Columbo
Season 1991
3 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 1991 of Columbo (1971–2003) on NBC as a mid listed season (1991; 12 of 20) — 3 listed hours, 1991-02-20–1991-12-15 from “Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” (S1991E01) to “Death Hits the Jackpot” (S1991E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S1991E01 Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Columbo investigates a self-proclaimed security expert turned crime show host for the murder of a rival with incriminating evidence of pornography.
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S1991E02 Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.
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S1991E03 Death Hits the Jackpot
Freddie Brower, a down-on-his-luck photographer in the final stages of a divorce, wins $30 million in the lottery. In order to not share it with his wife before the divorce is finalized, he arranges for his uncle Leon to cash in the ticket and give Freddy the money after the divorce. But uncle Leon Lamarr has ideas of his own.
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