Universal Crime

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.

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.

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

The disheveled detective gets some free advice from a world-famous sex therapist.