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- Columbo_(season_10) abstract "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".".
- Columbo_(season_10) country United_States.
- Columbo_(season_10) firstAirDate "1990-12-09".
- Columbo_(season_10) network American_Broadcasting_Company.
- Columbo_(season_10) numberOfEpisodes "14".
- Columbo_(season_10) wikiPageID "40612719".
- Columbo_(season_10) wikiPageRevisionID "602114743".
- Columbo_(season_10) bgcolour "#7AB800".
- Columbo_(season_10) country United_States.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Alan_J._Levi.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Daryl_Duke.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Dennis_Dugan.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby E.W._Swackhamer.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Jeffrey_Reiner.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Patrick_McGoohan.
- Columbo_(season_10) directedby Vincent_McEveety.
- Columbo_(season_10) episodeList List_of_Columbo_episodes.
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "1".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "10".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "11".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "12".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "13".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "14".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "2".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "3".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "4".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "5".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "56".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "57".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "58".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "59".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "6".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "60".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "61".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "62".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "63".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "64".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "65".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "66".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "67".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "68".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "69".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "7".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "8".
- Columbo_(season_10) episodenumber "9".
- Columbo_(season_10) fgcolour "#FFFFFF".
- Columbo_(season_10) firstAired "1990-12-09".
- Columbo_(season_10) lastAired "2003-01-30".
- Columbo_(season_10) linecolor "7".
- Columbo_(season_10) network American_Broadcasting_Company.
- Columbo_(season_10) numEpisodes "14".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1990-12-09".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1991-02-20".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1991-04-29".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1991-12-15".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1992-03-15".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1992-11-22".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1993-10-31".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1994-01-10".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1994-05-02".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1995-05-08".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1997-05-15".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "1998-10-08".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "2000-05-12".
- Columbo_(season_10) originalairdate "2003-01-30".
- Columbo_(season_10) prevSeason Columbo_(season_9).
- Columbo_(season_10) region "2009-06-15".
- Columbo_(season_10) region "2011-02-08".
- Columbo_(season_10) seasonName "Columbo".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "6.31152E8".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Cathleen Calvert and her lover, crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley , are weary of having to see each other on the sly, because she can't divorce her husband, Clifford , a wealthy businessman, because of their prenuptial agreement. So they scheme to get him out of the way by killing Howard Seltzer , an investment broker who is suing him, and framing Clifford for the murder. To do so, Patrick drives over to Seltzer's house while Seltzer is at home and tricks Seltzer into letting him in by claiming that his car phone died and that he has a daughter in the hospital he needs to check on. After getting in, Patrick shoots Seltzer and plants evidence to suggest that Clifford was responsible. Columbo's work is cut out for him, because the killer is on the team handling the investigation. Billed as the "25th Anniversary Movie", it aired under ABC Thursday Night Movie.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Columbo attends the wedding of Andy Parma , his police officer nephew. While Andy is showering, his wife Melissa Alexandra Hayes , a fashion model, disappears from the bridal suite. Andy enlists Columbo's help in unraveling the case. She has been kidnapped by Rudy Strassa , a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates "their" marriage. Based on a story by Ed McBain . An uncharacteristically dark story, with little of the humor normally present, this is the only episode where no murder takes place and Columbo doesn't meet the criminal. Aired under ABC Sunday Night Movie.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Domineering radio host Fielding Chase faces a crisis when his ward, 25 year-old Victoria Chase , decides to spread her wings and leave for New York. Chase is a national celebrity thanks to his call-in radio show and while Victoria works as his producer, his affection for her runs deep. The root of Chase's problem however is another employee on Chase's staff, Gerry Winters , who has been encouraging Victoria and has even found a literary agent to peddle her book. Chase decides to kill Winters. First, Chase instructs Winters to call his house phone at a certain time. Just before this prescheduled time, Chase drives over to Winters' house and quietly sneaks in. Winters calls Chase's house, unaware that Chase is actually behind him in the same room, and as Chase is not there, the phone bumps to an answering machine. Once the phone goes to voicemail, Chase picks up a phone in another room, claiming to have been late getting to the phone. At that point, Chase shoots and kills Winters, then makes it look like Winters was shot by his gay lover. A cell phone is a key to Columbo's solution of the crime. After three unconventional episodes, 'Butterfly in Shades of Grey' marked a return to the standard Columbo style.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Given a deadline to pay his debts, or else, chronic gambler Harold McCain plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, professional football team owner Big Fred . However, Big Fred is killed while jogging by a hit-and-run motorist driving Fred's gardener's stolen pickup truck, and Harold's main concern becomes preventing the bomb exploding and possibly even killing someone, and sure enough, it does just that when the gardener tries to move the Rolls Royce out of the way of the TV camera crews. Fred's wife Delores is having a good time as Fred's team's owner, but after Harold tries to squeeze her for money, he turns up shot dead in his cabin, and it is obvious who is responsible. Much like "Last Salute to the Commodore," the real killer is not revealed until near the end, and both murders occur off screen; both episodes were scripted by Columbo veteran Jackson Gillis .".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Graham McVeigh , a thoroughbred ranch owner, is tired of the fact that his brother Teddy is in constant debt to a mob bookie, Bruno Romano, who also owns a restaurant. He decides to hence kill Teddy and frame Romano for the crime. To do so, Graham makes Teddy take a big loss at the race track by drugging his own horse so that it loses, so that Teddy will think he is in deep trouble with Romano. Graham then disguises himself and goes to Romano's restaurant, where he sets mice in one of the bathrooms. While Romano is distracted getting rid of the mice, Graham calls Teddy from Romano's back office phone to make it look like Romano was calling to set up a meeting. Graham and Teddy then drive out to a spot on a secluded back road, with Teddy driving. Under the pretense of getting fresh air, Graham gets out, walks around the car, steps up to Teddy's window and shoots him at point-blank range, then rides away on a folding bike he stashed in the trunk. The next day, Graham calls Romano to come out to the ranch, ostensibly to pay Teddy's debt. When Romano looks at the briefcase containing the money, Graham shoots him, switches Romano's revolver for the identical murder gun, and makes it look like self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster.".
