Bernard L. Kowalski

Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again…

An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law’s death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.

A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident

A private investigator kills his client’s wife after she threatens to expose his blackmail scheme. The client then hires the detective to assist Columbo in the search for the killer.