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Columbo : Season 3
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Air date: 23 Sep '73 - 8 episodesColumbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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List of Episodes (8)
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1. Lovely But Lethal
23 Sep '73Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.
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2. Any Old Port in a Storm
07 Oct '73Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was
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3. Candidate for Crime
04 Nov '73A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.
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4. Double Exposure
16 Dec '73A film maker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign
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5. Publish or Perish
18 Jan '74A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.
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6. Mind Over Mayhem
18 Feb '74Dr. Marshal Cahill, head of a think tank, is forced to protect his plagarizing son by killing the professor, Nichols, who discovered the plagarized information. Cahill programs a robot to take his place during a war game exercise that he runs from an isolated room, then fakes a hit-and-run accident on Nichols and plants evidence to make it look like a drug theft gone awry. The first thing Columbo notices upon arrival is a match burned down to the base - something Columbo knows well because it's
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7. Swan Song
03 Mar '74A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety.
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8. A Friend in Deed
05 May '74A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.
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