- Columbo_(season_10) 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, and penned Crawford's entire last movie score, which won an Oscar. Crawford realizes he will be ruined and ridiculed if it ever becomes known he was a has-been. Aware that Gabe practices on the roof of a studio building, Crawford uses this to his advantage. He tells Gabe that he'll get to conduct a part of a big orchestral concert based on several of Crawford's "own" movie scores. While giving a toast, Crawford drugs Gabe, and takes his body up to his rooftop rehearsal place, which happens to be on the top of a set of trap doors to a freight elevator. After making it look like Gabe was practicing rehearsing, Crawford departs. Just before the concert begins, Crawford starts up the freight elevator and makes it into the music center in time to start conducting before the elevator reaches the top. When the elevator doors at the top open, Gabe's body is pushed over the side and falls to his death, landing in front of a late arriving couple. Aired under Monday Night Movie.".
- Columbo_(season_10) 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 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. This installment departs from the usual format by not revealing the culprit until the end of the show. Based on a story by Ed McBain . 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 .".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price helps his girlfriend Vanessa get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, mobster Tony Galper, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. He disposes of the body for her but unknown to him, tabloid photographer Linwood Coben secretly photographs him getting rid of the body. He tells Price he can have the negatives and prints for $250,000 and Price agrees to pay him. They meet that evening but Price instead kills him and makes it look like a suicide. This was the final episode of Columbo. It aired under ABC Thursday Night At The Movies.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Wade Anders , a former security expert and host of the popular crime show CrimeAlert, gets an unexpected visit one night from his rival, chain-smoking newscaster Budd Clarke , who Anders beat to the position of CrimeAlert host. Clarke has received from a friend of his a porn video starring a young Anders. He warns Anders that he plans to go public with the tape unless Anders resigns from the show. Clarke hasn't really given him a lot of options, and Anders decides to kill him. To do so, he palms a pack of Clarke's cigarettes, which he doctors by putting a few drops of the alkaloid poison nicotine sulfate into them. Anders then makes two trips to his production office - one that night and one the next morning - so as to doctor the surveillance tape there so that it will look like he arrived early to do some weekend work and was in the office all day, and didn't leave until after the murder was committed. Anders then drives to Clarke's house, where he takes advantage of Clarke setting up the porn video tape to switch one of his cigarette packs for the poisoned pack. Once the poison kills Clarke, Anders makes it look like Clarke had a heart attack at his desk while looking over a potential news story. There's an amusing incident where Anders and Columbo collide in the parking lot. The intellectually limited Anders made serious mistakes, making Columbo's job easy, and suggesting that Budd Clarke would have made a superior crime show host. Shown under the ABC Movie Special brand.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "Wealthy socialite Lauren Staton and Lisa Martin kill their abusive two-timing lover Nick Franco , and make it seem like Nick was shot and killed by an intruder while Lauren and the building manager were outside the apartment trying to get in. Lauren takes all the heat from Columbo in order to protect Lisa, even going so far as to romance him. The viewer does not find out that Lauren is Lisa's mother until almost the end of the episode. Dunaway won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for this. This is the only episode written by Falk. Aired under ABC Sunday Night Movie.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "When criminology professor D.E. Rusk threatens to expel spoiled fraternity brothers Justin Rowe and Cooper Redman for cheating , they decide to kill Rusk instead. They lure him away from class and shoot him in the parking garage via a remote control gun installed in their pickup truck's engine while they are sitting in class listening to Columbo deliver a guest lecture, giving them an airtight alibi. The boys then plant evidence to make it look like the professor was killed because of a Mafia expose he was working on. Robert Culp returns to the series, playing Justin's powerful lawyer father.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "When photographer Freddy Brower wins a $30 million lottery, he wishes to keep the money a secret from his wife Nancy , who is divorcing him. So Freddy arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr , to pretend that the lottery ticket is his uncle's, until the divorce is final. What Brower does not know, however, is that his uncle has recently lost all his money and is also having an affair with Nancy. Lamarr decides to kill Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself. To do so, he schedules a big costume party at his house, during which he temporarily sneaks over to Brower's apartment, knocks Brower out, undresses him, then drowns him in his bathtub.".
- Columbo_(season_10) shortsummary "When unfaithful rock star Marcy Edwards threatens her lover, high-priced murder lawyer Hugh Creighton , with a palimony suit and threatens to bring his unconventional methods to light, he drugs the champagne in her beach house and waits until she shows up there with her current lover. As Marcy does not drink, Creighton shows up while her lover is passed out, and snaps her neck. Her lover awakens and flees the scene. Creighton enlists his associate, Trish Fairbanks , to help him concoct an airtight alibi, which she uses to blackmail him into a full partnership in the firm. Columbo cracks the case, despite the existence of a speeding ticket which appears to exonerate Creighton completely. Little Richard cameos as himself.".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "A Bird in the Hand...".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "A Trace of Murder".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Ashes to Ashes".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Butterfly in Shades of Grey".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Columbo Goes to College".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Columbo Likes the Nightlife".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Death Hits the Jackpot".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "It's All in the Game".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Murder With Too Many Notes".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "No Time to Die".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Strange Bedfellows".
- Columbo_(season_10) title "Undercover".
- Columbo_(season_10) writtenby Peter_Falk.
- Columbo_(season_10) writtenby "Charles Kipps".
- Columbo_(season_10) writtenby "Jackson Gillis".