All Movie Guide

Peter Falk launches his sixth season as the world's sloppiest, most disheveled and most diligent homicide detective in Columbo, originally telecast as a rotating component of The NBC Mystery Movie. Those criminals who think they're about to get away with the "perfect murder" upon meeting the apparently scatterbrained Lt. Columbo for the first time are in for a rude awakening when the little man in the soiled raincoat probes and prods until he finally solves the case and brings the miscreant to justice -- usually by tripping up said miscreant with his or her own words. Only three episodes appeared during season six, but each one is a gem. "Fade in to Murder" stars William Shatner as the leading man of a popular TV detective show (not unlike Columbo) who uses methods gleaned from his show's scripts to bump off a blackmailer and establish an alibi. "Old Fashioned Murder" features Celeste Holm as the scheming head of a museum who cooks up a robbery/murder with a daunting array of phony clues. And in "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case, a clever businessman Theodore Bikel murders his embezzling partner and tries to redirect suspicion to the dead man's high-maintenance wife. ~ All Movie Guide

All Movie Guide

Five new Columbo episodes, each running between 90 and 120 minutes, were produced for the series' seventh season as a component of The NBC Mystery Movie. Peter Falk returns as raincoat-wearing, cigar-chomping, deceptively scatterbrained homicide detective Lt. Columbo, who always manages to piece together the clues and come to the right conclusion no matter how clever the murderer thinks he or she has been in planning the "perfect crime." In the first episode, "Try and Catch Me, Ruth Gordon guest stars as an Agatha Christie-style author of murder mysteries who meticulously plot a real-life murder in order to get her nasty nephew-in-law arrested. "Murder Under Glass" finds Columbo cutting a tasty swath through the the culinary world to get the goods on a homicidal food critic (Louis Jourdan). In "Make Me a Perfect Murder," Trish VanDevere plays the assistant to a powerful television executive who kills her boss for failing to give her a promotion (shades of Network!) "How to Dial a Murder" begins with a neat spoof of Citizen Kane and segues into a "remote-control murder" involving specially conditioned attack dogs. And in "The Conspirators, Columbo crosses swords with an Irish poet who doubles as a guerilla fighter -- and triples as a murderer. And with this final episode, Columbo wraps up its seven-year run on NBC. At the time (1978), it appeared as though Peter Falk would never play the character again -- but eleven years later, Columbo was coaxed out of "retirement" for a new series of feature-length episodes, telecast on rival network ABC. ~ All Movie Guide

Product Details

• UPC: 025193205421
• Source: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Language: English
• Time: 10:36:00
• Sales Rank: 3,860

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Columbo: Fade in to Murder
• Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder
• Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case
• Columbo: Try & Catch Me
• Columbo: How to Dial a Murder
• Columbo: Murder Under Glass
• Columbo: The Conspirators
• Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder

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