Columbo to watch

An aging musical film and stage star plans to come back from retirement, but her rich husband refuses to fund her comeback production, so she kills him and makes it look like a suicide. Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly solid alibi.

A popular stage magician murders his employer, who's been blackmailing him about his past, and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.

An architect kills a Texas millionaire and hides his body, and makes it look like he left the country, in order to keep his visionary construction project financed. But the victim's ex-wife believes her ex-husband has been murdered.

When one member of a mystery writing team decides to break from his less talented partner and go solo, he becomes the victim in a real-life murder mystery.

A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a paranoid nurse quickly catches onto his scheme, so he kills her. Lt. Columbo has a tough time figuring this one out.

A winemaker and connoisseur kills his half-brother in a fit of rage to prevent him from selling the family winery to a merchant company, and Lt. Columbo has to be very creative to solve this one.

An advertisement expert uses subliminal cues to help him commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Pressured to give up his birthright, a chemical company heir enacts a clever plan to get rid of his blackmailing uncle and take over the family business. But Lt. Columbo suspects the man's death was not just a tragic accident.

A smarmy TV chef and his identical twin brother, a rigidly proper banker, are suspects in the electrocution of their rich uncle.

A popular country western singer wants to get rid of his religiously zealous wife who's been using blackmail to control every aspect of his life. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.

A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a neighbor who killed his wife in a fit of rage. He then kills his own wife in cold blood and blackmails the neighbor into faking an alibi for himself. Lt. Columbo has to untangle this mess.

A photographer murders his wife and blames her death on a bungled kidnapping. But Lt. Columbo has an even sharper eye than the Pulitzer Prize winner.

The commandant of a military academy for boys kills the chairman of the board for planning on turning the academy into a coed junior college. Lt. Columbo takes up residence in the barracks to investigate what looks like an accident.

An old lady who writes popular mystery novels strongly suspects that her niece's husband murdered her, so she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe while devising a solid alibi. It's up to Columbo to unravel the subterfuge.

A famous food critic, who has been extorting money from a restaurant owner in exchange for good reviews, murders him when he threatened to expose him. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his two Doberman dogs to kill her lover using the command word 'rosebud' through a telephone. Lt. Columbo is investigating.

A jewelry-store owner's nephew wins the lottery, but lets his uncle cash it in so that his wife he's divorcing doesn't get half of it. Unbeknownst to him, his uncle and his wife are an item, and his uncle ends up killing him with her help.

A respected lawyer murders a man to protect both himself and a Congressman, who's just been picked for VP by a presidential candidate, from being exposed for judicial corruption in the past. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A woman who blames both her business partner and Lt. Columbo for the loss of her husband, who died in prison serving a manslaughter sentence after an arrest by Columbo, murders the business partner, and sets her sights on Columbo's wife.

A dentist who works for his father-in-law is a compulsive gambler, deeply in debt. Facing divorce and the prospect of losing his job, he devises a cunning plan to implicate his wife in the murder of her lover. Lt. Columbo investigates.

Two arrogant college students devise a cunning method to murder their criminology professor during a guest lecturer class. The guest lecturer happens to be none other than Lt. Columbo himself.

A powerful defense lawyer, whose cheating partner was blackmailing him that if he were to cut her off she would reveal damaging secrets about his job, murders his partner while implicating the other man. Lt. Columbo investigates.

Two women kill their two-timing lover, and while Lt. Columbo examines one of them, who pretended to discover the victim's body, they develop an awkward rapport.

A cheating wife convinces her lover, who's a forensic scientist, to kill her husband's business rival and frame her rich husband for the murder. Lt. Columbo investigates.

A respected funeral home director murders his ex-lover after she threatened to expose him as a thief. Lt. Columbo investigates.