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Columbo: Season 9

Episode 1: Murder, a Self Portrait (s09e01)

Plot Summary: Artist Max Barsini has his hands full: his wife Vanessa is always suspicious of his other "models", his live-in model Julie wants to be more than just his subject, and his ex-wife Louise stills pulls at his heart strings. Together Max asks them what they think of each other with explosive results.
Originally aired on: 11/25/1989
Fan Rating: 6.9

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Episode 2: Columbo Cries Wolf (s09e02)

Plot Summary: Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hunter, director of a men magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends a lot of time with the young girls he works with.
Originally aired on: 1/20/1990
Fan Rating: 8.6

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Episode 3: Agenda for Murder (s09e03)

Plot Summary: Paul Staplin, a man who over the years has been in trouble with the law on more than one occasion, has committed suicide. Columbo is called in to investigate but he immediately sees it for a murder. The last person to see Staplin alive was Oscar Finch, a man with very strong political connections and who does not want Columbo nosing around asking "just one more thing."
Originally aired on: 2/10/1990
Fan Rating: 8.0

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Episode 4: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo (s09e04)

Plot Summary: Vivian Dimitri blames two people for her husband's death in prison: his former partner-in-crime Charlie Chambers and Columbo, the detective who put him in jail. Now she is ready for some payback. First it's Charlie, then she will strike too close to home for Columbo. Or will she?
Originally aired on: 3/31/1990
Fan Rating: 8.4

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Episode 5: Uneasy Lies the Crown (s09e05)

Plot Summary: Wesley Corman, a dentist who prefers gambling to his wealthy wife, decides to kill her movie-star lover and frame her for his murder.
Originally aired on: 4/28/1990
Fan Rating: 8.0

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Episode 6: Murder in Malibu (s09e06)

Plot Summary: When con-artist Wayne Jennings is rejected by the wealthy romance novelist he planned to marry, he sets out to make the story she is writing look like a robbery gone awry.
Originally aired on: 5/14/1990
Fan Rating: 7.0

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