Columbo: Season 10

1990 · 14 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 10 of Columbo

The season follows the show's usual formula: viewers see the crime and its perpetrator from the start, and the suspense comes from watching whether Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles police, gathers enough evidence. Columbo wears a rumpled beige raincoat, smokes cigars and seems absent-minded, which leads his suspects to underestimate him. Facing him are self-assured culprits, often comfortable and powerful: two college students, a host of a true-crime show, a lawyer who has never lost a case, and a developer. Each tries to throw the detective off the scent and cover their tracks, while he asks seemingly innocent questions.

14episodes

Dec 9, 1990Released

Jan 30, 2003Latest episode

22.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 10 Episodes

10x01 Columbo Goes to College
Dec 9, 1990 · 98 min · ★ 7.2
Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered.
Directed by: E.W. Swackhamer · Written by: Jeffrey Bloom, Frederick King Keller · Starring: Guy Stockwell, Stephen Caffrey, Katherine Cannon, William Lucking
10x02 Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Feb 20, 1991 · 98 min · ★ 7.3
Wade Anders, a former security expert, hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host, news reader Bud, discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show.
Directing: Daryl Duke · Writing: Sonia Wolf, April Raynell, Patricia Ford · Starring: Peter Haskell, George Hamilton, Penny Johnson Jerald, Louis Herthum
10x03 Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
Apr 29, 1991 · 98 min · ★ 7.3
Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: William Read Woodfield · Starring: Dabney Coleman, Little Richard, Tad Horino, John Martin
10x04 Death Hits the Jackpot
Dec 15, 1991 · 98 min · ★ 7.5
After winning a $30 million lottery, photographer Freddy Brower, who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him, arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr, to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's, until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself.
Directing: Vincent McEveety · Writing: Jeffrey Bloom · Starring: Rip Torn, Jamie Rose, Gary Kroeger, Betsy Palmer
10x05 No Time to Die
Mar 15, 1992 · 93 min · ★ 6.4
Columbo attends the wedding of his police officer nephew. While her husband takes a shower, the bride disappears from the bridal suite. The groom enlists Uncle Columbo's help in unraveling the case. Seems she has been kidnapped by a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates "their" marriage.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Evan Hunter · Starring: Joanna Going, Thomas Calabro, Dan Butler, Doug Savant
10x06 A Bird in the Hand...
Nov 22, 1992 · 94 min · ★ 7.4
Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.
Directing: Vincent McEveety · Writing: Jackson Gillis · Starring: Tyne Daly, Greg Evigan, Frank McRae, Don S. Davis
10x07 It's All in the Game
Oct 31, 1993 · 96 min · ★ 7.7
Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.
Directed by: Vincent McEveety · Written by: Peter Falk · Starring: Faye Dunaway, Claudia Christian, Armando Pucci, Bill Macy
10x08 Butterfly in Shades of Grey
Jan 10, 1994 · 98 min · ★ 7.3
Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff.
Directing: Dennis Dugan · Writing: Peter S. Fischer · Starring: Molly Hagan, Jack Laufer, Richard Kline, Yorgo Constantine
10x09 Undercover
May 2, 1994 · 98 min · ★ 6.7
A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play.
Directing: Vincent McEveety · Writing: Evan Hunter · Starring: Ed Begley Jr., Burt Young, Harrison Page, Shera Danese
10x10 Strange Bedfellows
May 8, 1995 · 89 min · ★ 6.8
Graham McVeigh, a thoroughbred ranch owner, kills his brother, and frames a local mob bookie. Then, under the guise of making good on his brother's debt, he kills the bookie as well, claiming self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster.
Directing: Vincent McEveety · Writing: Peter S. Fischer · Starring: George Wendt, Rod Steiger, Jeff Yagher, Jay Acovone
10x11 A Trace of Murder
May 15, 1997 · 98 min · ★ 6.9
Cathleen Calvert and her lover, crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley, plot to get rid of Calvert's husband, Clifford, a powerful businessman, by killing an investment broker with whom he is currently feuding, and pinning the murder on Clifford. As long as he is alive and in prison, Cathleen has access to all his money. Columbo must uncover a criminal who is part of the team handling the investigation.
Directed by: Vincent McEveety · Written by: Charles Kipps · Starring: Barry Corbin, David Rasche, Shera Danese, John Finnegan
10x12 Ashes to Ashes
Aug 10, 1998 · 91 min · ★ 6.8
Mortician to the stars Eric Prince, kills gossip reporter Verity Chandler, who had knowledge of skeletons in Prince's closet. Columbo must figure out what happened to her and why.
Directed by: Patrick McGoohan · Written by: Patrick McGoohan, Jeffrey Hatcher · Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Rue McClanahan, Richard Riehle, Spencer Garrett
10x13 Murder With Too Many Notes
Mar 12, 2001 · 98 min · ★ 7.0
Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford has been mentor to a talented young composer who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years, and penned Crawford's entire last movie score, which won an Oscar. When the protege wants to venture out on his own, Crawford, whose own talent seems to have run dry, concocts the perfect murder, made to look like a suicide.
Directed by: Patrick McGoohan · Written by: Patrick McGoohan, Jeffrey Cava · Starring: Billy Connolly, Richard Riehle, Charles Cioffi, Hillary Danner
10x14 Columbo Likes the Nightlife Season Finale
Jan 30, 2003 · 88 min · ★ 7.2
The final Columbo story starring Peter Falk, Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price helps his girlfriend Vanessa get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. When an investigative reporter pieces the crime together and threatens to blackmail Justin, Justin kills him.
Directed by: Jeffrey Reiner · Written by: Michael Alaimo · Starring: Karen Maruyama, Matthew Rhys, Jennifer Sky, Douglas Roberts