Shera Danese

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.

Food critic Paul Gerard has been blackmailing gourmet restaurant owners for huge sums of money in exchange for favorable newspaper reviews. When restaurateur Vittorio Rossi threatens to expose Gerard, the dashing Frenchman plans a near-perfect crime using the deadly poison from a Japanese fish that only licensed chefs are qualified to handle. Lt. Columbo, stymied by the ingenious plot, is without a lead until Eve Plummer unknowingly gives away Gerard’s expertise in handling the deadly Japanese fish.

Lt. Columbo is pitted against a nationally recognized criminal defense lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.

Lt. Columbo investigates a world-renown painter whose wife drowns accidentally. Though Columbo suspects foul play, the painter himself has an alibi---he was painting that very night. Or was he?

An unfaithful wife tries to frame her husband.