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The wheel series ran irregularly from February 1989 until August 1990. After the ABC Saturday Mystery Movie ended, ABC kept Columbo in production and Falk starred in an additional fourteen episodes before the network discontinued the series in 2003. Universal brought McCloud back for a reunion film in 1989.
The following is an episode list for the crime fiction television series Columbo. After two pilot episodes, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less frequently on ABC beginning in 1989. The last installment was broadcast in 2003.
Series Title Episode Title Original air date Banacek "Let's Hear It for a Living Legend" September 13, 1972 Columbo "Etude in Black" September 17, 1972
Columbo. Columbo ( / kəˈlʌmboʊ /) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [ 2][ 3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie ...
November 21, 1977. ( 1977-11-21) 70 min. Esteemed mystery author Abigail Mitchell ( Ruth Gordon) is convinced that her sole relative, her nephew-in-law Edmund Galvin ( Charles Frank ), murdered his wife, Mitchell's niece Phyllis, in a boating "accident" four months earlier and got away with it. [2] Not only that, but Galvin inherited the rights ...
October 10, 1976. ( 1976-10-10) 70 min. Egocentric actor Ward Fowler ( William Shatner ), who portrays Detective Lucerne on a weekly TV show, is being blackmailed by his producer and ex-paramour, Claire Daley ( Lola Albright ), over the fact that he was a deserter in the Korean War. Fowler drugs a friend staying at his house watching a baseball ...
September 14, 1975. ( 1975-09-14) 93 min. When elderly physician Henry Willis ( Sam Jaffe) refuses to finance a return to the spotlight for his wife, aging former movie star Grace Wheeler ( Janet Leigh) kills him in his sleep, passing it off as a suicide. Their elderly butler ( Maurice Evans) believes Grace was in a private screening room the ...
October 15, 1972. ( 1972-10-15) 70 min. Jarvis Goodland ( Ray Milland) and his nephew, Tony ( Bradford Dillman ), stage Tony's kidnapping in order to break into his trust fund and use his half to bribe his wife's lover to stop seeing her. Jarvis, disgusted at the notion, shoots and kills Tony, whom he has always despised, once the ransom is ...