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This article presents the guide of the season 4 of the Televised series Columbo ( Columbo ).

The details of the crime are revealed thus that the first indices that Columbo discovers, but not the way in which it proves the culpability.

Episode 1: fatal Exercise

original Title : Year Exercise in Fatality
Number (S) : 26 (4.1)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: Peter S. Fischer; history: Larry Cohen
Realizer (S) : Bernard L. Kowalski
Diffusion (S) :

: September 15th 1974

Invited (be) : Robert Conrad (Milo Janus), Gretchen Corbett (Jessica Conroy), Stalemate Harrington Jr. (Buddy Castle), Hake Wilcox (Ruth Stafford), Philip Brown (Stafford Gene), Jude Farese (Al Murphy), Darrell Zwerling (Lewis Lacey), Refusals Robertson (Jerry), Raymond O' Keefe (Sergeant Rickets), Eric Mason (Fred), Gift Nagel (Doberman pinscher), Kathleen O' Malley (Children's nurse), Mel Stevens (Dr. Freeman), Victor Izay (Medical To examine), J.R. Clark (Harry Lassiter), Susan Jacoby (Rose), Manual Depina (Photographer)
Summarized : Milo Janus, owner of a frankness from rooms of Musculation, diverts money by complex accounting practices by forcing the rooms to provide itself at companies of which he is owner. One of the owners of room, old Management auditor, discovers the fraud and announces to him that it all will reveal with the administration. Janus allures the secretary of the victim. The evening, it kills the owner while making believe that it died by making exercise after a long day's work. Then it uses recordings to make believe that the victim telephoned to him towards 21:00, at one moment when Janus is at his place with friends, thus manufacturing an alibi. Traces of shoe on the ground waxed of one of the rooms, a trace of coffee on the ground, the remainders of a heavy meal taken by the victim before its be-saying exercises… indicate to Columbo that there is an equivocal history.
Comment : Columbo says to us once again that his wife has a problem of weight.

Episode 2: Negative reaction

original Title : Negative Reaction
Number (S) : 27 (4.2)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: Peter S. Fischer; history: Alf Kjellin
Realizer (S) : Alf Kjellin
Diffusion (S) :

: October 15th 1974

Invited (be) :
Summarized : Paul Galesko is famous a Photographe which decides to kill his wife. He makes accept a removal, prepares an anonymous letter and a photograph of his wife bound in an uninhabited farm, by taking care that a clock within the framework of the photograph indicates one hour erroneous, which will be its alibi. He kills his wife, and organizes all so that one suspect certain Deschler, recently left prison, that he engaged for the occasion and that he made buy the farm. He makes believe that Deschler tries to kill it after having extorted the ransom and kills it in its turn. He is voluntarily wounded with the weapon of Deschler. Powder traces, the absence of dust on the clock lead Columbo to suspecter Galesko.
Comment : In this episode, Colombo explains why its dog, its Basset hound, has a depression because it was in love with the bitch of the neighbor and that they left. At another time, he explains that made seven years that he has his impermeable. It in a center of assistance with is then stripped to question a witness, and the nun takes it for a vagrant.

Episode 3: Between the twilight and the paddle

original Title : By Dawn´s Early Light
Number (S) : 28 (4.3)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: Howard Berk; history: Harvey Binder
Realizer (S) : Harvey Binder
Diffusion (S) :

: October 27th 1974

Invited (be) : Patrick McGoohan (coll Lyle C. Rumford), Tom Simcox (William Haynes), Mark Wheeler (Junior Roy Springer), Karen Lamm (Susan Gerald), Burr DeBenning (Captain Loomis), Madeleine Sherwood (Brady Miss), Sidney Armus (Officer Corso), Bruno Kirby (Morgan Junior)
Summarized : The Colonel Lyle C. Rumford, director of a military academy, sabotages the gun ceremony. Later, William Haynes, an important member of the board of directors visits him and one learns that it for transforming the school into a civil university. The Colonel arranges himself so that William requires to have the honor to fire the gun for the ceremony from the day, celebrating the foundation of the school. The gun explodes. Columbo discovers pieces of fabric which indicate that there was some-thing which blocked the gun. By pushing the investigation, it finds some elements incoherent. His wife being absent, there will remain a few days at the school, in the huts with the juniors, for its investigation.

