I love the episode where the social worker thought Lt. Columbo was a bum. When he showed ID she said his undercover costume was perfect for skid row.
it was a good show.
I like most of the episodes. Jack Cassidy was a great bad guy. The shows I remember most were:
1. Ruth Gordon plays a mystery writer who kills her niece’s widower because she believe he killed her niece.
2. Vera Miles owns a cosmetics company and she kills an employee and ex-boyfriend (Martin Sheen!) who has stolen a valuable anti-aging formula and is holding it for ransom.
3. Tyne Daley kills her husband and her husband’s bum nephew and takes over the husband’s pro football franchise.
4. Helen Shaver plans to kills Colombo and his wife because she blames Colombo for her husband’s death.
5. Matthew Rhys-Davis kills a blackmailer who is threatening his actress girlfriend (she killed an ex in self defense and the blackmailer witnessed it) and his new nightclub.
6. A trophy wife and her forensic investigator boyfriend (who works with Colombo) murder her husband’s business rival and try to frame the husband for the murder.
The writers should have come up with a guest starring role for Bette Davis. The imperious Bette sparring with the annoyingly persistent Colombo would have been great.