Patrick McGoohan

Mortician to the stars Eric Prince, kills gossip reporter Verity Chandler, who had knowledge of skeletons in Prince’s closet. Columbo must figure out what happened to her and why.

Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.

A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.

The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.