2024-10-01
A famous food critic is threatened by a restaurant owner, and so the critic leaves. Soon after, the cook dies. Columbo's involvement is welcomed by all the other chefs in the area, but Columbo wonders why the dead restaurant owner slammed the drawers before he died. And how could the poison that killed him enter an unopened bottle without the killer even being in the room? Could it have been suici
The director of a military academy murders the man who threatens to turn the school into a coed college. Rumford: Patrick McGoohan. Columbo: Peter Falk. Springer: Mark Wheeler. (Repeat).
On a cruise, Columbo probes the murder of the singer who performed with the ship's band. Filmed aboard an actual cruise. Danzinger: Robert Vaughn. Harrington: Dean Stockwell. (Repeat).
When an NBA team suddenly announces open tryouts, a high school janitor gets a second chance at both love and life. (Repeat).
Lacey Keller is brilliantly creative. The only problem is, no one seems to notice, and Lacey doesn't have the confidence to make them notice. Struggling to make ends meet between a job at her best friend's jewelry store and as a night security guard at a marketing firm, Lacey sketches some ideas for a struggling campaign, which accidentally gain the notice of Mikey, the firm's CEO, and his brother
Led on by his sister's lies, a jealous husband cracks down on his wife and her alleged lover. Frances: Constance Ford. Andrea: Diane Brewster. Hale: Paul Fix. Mason: Raymond Burr. Walden: Robert Bray. Roy: Mark Goddard. Tarr: Joe Maross. (Repeat).
Mason defends a highly respected judge accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook. Weston: Vaughn Taylor. Mason: Raymond Burr. Sawyer: Jackie Coogan. Burger: William Talman. (Repeat).
Con artist John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Minevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. Sophia: Beulah Bondi. Minevah: Meg Wyllie. Mason: Raymond Burr. Irene: Kate Manx. Ernest: Hugh Marlowe. (Repeat).
John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch---until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist. Miles: Billy Mumy. Sylvia: Constance Ford. Mason: Raymond Burr. (Repeat).
Strother Martin, Russell Collins and Arthur Hunnicutt star in a story about a mining-town murder. Mason: Raymond Burr. Sparks: Archie Moore. Drake: William Hopper. (Repeat).
Mason's client guilty? That's the verdict as the counsel finally---and for the only time in the series---loses a case to DA Hamilton Burger. Mason: Raymond Burr. Burger: William Talman. Janice: Julie Adams. Emily: Joan Tompkins. Della: Barbara Hale. (Repeat).
The plug is pulled on the soon-to-be owner of a shock-radio station. Louise: Lindsay Crouse. Cochran: Harry Guardino. Baker: Stephen Caffrey. Rule: Jeff Yagher. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. Ronna: Georgia Emelin. (Repeat).
Is a florist pushing up daisies because he was digging up dirt for gossip magazines? Junie: Sally Kellerman. Frances: Penny Fuller. Lt. Caceras: Gregory Sierra. Erwin: Taylor Nichols. Arnett: Richard Herd. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. (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).