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Columbo Season 9 |
| Episode 1 - [Murder A Self Portrait] |
| Details : A famous artist Max Barsini lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways but more importantly likes to control them. In fact Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Danny Hassel | Patrick Bauchau | Fionnula Flanagan | Vito Scotti as Maitre D' | George Coe as Sidney Hammer | Director : James Frawley | Writer : Sy Salkowitz | |
| Air Date : Nov. 25, 1989 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Columbo Cries Wolf] |
| Details : Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hunter director of a men's magazine. Naturally the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rebecca Staab | Ian Buchanan | Deidre Hall | Alan Scarfe | Cameron Oppenheimer as Nymph | Director : Daryl Duke | Writer : Richard Levinson | Writer : William Link | |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Agenda For Murder] |
| Details : Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Louis Zorich | Kirk Thornton | Patrick McGoohan as Nelson Brenner | Arthur Hill | Bruce Kirby as Sergeant Kramer | Anne Haney | Denis Arndt | Director : Patrick McGoohan | Writer : Jeffrey Bloom | |
| Air Date : Feb. 10, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Rest In Peace Mrs Columbo] |
| Details : Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one she moves in on the other Columbo to kill the person closest to him his wife. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ian McShane | Helen Shaver | Teresa Ganzel | Roscoe Lee Browne | Edward Winter | Michael Alldredge | Writer : Peter S. Fischer | Director : Vincent McEveety | |
| Air Date : Mar. 31, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Uneasy Lies The Crown] |
| Details : While investigating the death of a popular actor Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ron Cey as Ron Cey | Dick Sargent as Dick Sargent | Paul Burke as Horace Sherwin | Jo Anderson as Lydia Corman | James Read as Wesley Corman | Nancy Walker as Nancy Walker | Director : Alan J. Levi | Writer : Steven Bochco | |
| Air Date : Apr. 28, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Murder In Malibu] |
| Details : An ambitious womanizer rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brenda Vaccaro | Andrew Stevens | Laurie Walters as Helen Ashcroft | Director : Walter Grauman | Writer : Jackson Gillis | |
| Air Date : May. 14, 1990 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |