From its pilot in 1968 to its curtain call in 2003, Columbo ran for 35 years and comprised 69 episodes.
The full list of Columbo episodes in chronological order can be viewed below. Click on the links to read my reviews of the episodes. I may not get round to reviewing them all until about 2023.
Columbo pilot episodes
- Prescription: Murder (1968)
- Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)
Columbo season 1 episodes (1971-72)
- Murder by the Book (view full episode)
- Death Lends a Hand (view full episode)
- Dead Weight
- Suitable for Framing (view full episode)
- Lady in Waiting
- Short Fuse
- Blueprint for Murder
Columbo season 2 episodes (1972-73)
- Etude in Black (view full episode)
- The Greenhouse Jungle
- The Most Crucial Game
- Dagger of the Mind
- Requiem for a Falling Star
- A Stitch in Crime (view full episode)
- The Most Dangerous Match
- Double Shock
Columbo season 3 episodes (1973-74)
- Lovely But Lethal
- Any Old Port in a Storm (view full episode)
- Candidate for Crime
- Double Exposure
- Publish or Perish (view full episode)
- Mind Over Mayhem
- Swan Song (view full episode)
- A Friend in Deed (view full episode)
Columbo season 4 episodes (1974-75)
- An Exercise in Fatality
- Negative Reaction (view full episode)
- By Dawn’s Early Light
- Troubled Waters
- Playback
- Deadly State of Mind
Columbo season 5 episodes (1975-76)
- Forgotten Lady
- Case of Immunity
- Identity Crisis
- Matter of Honor
- Now You See Him
- Last Salute to the Commodore
Columbo season 6 episodes (1976-77)
Columbo season 7 episodes (1977-78)
- Try and Catch Me (view full episode)
- Murder Under Glass
- Make Me a Perfect Murder
- How to Dial a Murder
- The Conspirators
Columbo season 8 episodes (1989)
- Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
- Murder, Smoke and Shadows
- Sex and the Married Detective
- Grand Deceptions
Columbo season 9 episodes (1989-90)
- Murder: A Self Portrait
- Columbo Cries Wolf
- Agenda for Murder
- Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo
- Uneasy Lies the Crown
- Murder in Malibu
Columbo season 10 episodes, plus TV specials (1990-2003)
- Columbo Goes to College (1990)
- Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1991)
- Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star (1991)
- Death Hits the Jackpot (1991)
- No Time to Die (1992)
- A Bird in the Hand… (1992)
- It’s All in the Game (1993)
- Butterfly in Shades of Grey (1994)
- Undercover (1994)
- Strange Bedfellows (1995)
- A Trace of Murder (1997)
- Ashes to Ashes (1998)
- Murder With Too Many Notes (2001)
- Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003)