Columbo diaries

Some climb mountains. Others cover great distances in the only way they know how. I’m watching every episode of Columbo*.

* not in order, and mostly not for the first time

Pilots

1. Prescription: Murder
2. Ransom for a Dead Man

Season 1

3. Murder by the Book
4. Death Lends a Hand
5. Dead Weight
6. Suitable for Framing
7. Lady in Waiting
8. Short Fuse
9. Blueprint for Murder

Season 2

10. Etude in Black
11. The Greenhouse Jungle
12. The Most Crucial Game
13. Dagger of the Mind
14. Requiem for a Falling Star
15. A Stitch in Crime
16. The Most Dangerous Game
17. Double Shock

Season 3

18. Lovely But Lethal
19. Any Old Port in a Storm
20. Candidate for Crime
21. Double Exposure
22. Publish or Perish
23. Mind Over Mayhem
24. Swan Song
25. A Friend in Deed

Season 4

26. An Exercise in Fatality
27. Negative Reaction
28. By Dawn’s Early Light
29. Troubled Waters
30. Playback
31. A Deadly State of Mind

Season 5

32. Forgotten Lady
33. A Case of Immunity
34. Identity Crisis
35. A Matter of Honor
36. Now You See Him…
37. Last Salute to the Commodore

Season 6

38. Fade in to Murder
39. Old Fashioned Murder
40. The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case

Season 7

41. Try and Catch Me
42. Murder Under Glass
43. Make Me a Perfect Murder
44. How to Dial a Murder
45. The Conspirators

Season 8

46. Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
47. Murder, Smoke and Shadows
48. Sex and the Married Detective
49. Grand Deceptions

Season 9

50. Murder: A Self Portrait
51. Columbo Cries Wolf
52. Agenda for Murder
53. Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo
54. Uneasy Lies the Crown
55. Murder in Malibu

Season 10 and specials

56. Columbo Goes to College
57. Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
58. Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
59. Death Hits the Jackpot
60. No Time to Die
61. A Bird in the Hand
62. It’s All in the Game
63. Butterfly in Shades of Grey
64. Undercover
65. Strange Bedfellows
66. A Trace of Murder
67. Ashes to Ashes
68. Murder with Too Many Notes
69. Columbo Likes the Nightlife