Universal Crime A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot. 2026-09-09 A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a coed junior college. 2026-09-09 Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician. 2026-09-09 After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system. 2026-09-09 A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott). 2026-09-09 A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback. 2026-09-09 A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on college protesters. 2026-09-09 A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide. 2026-09-09 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. 2026-09-09 A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate. 2026-09-09 Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead. 2026-09-09 An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer, a former lover and current blackmailer. 2026-09-09 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. 2026-09-09 An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man discovers his crimes. 2026-09-09 A mystery writer uses her plot as a guide to murder her nephew, whom she blames for her niece's death. 2026-09-09