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| ShortSummary=Rock star Marcy Edwards (]) has been the live-in lover of high-priced murder lawyer Hugh Creighton (]) for several years. He learns that she is having an affair with someone else and throws her out of his house. However, Marcy blackmails Creighton into letting her stay, at least until he comes up with the $5 million she is demanding in exchange for not filing a ] suit against him or exposing his unconventional practice methods. Creighton's response is to drug the champagne in her beach house and wait until she shows up there with her current lover. Having previously ensured that Marcy cannot drink by lacing her tea with disulfiram, Creighton waits until her new lover is passed out, then strangles her. Her lover awakens and flees the scene. Creighton enlists his associate, Trish Fairbanks (]), to help him concoct an airtight alibi, but when she finds out what he has done, she blackmails him into a full partnership in the firm, wisely going the extra mile by creating a contingency plan to ensure that killing her is not an option for Creighton. Columbo cracks the case, despite the existence of a speeding ticket which appears to exonerate Creighton completely. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' Due to different shadow angles in the picture of the speeding ticket, Columbo can prove that Creighton's face was just a flat cut-out mask and that Fairbanks must have been driving Creighton's speeding vehicle, and Creighton's alibi is broken. Another piece of evidence was that the glove prints on Edwards neck matched those found in a gardener's truck that had been stolen and later parked on a particular street where a unique type of tree grows. The windshield wiper wells on Fairbanks' car collected the berries and droppings of these unique trees, proving that Creighton parked her car on that street and also drove the truck there. | '''Final clue/twist:''' Due to different shadow angles in the picture of the speeding ticket, Columbo can prove that Creighton's face was just a flat cut-out mask and that Fairbanks must have been driving Creighton's speeding vehicle, and Creighton's alibi is broken. Another piece of evidence was that the glove prints on Edwards neck matched those found in a gardener's truck that had been stolen and later parked on a particular street where a unique type of tree grows. The windshield wiper wells on Fairbanks' car collected the berries and droppings of these unique trees, proving that Creighton parked her car on that street and also drove the truck there. | ||
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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 : Jeffrey Bloom & Frederick King Keller; T : Jeffrey Bloom | Stephen Caffrey and Gary Hershberger | James Sutorius | 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 | Peter Haskell | 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 | Cheryl Paris | April 29, 1991 (1991-04-29) | 98 min |
| 59 | 4 | "Death Hits the Jackpot" | Vincent McEveety | Jeffrey Bloom | Rip Torn and Jamie Rose | Gary Kroeger | 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) | February 15, 1992 (1992-02-15) | 93 min |
| 61 | 6 | "A Bird in the Hand ..." | Vincent McEveety | Jackson Gillis | Tyne Daly and Greg Evigan | Steve Forrest and León Singer and Greg Evigan | June 19, 1992 (1992-06-19) | 98 min |
| 62 | 7 | "It's All in the Game" | Vincent McEveety | Peter Falk | Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian | Armando Pucci | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) | 98 min |
| 63 | 8 | "Butterfly in Shades of Grey" | Dennis Dugan | Peter S. Fischer | William Shatner | Jack Laufer | January 10, 1994 (1994-01-10) | 98 min |
| 64 | 9 | "Undercover" | Vincent McEveety | S : Ed McBain; T : Gerry Day | Ed Begley Jr. (Jon Beshara and an uncredited actor also portray two characters who kill each other) | Burt Young and Shera Danese | May 2, 1994 (1994-05-02) | 98 min |
| 65 | 10 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Vincent McEveety | Lawrence Vail | George Wendt | Jeff Yagher and Jay Acovone | May 8, 1995 (1995-05-08) | 89 min |
| 66 | 11 | "A Trace of Murder" | Vincent McEveety | Charles Kipps | David Rasche and Shera Danese | Raye Birk | May 15, 1997 (1997-05-15) | 98 min |
| 67 | 12 | "Ashes to Ashes" | Patrick McGoohan | Jeffrey Hatcher | Patrick McGoohan | Rue McClanahan | 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 | Chad Willett | March 12, 2001 (2001-03-12) | 98 min |
| 69 | 14 | "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" | Jeffrey Reiner | Michael Alaimo | Jennifer Sky and Matthew Rhys | Carmine Giovinazzo and Douglas Roberts | 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