Prescription: Murder

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Ransom for a Dead Man

After killing her boring husband and disposing of the body, a supposedly brilliant tort attorney fakes his kidnapping and keeps the ransom money. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.

Murder by the book

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.

Death leads a hand

Columbo matches his skills against Brimmer, a former cop turned private investigator with a quick temper who tries to blackmail a client's wife. When she refuses, he accidentally kills her and it's up to Columbo to nail him.

Dead Weight

At his lakeside home, a retired major general shoots and kills a Marine colonel who's involved with him in a fraudulent military contract. A beautiful, easily manipulated, divorcee is the only witness to the gunshot.

Suitable for framing

A wealthy art collector is murdered, and all signs point to a robbery gone wrong. But the nephew's alibi is a little too convenient, and Columbo pulls a fast one to ferret out the killer.

Lady in Waiting

A young woman who feels oppressed by her successful brother kills him in cold blood and pretends she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her defense.

Short Fuse

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.

Blueprint for murder

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.

Etude in black

A ruthless symphony conductor murders the brilliant pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

The Greenhouse Jungle

Columbo is assigned to a kidnapping case that turns into a murder investigation. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund managed by the horticulturist uncle of the victim.

The most crucial game

The manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Dagger of the Mind

In London, a respected Shakespearean acting duo cover up the unintended killing of their producer.

Requiem for a Falling Star

An aging movie actress commits murder. Lt. Columbo, one of her biggest fans, is on the case.

A Stitch in Crime

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.

The most dangerous Match

A chess player murders his opponent before a big match. Lt. Columbo must out-maneuver this crafty, but craven, killer.

Double Shock

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

Lovely but lethal

The formula for a miraculous wrinkle cream leads the founder of a cosmetics company to murder; Columbo is soon on the case.

Any old Port in a Storm

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.

Candidate for crime

Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong.

Double Exposure

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

Publish or perish

A book publisher hires a bomb-making veteran to murder a bestselling author of detective novels after the author decides to submit his latest novel to a different publisher. Lieutenant Columbo is on the case.

Mind over Meyhem

The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder to cover up his researcher son's plagiarism. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.

Swan Song

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 Friend in Deed

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.

An exercice in fatality

A health and fitness franchiser who sells supplies to his franchisees at exorbitant prices murders one of them after the man discovers his criminal business practices. Lt. Columbo must outsmart the crafty killer to solve this one.

Negative Reaction

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.

By dawn´s early light

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.

Troubled waters

Lt. Columbo and his wife win a pleasure cruise to Acapulco, but the lieutenant finds himself investigating a murder aboard the cruise ship when a married car dealer kills an ex-lover who's been blackmailing him over their past fling.

Playback

An inventor enthralled with gadgets uses his expertise in surveillance systems to craft the perfect alibi after he murders his mother-in-law for threatening to fire him as CEO of her electronics company. Columbo must unravel the alibi.

A deadly state of mind

During a physical altercation, a psychiatrist who specializes in hypnosis kills the husband of a patient with whom he's been having an affair and convinces the wife to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth.

Forgotten Lady

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 Case of Immunity

The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder, but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.

Identity Crisis

A top CIA operative commits murder, as only a brilliant agent can, never guessing he'll have to contend with a man like Lt. Columbo.

A Matter of Honor

When a famous bullfighter's trusted bookkeeper turns up dead in a bullring, Lt. Columbo, who's spending vacation in Mexico, suspects murder with a bull as the murder weapon.

Now you see him

A popular stage magician murders the employer who's been blackmailing him under threat of revealing his past as a Nazi prison camp guard, making it look like a contract killing. Columbo must trick the master trickster to reveal the truth.

Last salute to the commodore

Charlie Clay runs the ship building business of his father-in-law, Commodore Swanson, who turns up murdered; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Fade in to Murder

An egotistical but successful star of a TV detective show murders his blackmailing producer, and makes it look like a stickup robbery. Lt. Columbo dismantles his seemingly solid alibi.

Old Fashioned Murder

The curator of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution and makes it look like the museum's guard, who she also kills, is the culprit. Lieutenant Columbo is on the case.

