Columbo

Columbo: Season 4

Universal Studios (Sep 15, 1974)

TV Series | Crime | Mystery

USA | English | Color | 08:58

8.3

43,380

NR (Not Rated)

025192925221

| 3 discs

Region 1

Custom Case

Many criminals made the mistake of underestimating Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide investigator with a crumpled trench-coat and a beat-up car, who certainly acted as an incompetent bumbler.

But he was so polite to every suspect, and he talked so much about his wife (who we never got to see on any episode, but who many believe later had her own show, starring Kate Mulgrew, later of Star Trek: Voyager fame) that he lulled even the shrewdest murderer into a false sense of security.

And although the audience had witnessed the murder in the beginning of each episode, it was still a surprise to see what mistakes the killers had made during the seemingly perfect murder.

Cast View all

	Peter Falk	Columbo
	Mike Lally	Detective
	Bruce Kirby Jr.	Cadet Morgan
	Dick Van Dyke	Paul Galesko
	Lesley Ann Warren	Nadia Donner
	Joyce Van Patten	Sister of Mercy
	Bruce Kirby	Sergeant George Kramer
	Norman Stevans	Driver
	Mickey Golden	Ambulance Man
	Eddie Garrett	Photographer
	Fred Draper	Lab Tech
	Dean Stockwell	Lloyd Harrington
	Robert Clotworthy	Boodle Boy
	Vito Scotti	Thomas Dolan
	Patrick McGoohan	Col. Lyle C. Rumford
	Robert Vaughn	Hayden Danziger
	Bernard Fox	Purser Watkins
	John Ashton	Calvin MacGruder
	Gena Rowlands	Elizabeth Van Wick
	Patrick Macnee	Capt. Gibbon
	Peter Maloney	Artie Podell
	Don Gordon	Alvin Deschler
	Priscilla Barnes	Nurse
	Victor Izay	Medical Examiner
	George Hamilton	Dr. Mark Collier

Crew View all

Director	Harvey Hart
Director	Bernard L. Kowalski
Alf Kjellin
Ben Gazzara
Writer	Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter S. Fischer, William Driskill, Howard Berk, Larry Cohen, David P. Lewis, Booker Bradshaw, Jackson Gillis
Producer	Edward K. Dodds, Everett Chambers, Dean Hargrove, Roland Kibbee
Musician	Bernardo Segall, Dick DeBenedictis
Photography	William Cronjager, Jack Priestley, Earl Rath, Richard C. Glouner

Episodes View details

1 An Exercise in Fatality 98 min | Sep 15, 1974

A health club owner murders one of his franchisees. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

2 Negative Reaction 91 min | Oct 15, 1974

A photographer murders his wife and blames her death on a bungled kidnapping. But Lt. Columbo has an even sharper eye than the Pulitzer Prize winner.

3 By Dawn's Early Light 98 min | Oct 27, 1974

The commandant of a military academy murders the chairman of the board, who wants to oust him. Lt. Columbo takes up residence in the barracks to expose the killer.

4 Troubled Waters 98 min | Feb 09, 1975

Lt. Columbo takes a trip to Acapulco, but finds himself on a new case when a used car dealer commits murder on the cruise ship.

5 Playback 73 min | Mar 02, 1975

A gadget-happy inventor murders his mother-in-law; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6 A Deadly State of Mind 70 min | Apr 27, 1975

A psychiatrist, who specializes in hypnosis, murders the husband of his mistress and convinces her to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth.