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.
Air date: 1973-09-23
Runtime: 73 min
Overview: Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.
Air date: 1973-10-07
Runtime: 96 min
Overview: A wine connoisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.
Air date: 1973-11-04
Runtime: 93 min
Overview: A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.
Air date: 1973-12-16
Runtime: 70 min
Overview: A filmmaker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign
Air date: 1974-01-18
Runtime: 73 min
Overview: A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.
Air date: 1974-02-18
Runtime: 73 min
Overview: The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.
Air date: 1974-03-03
Runtime: 99 min
Overview: A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety.
Air date: 1974-05-05
Runtime: 98 min
Overview: A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.
