Soundtrack: Billy Goldenberg

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Jerry Lacy

Plot Allan Felix would like to be Bogart, to be able to drink like Bogart and to seduce like Bogart. But he’s nothing but a neurotic film reviewer recently dumped by...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Dennis Weaver · Tim Herbert · Lou Frizzell · Jacqueline Scott

Plot Dennis Weaver stars as the traveling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out for destruction. Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological...

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Michael Nouri · Joe Penny · Brian Benben · Kathleen Lloyd

Plot TV Series. 13 Episodes. A crime drama based on historical fact on the lives of gangsters Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone. Most of the series was based on...

Direction Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · Richard Kiley · Rosemary Murphy · Michael McGuire

Plot A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.

Direction Richard Irving

Cast Peter Falk · Lee Grant · John Fink · Harold Gould

Plot A lawyer comes up with a clever plan to murder her husband. After the deed is done, a seemingly slow-witted, slovenly homicide detective is assigned to the case--but he's not...

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Alan Alda · Vic Morrow · Clu Gulager · Billy Dee Williams

Plot Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As...

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Peter Falk · Ross Martin · Don Ameche · Kim Hunter

Plot Noted art critic Dale Kingston kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. Despite Columbo's suspicions, all the clues point to the dead man's ex-wife. Can the lieutenant reveal...

Direction Roland Kibbee · Don Weis · Jack Arnold · Michael Caffey

Cast Robert Wagner · Malachi Throne · Edward Binns · Fred Astaire

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Rosemary Forsyth · Martin Milner

Plot Ken Franklin is a rich socialite living in a luxurious coastal mansion bought from his years of writing crime and mystery books. However, what he once wrote as fiction becomes...

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Peter Falk · Leonard Nimoy · Anne Francis · Nita Talbot

Plot A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.

Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg

Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall

Plot In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first...

Direction Norman Lloyd

Cast Peter Falk · Susan Clark · Jessie Royce Landis · Richard Anderson

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

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Mickey Spillane · Mariette Hartley

Plot A publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of sex novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Peter Strauss · Sam Neill · Ron Silver · David Dukes

Plot Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane is born in one of the richest families of Boston...

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Patrick McGoohan · Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · J. P. Finnegan · Robert Culp · Michael Lally

Plot TV Series (1971-1978). 12 Seasons. 69 Episodes. Columbo is a scruffy-looking cop who is often underestimated by his fellow officers, and by the murderer du jour. Despite his appearance and...

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · Fionnula Flanagan · Ed Flanders · Katherine Helmond

Plot A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Richard Benjamin · Dyan Cannon · James Coburn · Joan Hackett

Plot Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run car accident following a party one night. A year later her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton, invites a group of her friends to spend a week...

Direction Tom Gries

Cast George DiCenzo · Steve Railsback · Nancy Wolfe · Marilyn Burns

Plot The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".

Direction Paul Aaron

Cast Patty Duke · Diana Muldaur · Charles Siebert · Anne Seymour

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...