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Columbo suspects a psychologist (Nicol Williamson), a noted expert in mind control, is guilty of murder.

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

A Hollywood director tries to fool Columbo when a studio becomes a murder scene.

The detective is called in to investigate the death of a sergeant major at a training camp.

Homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo investigates the murder of a famous painter's ex-wife.

Columbo investigates the disappearance of the director of a men's magazine.

The disheveled detective investigates the apparent suicide of a notorious racketeer who was facing an indictment.

When a crooked estate agent dies in prison, his widow vows to exact her revenge on the two men that put him there. After killing her husband's informing boss, she sets her sights on Lieutenant Columbo.

A dentist frames his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.

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

The rumpled lieutenant is invited to give a college lecture on criminology but ends up investigating the murder of one of the institution's professors.

Columbo investigates the murder of a crime show host's rival with incriminating evidence.

Columbo is put to the test against an equally brilliant, criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend.

A police detective questions a jewelry-store owner whose late nephew had a winning lottery ticket.

Columbo attends his nephew's wedding and as the couple get ready to leave on their honeymoon, the bride disappears; Columbo investigates and suspects his nephew may have made a few enemies on the police force.

Columbo investigates a hit and run, followed by a car explosion.

Two women kill their two-timing lover but have solid alibis; one of the women tries to seduce Columbo to keep him off her trail.

Columbo investigates a case involving argumentative radio talk show host Fielding Chase.

The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.

The detective is put on the case of a man who murders his brother.

Columbo matches wits with a forensics specialist, helping his girlfriend to frame her husband for a stock broker's murder.

The inimitable cop must prove that a flamboyant Hollywood gossip reporter was murdered by her former lover.

A Hollywood film composer and conductor murders a talented, young musician out of jealousy.

Columbo investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter in the Los Angeles rave scene.

A psychiatrist uses a patient, he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife. His perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) outwits a lawyer (Lee Grant) who has killed her husband but made it look like a kidnapping.

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

Columbo investigates the case of an unfaithful wife who was murdered when she refused to be blackmailed.

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

Columbo is caught in a case of stolen art and murder with evidence pointing to an innocent woman.

A competition between bitter siblings for ownership of a family-owned corporation, after their father's untimely death, escalates into murder.

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

Columbo excavates the area surrounding the newly poured foundation of a building to search for a corpse.

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

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

A football-team manager (Robert Culp) establishes an electronic alibi for the murder of the team owner (Dean Stockwell) during a game; guests Valerie Harper, Susan Howard, James Gregory, Dean Jagger.

Columbo journeys to London to observe Scotland Yard, but winds up investigating murders committed by two Shakespearean actors.

The ongoing feud between an out-of-favor Hollywood actress and a gossip columnist results in murder. Guest star: Anne Baxter.

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

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

Twins (Martin Landau in a dual role) kill their wealthy uncle just before his marriage to a younger woman.

A cosmetics manufacturer is suspected of murdering an employee (Martin Sheen) who stole a wrinkle-removing formula.

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

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

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

An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.

A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son.

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

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.

Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.

A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.

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

Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician.

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

A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott).

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

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

A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Columbo investigates the murder of a gourmet restaurant owner who had been the victim of an extortionist.

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

Columbo suspects a psychologist (Nicol Williamson), a noted expert in mind control, is guilty of murder.

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

A Hollywood director tries to fool Columbo when a studio becomes a murder scene.

The detective is called in to investigate the death of a sergeant major at a training camp.

Homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo investigates the murder of a famous painter's ex-wife.

Columbo investigates the disappearance of the director of a men's magazine.

The disheveled detective investigates the apparent suicide of a notorious racketeer who was facing an indictment.

When a crooked estate agent dies in prison, his widow vows to exact her revenge on the two men that put him there. After killing her husband's informing boss, she sets her sights on Lieutenant Columbo.

A dentist frames his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.

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

The rumpled lieutenant is invited to give a college lecture on criminology but ends up investigating the murder of one of the institution's professors.