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| ShortSummary=] stars in and directs his final appearance, his fourth time playing the murderer. As funeral director to the stars Eric Prince, he murders gossip columnist Verity Chandler (]) when she attends his latest funeral, that of actor and war hero Chuck Houston. Chandler has informed Prince that her next expose will be about how 20 years ago, he stole a valuable diamond from the body of a deceased silent film star. Prince bludgeons Chandler with a tool in his storage room, then hides the body in a compartment used for corpses. After the funeral, Prince takes the casket containing Houston's body to the preparation room, where he puts Chandler's body into the casket in its place. It next enters the cremation oven, and afterwards, the ashes are scattered by helicopter over the Hollywood hills. Prince then goes to Chandler's house and fakes evidence of her abduction. So no one will become suspicious, he cremates Houston's body by piggybacking him onto another corpse scheduled to be cremated. ] plays the dead man's widow, Liz Houston, and ], the real-life daughter of Patrick McGoohan, plays Prince's assistant Rita. | ||
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| | ShortSummary=Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford (]) has been mentor to a talented young composer, Gabriel McEnery (]), who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years |
| ShortSummary=Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford (]) has been mentor to a talented young composer, Gabriel McEnery (]), who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years. Gabe even penned Crawford's last movie score, which won an ]. Crawford realizes he will be ruined and ridiculed if it ever becomes known. Aware that Gabe practices on the roof of a studio building, Crawford plots his murder. He promises Gabe will get to conduct the orchestra during a concert based on Crawford's "own" movie scores. While giving a toast, Crawford drugs Gabe, then takes his body up to his rooftop rehearsal place, which happens to be atop a trapdoor to a freight elevator. He makes it look like Gabe was there rehearsing, With the concert about to begin, Crawford starts the freight elevator, then makes it into the concert hall in time to begin conducting before the elevator reaches the top. When the elevator doors open, Gabe's unconscious body is pushed over the side and falls to his death, landing in front of a late-arriving couple. | ||
| Aired under ''Monday Night Movie''.<ref>{{cite web|title=MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE: COLUMBO: MURDER WITH TOO MANY NOTES {TAPE 1 OF 2} (TV) |url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=B:64131|publisher=The Paley Center For Media|accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref> | Aired under ''Monday Night Movie''.<ref>{{cite web|title=MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE: COLUMBO: MURDER WITH TOO MANY NOTES {TAPE 1 OF 2} (TV) |url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=B:64131|publisher=The Paley Center For Media|accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref> | ||
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Season of television series| Columbo (season 10) | |
|---|---|
| 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".
Broadcast history
The season aired different nights of the week on ABC.
DVD release
The season was released on DVD by Universal Home Video.
Episodes
| Episode | No. in Season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 1 | "Columbo Goes to College" | E.W. Swackhamer | Teleplay: Jeffrey Bloom Story: Jeffrey Bloom and Frederick King Keller | December 9, 1990 (1990-12-09) |
| 57 | 2 | "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" | Daryl Duke | Sonia Wolf, Patricia Ford and April Raynell | February 20, 1991 (1991-02-20) |
| 58 | 3 | "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star" | Alan J. Levi | William Read Woodfield | April 29, 1991 (1991-04-29) |
| 59 | 4 | "Death Hits the Jackpot" | Vincent McEveety | Jeffrey Bloom | December 15, 1991 (1991-12-15) |
| 60 | 5 | "No Time to Die" | Alan J. Levi | Teleplay: Robert van Scoyk Story: Ed McBain | March 15, 1992 (1992-03-15) |
| 61 | 6 | "A Bird in the Hand..." | Vincent McEveety | Jackson Gillis | November 22, 1992 (1992-11-22) |
| 62 | 7 | "It's All in the Game" | Vincent McEveety | Peter Falk | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) |
| 63 | 8 | "Butterfly in Shades of Grey" | Dennis Dugan | Peter S. Fischer | January 10, 1994 (1994-01-10) |
| 64 | 9 | "Undercover" | Vincent McEveety | Teleplay: Gerry Day Story: Ed McBain | May 2, 1994 (1994-05-02) |
| 65 | 10 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Vincent McEveety | Lawrence Vail | May 8, 1995 (1995-05-08) |
| 66 | 11 | "A Trace of Murder" | Vincent McEveety | Charles Kipps | May 15, 1997 (1997-05-15) |
| 67 | 12 | "Ashes to Ashes" | Patrick McGoohan | Jeffrey Hatcher | October 8, 1998 (1998-10-08) |
| 68 | 13 | "Murder With Too Many Notes" | Patrick McGoohan | Teleplay: Jeffrey Cava and Patrick McGoohan Story: Jeffrey Cava | March 12, 2001 (2001-03-12) |
| 69 | 14 | "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" | Jeffrey Reiner | Michael Alaimo | January 30, 2003 (2003-01-30) |
References
- "Columbo - Complete Series DVD UK". Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- UK DVD Cover shows the complete colection
