Columbo
Season 1973
8 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 1973 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1973; 4 of 20) — 8 listed hours, 1973-01-21–1973-12-16 from “Requiem for a Falling Star” (S1973E01) to “Double Exposure” (S1973E08). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S1973E06 Any Old Port in a Storm
Connoisseurship as the tell. A killer who cannot stop performing taste — the howdunit at full courtesy.
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S1973E01 Requiem for a Falling Star
A faded movie actress commits murder. Lt. Columbo, one of her biggest fans, is on the case.
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S1973E02 A Stitch in Crime
A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.
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S1973E03 The Most Dangerous Match
A chess player murders his opponent before a big match. Lt. Columbo must out-maneuver this crafty, but craven, killer.
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S1973E04 Double Shock
A smarmy TV chef and his identical twin brother, a rigidly proper banker, are suspects in the electrocution of their rich uncle.
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S1973E05 Lovely But Lethal
The formula for a miracle wrinkle cream leads the founder of a cosmetics company to murder and Columbo is on this case.
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S1973E06 Any Old Port in a Storm
A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.
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S1973E07 Candidate for Crime
Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong.
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S1973E08 Double Exposure
A self-styled "motivation research specialist" uses subliminal cues to commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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