Columbo
Season 1972
6 listed hours · 1971–2003 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Peter Falk's rumpled trap: an inverted mystery that showed you the killer first, then treated guest-star ego as the actual puzzle — television as a closed argument, not a clue hunt.
TV Flash files Season 1972 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1972; 3 of 20) — 6 listed hours, 1972-01-19–1972-11-26 from “Short Fuse” (S1972E01) to “Dagger of the Mind” (S1972E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S1972E03 Étude in Black
Conductor, camera, the arts as a perfect guilty habitat. The series treating culture as a crime scene.
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S1972E01 Short Fuse
Pressured to give up his birthright, a chemical company heir enacts a clever plan to get rid of his blackmailing uncle and take over the family business. But Lt. Columbo suspects the man's death was not just a tragic accident.
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S1972E02 Blueprint for Murder
Elliot Markham, a brilliant architect and con-man, murders a Texas millionaire and hides his body in order to keep his visionary construction project financed.
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S1972E03 Étude in Black
A ruthless conductor murders the gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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S1972E04 The Greenhouse Jungle
Columbo arrives at a kidnapping case, which at some point turns to worse. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund managed by a man with a great love for orchids.
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S1972E05 The Most Crucial Game
The manager of a football team murders its callow owner, making it look as if the young man had had an accident in his swimming pool. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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S1972E06 Dagger of the Mind
In London, a respected Shakespearean acting duo cover up the unintended killing of their producer.
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