalates into murder.
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
5 seasons available on demand (14 episodes)
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