Jimmy Joyce

The city foots the bill to dig up a huge building pylon in search of a missing body. Forrest Tucker, Janis Paige and Patrick O'Neal guest star.

Debonair actor Ward Fowler is tired of his producer and one-time lover Claire Daley, who has been blackmailing him. He decides to lift a page from one of his own scripts and carries out her homicide, which he disguises as a fatal shooting at an armed robbery. With an apparent air-tight alibi supplied by his "go-for", Mark Davis, Fowler humors himself by dueling with Columbo on who did it and how.

Grandpa's latest scheme involves the perfection of a magic voting machine designed to control all the voting machines in the city during the approaching local elections. While Herman is working on Grandpa's machine, he is interrupted when his wife calls him to punish Spot, the monstrous family pet.

When a missing atomic warhead falls into the hands of a World War II pilot on a remote jungle island, Steve must navigate the pilot's booby-trapped domain to secure the weapon before a band of guerrillas does. John Fujioka and Robert Ito guest star.

Steve goes undercover as a steel worker to investigate the theft of a metal alloy that a hostile nation is using to create a deadly space probe. Ken Swofford and David Sheiner guest star.