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Columbo has ground-penetrating radar used to find Tony's body hidden under the tank. In the last line of the series, Columbo remarks to a Galper "enforcer" that "Tony was sleeping with the fishes." The club scenes use two tracks from the album Tweekend by The Crystal Method. This was the final episode of Columbo.
Because the Columbo episodes from 1989 to 2003 aired infrequently, different DVD sets have been released around the world. In Region 2 and 4, all episodes have now been released as 10 seasons, with the 10th season covering the last 14 episodes from "Columbo Goes to College" (1990) to the series finale, "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" (2003). [1]
Columbo. Columbo ( / kəˈlʌmboʊ /) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [ 2][ 3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie ...
93 min. When elderly physician Henry Willis ( Sam Jaffe) refuses to finance a return to the spotlight for his wife, aging former movie star Grace Wheeler ( Janet Leigh) kills him in his sleep, passing it off as a suicide. Their elderly butler ( Maurice Evans) believes Grace was in a private screening room the entire time, watching one of her ...
October 10, 1976. ( 1976-10-10) 70 min. Egocentric actor Ward Fowler ( William Shatner ), who portrays Detective Lucerne on a weekly TV show, is being blackmailed by his producer and ex-paramour, Claire Daley ( Lola Albright ), over the fact that he was a deserter in the Korean War. Fowler drugs a friend staying at his house watching a baseball ...
September 15, 1971. ( 1971-09-15) 72 min. Ken Franklin ( Jack Cassidy) is one-half of a mystery writing team, but partner Jim Ferris ( Martin Milner) wants to go solo, exposing the fact that Ferris did all the actual writing, and thus leave the high-living Franklin without his cash cow. However, the pair have an insurance policy on which ...
February 10, 1990. ( 1990-02-10) 92 min. Oscar Finch ( Patrick McGoohan) is a lawyer who uses underhanded methods to get his clients off, like coercing Paul Mackey ( Denis Arndt ), who worked for the D.A.'s office, into destroying evidence against racketeer Frank Staplin ( Louis Zorich) in 1969. Twenty-one years later, Mackey is chosen by a ...
73 min. Paul Gerard ( Louis Jourdan) is a renowned restaurant critic, but gets rich extorting money from upscale restaurant owners in return for good reviews. When one of them, Vittorio Rossi ( Michael V. Gazzo ), decides to no longer pay and expose Gerard, the critic kills him with a bottle of wine poisoned with fugu .