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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 ...
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 ...
Although NBC had brought an end to the Mystery Movie series that Columbo had been a part of since 1971, the network decided to keep the series in production and ordered five new telefilms. The first two aired on Monday nights, the first on November 21, 1977, and the second on January 30, 1978.
Prior to the broadcast of "Murder by the Book", NBC aired two pilots of the show, both with Falk as Columbo and writing by Richard Levinson & William Link.As a regular series for the first season, it originally aired Wednesdays at 8:30-10:00 pm as part of The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.
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 ...