Cet article presents the guide of the episodes of season 1 of the Televised series Columbo ( Columbo ).

Episode 1: the pilot Book

  • original Title : Murder by the Book
  • Number (S) : 3 (1 - 1)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Steven Bochco; history: Steven Spielberg
  • Realizer (S) : Steven Spielberg
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Jack Cassidy (Franklin Ken), Martin Milner (Jim Ferris), Rosemary Forsyth Foch (Joanna Ferris), Barbara Colby (Lilly LaSanka), Lynnette Mettey (Gloria, Jr.), Bernie Kuby (Mike Tucker), Hoke Howell (Sergeant), Marcia Wallace (Woman), Haven Earle Halley (Reference mark
  • Summarized : Ken Franklin is joint author of the series of detective novels with success Mrs Melville . Its partner Jim Ferris wishes to write in solo. However, Ken is without talent and that will be seen as soon as it will start to only write in its turn. He thus imagines a plan to kill it. However, he is seen by a fan who decides to benefit from it to force it to remain close to her. He decides to eliminate it in his turn.
  • Comment : This episode was written by Steven Bochco and was carried out by Steven Spielberg.

Episode 2: False witness

  • original Title : Death Lends has Hand
  • Numéro (S) : 4 (1 - 2)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Richard Levinson & William Link; history: Bernard L. Kowalski
  • Realizer (S) : Bernard L. Kowalski
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Robert Culp (Private Eye To persecute), Patricia Crowley (Lenore Kennicut), Ray Milland (Arthur Kennicut), Brett Halsey (Ken Archer), Eric James (Denning), Places Dressler (Ceil Gentry), Gift Keefer (Medical To examine), Len Wayland (Captain Police force), Barbara Balda
  • Summarized : To persecute is private detective with success with the head of its own company. He is engaged by Arthur Kennicut to inquire into his wife that he suspect of connections. The connection exists and is discovered, but Brimmer prefers to make sing the wife. When this one refuses to be let make and decides all to reveal with her husband, Brimmer realizes that it will lose the confidence of Arthur (and its account) and keep silent the wife in an access of anger.
  • Comment :
  • Robert Culp is well-known for the role of Kelly Robinson in I Spy (1965) where it divided the high-speed motorboat with Bill Cosby (Alexander Scott). It will return in two other roles of assassin in episodes 12 (2-3) the Grain of sand ( The Most Crucial Range ) and 21 (3-4) Subconscient ( Double Exposure ).
  • First appearance of the Peugeot 403. Columbo is done even charged and must make change its license which expires in a few days.

Episode 3: dead Load

  • original Title : Dead Weight
  • Number (S) : 5 (1 - 3)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: John T. Dugan; history: Jack Smight
  • Realizer (S) : Jack Smight
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Eddie Albert (Major General Martin Hollister), Suzanne Pleshette (Helen Stewart), Kate Reid (Mrs. Walters), John Kerr (coll Roger Dutton), Valley Avery (Harry Barnes), Timothy Carey (Bert), Clete Roberts (TV Newsman), Glen Vernon (COP), Jimmy Pelham (COP), J
  • Summarized : Martin Hollister is Major General which wet in stories of faked markets. Announced investigations threatening all to reveal, Hollister kills its accomplice and gets rid of the body. Her house having a picture window with sight on bay, an young woman has all considering, although by far. Without body, it has great difficulty has to convince its close relations, but Columbo believes it. Hollister then decides to allure it, succeeds there, which leads it to retract.
  • Comment : Eddie Albert was Oliver Wendell Douglas in the series Green Acres .

Episode 4: Full framework

  • original Title : Suitable for Framing
  • Number (S) : 6 (1 - 4)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Jackson Gillis; history: Hy Averback
  • Realizer (S) : Hy Averback
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Ross Martin (Kingston Flagstone), Kim Hunter (Edna Matthews), Gift Ameche (Frank Simpson), Rosanna Huffman (Tracy O' Connor), Joan Shawlee (Mitilda), Barney Philips (Captain Wyler), Mary Wickes (Superintendent), Vic Tayback (Sam Franklin), Sandra Gould (Matron)
  • Summarized : An art critic, Paves Kingston, assisted his/her girlfriend Tracy O' Connor, keep silent his/her uncle, rich collector of tables, to inherit it. It fakes the hour of dead with a heating cover, makes disappear two Degas (two dancers) to simulate a burgling which degenerated, and is pointed out at the supposed hour of the death in a gallery. Columbo is appropriate that the alibi is good, discovers that there was an implied woman, but the suspect one all the same. When the notary reveals that it is the ex wife (Edna Matthews) and not the nephew who will inherit the collection, and which it proves that the nephew knew it, Columbo is appropriate still that there is no more mobile.
  • Comment : Ross Martin is more known for its role in the Mysteries of the West.

