COLUMBO SEASONS 6-7(1971)
One of the best detective shows ever on TV, this started
out with the movie Prescription Murder and the fallow-up
movie Ransom For A Dead Man, which are both on this set!!
One of TVs greatest stars, Peter Falk, leads the series
and does a bang up job!
Just one more thing: This is backwards from almost all other
detective show in that you get to see what happened just as
the episodes start and then watch as Columbo figures it all
out!
This is two seasons together(duh), only 3 episodes in season
six & 5 episodes in season seven!
SEASON SIX:
EPISODES 1: FADE IN TO MURDER(Oct. 10, 1976):
Shatner plays an actor who's being blackmailed!
Guest starring: William Shatner, Walter Koenig, Lola
Albright(Peter Gunn)! A
EPISODES 2: OLD FASHIONED MURDER(Nov. 28, 1976):
The curator of a museum sets up a robbery of her place
and the murder of the theif, and winds up killing her
brother too!
Guest Starring: Celeste Holm(All About Eve), Tim O'Connor &
Joyce Van Patton return! B
000 EPISODE 3: THE BYE-BYE SKY HIGH I.Q. MURDER CASE(May 22, 1977):
At a meeting for high I.Q. people, a man kills another
because h knows that he's been embezeling the company
that they own together!
Guest starring: Theodore Bikel(My Fair Lady, Babylon 5
episode "TKO", movie "In The Beginning"), Star Trek:
TNG episode "Family"), Jamie Lee Curtis(True Lies,
Halloween I II III IV etc.)!! A
SEASON SEVEN:
EPISODE 1: TRY AND CATCH ME(Nov. 21, 1977):
An elderly author plans her nephew-in-law's death!
Another great episode!!
Jamie Lee Curtis(True Lies, Halloween I II III IV etc.),
Ruth Gordon(Rosemary's Baby), Mariette Hartley returns!! A
EPISODE 2: MURDER UNDER GLASS(Jan. 30, 1978):
A food critic kills a restaurant owner because he's
been blackmailing him!
Guest starring: Louis Jourdan(Octopussy, Gigi, Three Coins
In A Fountain), France Nguien(Star Trek: TOS episode "Elaan
Of Troyius", South Pacific)! A
EPISODE 3: MAKE ME A PERFECT MURDER(Feb. 25, 1978):
A TV exec gets promoted to the national arena
and his "assistant" thinks she'll get his job
but doesn't! So she kills him!!
Guest starring: Lawrence Luckinbill(Star Trek V: The
Final Frontier), Patrick O'Neal returns! A
EPISODE 4: HOW TO DIAL A MURDER(Apr. 05, 1978):
THIS IS SHOWN OUT OF ORDER ON THE DVD SET!!
A man trian's his dogs to kill!
Guest starring: Kim Cattrall(Sex In The City, Star Trek
VI: The Undiscovered Country), Tricia O'Neil(Star Trek:
TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", Babylon 5 episode
"Believers", movie "In The Beginning")! A
EPISODE 5: THE CONSPIRATORS(May 13, 1978):
A man who's part of the Irish rebillion is buying guns
for the war and the dude he's getting them from tries
to extort more money so he kills him!
Guest starring: A returning L.Q. Jones & Jeanette Nolan,
Clive Revill(Babylon 5 episode "Born To The Purple", Star
Trek: TNG episode "Qpid")! A
SPECIALS:
EPISODE OF MRS. COLUMBO:
CAVIAR WITH EVERYTHING(S.1 E.4: Mar. 22, 1979)
A woman kills her husband's lover! B
Cast:
Kate Mulgrew ... Kate Columbo
Henry Jones ... Josh Alden
Lili Haydn ... Jenny Columbo
Claudette Nevins ... Sybil
Trisha Noble ... Patty
Sam Groom ... Richard
Jack Knight ... CHP Sergeant Grady
Phyllis Flax ... Mrs. Fischetti
Jo McDonnell ... Eileen
Carolyn Calcote ... Woman
Raven Grey Eagle ... Kitchen Helper(uncredited)
Jerry Lacy ... Lawyer(uncredited)
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
I can't believe there are so few reviews on this, Columbo
is one of the defining detectives on television. He's so
low key, so unimposing, and it's a pleasure watching him
take down all those criminals that think they are are smarter
than him, better than him because of, well how little and,
well how wrinkled and cheap he appears.
He's the opposite of so many detectives on television these
days, the everyman solving crimes.
It's just a brilliant approach to a character, and one that is fantastically fun to watch. - generationofswine