Columbo

RankTitleDetailSynopsisRatingSeen?
#1The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder CaseSeason 6 - Episode 3 - Aired May 22, 1977Two 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.7.97Yes
#2A Stitch in CrimeSeason 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 11, 1973Leonard 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.7.80Yes
#3Columbo Cries WolfSeason 9 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 20, 1990Columbo 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
#4Suitable for FramingSeason 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Nov 17, 1971An 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?7.70Yes
#5Any Old Port in a StormSeason 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 7, 1973Wine 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.7.68Yes
#6A Friend in DeedSeason 3 - Episode 8 - Aired May 5, 1974A 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.7.67Yes
#7Double ShockSeason 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Mar 25, 1973A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?7.67
#8Negative ReactionSeason 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 15, 1974Brilliant 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
#9Death Lends a HandSeason 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 6, 1971A 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.7.63Yes
#10Ransom for a Dead ManSeason 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Mar 1, 1971A high-flying lady lawyer kills her husband for the insurance money, and tries to makes It look like a kidnapping gone wrong.7.62
#11Candidate for CrimeSeason 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 4, 1973A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.7.62Yes
#12How to Dial a MurderSeason 7 - Episode 4 - Aired Apr 15, 1978A 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
#13Columbo Goes to CollegeSeason 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.7.61Yes
#14Now You See HimSeason 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 29, 1976Master 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
#15Prescription: MurderSeason 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 20, 1968Columbo'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
#16Identity CrisisSeason 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 2, 1975A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.7.56
#17Murder, Smoke and ShadowsSeason 8 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 27, 1989An 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
#18It's All in the GameSeason 10 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 31, 1993Nick 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
#19Columbo and the Murder of a Rock StarSeason 10 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 29, 1991Lt. 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.7.52Yes
#20Blueprint for MurderSeason 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Feb 9, 1972An 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.7.52Yes
#21A Deadly State of MindSeason 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Apr 27, 1975A 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
#22Double ExposureSeason 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Dec 16, 1973A film maker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign7.50
#23Try and Catch MeSeason 7 - Episode 1 - Aired Nov 21, 1977A writer of murder mysteries wreaks revenge on her nephew-in-law by blaiming him for her niece's murder.7.50
#24The Greenhouse JungleSeason 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 15, 1972Jarvis 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
#25Publish or PerishSeason 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Jan 18, 1974A 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