====== Columbo ======

^Rank^Title^Detail^Synopsis^Rating^Seen?^
|#1|The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case|Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired May 22, 1977|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.|7.97|Yes|
|#2|A Stitch in Crime|Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 11, 1973|Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim.|7.80|Yes|
|#3|Columbo Cries Wolf|Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 20, 1990|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.|7.73|
|#4|Suitable for Framing|Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Nov 17, 1971|An art critic, Dale Kingston, kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. All the clues lead to the dead man's first wife. Can Columbo correct the Lieutenant's error before it is too late?|7.70|Yes|
|#5|Any Old Port in a Storm|Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 7, 1973|Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in.|7.68|Yes|
|#6|A Friend in Deed|Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired May 5, 1974|A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.|7.67|Yes|
|#7|Double Shock|Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Mar 25, 1973|A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?|7.67|
|#8|Negative Reaction|Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 15, 1974|Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money.|7.65|
|#9|Death Lends a Hand|Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 6, 1971|A private investigator kills his client's wife after she threatens to expose his blackmail scheme. The client then hires the detective to assist Columbo in the search for the killer.|7.63|Yes|
|#10|Ransom for a Dead Man|Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Mar 1, 1971|A high-flying lady lawyer kills her husband for the insurance money, and tries to makes It look like a kidnapping gone wrong.|7.62|
|#11|Candidate for Crime|Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 4, 1973|A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.|7.62|Yes|
|#12|How to Dial a Murder|Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired Apr 15, 1978|A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning reflex on the psychiatrist's dogs. The other part is the word Rosebud as uttered by the victim. When Columbo arrives on the scene, the psychiatrist is very understanding when police say they may have to put his dogs to death. But Columbo notices how friendly the dogs seem, and then there's the telephone that's hanging from it's hook.|7.61|
|#13|Columbo Goes to College|Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired Dec 9, 1990 |Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered.|7.61|Yes|
|#14|Now You See Him|Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 29, 1976|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.|7.60|
|#15|Prescription: Murder|Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 20, 1968|Columbo's first mystery pits him against a cheating doctor out to get rid of his wife in favor of his young, pretty actress girlfriend.|7.57|
|#16|Identity Crisis|Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 2, 1975|A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.|7.56|
|#17|Murder, Smoke and Shadows|Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 27, 1989|An egocentric film director resorts to his mastery of special effects to murder a vengeful friend who discovers the director's role in the movie stunt death of the friend's sister years before.|7.56|
|#18|It's All in the Game|Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 31, 1993|Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.|7.56|
|#19|Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star|Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 29, 1991|Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.|7.52|Yes|
|#20|Blueprint for Murder|Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Feb 9, 1972|An architect kills his business partner and deliberately lets Columbo suspect him, leading Columbo to think that he's hidden the body in the foundation of a building under construction. He plans to let Columbo dig up the site and find nothing, knowing that its the perfect place to hide the body since Columbo would never look in the same place twice.|7.52|Yes|
|#21|A Deadly State of Mind|Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Apr 27, 1975|A doctor kills the husband of the woman,he is having an affair with. but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind.|7.51|
|#22|Double Exposure|Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Dec 16, 1973|A film maker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign|7.50|
|#23|Try and Catch Me|Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired Nov 21, 1977|A writer of murder mysteries wreaks revenge on her nephew-in-law by blaiming him for her niece's murder.|7.50|
|#24|The Greenhouse Jungle|Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 15, 1972|Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner.|7.50|
|#25|Publish or Perish|Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Jan 18, 1974|A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.|7.49|