Box set: Columbo: The Complete Series
Columbo: Season 7
(1977)
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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 | Columbo |
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| Writer | Gene Thompson |
Episodes
Disc 01
A writer of murder mysteries wreaks revenge on her nephew-in-law by blaiming him for her niece's murder.Director: James Frawley
Writer: Gene Thompson / Paul Tuckahoe
Guest starring: Ruth Gordon, Mariette Hartley, G.D. Spradlin, Charles Frank, Mary Jackson, Jerome Guardino, Marie Silva-Alexander, Jamie Lee Curtis
A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning reflex on the psychiatrist's dogs. The other part is the word Rosebud as uttered by the victim. When Columbo arrives on the scene, the psychiatrist is very understanding when police say they may have to put his dogs to death. But Columbo notices how friendly the dogs seem, and then there's the telephone that's hanging from it's hook.Director: James Frawley
Writer: Tom Lazarus / Anthony Lawrence
Guest starring: Nicol Williamson, Kim Cattrall, Ed Begley Jr., Frank Aletter, Tricia O'Neil, Joel Fabiani, Fred J. Gordon
A famous food critic is threatened by a restaurant owner, and so the critic leaves. Soon after, the cook dies. Columbo's involvement is welcomed by all the other chefs in the area, but Columbo wonders why the dead restaurant owner slammed the drawers before he died. And how could the poison that killed him enter an unopened bottle without the killer even being in the room? Could it have been suicide? But then there's the cheques to a mysterious society, and the victim's calender. Can Columbo's cooking skills really match the food critic's taste?Director: Jonathan Demme
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk
Guest starring: Louis Jourdan, Shera Danese, Richard Dysart, Mako, Michael V. Gazzo, Larry D. Mann, France Nuyen, Antony Alda, Todd Martin, Fred Holliday, Alberto Morin, Jim Murphy, Carolyn Martin, Miyako Kurata
Disc 02
An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him.Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Howard Berk / Pat Robison
Guest starring: Clive Revill, Jeanette Nolan, Bernard Behrens, Michael Horton, Albert Paulsen, Doreen Murphy, John McCann, Tony Giorgio, Carole Hemingway, Johnny Silver, Donn Whyte, Michael Prince, Sean McClory, Deborah White, L.Q. Jones
Mark McAndrews a top network programmer is promoted to a New York position. His assistant, who is very ambitious and his lover, expects to get his old job. But of course he feels she is out of her league and needs more experience. Kay, feeling betrayed, decides to seek revenge.Director: James Frawley
Writer: Robert Blees
Guest starring: Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Patrick O'Neal, Lainie Kazan, Ron Rifkin, Kip Gilman, lMilt Kogan, Dee Timberlake, Don Eitner, Morgan Upton, George Skaff, Joe Warfield, Jerome Guardino, Susan Krebs, H.B. Haggerty
Edition Details
| Series | Columbo |
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| Release Date | 2009 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 2 |
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