Episode 4: Turbid water

original Title : Troubled Toilets
Number (S) : 29 (4.4)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: William Driskill; history: Jackson Gillis & William Driskill
Realizer (S) : Ben Gazzara
Diffusion (S) :

: February 9th 1975

Invited (be) : Headstock Bocar (Rosanna Wells), Jane Greer (Sylvia Danziger), Robert Vaughn (Hayden Danziger), Patrick Macnee (Captain Gibbon), Dean Stockwell (Lloyd Harrington), Bernard Fox (Purser Preston Watkins), Douglas Robert (Dr. Frank Pierce), Susan Ramming-Shaw (Melissa), Peter Maloney (Artie Podell), Curtis Credel (Magician)
Summarized : Columbo and his wife gained a cruising towards the Mexico in Paquebot. On the ship, the singer Rosanna Wells tries to break with the Pianiste, Lloyd Harrington. At the same time, it makes sing Hayden Danziger, groom, with whom it had a relation. The first afternoon, Hayden simulates a heart attack with chemicals and is made look after with the infirmary. The evening-even, at the time of the pause of the artists, it slips out of the infirmary, kills Rosanna by using a pillow to choke the detonation, gives up the Pistolet, and turns over in its bed. The captain asks Columbo to help them semi-officially. Any door to believe that it is Lloyd which made the blow. But Columbo saw a feather on the spot of the crime and another in the infirmary; and it carries out the survey with the means of the edge (to take impressed, to seek powder traces on the hands…).
Comment : Columbo is unceasingly made begin again by the captain when it confuses boat (Bateau) and ship (Navire).

Episode 5: Play Back

original Title : Playback
Number (S) : 30 (4.5)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: David P. Lewis & Booker T. Bradshaw; history: Bernard L. Kowalski
Realizer (S) : Bernard L. Kowalski
Diffusion (S) :

: March 2nd 1975

Invited (be) : Noble Trisha (Marcy), Oskar Werner (Harold van Wyck), Obstructed Rowlands (Elizabeth van Wyck), Robert Brown (Arthur Midas), Patricia Barry (Francine), Martha Scott (Margaret Midas), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Baxter), Bart Burns (Thompson), Steven Marlo (Police officers), Joe O' Hara (Waiting)
Summarized : Harold van Wyck is married with Elizabeth, girl of Margaret Midas. Margaret is the owner of a large electronic company of that Harold directs. Elizabeth is driving Handicap ée, and Harold directs the company in investments and research in automatic installations for the house, with an aim of helping people like his wife. Their house of aillor is truffée by it: doors opening by claquant hands, ascenscor of slope for Wheel chair, complete circuit of surveillance cameras intern. Margaret is dissatisfied results of Harold, it discovered moreover that he misleads his wife with several mistresses. She decides to return it. In the evening, whereas his wife is with the bed, it kills Margaret in front of the camera. Then it leaves to a varnishing, while being organized that the band of the murder is diffused on the screen of safety later in the evening. Thanks to a watch with digital posting by red diodes (Electroluminescent diode), state-of-the-art technology, it could point out with varnishing its hour of arrival to the hostess. Columbo notices the absence of traces of step where the prowler have-due to leave some, it is as intrigued by a noise as Elizabeth would have perhaps heard before the departure of Harold (in fact the shot).

Episode 6: Frame of mind

original Title : has off Deadly State Mind
Numéro (S) : 31 (4.6)
Scenario writer (S) : scenario television: Peter S. Fischer; history: Harvey Binder
Realizer (S) : Harvey Binder
Diffusion (S) :

: April 27th 1975

Invited (be) : George Hamilton (Dr. Marcus Collar), Lesley Ann Warren (Nadia To give), Stephen Elliott (Karl To give), Karen Machon (Dr. Anita Borden), Fred To drape (David Morris), Ryan MacDonald (Charles Whelan), Jack Manning (Daniel Morris), William Wintersole (Dr. Hunt), Gloria Kaufman (Brenda), Redmond Gleeson (Arnold), Kathy Speirs (receptionist), Morris Buchanan (Lab Man), Vance Davis (Officer Hendryx), Danny Wells (Gary Keppler)
Summarized : Dr. Marcus Collar, a Enquiring Psychanalyste and in analysis of behavior has a connection with one of his patients, Nadia Donner. The husband, Karl To give, confront them; a brawl is followed from there where it takes a bad fatal blow. The lovers make up the scene making accept that Nadia and Karl were attacked by two prowlers, one moment when the doctor was far from there. But Columbo finds anomalies in the account of Nadia. The doctor realizes that Nadia is likely to crack where empêtrer in her lies; he it hypnotizes and leaves him a post-hypnotic order be locked up at her then to throw balcony of its building, as if she threw herself in the swimming pool, at one moment when the doctor calls it with a code. At one time when it is with friends, and even lieutenant Columbo, to be used to him as alibi, it calls and the code gives him, pretexting a wrong number. She removes her clothing and jumps into space. The fact that it was désabillée before committing suicide Columbo intrigue.
Comment : Columbo finds traces of thin tires on the spot of the crime, the kind of tires, says us it, that one finds on the cars European, like his for example, which is French (a Peugeot 403 convertible of 1959).

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