Columbo
Season 1990
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 1990 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1990; 11 of 20) — 6 listed hours, 1990-01-20–1990-12-09 from “Columbo Cries Wolf” (S1990E01) to “Columbo Goes to College” (S1990E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S1990E01 Columbo Cries Wolf
When Dian Hunter, the publisher of the men's magazine "Bachelor's World", wants to sell her stock to a media tycoon, her adulterous partner Sean Brantley objects. Soon afterwards, Miss Hunter apparently disappears on a London-bound flight.
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S1990E02 Agenda for Murder
This time Columbo is put on a murder that was made to look like a suicide. However, he notices some loose ends, and asks a lawyer and a governor to clear these problems up.
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S1990E03 Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
A woman who blames Columbo for the loss of her husband sets out to get back at him.
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S1990E04 Uneasy Lies the Crown
The unsuccessful junior partner in a dental group, a bad husband and degenerate gambler, faces divorce and ostracism from his father-in-law's firm.
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S1990E05 Murder in Malibu
A successful writer of romance novels who is involved with a young, ambitious womanizer, is found shot to death in her Malibu home.
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S1990E06 Columbo Goes to College
Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered.
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