Columbo - Seasons 7 and 8

Season 7 Episode Guide


Season 7, Episode 1
November 21, 1977
Try to Catch Me
Columbo matches wits with a crime writer (Ruth Gordon) who's murdered her nephew. Columbo: Peter Falk. Veronica: Mariette Hartley. Martin: G.D. Spradlin.

Season 7, Episode 2
January 30, 1978
Murder Under Glass
Columbo matches wits with a food critic who takes bribes in exchange for good reviews, then resorts to murder to protect his scheme. Mary Choy: France Nuyen. Girl Friday: Shera Danese. Max: Richard Dysart. Ozu: Mako.

Season 7, Episode 3
February 28, 1978
Make Me a Perfect Murder
Columbo stalks a network executive suspected of killing her lover-boss after he failed to promote her. Frank: Patrick O'Neal. Mark: Laurence Luckinbill. Walter Muirhead: James McEachin. Valerie Kirk: Lainie Kazan. Luther: Ron Rifkin. Jonathan: Kenneth Gilman.

Season 7, Episode 4
April 15, 1978
How to Dial a Murder
A psychologist trains his Dobermans to kill his wife's lover. Columbo: Peter Falk. Joanne Nichols: Kim Cattrall. Charles Hunter: Joel Fabiani. Ms. Cochrane: Tricia O'Neil. Dr. Garrison: Frank Aletter. Officer Stein: Ed Begley Jr.

Season 7, Episode 5
May 13, 1978
The Conspirators
Columbo tries to nab an Irish poet who murdered an arms dealer. Joe Devlin: Clive Revill. Kate O'Connell: Jeanette Nolan. George O'Connell: Bernard Behrens. Kerry Malone: Michael Horton. Harry: Tony Giorgio. Pauley: Albert Paulsen. Jensen: L.Q. Jones.






Season 8, Episode 1
February 6, 1989
Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
Columbo becomes immersed in ESP and illusion when a psychic (Anthony Andrews) murders a magician on his own trick guillotine. Max Dyson: Anthony Zerbe. Paula: Karen Austin. Bert Spindler: James Greene. Harrow: Alan Fudge. Tommy: Michael Bacall.

Season 8, Episode 2
February 27, 1989
Murder, Smoke and Shadows
A film director uses his mastery of special effects to murder a vengeful friend who discovered the director's role in the death of the friend's sister years before. Columbo: Peter Falk. Marosco: Steven Hill. Ruth Jernigan: Molly Hagan. Rose: Nan Martin.

Season 8, Episode 3
April 3, 1989
Sex and a Married Detective
A sex therapist prescribes murder for the lover she spies with her personal assistant in the clinic's therapy boudoir. Cindy: Julia Montgomery. Dr. Simon Ward: Peter Jurasik. Dr. Walter Neff: Ken Lerner. Columbo: Peter Falk.

Season 8, Episode 4
May 1, 1989
Grand Deceptions
A retired colonel who's now commanding a paramilitary foundation “retires” an old comrade who was on to his illegal use of funds. Col. Frank Brailie: Robert Foxworth. Gen. Jack Padget: Stephen Elliott. Jenny Padget: Janet Eilber. Tanzer: Michael McManus.