The bye-bye sky high I.Q. murder case

A high IQ Sigma Society member murders his business partner and fellow society member when he threatens to expose him as an embezzler, while engineering a seemingly foolproof alibi. Lt. Columbo outsmarts the genius.

Try and catch me

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.

Murder under glass

A local food critic who's been extorting money from a restaurant owner in exchange for good reviews murders the restaurateur after he threatens to expose him. Lieutenant Columbo must figure out how he was poisoned.

Make me a perfect Murder

An executive secretary for a TV network kills her boss and lover after he broke up with her and passed her over for a promotion she believes she deserves. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

How to dial a Murder

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.

The Conspirators

An Irish poet and writer who's also an undercover Irish Republican Army agent murders an arms dealer in Los Angeles who turns traitorous. Lieutenant Columbo investigates.

Columbo goes to the Guillotine

An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick.

Murder, Smoke and Shadows

An egocentric wunderkind director, Alex Bradey, murders a childhood friend, Leonard Fisher, who threatens to expose his complicity in the negligent death of Leonard's sister, Jenny, years before Bradey found fame and success.

Sex and the married Detective

When a successful sex therapist with a best selling book and a hit TV show is crushed to learn her business partner/lover is cheating on her, she plots appropriate revenge.

Grand Deceptions

After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.

Murder, A Self Portrait

Columbo investigates the apparent drowning of a famous painter's first wife.

Columbo cries Wolf

When Dian Hunter, the publisher of the men's magazine "Bachelor's World", wants to sell her stock to a media tycoon, her adulterous partner Sean Brantley objects. Soon afterwards, Miss Hunter apparently disappears on a London-bound flight.

Agenda for Murder

Columbo is assigned to the case of a murder that was made to look like a suicide. After noticing some loose ends, he asks a lawyer and a Congressman to clear up problems with the investigation.

Rest in Peace Mrs. Columbo

A woman who blames Columbo for the loss of her husband sets out to get back at him.

Uneasy lies the Crown

The handsome, charming junior partner in a dental group run by his father-in-law is a bad husband and a bad gambler deeply in debt. Facing divorce, ostracism and worse, he devises a cunning plan.

Murder in Malibu

A successful writer of romance novels who is involved with a young, ambitious womanizer, is found shot to death in her Malibu home.

Columbo goes to College

Two college students decide to murder their professor during a class that Columbo is teaching.

Caution: Murder can be hazarous to your Health

Lt. Columbo investigates a self-proclaimed security expert turned crime show host for the murder of a rival with incriminating evidence of pornography.

Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Lt. Columbo matches wits with a defense lawyer who has never lost a case in his career.

Death hits the Jackpot

Columbo questions a jewelry-store owner whose late nephew had a winning lottery ticket.

No Time to Die

Columbo attends the wedding of his nephew, who is also with the LAPD. Suddenly it turns out that the bride is missing, possibly kidnapped. Columbo sets up the investigation to figure out what happened.

A Bird in the Hand

Columbo investigates a hit and run, followed by a car explosion.

It´s all in the Game

Two women kill their two-timing lover, and one of them tries to seduce Columbo in an effort to divert suspicion.

Butterfly in Shades of Grey

Columbo investigates a case involving argumentative radio talk show host Fielding Chase.

Undercover

The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.

Strange Bedfellows

When Graham McVeigh kills his brother and frames a mob bookie for the crime, and then kills the bookie and claims self-defense, he finds himself facing trouble from both Columbo and the bookie's superior in the mob.

A Trace of Murder

A beautiful woman and her forensics expert boyfriend try to frame her very rich husband for murder.

Ashes to Ashes

After a much maligned Hollywood gossip columnist is murdered by her former lover, Columbo tries to find a way to prove he was responsible for the crime.

Murder with too many Notes

A Hollywood film composer and conductor murdered a talented musician who has been ghostwriting most of his work in recent years.

Columbo like the Nightlife

Columbo gets a taste of the Los Angeles rave scene as he investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter.