Columbo

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.

Seasons

10

Episodes aired

67

Latest aired

S10E14

Total runtime

4d 1h

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 September 1971 – February 1972 7 episodes
2. Season 2 September 1972 – March 1973 8 episodes
3. Season 3 September 1973 – May 1974 8 episodes
4. Season 4 September 1974 – April 1975 6 episodes
5. Season 5 September 1975 – May 1976 6 episodes
6. Season 6 October 1976 – May 1977 3 episodes
7. Season 7 November 1977 – May 1978 5 episodes
8. the show was away for 10 years and 9 months
9. Season 8 February 1989 – May 1989 4 episodes
10. Season 9 November 1989 – May 1990 6 episodes
11. Season 10 December 1990 – January 2003 14 episodes

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  S05E01 Forgotten Lady

  September 14 · 98min find the promo

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  A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show.

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  S05E02 A Case of Immunity

  October 12 · 75min find the promo

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  An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just has one problem crushing the ambassador's alibi and then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem.

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  S05E03 Identity Crisis

  November 2 · 95min find the promo

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  A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.

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  S05E04 A Matter of Honor

  February 1 · 75min find the promo

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  The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off, and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun, and lets the bull kill him. Colombo, who is on vacation in Mexico, gets dragged into this case by an admiring colleague, but he has trouble convincing the Mexicans that the accident is really homicide. And how do you prove that the bull is a murder weapon?

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  S05E05 Now You See Him

  February 29 · 90min find the promo

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  Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller, He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret.

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  S05E06 Last Salute to the Commodore

  May 2 · 91min find the promo

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  The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.