2024-09-18
The web tightens around bandleader Eddy King after he falsely confesses to a murder to protect his fiancée. Polly: Jo Morrow. Jonny: Constance Towers. Bongo: Bobby Troup. Mason: Raymond Burr. (Repeat).
Mason becomes involved in the complexities of maritime law---and murder---after a storm-tossed freighter dumps its valuable cargo into the sea. Jerry: Lee Farr. Drake: William Hopper. Gideon: Karl Held. Janeel: Roy Roberts. Della: Barbara Hale. (Repeat).
Comedian Charlie Hatch confesses to a murder he didn't commit to protect the girl he loves. Anne: Gloria Talbott. Grimes: Jackie Coogan. Gilrain: Liam Sullivan. Mason: Raymond Burr. (Repeat).
Mason exposes a set of scheming twins and a blackmail plot as he defends a beleaguered physician accused of malpractice and murder. Edley: Skip Homeier. Joe/Hiram: Frank Cady. Mrs. Osborn: Virginia Gregg. Gates: Peter Whitney. (Repeat).
Mason interrupts a deep-sea fishing trip to defend a charter-boat skipper accused of gold smuggling and murder. Cahill: Jeff York. Rita: Lisa Gaye. Magovern: Arch Johnson. Burger: William Talman. Max: H.M. Wynant. Drake: William Hopper. (Repeat).
Jessica hires her PI friend Harry McGraw to help find out why a former neighbor denies knowing her, and why the man's wife insists he's dead. Lt. Quinlan: William Lucking. Swarthmore: Jon Cypher. Adam Paulson: Andrew Stevens. Maude Winslow: Christina Belford. (Repeat).
A baseball team's TV pre-game host is suddenly taken out of the ballgame, apparently by a surprised burglar. Angela Lansbury. Irving Randolph: Robert Mandan. Al Sidell: Paul Sorvino. Charley Holcomb: Tim Dunigan. Pete Briggs: Shea Farrell. (Repeat).
A fading mystery writer threatens to murder her rival Jessica, but she shows up in Cabot Cove with a gift. Part 1 of two. Angela Lansbury. Hank Shipton: Ken Howard. Bobby Shipton: Daniel McDonald. Liza: Shelley Fabares. Victor Caspar: David Hedison. Floyd: Will Nye. (Repeat).
Conclusion. Eudora denies poisoning the apples she brought or murdering the detective who was following her. Angela Lansbury. Bobby Shipton: Daniel McDonald. Liza Caspar: Shelley Fabares. Victor Caspar: David Hedison. Lew: Richard Anderson. Jonathan: Richard Erdman. (Repeat).
Jessica travels to Athens, where Michael Haggerty persuades her to pose as his wife to free a fellow agent from kidnappers. Angela Lansbury. Harold Baines: Ian Ogilvy. Col. Alec Scofield: Richard Todd. Henryk Stuyvesant: Peter Van Norden. Dimitri Popadopalous: Thom Christopher. (Repeat).
A priest is bound by the seal of the confessional to reveal nothing of a parishioner's admission to a killing in self-defense. Angela Lansbury. Doris West: Madlyn Rhue. Kelly Barrett: Jennifer Runyon. Nurse Marilyn: Bonnie Bartlett. Jack Hutchings: Robert Horton. Eddie Frayne: Lance Kerwin. (Repeat).
The death of the grande dame of mystery writers moves Jessica to recall a 1947 case in which the lady was involved: the stabbing of a former Gestapo officer. Lady Abigail: June Havoc. Christy: Gary Kroeger. Paul Viscard: Mark Lindsay Chapman. Henri Viscard: Dane Clark. Edwin: Robert Vaughn. (Repeat).
Columbo's after a murderer whose alibi puts him miles away from the crime. Columbo: Peter Falk. Paul Hanlon: Robert Culp. Cannell: Dean Jagger. Ralph Dobbs: Val Avery. (Repeat).
A fading star, out to murder a columnist, has killed her secretary by mistake. Columbo: Peter Falk. Nora Chandler: Anne Baxter. Jerry Parks: Mel Ferrer. Simmons: Kevin McCarthy. Fallon: Frank Converse. Jean: Pippa Scott. (Repeat).
Deadly lies the crown on the tooth of an actor who's cuckolding his dentist. Nancy Walker, Ron Cey and Dick Sargent have cameos. Columbo: Peter Falk. Dr. Wesley Corman: James Read. Lydia Corman: Jo Anderson. Dr. Horace Sherwin: Paul Burke. Adam Evans: Marshall Teague. David Sherwin: Mark Arnott. Sgt. McCulley: James A. Watson Jr. (Repeat).
An ambitious womanizer shoots the romance novelist who rejected him, and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry. Wayne Jennings: Andrew Stevens. Jess McCurdy: Brenda Vaccaro. Lt. Schultz: Floyd Levine. Theresa Goren: Janet Margolin. Mrs. Rocca: Sondra Currie. Helen: Ashcroft: Laurie Walters. (Repeat).
Mason Bradley's life turns upside down when he unexpectedly becomes the sole guardian of his late brother's kids after prioritizing his law career and ending his engagement. (Repeat).
Nicole is a workaholic, making her the ideal personal assistant to Kimberley. (Repeat).
An artist's plot to boost the value of his paintings backfires: he's murdered. Edna: Lori March. Durrant: Stuart Erwin. Kenyon: George Macready. Culross: Britt Lomond. Mason: Raymond Burr. Miller: Jason Evers. (Repeat).