Box set: Columbo: The Complete Series
Columbo: Season 3
Universal Studios (1973)
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Plot
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
| Peter Falk | Lt. Columbo | |
| Vera Miles | Viveca Scott | |
| Martin Sheen | Karl Lessing | |
| Vincent Price | David Lang | |
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Sian Barbara Allen | Shirley Blaine |
Crew
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| Producer | Richard Levinson | ||||
| Writer | Jackson Gillis |
Episodes
Disc 01
Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jackson Gillis / Myrna Bercovici
Guest starring: Vera Miles, Martin Sheen, Sian Barbara Allen, Vincent Price, Gino Conforti, Colby Chester, Fred Draper, Bruce Kirby, John Finnegan, Richard Stahl, Marc Hannibal, David Toma, Layne Mathess, Dianne Turley Travis
Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in.Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Larry Cohen / Stanley Ralph Ross
Guest starring: Donald Pleasence, Joyce Jillson, Gary Conway, Dana Elcar, Julie Harris, Vito Scotti, Robert Donner, Robert Ellenstein, Robert Walden, Regis Cordic, Reid Smith, John McCann, George Gaynes, Monte Landis, Walker Edmiston
Disc 02
A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Larry Cohen / Roland Kibbee
Guest starring: Jackie Cooper, Joanne Linville, Tisha Sterling, Ken Swofford, Robert Karnes, Jay Varela, Vito Scotti, Regis Cordic, Sandy Kenyon, Jack Riley, Mario Gallo, Jude Farese, Clete Roberts, Angelo Grisanti, Lew Brown
A film maker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaignDirector: Richard Quine
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
Guest starring: Robert Culp, Robert Middleton, Chuck McCann, Louise Latham, Danny Goldman, John Milford, George Wyner, Richard Stahl, Francis De Sales, Alma Beltran, Dennis Robertson, Harry Hickox, Ann Driscoll, E.A. Sirianni, Manuel DePina
Disc 03
A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Guest starring: Jack Cassidy, Mickey Spillane, Mariette Hartley, Jacques Aubuchon, John Davis Chandler, Gregory Sierra, Alan Fudge, Paul Shenar, Jack Bender, Ted Gehring, Vern Rowe, Lew Palter, George Brenlin, J.S. Johnson, Maurice Marsac
Dr. Marshal Cahill, head of a think tank, is forced to protect his plagarizing son by killing the professor, Nichols, who discovered the plagarized information. Cahill programs a robot to take his place during a war game exercise that he runs from an isolated room, then fakes a hit-and-run accident on Nichols and plants evidence to make it look like a drug theft gone awry. The first thing Columbo notices upon arrival is a match burned down to the base - something Columbo knows well because it's how you light a cigar. And Dr. Cahill is the only other cigar smoker around. There are a lot of other little things that Columbo notices as well, and with the help of a child prodigy he discovers how Cahill used the robot to provide himself with an alibi. But without one major clue, Columbo arrests the son to force Cahill, who was willing to kill for his son, to confess his crime to protect the boy.Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Steven Bochco / Roland Kibbee
Guest starring: José Ferrer, Lew Ayres, Robert Walker Jr., Lee Montgomery, Jessica Walter, Lou Wagner, Arthur Batanides, Darrell Zwerling, Charles Macaulay, John Zaremba, William Bryant, Bert Holland, Ed Fury, Jefferson Kibbee, Dianne Turley Travis
Disc 04
A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety.Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: David Rayfiel / Stanley Ralph Ross
Guest starring: Johnny Cash, Ida Lupino, John Dehner, Sorrell Booke, Bill McKinney, Vito Scotti, Janit Baldwin, John Randolph, Lucille Meredith, Richard Caine, Don Mantooth, Jefferson Kibbee, Bonnie Van Dyke, Douglas Dirkson, Larry Burrell
A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.Director: Ben Gazzara
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Guest starring: Richard Kiley, Rosemary Murphy, Michael McGuire, Val Avery, Eric Christmas, Eleanor Zee, John Finnegan, Arlene Martel, Victor Campos, Joshua Bryant, John Calvin, Byron Morrow, James V. Christy, Alma Beltran, Albert Popwell
Edition Details
| Series | Columbo |
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| Release Date | 2009 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 4 |
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