Columbo
Many criminals made the mistake of underestimating Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide investigator with a crumpled trench-coat and a beat-up car, who certainly acted as an incompetent bumbler.
But he was so polite to every suspect, and he talked so much about his wife (who we never got to see on any episode, but who many believe later had her own show, starring Kate Mulgrew, later of Star Trek: Voyager fame) that he lulled even the shrewdest murderer into a false sense of security.
And although the audience had witnessed the murder in the beginning of each episode, it was still a surprise to see what mistakes the killers had made during the seemingly perfect murder.
The formula for a miraculous wrinkle cream leads the founder of a cosmetics company to murder; Columbo is soon on the case.
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.
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.
An advertisement expert uses subliminal cues to help him commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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.
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.
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.
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Peter Falk | Columbo |
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Mike Lally | Bartender |
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Regis Cordic | Lewis |
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Dianne Travis | Blonde At Birthday Of Mrs Hayward |
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Mickey Golden | Campaign Worker |
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Vito Scotti | Maitre d' |
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George Holmes | Plane Passenger |
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Murray Pollack | Police Officer |
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Davis Roberts | Policeman |
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Don Diamond | Larry |
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Lucille Meredith | Lucy |
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Larry Burrell | Newsman |
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Donald Pleasence | Adrian Carsini |
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Katey Sagal | Secretary |
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Jackie Cooper | Nelson Hayward |
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John Finnegan | Sergeant |
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Jack Riley | Director |
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Cosmo Sardo | Executive |
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Richard Stahl | Ballistics Man |
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Norman Stevans | Auction Guest |
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Jack Berle | Reporter |
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J. Jay Saunders | Policeman |
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Alma Beltran | Housekeeper |
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Ken Swofford | Harry Stone |
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Lew Brown | 2nd Detective |
| Edition | Classic Television |
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| Packaging | Snap Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Mono Dolby Digital Mono [English] |
| Subtitles | English | Spanish |
| Distributor | Universal Studios |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 09, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |