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| | ShortSummary=Criminology professor D.E. Rusk threatens to expel spoiled fraternity brothers Justin Rowe (]) and Cooper Redman (]) for cheating by stealing the final exam. In a variation of ], the two students decide to kill Rusk. They fake a message to lure him away from the university just when Columbo will be giving a guest lecture to his class. While sitting at the lecture, they monitor the parking garage using a miniature TV camera and shoot Rusk by his car with a remote-controlled gun, both devices being hidden in their pickup truck's engine compartment. With an airtight alibi, the boys then plant evidence to make it look like the professor was killed because of a Mafia exposé he was working on. | | ShortSummary=Criminology professor D.E. Rusk threatens to expel spoiled fraternity brothers Justin Rowe (]) and Cooper Redman (]) for cheating by stealing the final exam. In a variation of ], the two students decide to kill Rusk. They fake a message to lure him away from the university just when Columbo will be giving a guest lecture to his class. While sitting at the lecture, they monitor the parking garage using a miniature TV camera and shoot Rusk by his car with a remote-controlled gun, both devices being hidden in their pickup truck's engine compartment. With an airtight alibi, the boys then plant evidence to make it look like the professor was killed because of a Mafia exposé he was working on. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo tricks the murderous duo by letting them "overhear" details of a car owned by a suspect. Rowe and Redman plant the murder weapon in that vehicle, but after it is found, |
'''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo tricks the murderous duo by letting them "overhear" details of a car owned by a suspect. Rowe and Redman plant the murder weapon in that vehicle, but after it is found, Columbo reveals it is actually his wife's car. Because only the two students could know which car it was, they implicated themselves as the only ones who could have planted it, and in so doing, as the murderers as well. | ||
| ] returns to the series, playing Justin's powerful lawyer father. (This is the only time, in his four appearances, that Culp is not the killer. See '']''.) | ] returns to the series, playing Justin's powerful lawyer father. (This is the only time, in his four appearances, that Culp is not the killer. See '']''.) | ||
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| | ShortSummary=Irving Krutch (]), a crooked insurance investigator, enlists the help of Columbo to solve a series of murders that starts when two men, each of whom possesses a piece of a photograph, kill each other in a burglary gone wrong. Some years back a group of four men robbed a bank, but all of them were killed by the police in a shootout after they were caught in a car accident. But before they died, they hid their loot somewhere which can only be found through the assembled photograph. Columbo must go undercover to recover some of the pieces, solve some murders to get some others, and all the while trying to figure out what Krutch might be after. ] has a cameo as a small time hood and Columbo does ] in the roles of a mob ] and a ]. | | ShortSummary=Irving Krutch (]), a crooked insurance investigator, enlists the help of Columbo to solve a series of murders that starts when two men, each of whom possesses a piece of a photograph, kill each other in a burglary gone wrong. Some years back a group of four men robbed a bank, but all of them were killed by the police in a shootout after they were caught in a car accident. But before they died, they hid their loot somewhere which can only be found through the assembled photograph. Columbo must go undercover to recover some of the pieces, solve some murders to get some others, and all the while trying to figure out what Krutch might be after. ] has a cameo as a small time hood and Columbo does ] in the roles of a mob ] and a ]. | ||
| '''Final clue/twist:''' There's a parking meter in the front of the house where Weinberg was killed. The device was emptied on Saturday at 1 p.m. and on Sunday early in morning. Moreover, the parking is free after 6 p.m. Krutch's fingerprint can be found on a coin which was inserted on Saturday afternoon. This breaks his alibi | '''Final clue/twist:''' There's a parking meter in the front of the house where Weinberg was killed. The device was emptied on Saturday at 1 p.m. and on Sunday early in morning. Moreover, the parking is free after 6 p.m. Krutch's fingerprint can be found on a coin which was inserted on Saturday afternoon. This breaks his alibi. | ||
| This episode is based upon the ] novel ''Jigsaw'' by ], although not credited as such. This installment thus departs from the usual format by not revealing the culprit until the end of the show. Unlike the previous episode based on McBain source material, ''No Time To Die'', this features a regular character from the 87th Precinct series, Arthur Brown, played by ]. | This episode is based upon the ] novel ''Jigsaw'' by ], although not credited as such. This installment thus departs from the usual format by not revealing the culprit until the end of the show. Unlike the previous episode based on McBain source material, ''No Time To Die'', this features a regular character from the 87th Precinct series, Arthur Brown, played by ]. | ||
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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) | 89 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) | 86 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) | 91 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) | 92 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) | 87 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) | 89 min |
| 62 | 7 | "It's All in the Game" | Vincent McEveety | Peter Falk | Faye Dunaway as Lauren Staton and Claudia Christian as Lisa Martin | Armando Pucci as Nick Franco | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) | 91 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) | 88 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) | 89 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) | 88 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) | 86 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) | 85 min |
| 69 | 14 | "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" | Jeffrey Reiner | Michael Alaimo | Matthew Rhys as Justin Price and Jennifer Sky as Vanessa Farrow | Carmine Giovinazzo as Tony Galper and Douglas Roberts as Linwood Coben | January 30, 2003 (2003-01-30) | 84 min |
References
- "Columbo – Complete Series DVD UK". Amazon UK. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- UK DVD Cover shows the complete collection, images-amazon.com; accessed June 28, 2017.
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