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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.
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 ...
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 ...
When Brimmer tries to throw the lens away the police stop him, and he confesses. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
91 min. After years of marriage to his domineering wife, Frances ( Antoinette Bower ), professional photographer Paul Galesko ( Dick Van Dyke) decides to kill her. He hires ex-con Alvin Deschler ( Don Gordon) to rent an isolated ranch house. Galesko persuades his wife to accompany him there and she grudgingly agrees.