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| The final 14 episodes of '']'' were produced sporadically as a series of specials, spanning 13 years from 1990 to 2003. These episodes have since been released on DVD ] as "season 10".<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbo |
The final 14 episodes of '']'' were produced sporadically as a series of specials, spanning 13 years from 1990 to 2003. These episodes have since been released on DVD ] as "season 10".<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbo – Complete Series DVD UK|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Columbo-Complete-Series-DVD/dp/B002L7O7Q8|accessdate=April 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>, images-amazon.com; accessed June 28, 2017.</ref> Two of the episodes, "No Time to Die" and "Undercover", were based on ] novels by ] and thus do not follow the usual Columbo format. | ||
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| | ShortSummary=Rock star Marcy Edwards (]) has been the live-in lover of high-priced murder lawyer Hugh Creighton (]) for several years. He learns that she is having an affair with someone else and throws her out of his house. However, Marcy blackmails Creighton into letting her stay, at least until he comes up with the $5 |
| ShortSummary=Rock star Marcy Edwards (]) has been the live-in lover of high-priced murder lawyer Hugh Creighton (]) for several years. He learns that she is having an affair with someone else and throws her out of his house. However, Marcy blackmails Creighton into letting her stay, at least until he comes up with the $5 million she is demanding in exchange for not filing a ] suit against him or exposing his unconventional practice methods. Creighton's response is to drug the champagne in her beach house and wait until she shows up there with her current lover. Having previously ensured that Marcy cannot drink by lacing her tea with ], Creighton waits until her new lover is passed out, then strangles her. Her lover awakens and flees the scene. Creighton enlists his associate, Trish Fairbanks (]), to help him concoct an airtight alibi, but when she finds out what he has done, she blackmails him into a full partnership in the firm, wisely going the extra mile by creating a contingency plan to ensure that killing her is not an option for Creighton. Columbo cracks the case, despite the existence of a speed-camera ticket which appears to exonerate Creighton completely. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' Due to shadow angles in the picture of the speeding ticket, Columbo can prove that Creighton's face was just a flat cut-out mask and that Fairbanks must have been driving Creighton's speeding vehicle, and breaking his alibi. Also, marks on Edwards neck matched the gloves found in the gardener's truck that had been stolen, parked on a particular street where an unusual type of tree grows, and returned. The windshield wiper wells on Fairbanks' car collected the berries and droppings of these trees, proving that Creighton parked her car on that street and also drove the truck there. | '''Final clue/twist:''' Due to shadow angles in the picture of the speeding ticket, Columbo can prove that Creighton's face was just a flat cut-out mask and that Fairbanks must have been driving Creighton's speeding vehicle, and breaking his alibi. Also, marks on Edwards neck matched the gloves found in the gardener's truck that had been stolen, parked on a particular street where an unusual type of tree grows, and returned. The windshield wiper wells on Fairbanks' car collected the berries and droppings of these trees, proving that Creighton parked her car on that street and also drove the truck there. | ||
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| ShortSummary=Down-on-his-luck photographer Freddy Brower (]) wins a $30 million ]. But he wants to keep the money a secret from his wife Nancy (]), who is divorcing him, so that she cannot make a claim for the money. Freddy goes to his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr (]), who offers to pretend that the lottery ticket is his own until Freddy's divorce is finalized. Unfortunately, that is where Freddy's luck runs out: he does not know that Lamarr has recently gone bankrupt, and is also having an ] with Nancy. Lamarr decides to kill Freddy to keep the lottery winnings for himself. He schedules a Halloween costume party at his house, during which he sneaks out to Freddy's apartment, knocks him out, undresses him, then drowns him in his bathtub. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' The night of the murder, Brower was taking care of a friend's chimpanzee. Columbo learns that the chimp liked to handle shiny objects, and finds the chimp's fingerprints on a medallion that was part of Lamarr's Halloween costume, proving that Lamarr was at Brower's apartment that night. | '''Final clue/twist:''' The night of the murder, Brower was taking care of a friend's chimpanzee. Columbo learns that the chimp liked to handle shiny objects, and finds the chimp's fingerprints on a medallion that was part of Lamarr's Halloween costume, proving that Lamarr was at Brower's apartment that night. | ||
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| | ShortSummary=Wealthy socialite Lauren Staton (]) and her daughter Lisa Martin (]) conspire to murder their abusive, two-timing lover Nick Franco (Armando Pucci). Lauren commits the actual murder, going to Franco's apartment and shooting him. Lisa then stays in the apartment, keeping the body warm for several hours with an electric blanket until Lauren returns with the building manager (]). While they're knocking on the door, Lisa fires a shot into the air, then flees through the patio. Lauren takes all the heat from Columbo |
| ShortSummary=Wealthy socialite Lauren Staton (]) and her daughter Lisa Martin (]) conspire to murder their abusive, two-timing lover Nick Franco (Armando Pucci). Lauren commits the actual murder, going to Franco's apartment and shooting him. Lisa then stays in the apartment, keeping the body warm for several hours with an electric blanket until Lauren returns with the building manager (]). While they're knocking on the door, Lisa fires a shot into the air, then flees through the patio. Lauren takes all the heat from Columbo to protect Lisa, even going so far as to romance him; after he (along with the viewer) finally learns that Lisa is Lauren's daughter, he buys Lauren's confession by allowing Lisa to flee to Europe. | ||
