Oct 29, 2018
Famous criminal defense attorney Hugh Creighton (played by Dabney Coleman) murders his common-law wife, a has-been rock star. However, while dodging questions from Lieutenant Columbo, Creighton must also deal with his blackmailing associate. Is this one good enough to set free? Or should it be guilty as charged? ...
Oct 22, 2018
In "Publish or Perish" (1974), saucy publisher Riley Greenleaf (Jack Cassidy) pays a creepy hit-man to bump off a rival, Greenleaf stages a fake drunken night on the town to provide himself with an alibi. Of course, now he has to outwit Lieutenant Columbo while disposing of the man he paid to do the dirty deed. Is...
Oct 15, 2018
Steve and Sean talk about "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990) in which realtor Vivian Dimitri (Helen Shaver) kills her boss to avenge the imprisonment and eventual death of her late husband. As the title suggests, wackiness ensues when Vivian has designs not only on the policeman who caught her husband, but his wife...
Oct 8, 2018
In "A Stitch in Crime" (1973) a talented heart surgeon (played by Leonard Nimoy) kills twice to cover up his murderous plan to do away with his colleague in a diabolical plot involving dissolving suture. Does this episode deserve a good diagnosis? Or was it DOA? Listen in to what Steve and Sean have to say and find...
Oct 1, 2018
Steve and Sean open Season Eight of The Columbo Confab podcast with "A Trace of Murder" (1997) starring David Rasche as a forensic scientist who plots with his mistress to frame her millionaire husband for murder. Does this episode pass scientific muster? Or is it bunkum? Listen in and find out what Steve and...