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

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.

A war hero shoots and kills his business partner; an easily manipulated young divorcée is the only witness.

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.

A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi.

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.

Elliot Markham, a brilliant architect and con-man, murders a Texas millionaire and hides his body in order to keep his visionary construction project financed.

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

Columbo arrives at a kidnapping case, which at some point turns to worse. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund managed by a man with a great love for orchids.

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.

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

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

A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.

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

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

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

A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.

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.

A self-styled "motivation research specialist" uses subliminal cues to commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of detective novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.

A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. 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 wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.

A health club owner murders one of his franchisees. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

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 murders the chairman of the board, who wants to oust him. Lt. Columbo takes up residence in the barracks to expose the killer.

Lt. Columbo takes a trip to Acapulco, but finds himself on a new case when a used car dealer commits murder on the cruise ship.

A gadget-happy inventor murders his mother-in-law; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A psychiatrist, who specializes in hypnosis, murders the husband of his mistress and convinces her to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth.

A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.

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.

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.

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

A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.

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

An egotistical but successful star of a TV detective show murders his blackmailing producer and makes it look like a robbery.

The head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.

Sigma Society member Oliver Brandt murders his business partner when he threatens to expose him as an embezzler and constructs a seemingly foolproof alibi.

A mystery writer suspects her niece's husband of murdering her, and she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe.

Food critic Paul Gerard, who has been extorting money from restaurant owners in exchange for good reviews, murders one when threatened with exposure.

An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his dogs to kill on command using a telephone.

An IRA terrorist executes an arms dealer he considers traitorous; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 governor to clear up problems with the investigation.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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