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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- Seasons
- 10
- Episodes aired
- 67
- Latest aired
- S10E14
- Total runtime
- 4d 1h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1971 – February 1972 7 episodes
- Season 2 September 1972 – March 1973 8 episodes
- Season 3 September 1973 – May 1974 8 episodes
- Season 4 September 1974 – April 1975 6 episodes
- Season 5 September 1975 – May 1976 6 episodes
- Season 6 October 1976 – May 1977 3 episodes
- Season 7 November 1977 – May 1978 5 episodes
- the show was away for 10 years and 9 months
- Season 8 February 1989 – May 1989 4 episodes
- Season 9 November 1989 – May 1990 6 episodes
- Season 10 December 1990 – January 2003 14 episodes
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S10E01 Columbo Goes to College
December 9 · 98min find the promo
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Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered.
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S10E02 Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
February 20 · 98min find the promo
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Wade Anders, a former security expert, hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host, news reader Bud, discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show.
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S10E03 Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
April 29 · 98min find the promo
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Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.
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S10E04 Death Hits the Jackpot
December 15 · 98min find the promo
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After winning a $30 million lottery, photographer Freddy Brower, who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him, arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr, to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's, until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself.
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S10E05 No Time to Die
March 15 · 93min find the promo
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Columbo attends the wedding of his police officer nephew. While her husband takes a shower, the bride disappears from the bridal suite. The groom enlists Uncle Columbo's help in unraveling the case. Seems she has been kidnapped by a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates "their" marriage.
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S10E06 A Bird in the Hand...
November 22 · 94min find the promo
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Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.
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S10E07 It's All in the Game
October 31 · 96min find the promo
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Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.
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S10E08 Butterfly in Shades of Grey
January 10 · 98min find the promo
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Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff.
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S10E09 Undercover
May 2 · 98min find the promo
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A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play.
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S10E10 Strange Bedfellows
May 8 · 89min find the promo
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Graham McVeigh, a thoroughbred ranch owner, kills his brother, and frames a local mob bookie. Then, under the guise of making good on his brother's debt, he kills the bookie as well, claiming self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster.
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S10E11 A Trace of Murder
May 15 · 98min find the promo
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Cathleen Calvert and her lover, crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley, plot to get rid of Calvert's husband, Clifford, a powerful businessman, by killing an investment broker with whom he is currently feuding, and pinning the murder on Clifford. As long as he is alive and in prison, Cathleen has access to all his money. Columbo must uncover a criminal who is part of the team handling the investigation.
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S10E12 Ashes to Ashes
August 10 · 91min find the promo
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Mortician to the stars Eric Prince, kills gossip reporter Verity Chandler, who had knowledge of skeletons in Prince's closet. Columbo must figure out what happened to her and why.
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S10E13 Murder With Too Many Notes
March 12 · 98min find the promo
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Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford has been mentor to a talented young composer who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years, and penned Crawford's entire last movie score, which won an Oscar. When the protege wants to venture out on his own, Crawford, whose own talent seems to have run dry, concocts the perfect murder, made to look like a suicide.
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S10E14 Columbo Likes the Nightlife
January 30 · 88min find the promo
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The final Columbo story starring Peter Falk, Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price helps his girlfriend Vanessa get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. When an investigative reporter pieces the crime together and threatens to blackmail Justin, Justin kills him.