| Columbo: Season 5 | |||||
| NBC Universal Television (1975) | |||||
| TV Series / Crime, Mystery | |||||
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| Peter Falk | Columbo | |
| Mike Lally | Police Photographer | |
| Robert Hitchcock | Party Guest | |
| Bruce Kirby | Sergeant George Kramer | |
| Kenneth Tobey | Police Commissioner | |
| Ben Frommer | Cook | |
| Leoda Richards | Party Guest | |
| Robert Cole | Party Guest | |
| Monty O'Grady | Party Guest | |
| Ken DuMain | Party Guest | |
| Bob Harks | Chauffer | |
| Harvey Gold | Coroner | |
| Donald Chaffin | Detective | |
| Clyde McLeod | Conference Guest | |
| Jeff Goldblum | Protester | |
| Robert Loggia | Harry Blandford | |
| Carmen Argenziano | Coroner Anderson | |
| Hector Elizondo | Hassan Salah | |
| Leslie Nielsen | A.J. Henderson | |
| Paul Gleason | Parsons |
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| Producer | Everett Chambers
Edward K. Dodds |
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| Writer | Brad Radnitz
Richard Levinson James Menzies William Link |
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| Cinematography | William Cronjager
Richard C. Glouner Gabriel Torres Charlie Correll |
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| Musician | Jeff Alexander
Bernardo Segall |
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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. |
| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 9/14/1975 1. Forgotten Lady | |||
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A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show.
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| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 10/12/1975 2. A Case of Immunity | |||
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An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just have problem crushing the ambassador's alibi. And then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem.
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| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 11/2/1975 3. Identity Crisis | |||
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A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.
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| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 2/1/1976 4. A Matter of Honor | |||
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The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off, and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun, and lets the bull kill him. Colombo, who is on vacation in Mexico, gets dragged into this case by an admiring colleague, but he has trouble convincing the Mexicans that the accident is really homicide. And how do you prove that the bull is a murder weapon?
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| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 2/29/1976 5. Now You See Him | |||
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Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller, He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret.
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| Seen it: Yes 120 mins 3/2/1976 6. Last Salute to the Commodore | |||
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The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have
gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew,
Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.
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