Columbo (1971-2009)

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A famous romance novelist is shot dead in the course of what looks like a robbery.

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An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who...

(Airdate: 4/15/78)

A psychologist uses mind control to make his Doberman pinschers kill his assistant.

(Airdate: 2/28/78)

A TV-network executive murders her boss and lover when he fails to promote her.

(Airdate: 1/30/78)

A food critic blackmailing restaurateurs for good reviews poisons a man threatening to expose him.

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A mystery writer uses her plot as a guide to murder her nephew, whom she blames for her niece's...

(Airdate: 5/22/77)

An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man...

(Airdate: 11/28/76)

The curator (Joyce Van Patten) of a strapped family-owned museum stages a robbery, for insurance,...

(Airdate: 10/10/76)

An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer, a former lover and...

(Airdate: 3/2/76)

Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.

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A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a...

(Airdate: 2/1/76)

A retired bullfighter credited with saving a young man from a bull arranges the death of the boy's...

(Airdate: 11/2/75)

An advertising consultant with several identities frames his ex-partner.

(Airdate: 10/12/75)

A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on...

(Airdate: 9/14/75)

A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her...

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A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his...

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After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.

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Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the...

(Airdate: 10/27/74)

A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a...

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A photographer kills his wife and a former convict after framing him for her kidnapping and murder.

(Airdate: 9/15/74)

A fitness expert murders an associate who uncovered financial fraud in a health-spa chain.

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A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend...

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A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.

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A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a...

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A publisher hires a gunman to kill a mystery writer who announces he is signing with a competitor.

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A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's...

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A senatorial candidate exploits death threats, fabricated for publicity, to kill his manager.

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A wine connoisseur kills his playboy brother to prevent his selling the family winery to expiate his...

(Airdate: 9/23/73)

A manufacturer is suspected of killing a chemist who stole a cosmetics formula.

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Twins kill their wealthy uncle just before his marriage to a younger woman.

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An American chess champion plays a private match with his challenger and kills him because the man...

(Airdate: 2/11/73)

A surgeon kills a nurse who suspects him of intentionally botching the heart surgery of his...

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A secretary is mistakenly ensnared in an aging actress's plot to murder a gossip columnist.

(Airdate: 11/26/72)

In England to study Scotland Yard, Columbo probes a theater patron's murder by Shakespearean actors.

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A football-team manager (Robert Culp) establishes an electronic alibi for the murder of the team...

(Airdate: 10/15/72)

A botanical collector involves his nephew in a kidnapping to break a trust fund, then murders him to...

(Airdate: 9/17/72)

The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's...

(Airdate: 2/9/72)

Columbo orders the excavation of a huge pylon, in search of a missing body, but finds nothing.

(Airdate: 1/19/72)

An explosion kills an executive as he calls his wife from a car phone, and suspicion falls on a...

(Airdate: 12/15/71)

Bitter sibling competition for control of a family-owned corporation escalates into murder.

(Airdate: 11/17/71)

Evidence points to an innocent woman after an art critic and his protege murder an uncle to inherit...

(Airdate: 10/27/71)

No body, no weapon and a witness courted by the war hero she thinks committed murder, complicate a...

(Airdate: 10/6/71)

Blackmail turns to murder when a private investigator tries to profit from a wife's indiscretions.

(Airdate: 9/15/71)

A blackmailer interferes with a mystery writer's plan to kill his former partner in a perfect crime.