Universal Crime

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.

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.