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	\| ShortSummary=Wade Anders (]) is a former security expert and host of the popular '']''-esque crime show ''CrimeAlert''. One day, he gets an unexpected visit from his rival, chain-smoking newscaster Budd Clarke (]), whom he blocked from becoming the ''CrimeAlert'' host. Clarke has resented how he was snubbed in favor of Anders, but now, he's got some leverage that he hopes will get Anders out of the ''CrimeAlert'' chair: a porn video Anders starred in many years ago, and Clarke plans to go public with the tape unless Anders resigns from the show. Anders decides to kill him rather than be disgraced. He palms a pack of Clarke's cigarettes, which he doctors with a few drops of ] poison nicotine sulfate. Anders then pays two visits to his production office -- once that night and again the next morning -- so a surveillance tape there will show him at the office all day. Anders then drives to Clarke's house, and switches a cigarette pack for the poisoned pack. Once Clarke takes one of the poisoned cigarettes and dies, Anders makes it look like Clarke had a heart attack at his desk.		\| ShortSummary=Wade Anders (]) is a former security expert and host of the popular '']''-esque crime show ''CrimeAlert''. One day, he gets an unexpected visit from his rival, chain-smoking newscaster Budd Clarke (]), whom he blocked from becoming the ''CrimeAlert'' host. Clarke has resented how he was snubbed in favor of Anders, but now, he's got some leverage that he hopes will get Anders out of the ''CrimeAlert'' chair: a porn video Anders starred in many years ago, and Clarke plans to go public with the tape unless Anders resigns from the show. Anders decides to kill him rather than be disgraced. He palms a pack of Clarke's cigarettes, which he doctors with a few drops of ] poison nicotine sulfate. Anders then pays two visits to his production office -- once that night and again the next morning -- so a surveillance tape there will show him at the office all day. Anders then drives to Clarke's house, and switches a cigarette pack for the poisoned pack. Once Clarke takes one of the poisoned cigarettes and dies, Anders makes it look like Clarke had a heart attack at his desk.

	'''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo can prove, that the surveillance tape was fabricated, because the ~~visible~~ trees in front of the office ~~where~~ cut down at the morning, but grown full ~~lenght~~ again at the evening.		'''Final clue/twist:''' Columbo can prove that the surveillance tape was fabricated, because the trees visible in front of the office appeared to have been cut down in the morning, but had grown full length again by the evening.

	Shown under the ''ABC Movie Special'' brand.<ref>{{cite web\|title=COLUMBO: CAUTION: MURDER CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH {ABC MOVIE SPECIAL} (TV)\|url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=T:25613\|publisher=The Paley Center For Media\|accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref>		Shown under the ''ABC Movie Special'' brand.<ref>{{cite web\|title=COLUMBO: CAUTION: MURDER CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH {ABC MOVIE SPECIAL} (TV)\|url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=T:25613\|publisher=The Paley Center For Media\|accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref>

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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".

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

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
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	February 15, 1992 (1992-02-15)
61	6	"A Bird in the Hand..."	Vincent McEveety	Jackson Gillis	June 19, 1992 (1992-06-19)
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	April 23, 1996 (1996-04-23)
66	11	"A Trace of Murder"	Vincent McEveety	Charles Kipps	November 4, 1997 (1997-11-04)
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 collection

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