Season One 7 episodes September 15th 1971 to February 9th 1972Information from: The Columbo Phile by Mark Dawidziak
Season One 7 episodes September 15th 1971 to February 9th 1972
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| "Death Lends a Hand" (1971) | |
| Season: | 1, Episode - 2 |
| Director: | Bernard Kowalski |
| Written by: | Richard Levinson, William Link |
| Produced by: | Richard Levinson and William Link |
| Originally aired: | October 6, 1971 |
| Run Time: | 90 (mins) |
| Cast: | Peter Falk as LT. Columbo Robert Culp as Investigator Brimmer Ray Milland as Authur Kennicut Patricia Crowley as Mrs. Lenore Kennicut Brett Halsey as Ken Archer Eric James as Denning Don Keefer as Medical Examiner Len Wayland as Captain of Detectives Lieux Dressler as Ceil Gentry Barbara Baldavin as Brimmer's Secretary |
| Plot: | Communications czar Arthur Kennicut has hired high priced
private investigator Brimmer to determine if his wife is having an affair. She has been,
but Brimmer falsifies the report. He tells Kennicut that his wife has a clean bill of
health. Brimmer lets Mrs. Kennicut hear the whole confrontation on an intercom. In
exchange for his continued protection, the investigator wants her to be "a good
listener". In other words, he hopes to balck mail her into being a pipeline of
information about her politically powerful husband. He suggests she think it over. |
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| "Dead Weight" (1971) | |
| Season: | 1, Episode - 3 |
| Director: | Jack Smight |
| Written by: | John T. Dugan |
| Produced by: | Everett Chambers |
| Originally aired: | October 27, 1971 |
| Run Time: | 90 (mins) |
| Cast: | Peter Falk as LT. Columbo Eddie Albert as Major General Martin Hollister Suzanne Pleshette as Helen Stewart Kate Reid as Mrs. Walters John Kerr as Colonel Rodger Dutton Val Avery as Harry Barnes Timothy Carey as Bert Clete Roberts as TV Newsman Ron Castro as Officer Sanchez Glen Vernon as First Officer Jimmy Pelham as Second Officer Jim Halferty as First Marine Cadet |
| Plot: | While sailing off a marina with her ever-critical mother,
insecure Helen Stewart believes that she has seen a man in a bathrobe shoot a man in a
uniform. The police are skeptical because the window and the house Helen points out
belongs to retired marine general Martin Hollister, a beloved war hero. |
| "Blueprint for Murder" (1972) | |
| Season: | 1, Episode - 7 |
| Director: | Peter Falk |
| Written by: | Steven Bochco (from a story by William Kelley and Ted Leighton) |
| Produced by: | Richard Levinson and William Link |
| Originally aired: | Februrary 9, 1972 |
| Run Time: | 90 (mins) |
| Cast: | Peter Falk as LT. Columbo Patrick O'Neal as Elliot Markham Forrest Tucker as Beau Williamson Janis Paige as Goldie Williamson Pamela Austin as Jennifer Williamson Bettye Ackerman as Miss Sherman John Fielder as Dr. Moss John Finnegan as Carl Nick Dennis as Guard Robert Gibbons as Clerk Cliff Carnell as Officer Wilson Jimmy Joyce as Workman |
| Plot: | Flamboyant Texas tycoon Beau Williamson returns from a
long trip abroad to learn that brilliant architect Elliot Markham has persuaded his wife,
young Jennifer Williams, to fund a revolutionary multi-million-dollar office complex:
Williamson City. Beau is not touched ( except in his wallet ) by the honor. He knows a
hustler when he sees one. A charming sophisticated, Elliot is using the naive Jennifer to
get at Beau’s money. In rage, Beau storms into Elliot’s office and smashes the
scale model of Williamson City. He then drives out of the construction site and confronts
the architect. The devious architect sees a way out. Elliot goes out to Beau’s horse
farm and hides in the industrialists car. When Beau gets into the car, thinking he is
alone, Elliot forces him at gun point into a nearby stable. A shot is heard. |
