TELEVISION PROGRAM

Detective drama, broadcast 1971-78 and 1989-2003, with the latter batch produced as individual "TV movies" rather than a series. They tend to be an hour and a half when broadcast, and are unique in that the audience already knows whodunnit.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Falk	Actor	16-Sep-1927	23-Jun-2011	Detective Columbo

EPISODE GUIDE

TV Movies

1	Prescription: Murder (20-Feb-1968)
2	Ransom For a Dead Man (1-Mar-1971)

Season One (1971)

1	Murder By the Book (15-Sep-1971)
2	Death Lends a Hand (6-Oct-1971)
3	Dead Weight (27-Oct-1971)
4	Suitable For Framing (17-Nov-1971)
5	Lady in Waiting (15-Dec-1971)
6	Short Fuse (19-Jan-1972)
7	Blueprint for Murder (9-Feb-1972)

Season Two (1972)

1	Étude in Black (17-Sep-1972)
2	The Greenhouse Jungle (15-Oct-1972)
3	The Most Crucial Game (5-Nov-1972)
4	Dagger of the Mind (26-Nov-1972)
5	Requiem for a Falling Star (21-Jan-1973)
6	A Stitch in Crime (11-Feb-1973)
7	The Most Dangerous Match (4-Mar-1973)
8	Double Shock (25-Mar-1973)

Season Three (1973)

1	Lovely but Lethal (23-Sep-1973)
2	Any Old Port in a Storm (7-Oct-1973)
3	Candidate for Crime (4-Nov-1973)
4	Double Exposure (16-Dec-1973)
5	Publish or Perish (18-Jan-1974)
6	Mind Over Mayhem (18-Feb-1974)
7	Swan Song (3-Mar-1974)
8	A Friend in Deed (5-May-1974)

Season Four (1974)

1	An Exercise in Fatality (15-Sep-1974)
2	Negative Reaction (15-Oct-1974)
3	By Dawn's Early Light (27-Oct-1974)
4	Troubled Waters (9-Feb-1975)
5	Playback (2-Mar-1975)
6	A Deadly State of Mind (27-Apr-1975)

Season Five (1975)

1	Forgotten Lady (14-Sep-1975)
2	A Case of Immunity (12-Oct-1975)
3	Identity Crisis (2-Nov-1975)
4	A Matter of Honor (1-Feb-1976)
5	Now You See Him... (29-Feb-1976)
6	Last Salute to the Commodore (2-Mar-1976)

Season Six (1976)

1	Fade in to Murder (10-Oct-1976)
2	Old Fashioned Murder (28-Nov-1976)
3	The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (22-May-1977)

Season Seven (1977)

1	Try and Catch Me (21-Nov-1977)
2	Murder Under Glass (30-Jan-1978)
3	Make Me a Perfect Murder (28-Feb-1978)
4	How to Dial a Murder (15-Apr-1978)
5	The Conspirators (13-May-1978)

Season Eight (1989)

1	Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (6-Feb-1989)
2	Murder, Smoke and Shadows (27-Feb-1989)
3	Sex and the Married Detective (3-Apr-1989)
4	Grand Deceptions (1-May-1989)

TV Movies

1	Murder: a Self Portrait (25-Nov-1989)
2	Columbo Cries Wolf (20-Jan-1990)
3	Agenda for Murder (10-Feb-1990)
4	Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo (31-Mar-1990)
5	Uneasy Lies the Crown (28-Apr-1990)
6	Murder in Malibu (14-May-1990)
1	Columbo Goes to College (9-Dec-1990)
2	Caution: Murder can be Hazardous to Your Health (20-Feb-1991)
3	Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star (29-Apr-1991)
4	Death Hits the Jackpot (15-Dec-1991)
5	No Time to Die (15-Mar-1992)
6	A Bird in the Hand... (22-Nov-1992)
7	It's All in the Game (31-Oct-1993)
8	Butterfly in Shades of Grey (10-Jan-1994)
9	Undercover (2-May-1994)
10	Strange Bedfellows (8-May-1995)
11	A Trace of Murder (15-May-1997)
12	Ashes to Ashes (8-Oct-1998)
13	Murder with Too Many Notes (12-Mar-2001)
14	Columbo Likes the Nightlife (30-Jan-2003)

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