Episode 5: Waiting

  • original Title : Lady in Waiting
  • Number (S) : 7 (1 - 5)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Steven Bochco; history: Barney Slater
  • Realizer (S) : Norman Lloyd
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Susan Clark (Beth Chadwick), Jessie Royce Landis (Mother Chadwick), Richard Anderson (Bryce Chadwick), Leslie Nielsen (Peter Hamilton), Joel Fluellen (Charles), Richard Bull (Second Detective), Garry Walberg (First Detective), Barbara Rhoades (Hostess), J
  • Summarized : Beth Chadwick, shy person and maintained in the shade of his Bryce brother, chairman of the large family company, is in love with Peter Hamilton, member of board of directors, that his brother suspect to be a fortune-hunter, and that he seeks to draw aside while threatening to make him lose his situation. Beth takes drugs with sleeping pills and is arranged so that his/her brother finds himself locked up outside, and must return by the window, after which it will kill it while claiming to have taken it for a prowler. The plan does not proceed as envisaged, but it kills it all the same. A coincidence makes that Peter was there at this time there, without he seeing what really occurred. The newspaper of Bryce insists Columbo to think that it is a murder. The investigation, then the court concludes with the accident. When Beth fully metamorphoses in executive woman in load of its life, opened out, and takes the control of the company, it is an index moreover for Columbo.
  • Comment : A a little particular episode. Initially one sees the scene of the murder twice: once in spirit in the head of Beth, and once in truth. This to surely insist on the unforeseen part. Then, there is a second main character: Peter, interpreted by Leslie Nielsen. Certainly Columbo has what to hesitate over the identity of the real culprit. But especially it does not trap the murderer by letting it create the decisive proof as usual; it is satisfied just with a late testimony, which is likely to be thwarted by the défense.
    Cet episode was written by Steven Bochco, prolific author of great televised series.

Episode 6: Accident

  • original Title : Short Fuses
  • Numéro (S) : 8 (1 - 6)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Jackson Gillis; history: To ballast Prick & Tina Fucks & Jackson Gillis
  • Réalisateur (S) : Edward Mr. Abroms
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Roddy McDowall (Roger Stanford), Ida Lupino (Buckner Dory), James Gregory (David Buckner), William Windom (Everett Logan), Anne Francis (Bishop Miss), Steve Gravers (Sgt Police force.), Lawrence Cook (Murphy), Rosalind Miles (Nancy), Lew Brown (Unknown), Jason
  • Summarized : Roger Stanford, chemist works in the large family company, but is unceasingly in conflict with his uncle who directs it. It comes to the point where the uncle decides évincer by persuasion and the blackmail. Roger fakes a box of cigars which it substitutes in the car of his uncle. Coincidence: a little before the explosion, the uncle was on the telephone with the Aunt who has the message on the responder. When the message speaks about cigars, and in front of the attitude of Roger by listening to the message, Columbo guesses that there is perhaps murder. He discovers papers indicating that the uncle had enemies, that the driver was a Master-singer. At the same time Roger settles in the office of direction and draws aside the old ones.
  • Comment : The series was always fond of delicacies of technological gadgets. We see an automatic message recorder on magnetic bands half-inch, and a telephone of car, both having their place in the intrigue.

Episode 7: a fatal city

  • original Title : Blueprint for Murder
  • Number (S) : 9 (1 - 7)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Steven Bochco; history: William Kelley & Ted Leighton
  • Realizer (S) : Peter Falk
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Patrick O' Neal (Mr. Markham), Forrest Tucker (Bo Williamson), Janis Page (Goldie Williamson), Pamela Austin (Jennifer Williamson), Bettye Ackerman (Sherman Miss), John Finnegan (Unknown), Fred Brookfield (Unknown), John Fielder (Doctor), Nick Refusals (Unkn
  • Summarized : Elliot Markam, young person Architecte ambitious attracted itself the admiration of the news and young naive wife of Bo Williamson, rich contractor texan cow-boy and blood. Benefitting from the absence of Bo in business trip of long life in Europe, Markham convinces the wife of Bo to launch a futuristic vast project town planner. When Bo returns, the building site is started, and he wants to do all to stop. Markham makes it disappear, but it must make believe that Bo is always in life to prevent that the funds is not blocked, as the will in the event of death envisages it. But the first woman, Goldie, anxious to be without news are pesuadée that Bo died and calls the police force. The investigation does not make it possible to establish that Bo died, they find its car with the Aéroport, but Columbo finds that the car radio is connected on Classical music whereas Bo liked the Country. Other elements intrigue Columbo, which decides to undertake excavations under one of the piles of the foundations of the building site.
  • Comment : One will notice the appearance of John Fiedler, in the role of the cardiologist. This small man specialized in the voices of cartoons, in particular Porcinet (Piglet) in the cinema productions of Winnie the bear cub (Winnie the Pooh). He also played of many supporting roles in '' My well loved witch '' ('' Bewitched '').

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