Columbo: Director Potentials

A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi.

A ruthless conductor murders the gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A smarmy TV chef and his identical twin brother, a rigidly proper banker, are suspects in the electrocution of their rich uncle.

A Hollywood film composer and conductor murdered a talented musician who has been ghostwriting most of his work in recent years.

After a much maligned Hollywood gossip columnist is murdered by her former lover, Columbo tries to find a way to prove he was responsible for the crime.

A beautiful woman and her forensics expert boyfriend try to frame her very rich husband for murder.

The disheveled detective sets out to solve an unusual double murder in which two men have apparently killed each other.

Two women kill their two-timing lover, and one of them tries to seduce Columbo in an effort to divert suspicion.

Columbo investigates a hit and run, followed by a car explosion.

Columbo questions a jewelry-store owner whose late nephew had a winning lottery ticket.

Lt. Columbo investigates a self-proclaimed security expert turned crime show host for the murder of a rival with incriminating evidence of pornography.

A woman who blames Columbo for the loss of her husband sets out to get back at him.

Columbo is assigned to the case of a murder that was made to look like a suicide. After noticing some loose ends, he asks a lawyer and a Congressman to clear up problems with the investigation.

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.

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.

Columbo investigates the apparent drowning of a famous painter's first wife.

An egocentric wunderkind director, Alex Bradey, murders a childhood friend, Leonard Fisher, who threatens to expose his complicity in the negligent death of Leonard's sister, Jenny, years before Bradey found fame and success.

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.

An IRA terrorist executes an arms dealer he considers traitorous; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his dogs to kill on command using a telephone.

An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Food critic Paul Gerard, who has been extorting money from restaurant owners in exchange for good reviews, murders one when threatened with exposure.

A mystery writer suspects her niece's husband of murdering her, and she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe.

High IQ Sigma Society member Oliver Brandt murders his business partner when he threatens to expose him as an embezzler. He then engineers a seemingly foolproof alibi.

A gadget-happy inventor murders his mother-in-law; Lt. Columbo is on the case.