Series Episode #: 37
Season: 5
Episode: 6
Series Episode #: 36
Season: 5
Episode: 5
Series Episode #: 35
Season: 5
Episode: 4
Series Episode #: 34
Season: 5
Episode: 3
Series Episode #: 33
Season: 5
Episode: 2
Series Episode #: 32
Season: 5
Episode: 1
Series Episode #: 31
Season: 4
Episode: 6
Series Episode #: 30
Season: 4
Episode: 5
Series Episode #: 29
Season: 4
Episode: 4
Series Episode #: 28
Season: 4
Episode: 3
Series Episode #: 27
Season: 4
Episode: 2
A famous photographer is tired of his wife and wants her out of the way so he can be with his mistress. He plots to stage her murder like a bungled kidnapping, but Columbo isn't fooled.
Series Episode #: 26
Season: 4
Episode: 1
When the franchisee of a health club chain discovers the founder, Milo Janus, is cheating him. To keep him from going to authorities, Milo murders his partner, making it look like an accident in the gym.
Series Episode #: 25
Season: 3
Episode: 8
The Deputy Commissioner provides an alibi for a wife killer and blackmails him into helping with the murder of his own millionaire wife.
Series Episode #: 24
Season: 3
Episode: 7
Gospel singer Tommy Brown (Johnny Cash) stages the murder of his wife to look like an airplane crash, but Columbo isn't fooled.
Series Episode #: 23
Season: 3
Episode: 6
When a scientist employed at a government institute threatens to explose plagiarism by a fellow scientist, the plagiarist's father, a director of a Pentagon Think Tank, kills the potential whistle-blower to protect his son.
Series Episode #: 22
Season: 3
Episode: 5
To keep one of his most prolific authors from leaving for another publisher, publisher Riley Greenleaf hires a bomb enthusiast to kill him, then kills the hired killer with one of his own bombs.
Series Episode #: 21
Season: 3
Episode: 4
Motivation research specialist, Dr. Bart Keppel, is an expert in subliminal advertising, but has a very lucrative sideline in blackmail. When one of his victims refuses to be blackmailed and threatens to expose him, Dr. Keppel uses subliminal cuts to lure his victim to his doom and frames the victim's wife.
Series Episode #: 20
Season: 3
Episode: 3
Candidate for Senate, Nelson Hayward, kills his campaign manager and makes it look like he (Nelson) was the target of a botched mob hit.
Series Episode #: 19
Season: 3
Episode: 2
When a wine connoisseur's half-brother wants to sell the family winery to pay off his gambling debts, he kills him to prevent the sale.
Series Episode #: 18
Season: 3
Episode: 1
Beauty Mark founder Viveca Scott is threatened by a rival who ultimately pirates her revolutionary wrinkle cream. So, she kills him to protect her company.
Series Episode #: 17
Season: 2
Episode: 8
Identical twins, one a chef and one a banker, murder their rich uncle for the inheritance.
Series Episode #: 16
Season: 2
Episode: 7
Two chess grandmasters, Emmitt Clayton and Tomlin Dudek, play an impromptu game the night before a big match. When Clayton loses, he decides to murder Dudek by shoving him into a garbage compactor, but being deaf, doesn't realize the compactor's safety feature turns it off when something heavy enters. Clayton learns that Dudek survived and plans to poison him in the hospital before he awakens.
Series Episode #: 15
Season: 2
Episode: 6
Two doctors have pioneered a major medical breakthrough in cardiac surgery. One, Dr. Mayfield, wants to publish immediately, but the other, Dr. Hiedemann, wants further testing. When Dr. Hiedemann's heart condition worsens, Dr. Mayfield sees his chance to murder the man that stands in his way by performing the required heart surgery himself with dissolving sutures. His nurse discovers his plot, so he murders her too and makes it look like a mugging perpetrated by her drug addicted ex-boyfriend.
Series Episode #: 14
Season: 2
Episode: 5
An aging star feels threatened by the fiance of her personal assistant, an author writing a tell-all book about her. She schemes to kill the author, but accidentally kills her assistant instead. Columbo discovers the connection between this murder and the mysterious disappearance of the actress' husband years before.
Series Episode #: 13
Season: 2
Episode: 4
When Sir Roger Havershame realizes that he has been manipulated into funding a theater production, he confronts the actors responsible and is killed accidentally during the argument. The couple haul his body to his estate and stage an accident to make it look like he died in a fall down the stairs. Columbo, who is in London to learn investigative techniques as a guest of Scotland Yard, becomes involved in the case.
Series Episode #: 12
Season: 2
Episode: 3
The general manager of an LA football team schemes to get control of the team for himself by killing the current owner, a man who inherited the team and lacks any interest in it.
Series Episode #: 11
Season: 2
Episode: 2
An uncle (Ray Milland) and nephew stage the nephew's kidnapping to break his trust fund. But, the uncle kills the nephew once the ransom is paid and attempts to frame his nephew's wife for the murder.
Series Episode #: 10
Season: 2
Episode: 1
The mistress of the conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic insists on going public with their affair, so he murders her and makes it look like a suicide.
Series Episode #: 9
Season: 1
Episode: 7
When the millionaire funding architect Elliot Markham's project threatens to withdraw funding, Markham murders him, then makes it look like he's on a long trip.
Series Episode #: 8
Season: 1
Episode: 6
When his uncle blackmails him and takes over the family company, Roger murders him with a box of exploding cigars.
Series Episode #: 7
Season: 1
Episode: 5
An heiress murders her brother, making it look like an accident, in order to gain control of the family company.
Series Episode #: 6
Season: 1
Episode: 4
The owner of one of the world's most valuable art collections is murdered by his nephew, art critic Dale Kingston, who then frames his aunt.
Series Episode #: 5
Season: 1
Episode: 3
When a war hero's accomplice in embezzlement decides to flee the country because the authorities are investigating, the General murders him to ensure his silence. The murder is witnessed from a boat by an easily manipulated young woman, whom the General tries to make doubt what she saw.
Series Episode #: 4
Season: 1
Episode: 2
The CEO of a private security company tries his hand at blackmail, but his plan backfires when his victim, a publisher's wife, threatens to expose him and he accidentally kills her during a heated exchange.
Series Episode #: 3
Season: 1
Episode: 1
When the more talented writer in a murder mystery writing team wants to call it quits, the less talented partner decides to murder him instead.
Series Episode #: 2
Season: 1
Episode: 0
An attorney fakes the kidnapping of her husband, kills him, and keeps the ransom money. She's able to fool the FBI, but not Lt. Columbo.
Series Episode #: 1
Season: 0
Episode: 0
A prominent psychiatrist uses one of his patients, with whom he's having an affair, to murder his wife. Befuddled Lt. Columbo investigates.
