Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
An Exercise in Fatality (Folge 1) 7.3
Autor: Peter S. Fischer
Sendedatum: 1974-09-15
Laufzeit: 98 min
Übersicht: A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident
Negative Reaction (Folge 2) 7.8
Autor: Peter S. Fischer
Sendedatum: 1974-10-15
Laufzeit: 91 min
Übersicht: 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.
By Dawn's Early Light (Folge 3) 7.7
Autor: Howard Berk
Sendedatum: 1974-10-27
Laufzeit: 98 min
Übersicht: The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.
Troubled Waters (Folge 4) 7.7
Autor: Jackson Gillis
Sendedatum: 1975-02-09
Laufzeit: 98 min
Übersicht: While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.
Playback (Folge 5) 7.5
Autor: Booker Bradshaw
Sendedatum: 1975-03-02
Laufzeit: 74 min
Übersicht: An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.
A Deadly State of Mind (Folge 6) 7.0
Autor: Peter S. Fischer
Sendedatum: 1975-04-27
Laufzeit: 75 min
Übersicht: 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.