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Columbo Season 10 |
| Episode 1 - [Columbo Goes To College] |
| Details : Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads when their professor is found murdered. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Guy Stockwell | Stephen Caffrey | Katherine Cannon | William Lucking | James Sutorius | Les Lannom as Malloy | Robert Culp as Jordan Rowe | Writer : Jeffrey Bloom | Director : E.W. Swackhamer | |
| Air Date : Dec. 09, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health] |
| Details : Wade Anders a former security expert hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host news reader Bud discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Haskell | George Hamilton | Penny Johnson | Louis Herthum | Director : Daryl Duke | Writer : Patricia Ford | |
| Air Date : Feb. 20, 1991 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Columbo And The Murder Of A Rock Star] |
| Details : Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dabney Coleman | Little Richard | Tad Horino | John Martin | Julian Stone | Director : Alan J. Levi | Writer : William Read Woodfield | |
| Air Date : Apr. 29, 1991 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Death Hits The Jackpot] |
| Details : After winning a $30 million lottery photographer Freddy Brower who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him arranges with his uncle wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rip Torn as Leon Lamarr | Director : Vincent McEveety | Writer : Jeffrey Bloom | |
| Air Date : Dec. 15, 1991 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [No Time To Die] |
| Details : Columbo attends the wedding of his police officer nephew. While her husband takes a shower the bride disappears from the bridal suite. The groom enlists Uncle Columbo's help in unraveling the case. Seems she has been kidnapped by a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates their marriage. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Alan J. Levi | Writer : Evan Hunter | |
| Air Date : Mar. 15, 1992 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [A Bird In The Hand] |
| Details : Given a deadline to pay his debts or else chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle sports magnate Big Fred. However Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold it is Harold who turns up dead. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tyne Daly as Dorothea McNally / Dolores | Director : Vincent McEveety | Writer : Jackson Gillis | |
| Air Date : Jun. 19, 1992 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [It's All In The Game] |
| Details : Nick Franco is a violent two-timing gigolo and his current paramour Laura Stanton has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Vincent McEveety | Writer : Peter Falk | |
| Air Date : Oct. 31, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Butterfly In Shades Of Grey] |
| Details : Ego-maniac Fielding Chase is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York murders a member of his staff. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Shatner | Writer : Peter S. Fischer | Director : Dennis Dugan | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Undercover] |
| Details : A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tyne Daly as Dorothea McNally / Dolores | Director : Vincent McEveety | Writer : Evan Hunter | |
| Air Date : May. 02, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Strange Bedfellows] |
| Details : Graham McVeigh a thoroughbred ranch owner kills his brother and frames a local mob bookie. Then under the guise of making good on his brother's debt he kills the bookie as well claiming self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : George Wendt | Director : Vincent McEveety | Writer : Lawrence Vail | |
| Air Date : Apr. 23, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [A Trace Of Murder] |
| Details : Cathleen Calvert and her lover crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley plot to get rid of Calvert's husband Clifford a powerful businessman by killing an investment broker with whom he is currently feuding and pinning the murder on Clifford. As long as he is alive and in prison Cathleen has access to all his money. Columbo must uncover a criminal who is part of the team handling the investigation. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Barry Corbin | Writer : Charles Kipps | Director : Vincent McEveety | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Ashes To Ashes] |
| Details : Mortician to the stars Eric Prince kills gossip reporter Verity Chandler who had knowledge of skeletons in Prince's closet. Columbo must figure out what happened to her and why. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Jeffrey Hatcher | |
| Air Date : Aug. 10, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Murder With Too Many Notes] |
| Details : Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford has been mentor to a talented young composer who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years and penned Crawford's entire last movie score which won an Oscar. When the protege wants to venture out on his own Crawford whose own talent seems to have run dry concocts the perfect murder made to look like a suicide. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Billy Connolly | Director : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Jeffrey Cava | |
| Air Date : Mar. 12, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [Columbo Likes The Nightlife] |
| Details : The final Columbo story starring Peter Falk Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price helps his girlfriend Vanessa get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband who was backing Price's new club after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. When an investigative reporter pieces the crime together and threatens to blackmail Justin Justin kills him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Karen Maruyama as Maid | Writer : Michael Alaimo | Director : Jeffrey Reiner | |
| Air Date : Jan. 30, 2003 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |