Universal Crime

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.

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 defense 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 stockbroker's murder.

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