2024-09-19
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).
A race-car owner is accused of murdering the driver who deliberately wrecked his test car---and was romancing his wife. Eastman: Jess Barker. Danielli: Alejandro Rey. Kate: Audrey Dalton. Mason: Raymond Burr. Kirby: John Conte. Burger: William Talman. (Repeat).
Charges of forgery, bigamy and murder are slapped on a former All-American football player who tried to sidetrack a blackmailer. Nichols: Ed Nelson. Veronica: Leslie Parrish. Daniels: Les Tremayne. Mason: Raymond Burr. Burger: William Talman. (Repeat).
A scandal from a college president-elect's past threatens a million-dollar endowment for his institution. Haskell: William Allyn. Vardon: Will Wright. Mary: Phyllis Avery. Mason: Raymond Burr. Cromwell: Karl Weber. (Repeat).
Mason's defense of a executive accused of homicide hinges on unmasking a blackmailer and an alleged Nazi war criminal. Father Paul: Frank Overton. Merrill: Dick Foran. Vander: Paul Lambert. Mason: Raymond Burr. Burger: William Talman. (Repeat).
Sue Ellen Frazer's defiance of her millionaire father-in-law buys her a one-way ticket to jail---and a charge of murder. Raymond Burr. Sue Ellen: Diana Millay. Thorpe: DeForest Kelley. (Repeat).
Jessica identifies the wife of a murder victim as his killer and the woman commits suicide. But, where is the $3 million he apparently embezzled? Angela Lansbury. Lt. Hanna: Elliott Gould. Kay Weber: Barbara Parkins. Pauline Byrne: Susan Blakely. Linda Dixon: Marilyn Jones. Rose: Paul Gleason. (Repeat).
A football star turned gumshoe dog-sits a poodle for a friend who is subsequently murdered---and now the killers want the dog. Angela Lansbury. Lt. Lou Brickmann: Pat Harrington. Mona: Ellen Travolta. Earl Browder: Glynn Thurman. Maria: Rose Portillo. Cynthia: Susan Anton. (Repeat).
A firemen is found dead in a furniture store on the day Jessica had given him a dead letter found in an old bureau she bought at a rummage sale. Angela Lansbury. Lois Fricksey: Susan Anspach. Ron Stiller: Peter Fox. Stanley Holmes: Max Gail. Fred Owens: George Furth. Mayor: Richard Paul. (Repeat).
In Jamaica, the heir to a plantation marries the daughter of a priest, dashing hopes of reuniting two families and triggering a death curse. Angela Lansbury. Olivia Waverly: Shani Wallis. Mark: James Lancaster. Jean-Pierre Dusant: Hurd Hatfield. Calder Williams: Ji-Tu. Adam: Patrick Massett. (Repeat).
A famous opera tenor suffers a heart attack after shooting the man he warned to stay away from his young protégé. Angela Lansbury. Rosanno Bertolucci: Theodore Bikel. Teresa Mancini: Lila Kaye. Maria Deschler: Kathleen Beller. Silvana: Carol Lawrence. (Repeat).
A tycoon invites Jessica to his island retreat to find out which heir is trying to kill him---but one succeeds on the night she arrives. Valery: Cassie Yates. Kimberly: Jill Carroll. Preston Howard: John Callahan. Jason: Keir Dullea. Alice: Marj Dusay. Dr. Hubbard Dabney: Philip Abbott. (Repeat).
A criminology professor assigns a closed murder case to his class of two students as a project. Angela Lansbury. Elizabeth Mills: Lise Hilboldt. Bernie Berndlestein: Grant Heslov. Colin Hale: Robert Lipton. Sen. Grainger: Robert Pine. (Repeat).
Leonard Nimoy as a surgeon who's planning a surgical death for his associate. Heideman: Will Geer. Columbo: Peter Falk. Sharon: Anne Francis. Marsha: Nita Talbot. Alexander: Jared Martin. (Repeat).
Laurence Harvey plays a chess champ planning to murder his opponent. Dudek: Jack Kruschen. Columbo: Peter Falk. Berozski: Lloyd Bochner. Linda Robinson: Heidi Bruhl. Benson: Michael Fox. (Repeat).
As Columbo addresses a college criminology class, two of the students at the lecture commit a murder in the parking garage downstairs. Justin Rowe: Stephen Caffrey. Cooper Redman: Gary Hershberger. Jordan Rowe: Robert Culp. Dominic Doyle: William Lucking. June Clark: Katherine Cannon. (Repeat).
Smoking proves lethal to a newsman who's been blackmailing the host of a crime-reenactment TV show. Wade Anders: George Hamilton. Budd Clarke: Peter Haskell. Maxine Jarrett: Penny Johnson. Arnie: Robert Donner. Medical Examiner: Steven Gilborn. (Repeat).
When an NBA team suddenly announces open tryouts, a high school janitor gets a second chance at both love and life. (Repeat).
The matchmaker Lucy Marks meets a handsome businessman and immediately feels a spark, but that spark is ruined when she learns he is her newest client. (Repeat).