Box set: Columbo: The Complete Series
Columbo: Season 9
Universal (1989)
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#676
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 |
Episodes
Disc 01
A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women.Director: James Frawley
Writer: Robert Sherman
Guest starring: Patrick Bauchau, Fionnula Flanagan, Shera Danese, Isabel Lorca, Vito Scotti, Isabel García Lorca, George Coe, David Byrd, Don Bovingloh, Lenny Hicks, Danny Hassel, Roger Etienne, Frank L. Wiltse, Harold Harris
Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with.Director: Daryl Duke
Writer: Richard Levinson / William Link
Guest starring: Ian Buchanan, Rebecca Staab, Alan Scarfe, Mark Margolis, John Finnegan, David Huddleston, Deidre Hall, Jeanne Wolf, Gigi Rice, Ralph Wilcox, Peter Zapp, Morgan Jones, Darrell Kunitomi, Daphne Cheung, Kendra Booth
Disc 02
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Jeffrey Bloom
Guest starring: Patrick McGoohan, Denis Arndt, Louis Zorich, Penny Fuller, Bruce Kirby, Anne Haney, Stanley Kamel, Steven Ford, Arthur Hill, Michael Goldfinger, Shaun Toub, Annie Stewart, Carol Barbee, Peter Allas
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
Guest starring: Helen Shaver, Ian McShane, Edward Winter, Tom Isbell, Teresa Ganzel, Michael Alldredge, Hugh Gillin, Rosanna Huffman, George Buck, Don Calfa, Roscoe Lee Browne, Peggy Walton-Walker, Joe Bellan, Robert Balderson
Disc 03
While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Steven Bochco
Guest starring: James Read, Jo Anderson, Nancy Walker, Paul Burke, Dick Sargent, Ron Cey, Marshall R. Teague, Mark Arnott, James A. Watson Jr., Steven Gilborn, Raymond Singer, Victor Bevine, John Roarke, Lynne Marta
An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Guest starring: Andrew Stevens, Brenda Vaccaro, Floyd Levine, Laurie Walters, Sondra Currie, Janet Margolin, Tom Dreesen, Charles Walker, Ben Slack, Yolanda Lloyd, Efrain Figueroa, Mary Margaret Lewis, Robin Gordon, Bill Zuckert
Edition Details
| Series | Columbo |
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| Release Date | 2009 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 3 |
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