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| | ShortSummary=Given a deadline to pay his debts, or else, chronic gambler Harold McCain (]) plants a bomb under the ] of his uncle, professional football team owner Big Fred (]). The bomb is set to explode when the engine is started. However, someone else gets to Big Fred before Harold's bomb does by stealing the gardener's pickup truck and running him over while he is jogging. Harold tries to remove the bomb before it kills someone else, but cannot get near the Rolls |
| ShortSummary=Given a deadline to pay his debts, or else, chronic gambler Harold McCain (]) plants a bomb under the ] of his uncle, professional football team owner Big Fred (]). The bomb is set to explode when the engine is started. However, someone else gets to Big Fred before Harold's bomb does by stealing the gardener's pickup truck and running him over while he is jogging. Harold tries to remove the bomb before it kills someone else, but cannot get near the Rolls-Royce due to police and security on the premises. When the gardener tries to move the Rolls Royce out of the way of the TV camera crews, the bomb explodes, killing the gardener. Columbo investigates and discovers clues that link Harold to the car bomb, but Harold denies any involvement and tries to divert suspicion away from himself. Fred's wife Dolores (]), appears traumatised at losing her husband but has a good time as Fred's team's owner, but after Harold tries to squeeze her for money, he is shot dead in his cabin, making it ''appear'' obvious who is responsible. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' The TV news tape shows Harold closing his eyes before the Rolls-Royce exploded, thus proving that he knew there was a bomb under the car. Columbo discovers that Harold |
'''Final clue/twist:''' The TV news tape shows Harold closing his eyes before the Rolls-Royce exploded, thus proving that he knew there was a bomb under the car. Columbo discovers that Harold's alarm was set to 8 pm, not 8 am. Harold had spent the entire night at a casino, where he won $5,000 and had breakfast; then he had a haircut and went to Dolores's house, which Columbo proves with recently cut hairs found inside Harold's hat that was in Dolores' den. Dolores shot Harold and moved his body to his cabin, but left Harold's hat at her house. Before Harold planted the bomb, Dolores moved the Rolls-Royce onto the driveway so the gardener could not drive his truck in. Dolores then sent the gardener to the back of house so that he would not see her steal his truck and run Big Fred over. Harold suspected Dolores was involved and was implying blackmail when he asked her for money. When Dolores demands that Columbo prove it, he replies, "I don't have to prove it, ma'am. One in the hand is better than two in the bush," and arrests her for Harold's murder. | ||
| Like "Last Salute to the Commodore" many years earlier, the real killer is not revealed until nearly the end of the episode. In both episodes, murders occur off screen, and both were scripted by ''Columbo'' veteran ] (this was his final contribution to the series). The episode used footage of a ] vs ] CFL game to represent fictional American football teams with the same initials, the Stallions and the Elks. Coincidentally, in 2021 the real-life Eskimos ] and became the Elks. | Like "Last Salute to the Commodore" many years earlier, the real killer is not revealed until nearly the end of the episode. In both episodes, murders occur off screen, and both were scripted by ''Columbo'' veteran ] (this was his final contribution to the series). The episode used footage of a ] vs ] CFL game to represent fictional American football teams with the same initials, the Stallions and the Elks. Coincidentally, in 2021 the real-life Eskimos ] and became the Elks. | ||
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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 as Justin Rowe and Gary Hershberger as Cooper Redman | James Sutorius as D.E. Rusk | 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 as Wade Anders | Peter Haskell as Budd Clarke | 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 as Hugh Creighton | Cheryl Paris as Marcy Edwards | April 29, 1991 (1991-04-29) | 98 min |
| 59 | 4 | "Death Hits the Jackpot" | Vincent McEveety | Jeffrey Bloom | Rip Torn as Leon Lamarr and Jamie Rose as Nancy Brower | Gary Kroeger as Freddy Brower | 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 as Dolores McCain and Greg Evigan as Harold McCain | Steve Forrest as Fred McCain, León Singer as Fernando and Greg Evigan as Harold McCain | November 22, 1992 (1992-11-22) | 98 min |
| 62 | 7 | "It's All in the Game" | Vincent McEveety | Peter Falk | Faye Dunaway Lauren Staton and Claudia Christian as Lisa Martin | Armando Pucci as Nick Franco | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) | 98 min |
| 63 | 8 | "Butterfly in Shades of Grey" | Dennis Dugan | Peter S. Fischer | William Shatner as Fielding Chase | Jack Laufer as Gerry Winters | January 10, 1994 (1994-01-10) | 98 min |
| 64 | 9 | "Undercover" | Vincent McEveety | S : Ed McBain; T : Gerry Day | Ed Begley Jr. as Irving Krutch (Jon Beshara and an uncredited actor also portray two characters who kill each other) | Burt Young as Mo Weinberg and Shera Danese as Geraldine Ferguson | May 2, 1994 (1994-05-02) | 98 min |
| 65 | 10 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Vincent McEveety | Lawrence Vail | George Wendt as Graham McVeigh | Jeff Yagher as Teddy McVeigh and Jay Acovone as Bruno Romano | May 8, 1995 (1995-05-08) | 89 min |
| 66 | 11 | "A Trace of Murder" | Vincent McEveety | Charles Kipps | David Rasche as Patrick Kinsley and Shera Danese as Cathleen Calvert | Raye Birk as Howard Seltzer | May 15, 1997 (1997-05-15) | 98 min |
| 67 | 12 | "Ashes to Ashes" | Patrick McGoohan | Jeffrey Hatcher | Patrick McGoohan as Eric Prince | Rue McClanahan as Verity Chandler | 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 as Findlay Crawford | Chad Willett as Gabriel McEnery | March 12, 2001 (2001-03-12) | 98 min |
| 69 | 14 | "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" | Jeffrey Reiner | Michael Alaimo | Jennifer Sky as Vanessa Farrow and Matthew Rhys as Justin Price | Carmine Giovinazzo as Tony Galper and Douglas Roberts as Linwood Coben | 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