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.
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Air date: 1974-09-15
Runtime: 98 min
Overview: A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Air date: 1974-10-15
Runtime: 91 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Howard Berk
Air date: 1974-10-27
Runtime: 98 min
Overview: The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Air date: 1975-02-09
Runtime: 98 min
Overview: While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.
Writer: Booker Bradshaw
Air date: 1975-03-02
Runtime: 74 min
Overview: An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Air date: 1975-04-27
Runtime: 75 min
Overview: 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.
