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Columbo Season 6 |
| Episode 1 - [Fade In To Murder] |
| Details : Ward Fowler who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit however so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bert Remsen | William Shatner | Walter Koenig | Danny Dayton | Lola Albright | Director : Bernard L. Kowalski | Writer : Peter S. Feibleman | Writer : Lou Shaw | Writer : Henry Garson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 10, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Old Fashioned Murder] |
| Details : The female head of a museum hires one of the guards to rob the museum to collect the insurance money. But during the robbery she kills him and her own brother and makes it look like they killed each other. The guard robber's brother reports a strange message on his answering machine that makes it seem that he has been killed. And Columbo gets the case. When Columbo first comes to the crime scene he notices that the lights are off a gold medallion in the robber's pants and signs that pointed to the fact that he was going abroad after the heist. And he concluded that these clues mean that someone else was involved. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joyce Van Patten | Jeannie Berlin | Tim O'Connor as Michael Hatheway | Director : Robert Douglas | Writer : Peter S. Feibleman | |
| Air Date : Nov. 28, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [The Bye-Bye Sky High I qMurder Case] |
| Details : Two former college friends now partners in an accounting firm become enemies when one realizes the other has embezzled funds. The reason for his embezzling ways is his wife she demands nothing but the best. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Theodore Bikel | Sorrell Booke | Kenneth Mars | Samantha Eggar | Jamie Lee Curtis | Director : Sam Wanamaker | Writer : Robert M. Young | |
| Air Date : May. 22, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |