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Columbo Season 5 |
| Episode 1 - [Forgotten Lady] |
| Details : A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Janet Leigh as Grace Wheeler Willis | Sam Jaffe as Henry Willis | John Payne as Ned Diamond | Maurice Evans as Raymond | Director : Harvey Hart | Writer : Willaim Driskill | |
| Air Date : Sep. 14, 1975 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [A Case Of Immunity] |
| Details : An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just have problem crushing the ambassador's alibi. And then when the code clerk turns up dead the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis there is always the immunity problem. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sal Mineo as Rahmin Habib | Barry Robins as König | Héctor Elizondo as Hassan Salah | Brioni Farrell as Xenia | Director : Ted Post | Writer : Lou Shaw | Writer : James Menzies | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1975 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Identity Crisis] |
| Details : A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Gleason as Parsons | Patrick McGoohan as Nelson Brenner | Val Avery as Louie | Carmen Argenziano as Coroner Anderson | David White as Phil Corrigan | Bruce Kirby as Sergeant Kramer | Leslie Nielsen as A.J. Henderson | Otis Young as Lawrence Melville | Vito Scotti as Salvatore De Fonte | Barbara Rhoades as Joyce | William Mims as Gallery Attendant | Cliff Carnell as Photo Shop Man | Edward Bach as Executive | Angela May as Ruth | Betty McGuire as Della | Kelly Flynn as Brll Boy | Alicia Chambers as Kid | Director : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : William Driskill | |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1975 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [A Matter Of Honor] |
| Details : The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun and lets the bull kill him. Colombo who is on vacation in Mexico gets dragged into this case by an admiring colleague but he has trouble convincing the Mexicans that the accident is really homicide. And how do you prove that the bull is a murder weapon? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Ricardo Montalban | Director : Ted Post | Writer : Brad Radnitz | |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Now You See Him] |
| Details : Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Cynthia Sikes as Della | Robert Loggia as Harry Blandford | Bob Dishy as John Wilson | Nehemiah Persoff as Jesse Jerome | Jack Cassidy as The Great Santini | George Sperdakos as Thackery | Thayer David as Clerk | Redmond Gleeson as George Thomas | Patrick Culliton as Danny Green | Victor Izay as Lassiter | Robert Gibbons as Rogers | Michael Payne as Jefferson | Writer : Michael Sloan | Director : Harvey Hart | |
| Air Date : Feb. 29, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Last Salute To The Commodore] |
| Details : The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore however has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law Charles Clay has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter Joanna his irresponsible nephew Swanny and of course Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor the head of the boatyard. In fact the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dennis Dugan | John Dehner as Roland Pangborn | Robert Vaughn as Hayden Danziger | Wilfrid Hyde-White as Tanner | Diane Baker | Bruce Kirby as Sergeant Kramer | Director : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Jackson Gillis | |
| Air Date : Mar. 02, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |