Universal Crime

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.