Universal Crime

A football-team manager (Robert Culp) establishes an electronic alibi for the murder of the team owner (Dean Stockwell) during a game; guests Valerie Harper, Susan Howard, James Gregory, Dean Jagger.

Columbo journeys to London to observe Scotland Yard, but winds up investigating murders committed by two Shakespearean actors.

The ongoing feud between an out-of-favor Hollywood actress and a gossip columnist results in murder. Guest star: Anne Baxter.

A surgeon kills a nurse who suspects him of intentionally botching the heart surgery of his colleague, a cardiac expert.

An American chess champion plays a private match with his challenger and kills him because the man is a better player.

Twins (Martin Landau in a dual role) kill their wealthy uncle just before his marriage to a younger woman.

A cosmetics manufacturer is suspected of murdering an employee (Martin Sheen) who stole a wrinkle-removing formula.

A wine connoisseur kills his playboy brother to prevent his selling the family winery to expiate his latest scandal.

A senatorial candidate exploits death threats, fabricated for publicity, to kill his manager.

A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's wife.

An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.

A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son.

A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.

A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend blackmail him into doing the same favor in return.

Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.

A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.

A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a coed junior college.

Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician.

After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.

A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott).

A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.

A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on college protesters.

A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.

A retired bullfighter credited with saving a young man from a bull arranges the death of the boy's father to protect his own reputation.

A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate.

Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.

An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer , a former lover and current blackmailer.

The curator (Joyce Van Patten) of a strapped family-owned museum stages a robbery, for insurance, then murders to hide her crime; guests Celeste Holm, Tim O'Connor.