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Columbo: Season 10

Episode 1: Columbo Goes to College (s10e01)

Plot Summary: Cooper and Justin are two college students, who are spoiled and conceited. They think that they can get away with anything cause they have their father's money and influence to back them. However, Cooper's father has placed him on notice, it seems that he gets a lot of girls pregnant and his father has to bail him out, he tells him that this is it. Their latest scheme is getting a copy of the exam they will be taking. But their professor finds out about it and tells them that the only thing that they have to look forward to is either being flunked or expelled. But when they spot having dinner with his girlfriend, they decide that this could be the opportunity they need to get rid of him. They steal the gun of the brother of the campus security guard. They wait until their next class which is being taught by Columbo. They trick the professor into leaving and while he is in the garage they are watching him on a close circuit camera and when he is position they press a button that triggers the gun. Columbo then proceeds to investigate and the boys are only to eager to help out. Eventually Columbo sets a trap for them; he lets them think that they found the murder weapon in the car of the man they are trying to frame but only the car that they he told them about doesn't belong to the man but to Columbo's wife, so how could the gun have gotten in it, if they hadn't planted it there.
Originally aired on: 12/9/1990
Fan Rating: 8.6

Episode 2: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (s10e02)

Plot Summary: Wade Anders is the host of highly popular anti-crime television show. Budd Clarke's the man who was originally suppose to be the host of the show. But Anders convinced the network that he would be more suitable. One day Clarke approaches Anders and clearly is still miffed that Anders took away his job. He then tells Anders that he has in his possession, an old adult video that features Anders with an underaged girl. Clarke then tells Anders that unless he leaves the show, he will reveal this little thing about Anders. They agree to meet at Clarke's. Anders then prepares some cigarettes with a poison. When Anders goes to meet Clarke, he first requests that Clarke show him the tape. While they are watching it, Anders replaces Clarke's cigarettes. Clarke smokes them and dies, Anders then takes the videotape and replaces Clarke's story on him with one of his inactive ones, and replaces the cigarettes in Clarke's ashtray with some he prepared. After Clarke is discovered, Columbo and the police investigate, while the other investigators think it might be natural causes, Columbo finds a few irregularities, like for instance that the cigarette butts found where Clarke died have no nicotine stains, and that the cigarette butts found in the ashtray were crushed, while the ones found in other ashtrays were bent. Eventually Columbo goes to see Anders. Eventually Columbo goes to an old Army buddy of Clarke's, who sent the videotape of Anders. Colubo eventually breaks Anders' alibi--that he was in the editing room when Clarke died. It seems that the shot of him entering and leaving were from two different days, but he still has to place him at Clarke's. Columbo invites him to Clarke's and Clarke's pet dog jumps on Anders car, now his car has scratches that match the dog's paws. Which means how else could have the dog have scratched his car, if he never went there as he claimed.
Originally aired on: 2/20/1991
Fan Rating: 8.3

Episode 3: Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star (s10e03)

Plot Summary: Hugh Creighton is a successful criminal lawyer who has never lost a case. He has a live-in girlfriend, who is a former rock star. When he finds out that she's seeing an old boyfriend, he throws her out. She then threatens to reveal that the secret of his success is allowing witnesses to purjure themselves, unless he pays her for the time they were together. He then plans to kill her and frame her boyfriend. It isn't long before Columbo is on the case, and discovers a few inconsistencies.
Originally aired on: 4/29/1991
Fan Rating: 7.0

Episode 4: Death Hits the Jackpot (s10e04)

Plot Summary: A wife murders her struggling photographer husband in an elaborate scheme to get hold of his lottery winnings.
Originally aired on: 12/15/1991
Fan Rating: 7.7

Episode 5: No Time to Die (s10e05)

Plot Summary: Columbo attends his nephew's wedding and as the couple get ready to leave on their honeymoon, the bride disappears. Columbo investigates, he thinks his nephew may have made a few enemies on the police force.
Originally aired on: 3/15/1992
Fan Rating: 5.9

Episode 6: A Bird in the Hand... (s10e06)

Plot Summary: A rich man disliked by his family has a bomb planted in his car, but before it explodes, he is run over and killed, but by who?
Originally aired on: 11/22/1992
Fan Rating: 7.7

Episode 7: It's All in the Game (s10e07)

Plot Summary: Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.
Originally aired on: 10/31/1993
Fan Rating: 8.1

Episode 8: Butterfly in Shades of Grey (s10e08)

Plot Summary: Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff.
Originally aired on: 1/10/1994
Fan Rating: 7.8

Episode 9: Undercover (s10e09)

Plot Summary: A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play.
Originally aired on: 5/2/1994
Fan Rating: 7.0

Episode 10: Strange Bedfellows (s10e10)

Plot Summary: A corrupt horse breeder and the gambling syndicate are fixing the horse races puts Columbo into a double investigation while investigating a very clever killer.
Originally aired on: 5/8/1995
Fan Rating: 7.3

Episode 11: A Trace of Murder (s10e11)

Plot Summary: Millionaire Clifford Calvert is framed for murdering a man he did business with and who in turn filed a lawsuit against him. Columbo investigates and finds out that Mrs. Calvert has been having an affair and has lots of motive to set up her husband.
Originally aired on: 5/15/1997
Fan Rating: 7.5

Episode 12: Ashes to Ashes (s10e12)

Plot Summary: Columbo is called in to solve the murder of Hollywood gossip journalist Verity Chandler whose last target was Eric Prince, mortician to the stars.
Originally aired on: 10/8/1998
Fan Rating: 7.3

Episode 13: Murder with Too Many Notes (s10e13)

Plot Summary: Findlay Crawford, the awardwinning composer of movie soundtracks, has a very talented apprentice, Gabriel, who wants to leave Crawford´s shadow and get recognition for the music he has written but which Crawford took credit for. This Crawford won´t allow, and he drugs him, and uses his musical timing to make it appear as if Gabriel fell from the roof during one of Crawford´s concerts.

Columbo notices right away that Gabriel fell without even a scream, and then there´s the small cut on Gabriel´s hand. Later, he finds a photo of Gabriel in tuxedo and sneakers - which makes Columbo wondering why Gabriel would wear fancy shoes, and two sizes too large.

The cat and mouse game with Crawford leads him through the musical world of movies, beginning the slowest car chase in movie history.
Originally aired on: 3/12/2001
Fan Rating: 6.9

Episode 14: Columbo Likes the Nightlife (s10e14)

Plot Summary: A reporter with a lot of enemies ends up dead from an apparent suicide, Columbo becomes suspicious since the reporter was blackmailing several people.
Originally aired on: 1/30/2003
Fan Rating: 7.5

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