| This is one of two episodes (the other being "Forgotten Lady") in which Columbo allows a murderer to go unpunished. | This is one of two episodes (the other being "Forgotten Lady") in which Columbo allows a murderer to go unpunished. | ||
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| ShortSummary=Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price (]) helps his girlfriend Vanessa Farrow (]) get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, mobster Tony Galper, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. He disposes of the body for her but unknown to him, tabloid photographer Linwood Coben secretly photographs him getting rid of the body. He tells Price he can have the negatives and prints for $250,000 and Price agrees to pay him. They meet that evening, where Price kills him and makes it look like a suicide. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo points out that one of the fish tanks built into the dance floor at Price's club contains fewer fish and is smaller than the other tanks. Columbo has the floor scanned – revealing Tony's body hidden under the fish tank. After Justin and Vanessa are arrested, Columbo walks out of the club. One of Columbo's last punning remarks ] Movie] is that Tony is "sleeping with the fishes". | '''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo points out that one of the fish tanks built into the dance floor at Price's club contains fewer fish and is smaller than the other tanks. Columbo has the floor scanned – revealing Tony's body hidden under the fish tank. After Justin and Vanessa are arrested, Columbo walks out of the club. One of Columbo's last punning remarks ] Movie] is that Tony is "sleeping with the fishes". | ||
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| (The club scenes use two tracks from the album ''Tweekend'' by ].) | (The club scenes use two tracks from the album ''Tweekend'' by ].) | ||
| This was the final episode of ''Columbo''. It aired under ''ABC Thursday Night |
This was the final episode of ''Columbo''. It aired under ''ABC Thursday Night at the Movies''.<ref>{{cite web|title=ABC THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: COLUMBO: COLUMBO LIKES THE NIGHTLIFE (TV)|url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=B:75207|publisher=The Paley Center For Media|accessdate=September 10, 2013}}</ref> | ||
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Season of television series (all episodes of 1990 to 2003) Season of television series
| Columbo | |
|---|---|
| Season 10 | |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | December 9, 1990 (1990-12-09) – January 30, 2003 (2003-01-30) |
| Season chronology | |
| ← Previous Season 9 | |
| List of episodes | |
The final 14 episodes of Columbo were produced sporadically as a series of specials, spanning 13 years from 1990 to 2003. These episodes have since been released on DVD in several regions as "season 10". Two of the episodes, "No Time to Die" and "Undercover", were based on 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain and thus do not follow the usual Columbo format.
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Murderer(s) played by | Victim(s) played by | Original air date | Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 1 | "Columbo Goes to College" | E.W. Swackhamer | S : Frederick King Keller S/T : Jeffrey Bloom | Stephen Caffrey and Gary Hershberger | James Sutorius | December 9, 1990 (1990-12-09) | 98 min |
| 57 | 2 | "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" | Daryl Duke | Sonia Wolf & Patricia Ford & April Raynell | George Hamilton | Peter Haskell | February 20, 1991 (1991-02-20) | 98 min |
| 58 | 3 | "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star" | Alan J. Levi | William Read Woodfield | Dabney Coleman | Cheryl Paris | April 29, 1991 (1991-04-29) | 98 min |
| 59 | 4 | "Death Hits the Jackpot" | Vincent McEveety | Jeffrey Bloom | Rip Torn and Jamie Rose | Gary Kroeger | December 15, 1991 (1991-12-15) | 98 min |
| 60 | 5 | "No Time to Die" | Alan J. Levi | S : Ed McBain; T : Robert van Scoyk | (No murder. Daniel McDonald plays the would-be murderer.) | (None) | March 15, 1992 (1992-03-15) | 93 min |
| 61 | 6 | "A Bird in the Hand ..." | Vincent McEveety | Jackson Gillis | Tyne Daly and Greg Evigan | Steve Forrest, León Singer and Greg Evigan | November 22, 1992 (1992-11-22) | 98 min |
| 62 | 7 | "It's All in the Game" | Vincent McEveety | Peter Falk | Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian | Armando Pucci | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) | 98 min |
| 63 | 8 | "Butterfly in Shades of Grey" | Dennis Dugan | Peter S. Fischer | William Shatner | Jack Laufer | January 10, 1994 (1994-01-10) | 98 min |
| 64 | 9 | "Undercover" | Vincent McEveety | S : Ed McBain; T : Gerry Day | Ed Begley Jr. (Jon Beshara and an uncredited actor also portray two characters who kill each other) | Burt Young and Shera Danese | May 2, 1994 (1994-05-02) | 98 min |
| 65 | 10 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Vincent McEveety | Lawrence Vail | George Wendt | Jeff Yagher and Jay Acovone | May 8, 1995 (1995-05-08) | 89 min |
| 66 | 11 | "A Trace of Murder" | Vincent McEveety | Charles Kipps | David Rasche and Shera Danese | Raye Birk | May 15, 1997 (1997-05-15) | 98 min |
| 67 | 12 | "Ashes to Ashes" | Patrick McGoohan | Jeffrey Hatcher | Patrick McGoohan | Rue McClanahan | October 8, 1998 (1998-10-08) | 90 min |
| 68 | 13 | "Murder with Too Many Notes" | Patrick McGoohan | T : Patrick McGoohan; S/T : Jeffrey Cava | Billy Connolly | Chad Willett | March 12, 2001 (2001-03-12) | 98 min |
| 69 | 14 | "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" | Jeffrey Reiner | Michael Alaimo | Jennifer Sky and Matthew Rhys | Carmine Giovinazzo and Douglas Roberts | January 30, 2003 (2003-01-30) | 88 min |
References
- "Columbo – Complete Series DVD UK". Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- UK DVD Cover shows the complete collection, images-amazon.com; accessed June 28, 2017.
- Columbo seasons
- 1990 American television seasons
- 1991 American television seasons
- 1992 American television seasons
- 1993 American television seasons
- 1994 American television seasons
- 1995 American television seasons
- 1997 American television seasons
- 1998 American television seasons
- 2000 American television seasons
- 2003 American television seasons