Columbo
Season 1976
5 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 1976 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1976; 7 of 20) — 5 listed hours, 1976-02-01–1976-11-28 from “A Matter of Honor” (S1976E01) to “Old Fashioned Murder” (S1976E05). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S1976E02 Now You See Him
Disguise as ego problem. The series solving the kind of cleverness it exists to undo.
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S1976E01 A Matter of Honor
When a famous bullfighter's trusted bookkeeper turns up dead in a bullring, Lt. Columbo suspects murder--with a bull as the murder weapon.
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S1976E02 Now You See Him
A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.
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S1976E03 Last Salute to the Commodore
Charlie Clay runs the ship building business of his father-in-law, Commodore Swanson, who turns up murdered; Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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S1976E04 Fade in to Murder
An egotistical but successful star of a TV detective show murders his blackmailing producer and makes it look like a robbery.
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S1976E05 Old Fashioned Murder
The spinster head of a family-run museum murders her brother when he threatens to dissolve the financially strapped institution.
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