Columbo
Season 1978
4 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 1978 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1978; 9 of 20) — 4 listed hours, 1978-01-30–1978-05-13 from “Murder Under Glass” (S1978E01) to “The Conspirators” (S1978E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S1978E01 Murder Under Glass
Food critic Paul Gerard, who has been extorting money from restaurant owners in exchange for good reviews, murders one when threatened with exposure.
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S1978E02 Make Me a Perfect Murder
Columbo suspects that a network executive may have killed her lover-boss for not promoting her.
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S1978E03 How to Dial a Murder
A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his dogs to kill on command using a telephone.
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S1978E04 The Conspirators
Columbo investigates the murder of an arms dealer.
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