Joe Renteria

Peter Falk, as Lt. Columbo, meets the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team during his investigation of the slaying of the owner of a professional football team by its manager. Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, James Gregory, Dean Jagger, Susan Howard and Dean Stockwell guest star.

A serial bomber is on the loose. Will the team with the help from Caine's old bomb squad mentor be able to work out the puzzle and find the bomber?

While investigating the suicide of a retired Navy officer who left a rare, valuable - and possibly stolen - coin to the National Museum of the Navy, the team imagines themselves in his life story in order to piece together how the coin ended up in his possession.

Lydia and Josie are assigned to assist Sammy and Nate with a series of gang murders. John discovers he can't stand the "new and improved" Dewey, fresh from rehab, when he's forced to ride with him in order to evaluate whether Dewey is competent to return to duty. Ben must then ride with Chickie, who drives him nuts with her very personal questions about his private life and his new relationship with the "cop groupie" he's been seeing.

McCall's cleaning woman is killed, revealing a sinister political plot against the victim's family and the arrival of a notorious foreign "doctor" in Los Angeles, known for his use of torture against enemies of state.