Columbo
Season 1989
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 1989 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1989; 10 of 20) — 5 listed hours, 1989-02-06–1989-11-25 from “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine” (S1989E01) to “Murder, a Self Portrait” (S1989E05). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S1989E01 Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick.
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S1989E02 Murder, Smoke and Shadows
A brothers search for the cause of his deceased sister's death leads to murder. During the investigation, Columbo questions a film director and also encounters a case of motion sickness.
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S1989E03 Sex and the Married Detective
When a successful sex therapist with a best selling book and a hit TV show is crushed to learn her business partner/lover is cheating on her, she plots appropriate revenge.
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S1989E04 Grand Deceptions
After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.
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S1989E05 Murder, a Self Portrait
Columbo investigates the apparent drowning of a famous painter's first wife.
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