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.
A new staff, including a former model (Lola Albright), may be involved in a jewelry store owner's murder; guest Scatman Crothers.
Lola Albright, John Carradine and James Drury appear in a drama of love and revenge.
At the insistence of an overbearing guest star, Rob takes over as producer of "The Alan Brady Show."
Jed takes a dose of Granny's tonic and ends up on Lovers Lane with a gold-digging secretary.
