Box set: Columbo: The Complete Series
Columbo: Season 5
NBC Universal Television (1975)
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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 | Columbo | |
| Mike Lally | 2nd Bartender | |
| Bruce Kirby | Sergeant Kramer | |
| John Finnegan | 1st Workman | |
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Fred Draper | Cab Driver |
Crew
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| Producer | Everett Chambers | ||||
| Writer | Richard Levinson | ||||
| Musician | Dick DeBenedictis |
Trailer
Episodes
Disc 01
A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show.Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Willaim Driskill
Guest starring: Janet Leigh, Maurice Evans, Sam Jaffe, John Payne, Linda Gaye Scott, Robert F. Simon, Francine York, Ross Elliott, Jerome Guardino, Danny Wells, Harvey Gold
An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just have problem crushing the ambassador's alibi. And then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem.Director: Ted Post
Writer: James Menzies / Lou Shaw
Guest starring: Hector Elizondo, Sal Mineo, Kenneth Tobey, Brioni Farrell, Barry Robins, Dick Dinman, George Skaff, Nate Esformes, André Lawrence, Bill Zuckert, Bart Braverman, Harvey Gold, Jay Varela
Disc 02
A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: William Driskill
Guest starring: Patrick McGoohan, Otis Young, Val Avery, Leslie Nielsen, David White, Bruce Kirby, Vito Scotti, Barbara Rhoades, William Mims, Carmen Argenziano, Cliff Carnell, Edward Bach, Paul Gleason, Angela May
The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off, and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun, and lets the bull kill him. Colombo, who is on vacation in Mexico, gets dragged into this case by an admiring colleague, but he has trouble convincing the Mexicans that the accident is really homicide. And how do you prove that the bull is a murder weapon?Director: Ted Post
Writer: Brad Radnitz
Guest starring: Ricardo Montalban, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., A Martinez, Jorge Rivero, Emilio Fernández, Enrique Lucero, Evita Muñoz 'Chachita', Robert Carricart, Maria Grimm
Disc 03
Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller, He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret.Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Michael Sloan
Guest starring: Jack Cassidy, Bob Dishy, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Loggia, Cynthia Sikes, George Sperdakos, Thayer David, Redmond Gleeson, Patrick Culliton, Victor Izay, Robert Gibbons, Michael Payne
The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Guest starring: Robert Vaughn, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Dehner, Dennis Dugan, Diane Baker, Bruce Kirby, Joshua Bryant, Susan Foster, Fred Draper, Rod McCary, John Finnegan, Joseph Roman, Hanna Hertelendy, Jerry Crews, Fred Porter
Edition Details
| Series | Columbo |
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| Release Date | 2009 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 3 |
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Features
| Disc 03 | Caviar With Everything - From the TV spin-off 'Mrs Columbo' |
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