Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Season 9 episodes
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A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women.
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Directed by James FrawleyWritten by Sy SalkowitzGuest stars Patrick Bauchau, Fionnula Flanagan, Shera Danese, Danny Hassel, Isabel García Lorca, George Coe, David Byrd, Don Bovingloh
Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Dian Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with.
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Directed by Daryl DukeWritten by Richard Levinson, William LinkGuest stars Rebecca Staab, Ian Buchanan, Deidre Hall, Alan Scarfe, Cameron Oppenheimer, Mark Margolis, John Finnegan, David Huddleston
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
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Directed by Patrick McGoohanWritten by Jeffrey BloomGuest stars Louis Zorich, Kirk Thornton, Arthur Hill, Bruce Kirby, Anne Haney, Denis Arndt, Patrick McGoohan, Penny Fuller
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.
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Directed by Vincent McEveetyWritten by Peter S. FischerGuest stars Ian McShane, Helen Shaver, Teresa Ganzel, Roscoe Lee Browne, Edward Winter, Michael Alldredge, Bill Edward Rogers, Tom Isbell
While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.
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Directed by Alan J. LeviWritten by Steven BochcoGuest stars Ron Cey, Dick Sargent, Paul Burke, Jo Anderson, James Read, Nancy Walker, Steven Gilborn, Marshall R. Teague
An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.
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Directed by Walter GraumanWritten by Jackson GillisGuest stars Brenda Vaccaro, Andrew Stevens, Laurie Walters, Jana Brown, Floyd Levine, Sondra Currie, Janet Margolin, Tom Dreesen
