Universal Crime

A psychiatrist uses a patient, he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife. His perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) outwits a lawyer (Lee Grant) who has killed her husband but made it look like a kidnapping.

A blackmailer interferes with a mystery writer's scheme to kill his former partner in a perfect crime.

Columbo investigates the case of an unfaithful wife who was murdered when she refused to be blackmailed.

No body, no weapon and a witness courted by the war hero she thinks committed murder, complicate a case.

Columbo is caught in a case of stolen art and murder with evidence pointing to an innocent woman.

A competition between bitter siblings for ownership of a family-owned corporation, after their father's untimely death, escalates into murder.

An explosion kills an executive as he calls his wife from a car phone, and suspicion falls on a company attorney.

Columbo excavates the area surrounding the newly poured foundation of a building to search for a corpse.

A botanical collector involves his nephew in a kidnapping to break a trust fund, then murders him to finance his hobby.

The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.

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.