8.0/103 votes#1 - A Change of Mind
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1967
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social treatment."
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Roger Parkes
8.0/103 votes#2 - Once Upon a Time
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1968
Because all other attempts to break Number 6 have failed, Number 2 decides to engage him in a game where one of them will end up dead.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
7.8/106 votes#3 - Free for All
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1967
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
7.5/1018 votes#4 - Agenda for Murder
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/1990
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Jeffrey Bloom
7.3/103 votes#5 - Fall Out
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1968
After witnessing the trials of Number 2 and Number 48 and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number 6 escapes during the chaos that follows.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
7.1/1021 votes#6 - Identity Crisis
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/1975
A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: William Driskill
7.0/101 votes#7 - Vacation
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1961
While vacationing on the Riviera, John Drake recognises a professional assassin. He succeeds in replacing the killer and undertakes an assignment working in the dark, as he has no idea who his victim is.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#8 - To Our Best Friend
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1965
Drake heads to Baghdad to clear the name of a spy suspected of leaking secrets.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#9 - The Paper Chase
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/31/1966
Secret documents fall into the wrong hands.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: N/A
6.8/1015 votes#10 - Murder With Too Many Notes
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 3/12/2001
Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford has been mentor to a talented young composer who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years, and penned Crawford's entire last movie score, which won an Oscar. When the protege wants to venture out on his own, Crawford, whose own talent seems to have run dry, concocts the perfect murder, made to look like a suicide.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
6.8/104 votes#11 - Many Happy Returns
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Anthony Skene
6.5/1018 votes#12 - Ashes to Ashes
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 8/10/1998
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.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
6.0/1022 votes#13 - Last Salute to the Commodore
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/1976
The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Jackson Gillis
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"A Change of Mind" is the best rated episode directed by Patrick McGoohan. It scored 8/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Roger Parkes. It aired on 12/15/1967 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Once Upon a Time".