Columbo

Columbo

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  • A Friend in Deed

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    Season 3, Episode 8 - Aired 05/05/1974

    A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife, and gets the friend to repay the favor.

  • Swan Song

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    Season 3, Episode 7 - Aired 03/03/1974

    After years of being controlled and blackmailed by his wife a Country and Western singer kills her and tries to make it look like it was really meant to be him killed and not her.

  • Mind over Mayhem

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    Season 3, Episode 6 - Aired 02/18/1974

    Dr. Marshal Cahill, the head of a think tank, is forced to protect his plagarizing son by killing the professor, Nichols, who discovered the plagarized information. Cahill programs a robot to take his place during a war game exercise that he runs from an isolated room, then fakes a hit-and-run accident on Nichols and plants evidence to make it look like a drug theft gone awry. The first thing Columbo notices upon arrival is a match burned down to the base - something Columbo knows well because it's how you light a cigar. And Dr. Cahill is the only other cigar smoker around. There are a lot of other little things that Columbo notices as well, and with the help of a child prodigy he discovers how Cahill used the robot to provide himself with an alibi. But without one major clue, Columbo arrests the son to force Cahill, who was willing to kill for his son, to confess his crime to protect the boy.

  • Publish or Perish

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    Season 3, Episode 5 - Aired 01/18/1974

    Publisher Riley Greenleaf (Jack Cassidy) decides to kill his prolific author Alan Mallory (Mickey Spillane) to keep him from defecting to another publisher. He hires ex-con and avid homemade bomb enthusiast Eddie Kane (John Chandler) to do the job. To cover his tracks, Riley kills Kane with one of his own bombs, making it look like an accident. Columbo must discover the link between the two crimes. This episode has a split screen of Greenleaf's alibi and Mallory's murder. Spillane was the real-life author of Mike Hammer detective mysteries.

  • Double Exposure

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    Season 3, Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/1973

    A film maker kills one of his clients in a break during the screening of a new ad campaign.

  • Candidate for Crime

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    Season 3, Episode 3 - Aired 11/04/1973

    A Senate Candidate running for office, kills his campaign manager, by making it look like he was the target for the killers bullet.

  • Any Old Port in a Storm

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    Season 3, Episode 2 - Aired 10/07/1973

    Winemaker Adrian Carsini decides to kill his younger brother before he can sell the family winery. Columbo will have to use Adrian's excellent wine knowledge against him to bring the killer to justice.

  • Lovely but Lethal

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    Season 3, Episode 1 - Aired 09/23/1973

    Viveca Scott the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually remove wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.