William Windom guests as the next-in-line Vice President whom Roger must remove before he can move to take over the company. Roger decides to remove his uncle from office with a box of exploding cigars. When David proposes selling the business to a conglomerate in return for a seat on the board of directors, David tries to blackmail Roger into resigning. Roger Stanford ( Roddy McDowall) is a chemist and photography buff whose uncle, David ( James Gregory), has taken over the business his parents built and his aunt ( Ida Lupino) controls. Jackson Gillis (teleplay), Lester Pine & Tina Pine and Jackson Gillis (story) Her mother is played by veteran actress Jessie Royce Landis, in her last performance. She arranges for it to look like an accident but is tripped up by the sharp memory of her fiancé, Peter ( Leslie Nielsen). Steven Bochco (teleplay), Barney Slater (story)īeth Chadwick ( Susan Clark) murders her domineering older brother ( Richard Anderson) in order to gain control of her own life and the family business. Don Ameche portrays family lawyer Frank Simpson. The act is witnessed by Helen Stewart ( Suzanne Pleshette), who is wooed by the General into doubting her own story.Īrt critic Dale Kingston ( Ross Martin) murders his uncle and frames his aunt, Edna Mathews ( Kim Hunter) to obtain what is considered to be one of the most valuable art collections in the world. Major General Martin Hollister ( Eddie Albert), a retired Marine Corps General, after learning that he is being investigated for embezzling military funds, kills his partner, after his partner decides to flee the country. Series creators Richard Levinson and William Link won an Emmy for writing this episode. She refuses and threatens to expose his plot to her husband, at which point Brimmer accidentally kills her in a fit of anger. Although Brimmer indeed finds evidence of infidelity, instead of reporting this to his client, he attempts to blackmail Lenore into revealing secrets about her husband. īrimmer ( Robert Culp), the head of a private detective agency, is hired by Arthur Kennicut ( Ray Milland), a powerful publishing magnate who suspects his wife, Lenore ( Pat Crowley) of infidelity. Note- In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 16 on it's '100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list. When a witness ( Barbara Colby) tries to blackmail Ken into a relationship, he kills her too. Ken Franklin ( Jack Cassidy), one half of a mystery writing team, kills his partner, Jim Ferris ( Martin Milner), who wished to break it off and go solo, threatening to expose the fact that Ferris did all the actual writing, and makes it seem like Ferris was killed by gangsters in his office and Ken was two hours away at the time. Columbo and Leslie's step-daughter, who hates her, successfully work together to get Leslie to implicate herself by revealing where the money is. Leslie Williams ( Lee Grant), a brilliant lawyer and pilot, murders her husband Paul to get his money, arranging the act to look as if he had been kidnapped and killed by his captors. This is the first episode to use the series.ĭean Hargrove (teleplay), Richard Levinson & William Link (story) ![]() ![]() Ray Flemming ( Gene Barry), a psychiatrist, murders his wife ( Nina Foch) and uses his patient-turned girlfriend ( Katherine Justice), who is an actress, to impersonate her to create an alibi. Richard Levinson & William Link (based on their play)ĭr. In 1962, that episode was adapted as a stage play titled "Prescription: Murder" (starring Thomas Mitchell as Columbo), which then became a made-for-TV movie in 1968, with Peter Falk debuting in the role. Seasonīefore Falk was cast as the character of Columbo, Bert Freed played the role in "Enough Rope," a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series. In Region 1, seasons 8 and 9 are grouped differently: all the 5 episodes that originally aired in 1989 were released on The Mystery Movie Collection 1989 DVD the Columbo: The Mystery Movie Collection 1990 and Columbo: The Mystery Movie Collection 1991–1993 DVDs contain episodes up to and including 1993. In the UK ( Region 2), all episodes have now been released as ten seasons, with the tenth season covering the last 14 shows from "Columbo Goes to College" (1990) to the most recent "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" (2003). The most recent episode was broadcast in 2003.īecause the Columbo episodes from 1989 to 2003 were aired very infrequently, different DVD sets have been released around the world. Columbo then aired more infrequently on ABC beginning in 1989. After two pilot episodes, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of the NBC Mystery Movie. The following is an episode list for the crime fiction television series Columbo.
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