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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 ...
Columbo. Columbo ( / kəˈlʌmboʊ /) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [ 2][ 3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie ...
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
Columbo "A Stitch in Crime" February 11, 1973 Hec Ramsey "The Mystery of Chalk Hill" February 18, 1973 Madigan "The Park Avenue Beat" February 28, 1973 Columbo "The Most Dangerous Match" March 4, 1973 McMillan and Wife "The Fine Art of Staying Alive" March 11, 1973 Columbo "Double Shock" March 25, 1973 McMillan and Wife "Two Dollars on Trouble ...
Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, [ 1] she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974), and in films such as Macbeth (1948). Nolan was long married to prolific character actor John McIntire, whom she sometimes worked with.
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 ...
After Brimmer is led away Columbo admits to Kennicut he had arranged everything, and that there never was a missing contact lens. Robert Culp played the murderer in three Columbo episodes: this one, episode 12 ("The Most Crucial Game"), and episode 21 ("Double Exposure"). He also appeared (as the father of the murderer) in "Columbo Goes to ...
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 of Zener cards, but the Army ...