El teniente Colombo es un desaliñado y aparentemente despistado detective de policía que, a primera vista, suele ser considerado torpe e inofensivo. Lleva siempre gabardina y un puro mientras investiga y resuelve los casos más sorprendentes.
Murder, a Self Portrait (Episodio 1) 6.2
Guionista: Sy Salkowitz
Fecha de emisión: 1989-11-25
Duración: 93 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Columbo Cries Wolf (Episodio 2) 7.1
Guionista: Richard Levinson
Fecha de emisión: 1990-01-20
Duración: 98 min
Sinopsis: Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Dian 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.
Agenda for Murder (Episodio 3) 7.7
Guionista: Jeffrey Bloom
Fecha de emisión: 1990-02-10
Duración: 97 min
Sinopsis: Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo (Episodio 4) 7.4
Guionista: Peter S. Fischer
Fecha de emisión: 1990-03-31
Duración: 98 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Uneasy Lies the Crown (Episodio 5) 6.3
Guionista: Steven Bochco
Fecha de emisión: 1990-04-28
Duración: 97 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Murder in Malibu (Episodio 6) 6.4
Guionista: Jackson Gillis
Fecha de emisión: 1990-05-14
Duración: 94 min
Sinopsis: 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.