Columbo: Season 6

1976 · 3 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 6 of Columbo

The sixth season of Columbo follows the series' method: viewers know from the start who committed the crime and how. Here, the focus is on the clash between the killer and Lieutenant Columbo, a Los Angeles homicide detective with a rumpled raincoat and a cigar in hand. The culprits are usually well-off, self-assured people who underestimate the detective because of his absent-minded appearance. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, asks seemingly innocent questions while gathering evidence. The adversary, for their part, tries to throw him off and cover their tracks. In the episode "Murder, A Self Portrait"...

3episodes

Oct 10, 1976aired

May 22, 1977latest episode

3.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Fade in to Murder
Oct 10, 1976 · 73 min · ★ 7.5
Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man.
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski · Written by Peter S. Feibleman, Lou Shaw, Henry Garson · Starring Bert Remsen, William Shatner, Walter Koenig, Danny Dayton
6x02 Old Fashioned Murder
Nov 28, 1976 · 73 min · ★ 6.9
The female head of a museum hires one of the guards to rob the museum to collect the insurance money. But during the robbery she kills him and her own brother, and makes it look like they killed each other. The guard/robber's brother reports a strange message on his answering machine, that makes it seem that he has been killed. And Columbo gets the case. When Columbo first comes to the crime scene, he notices that the lights are off, a gold medallion in the robber's pants, and signs that pointed to the fact that he was going abroad after the heist. And he concluded that these clues mean that someone else was involved.
Directing: Robert Douglas · Writing: Peter S. Feibleman · Starring: Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin, Tim O'Connor, Celeste Holm
6x03 The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case Season Finale
May 22, 1977 · 74 min · ★ 7.5
Two former college friends, now partners in an accounting firm, become enemies when one realizes the other has embezzled funds. The reason for his embezzling ways is his wife, she demands nothing but the best.
Directing: Sam Wanamaker · Writing: Robert M. Young · Starring: Theodore Bikel, Sorrell Booke, Kenneth Mars, Samantha Eggar