2024-08-20
A feisty widow solves murders when she's not writing about them in her home town of Cabot Cove, Maine, a coastal community with a peculiarly high homicide rate. A Sunday-night staple on CBS, this hugely popular drama was Angela Lansbury's first regular series and earned the Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress an Emmy nomination (but never, unaccountably, the prize itself) for each of its 12 seas
The classic whodunit about the razor-sharp detective with a rumpled raincoat, a bumbling manner and no apparent first name. He always has 'uh, just one more question' before nailing the killer. 'Columbo' premiered as an NBC series (following a couple of highly regarded TV-movies) in September 1971 as one of three rotating 'Sunday Mystery Movie' elements ('McMillan and Wife' and 'McCloud' were the
The classic whodunit about the razor-sharp detective with a rumpled raincoat, a bumbling manner and no apparent first name. He always has 'uh, just one more question' before nailing the killer. 'Columbo' premiered as an NBC series (following a couple of highly regarded TV-movies) in September 1971 as one of three rotating 'Sunday Mystery Movie' elements ('McMillan and Wife' and 'McCloud' were the
The classic whodunit about the razor-sharp detective with a rumpled raincoat, a bumbling manner and no apparent first name. He always has 'uh, just one more question' before nailing the killer. 'Columbo' premiered as an NBC series (following a couple of highly regarded TV-movies) in September 1971 as one of three rotating 'Sunday Mystery Movie' elements ('McMillan and Wife' and 'McCloud' were the
The classic whodunit about the razor-sharp detective with a rumpled raincoat, a bumbling manner and no apparent first name. He always has 'uh, just one more question' before nailing the killer. 'Columbo' premiered as an NBC series (following a couple of highly regarded TV-movies) in September 1971 as one of three rotating 'Sunday Mystery Movie' elements ('McMillan and Wife' and 'McCloud' were the
April is an uptight health-chef guru on the verge of notoriety, but her brand of cooking is failing. April vows to reinvent herself. She goes to Italy to learn how to incorporate the country's notorious rich culture of food in her own recipes. (Repeat).
A dancer teams up with an odd partner to compete to save her family's General Store. (Repeat).
Mason is retained by Frances Celane, a self-willed heiress who propels herself headlong into a murder charge. Norton: Raymond Greenleaf. Graves: William Schallert. Clara: Lillian Bronson. (Repeat).
Mason is summoned when a storm surrounding a crooked poker game leads to murder. Mildred: Anne Barton. Bob: Mark Roberts. Drake: William Hopper. Sam: Michael Emmet. Marlowe: Dan Seymour. (Repeat).
Representing an accused murderer, Mason's defense hinges on a tube of supposedly kiss-proof lipstick. Hale: Paul Fix. Mason: Raymond Burr. Marion: Joan Weldon. Delano: Peter Nelson. Carla: Barbara Eden. Belle: Sylvia Field. (Repeat).
A kiss of death---in the form of a garish lipstick print on a dead man's forehead---is Mason's only link to a murderer. Louise: Frances Bavier. Fay: Sue England. Mason: Raymond Burr. Burger: William Talman. Drake: William Hopper. Della: Barbara Hale. (Repeat).
Mason concocts several unorthodox legal maneuvers to clear a murder suspect hemmed in by a wave of circumstantial evidence. Veronica: Carol Leigh. Brent: Robert Carson. Addison: Robert Ellenstein. Lorraine: Catherine McLeod. (Repeat).
Mason tries to untangle a mystery involving a year-old homicide case---and a corpse that keeps disappearing. Myrna: June Dayton. Jason: Adam Williams. Louise: Sarah Selby. Burger: William Talman. Drake: William Hopper. Della: Barbara Hale. (Repeat).
A recluse (Cynthia Nixon), tormented by nightmares of her mother's murder, is terrified when the killer makes an attempt to see her in real life. Dr. Holden: Margot Kidder. Barnett: David Soul. Peter: David Lansbury. Lt. Gelber: Herbert Edelman. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. (Repeat).
The murders of a fisherman and a banker are similar---but are they connected? Fraser: Chad Everett. Helen: Hope Lange. Bentall: Michael Beck. Shannon: Don Stroud. Eve: Julie Adams. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. (Repeat).
Jessica agrees to help her former researcher (Molly Hagan) fight a murder charge although the woman lies compulsively. Vincent: Stephen T. Kay. Bruce: Jeffrey Nordling. Baker: Edward Winter. Todd: Wallace Langham. Missy: Christine Belford. Wanda: Evelyn Keyes. (Repeat).
A delivery boy (Neil Patrick Harris) claims he was shot at by a man beside a murdered woman---but he can't prove it. Lt. Warren: Laurence Luckinbill. Remsen: John Bennett Perry. Susan: Sheila MacRae. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. (Repeat).
Jessica takes a cruise on a veritable ship of thieves, one of whom is also a killer. Dennis: Keith Michell. Captain: Rory O'Neil. Leslie: Lee Meriwether. Alma: Jane Withers. Philip: Dwier Brown. Lance: Michael Woods. Angela Lansbury. (Repeat).
Whoever murdered a rookie cop is trying to kill his date (Kasi Lemmons). Lofton: Stan Shaw. Alex: Ed O'Ross. Jimmy: Monte Markham. Jill: Nancy Sorel. Captain: Ned Bellamy. Sonny: James Pickens Jr. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. (Repeat).