Box set: Columbo: The Complete Series
Columbo: Season 2
Universal Studios (1972)
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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 | |
| Robert Culp | Paul Hanlon | |
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Ray Milland | Jarvis Goodland |
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Richard Lee Basehart | Nicholas Frame |
| John Fraser | Det. Sgt. O'Keefe |
Crew
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| Producer | Dean Hargrove | ||||
| Writer | Steven Bochco | ||||
| Musician | Dick DeBenedictis |
Episodes
Disc 01
The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: Steven Bochco / Richard Levinson
Guest starring: John Cassavetes, James Olson, Blythe Danner, Anjanette Comer, Myrna Loy, James McEachin, Don Knight, Pat Morita, Michael Pataki, Michael Fox, Dawn Frame, Charles Macaulay, George Gaynes, Wallace Chadwell, Henry Beckman
Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner.Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Guest starring: Ray Milland, Bob Dishy, Sandra Smith, Bradford Dillman, William Smith, Arlene Martel, Robert Karnes, Milton Frome, Peggy Mondo, Richard Annis, Larry Watson
Disc 02
The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: John T. Dugan
Guest starring: Robert Culp, Dean Jagger, James Gregory, Valerie Harper, Susan Howard, Dean Stockwell, Val Avery, Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Richard Stahl, Don Keefer, Cliff Carnell, Joe Renteria, Ivan Naranjo, LeRoy Ellis, Keith Erickson
While on a work trip to London, to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo gets involved with the murder of Roger Haversham, a rich old businessman who is financing the careers of two rundown theater stars. When Sir Roger threatens to end their careers, because he felt betrayed, he's killed. A short while after, his butler figures out the motives for his master's murder, and blackmails the actors, who have no other choice than to kill him and make it look like he commited suicide due to remorse, because he murdered his employer. Columbo stills manages to catch both the murderers, with the help of a pearl and a new umbrella.Director: Richard Quine
Writer: Richard Levinson / William Link
Guest starring: Richard Basehart, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Fox, John Williams, Honor Blackman, John Fraser, Richard Pearson, Arthur Malet, Harvey Jason, Ronald Long, Hedley Mattingly, John Orchard, Peter Church, Walker Edmiston, Gerald Peters
Disc 03
A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A.Director: Richard Quine
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Guest starring: Anne Baxter, Kevin McCarthy, Frank Converse, Pippa Scott, Mel Ferrer, Edith Head, Sidney Miller, William Bryant, John Archer, Jack Griffin, Robert E. Meredith, Bart Burns, Dianne Turley Travis
Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim.Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Shirl Hendryx
Guest starring: Leonard Nimoy, Anne Francis, Nita Talbot, Will Geer, Aneta Corsaut, Jared Martin, Victor Millan, Ken Sansom, Murray MacLeod, Leonard Simon, Ron Stokes, Patsy Garrett
Disc 04
A chess grandmaster disposes of the champion, who keeps coming back on him.Director: Edward M. Abroms
Writer: Richard Levinson / William Link
Guest starring: Laurence Harvey, Lloyd Bochner, Jack Kruschen, Heidi Brühl, Paul Jenkins, Michael Fox, Oscar Beregi Jr., Mathias Reitz, Richard Drout Miller, Manuel DePina, Stuart Nisbet, Abigail Shelton, John Finnegan
A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Steven Bochco / Richard Levinson
Guest starring: Martin Landau, Jeanette Nolan, Tim O'Connor, Julie Newmar, Paul Stewart, Dabney Coleman, Kate Hawley, Michael Richardson, Robert Rothwell, Gregory Morton, Tony Cristino, Mike Lally, Marc Singer
Edition Details
| Series | Columbo |
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| Release Date | 2009 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 4 |
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