Columbo
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Wednesday, April 17
Fade In to Murder
Season 6 • Episode 1
An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer.
Wednesday, April 17
Old-Fashioned Murder
Season 6 • Episode 2
Columbo probes a robbery and murder case that exposes family tensions and deadly hostilities.
Wednesday, April 17
A Friend in Deed
Season 3 • Episode 8
A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary.
Wednesday, April 17
An Exercise in Fatality
Season 4 • Episode 1
A fitness expert murders an associate who uncovered financial fraud in a health-spa chain.
Thursday, April 18
The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case
Season 6 • Episode 3
A bookkeeper murders his partner who has discovered his flair for creative accounting.
Thursday, April 18
Try & Catch Me
Season 7 • Episode 1
A mystery writer uses her own plots to seek revenge for her niece's death.
Thursday, April 18
Negative Reaction
Season 4 • Episode 2
A photographer kills his wife and a former convict after framing him for her kidnapping and murder.
Thursday, April 18
By Dawn's Early Light
Season 4 • Episode 3
Columbo tries to outwit a military academy commandant planning a murder.
Friday, April 19
Murder Under Glass
Season 7 • Episode 2
A food critic blackmailing restaurateurs for good reviews poisons a man threatening to expose him.
Friday, April 19
How to Dial a Murder
Season 7 • Episode 4
A psychologist uses mind control to make his Doberman pinschers kill his assistant.
Friday, April 19
Troubled Waters
Season 4 • Episode 4
An automobile executive is a suspect in the murder of a cruise ship's vocalist.
Friday, April 19
Forgotten Lady
Season 5 • Episode 1
An aging actress plans to return to a Broadway musical against her husband's wishes.
Saturday, April 20
An Exercise in Fatality
Season 4 • Episode 1
A fitness expert murders an associate who uncovered financial fraud in a health-spa chain.
Saturday, April 20
Agenda for Murder
Season 9 • Episode 3
The disheveled detective investigates the apparent suicide of a notorious racketeer.
Saturday, April 20
Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Season 9 • Episode 4
The widow of a crooked estate agent vows to exact her revenge on the two men that put him in prison.
Monday, April 22
Murder by the Book
Season 1 • Episode 1
A blackmailer interferes with a mystery writer's plan to kill his former partner in a perfect crime.
Monday, April 22
Death Lends a Hand
Season 1 • Episode 2
Blackmail turns to murder when a private investigator tries to profit from a wife's indiscretions.
Monday, April 22
Identity Crisis
Season 5 • Episode 3
An advertising consultant with several identities frames his ex-partner.
Monday, April 22
Now You See Him
Season 5 • Episode 5
Columbo matches wits with a nightclub illusionist suspected of murdering his business associate.
Tuesday, April 23
Publish or Perish
Season 3 • Episode 5
A publisher hires a gunman to kill a mystery writer who announces he is signing with a competitor.
Tuesday, April 23
Mind Over Mayhem
Season 3 • Episode 6
A boy genius and the robot he invented give Columbo some unsolicited assistance.
Tuesday, April 23
Dead Weight
Season 1 • Episode 3
No body, no weapon and a witness courted by the war hero she thinks committed murder.
Tuesday, April 23
Suitable for Framing
Season 1 • Episode 4
An art critic's dreams of inheriting his uncle's wealth are shattered.
Tuesday, April 23
Last Salute to the Commodore
Season 5 • Episode 6
Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.
Tuesday, April 23
Make Me a Perfect Murder
Season 7 • Episode 3
A TV-network executive murders her boss and lover when he fails to promote her.
Wednesday, April 24
Playback
Season 4 • Episode 5
After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.
Wednesday, April 24
A Deadly State of Mind
Season 4 • Episode 6
A wealthy psychiatrist murders the husband of his mistress to protect his own reputation.
Wednesday, April 24
Lady in Waiting
Season 1 • Episode 5
Bitter sibling competition for control of a family-owned corporation escalates into murder.
Wednesday, April 24
Short Fuse
Season 1 • Episode 6
When an executive dies in a limousine explosion, the corporation's attorney becomes a suspect.
Wednesday, April 24
The Conspirators
Season 7 • Episode 5
An arms smuggler uses his Irish wit and charm in an attempt to outsmart Columbo.
Wednesday, April 24
Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
Season 8 • Episode 1
A magician is beheaded during rehearsal for his guillotine trick by his old psychic mentor.
Thursday, April 25
Blueprint for Murder
Season 1 • Episode 7
Columbo orders the excavation of a huge pylon, in search of a missing body, but finds nothing.
Thursday, April 25
The Greenhouse Jungle
Season 2 • Episode 2
Columbo suspects a plant collector of murdering his nephew to gain access to a trust fund.
Thursday, April 25
Murder, Smoke and Shadows
Season 8 • Episode 2
A Hollywood director tries to fool Columbo when a studio becomes a murder scene.
Thursday, April 25
Sex and the Married Detective
Season 8 • Episode 3
The disheveled detective gets some free advice from a world famous sex therapist.
Friday, April 26
The Most Crucial Game
Season 2 • Episode 3
Columbo tries to solve the murder of a professional football team's owner.
Friday, April 26
Requiem for a Falling Star
Season 2 • Episode 5
A secretary is mistakenly ensnared in an aging actress's plot to murder a gossip columnist.
Friday, April 26
Grand Deceptions
Season 8 • Episode 4
The detective is called in to investigate the death of a sergeant major at a training camp.
Friday, April 26
Murder, a Self Portrait
Season 9 • Episode 1
Homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo investigates the murder of a famous painter's ex-wife.
Saturday, April 27
Negative Reaction
Season 4 • Episode 2
A photographer kills his wife and a former convict after framing him for her kidnapping and murder.
Saturday, April 27
Uneasy Lies the Crown
Season 9 • Episode 5
A dentist frames his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.
Saturday, April 27
Murder in Malibu
Season 9 • Episode 6
A famous romance novelist is shot dead in the course of what looks like a robbery.
Tuesday, April 30
A Case of Immunity
Season 5 • Episode 2
A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery.
Tuesday, April 30
A Matter of Honor
Season 5 • Episode 4
Fierce competition among bullfighters involves Columbo in a murder investigation.
Wednesday, May 1
Fade In to Murder
Season 6 • Episode 1
An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer.
Wednesday, May 1
Old-Fashioned Murder
Season 6 • Episode 2
Columbo probes a robbery and murder case that exposes family tensions and deadly hostilities.