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The following is an episode list for the crime fiction television series Columbo. After two pilot episodes, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less frequently on ABC beginning in 1989. The last installment was broadcast in 2003.
September 15, 1971. ( 1971-09-15) 72 min. Ken Franklin ( Jack Cassidy) is one-half of a mystery writing team, but partner Jim Ferris ( Martin Milner) wants to go solo, exposing the fact that Ferris did all the actual writing, and thus leave the high-living Franklin without his cash cow. However, the pair have an insurance policy on which ...
February 10, 1990. ( 1990-02-10) 92 min. Oscar Finch ( Patrick McGoohan) is a lawyer who uses underhanded methods to get his clients off, like coercing Paul Mackey ( Denis Arndt ), who worked for the D.A.'s office, into destroying evidence against racketeer Frank Staplin ( Louis Zorich) in 1969. Twenty-one years later, Mackey is chosen by a ...
September 14, 1975. ( 1975-09-14) 93 min. When elderly physician Henry Willis ( Sam Jaffe) refuses to finance a return to the spotlight for his wife, aging former movie star Grace Wheeler ( Janet Leigh) kills him in his sleep, passing it off as a suicide. Their elderly butler ( Maurice Evans) believes Grace was in a private screening room the ...
October 10, 1976. ( 1976-10-10) 70 min. Egocentric actor Ward Fowler ( William Shatner ), who portrays Detective Lucerne on a weekly TV show, is being blackmailed by his producer and ex-paramour, Claire Daley ( Lola Albright ), over the fact that he was a deserter in the Korean War. Fowler drugs a friend staying at his house watching a baseball ...
This episode has a split screen of Greenleaf's alibi and Mallory's murder. Mariette Hartley's role is similar to the one she played in Season 7's "Try and Catch Me". Spillane was the real-life author of Mike Hammer detective mysteries. Cassidy played the villain in three Columbo episodes: this one, Murder by the Book and Now You See Him...
Anthony Zerbe as Max Dyson. February 6, 1989. ( 1989-02-06) 88 min. Elliott Blake ( Anthony Andrews) is a "psychic" who, with his girlfriend/partner in crime Dr. Paula Hall ( Karen Austin ), is attempting to scam U.S. military intelligence into hiring him to use his ESP abilities against the Soviets. Blake and Hall rig a test with a stock set ...
October 15, 1972. ( 1972-10-15) 70 min. Jarvis Goodland ( Ray Milland) and his nephew, Tony ( Bradford Dillman ), stage Tony's kidnapping in order to break into his trust fund and use his half to bribe his wife's lover to stop seeing her. Jarvis, disgusted at the notion, shoots and kills Tony, whom he has always despised, once the ransom is ...