Universal Crime A senatorial candidate exploits death threats, fabricated for publicity, to kill his manager. 2026-08-07 A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's wife. 2026-08-07 An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor. 2026-08-07 A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son. 2026-08-07 A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail. 2026-08-07 A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend blackmail him into doing the same favor in return. 2026-08-07 Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner. 2026-08-07 A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot. 2026-08-07 A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a coed junior college. 2026-08-07 Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician. 2026-08-07 After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system. 2026-08-07 A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott). 2026-08-07 A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback. 2026-08-07 A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on college protesters. 2026-08-07 A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide. 2026-08-08 A retired bullfighter credited with saving a young man from a bull arranges the death of the boy's father to protect his own reputation. 2026-08-08 A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate. 2026-08-08 Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead. 2026-08-08 An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer, a former lover and current blackmailer. 2026-08-08 The curator (Joyce Van Patten) of a strapped family-owned museum stages a robbery, for insurance, then murders to hide her crime; guests Celeste Holm, Tim O'Connor. 2026-08-08 An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man discovers his crimes. 2026-08-08 A mystery writer uses her plot as a guide to murder her nephew, whom she blames for her niece's death. 2026-08-08 Columbo investigates the murder of a gourmet restaurant owner who had been the victim of an extortionist. 2026-08-08 A TV-network executive murders her boss and lover when he fails to promote her. 2026-08-08 Columbo suspects a psychologist (Nicol Williamson), a noted expert in mind control, is guilty of murder. 2026-08-08 An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him. 2026-08-08 An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick. 2026-08-08 A Hollywood director tries to fool Columbo when a studio becomes a murder scene. 2026-08-08 The disheveled detective gets some free advice from a world-famous sex therapist. 2026-08-08