7.0/1020 votes#1 - Columbo Goes to College
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 12/9/1990
Lt. Columbo is invited as guest speaker in a Criminology course and squares off against two cunning students, who are confident they have duped the lieutenant with various leads, when their professor is found murdered.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Jeffrey Bloom, Frederick King Keller
6.8/1018 votes#2 - Murder can be Hazardous to Your Health
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/1991
Wade Anders, a former security expert, hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host, news reader Bud, discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show.
Director: Daryl Duke
Writer: Sonia Wolf, April Raynell, Patricia Ford
7.0/1019 votes#3 - Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 4/29/1991
Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: William Read Woodfield
7.2/1017 votes#4 - Death Hits the Jackpot
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 12/15/1991
After winning a $30 million lottery, photographer Freddy Brower, who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him, arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr, to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's, until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Jeffrey Bloom
6.1/1019 votes#5 - No Time to Die
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 3/15/1992
Columbo attends the wedding of his police officer nephew. While her husband takes a shower, the bride disappears from the bridal suite. The groom enlists Uncle Columbo's help in unraveling the case. Seems she has been kidnapped by a psychopath who intends to kill her once he consummates "their" marriage.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Evan Hunter
6.9/1015 votes#6 - A Bird in the Hand
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1992
Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Jackson Gillis
7.6/1020 votes#7 - It's All in the Game
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1993
Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter Falk
7.2/1016 votes#8 - Butterfly in Shades of Grey
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/1994
Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
6.2/1016 votes#9 - Undercover
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 5/2/1994
A photograph is the only clue for Columbo when two dead men and a seven year old mystery with $4 million dollars involved as well as an obnoxious insurance investigator come into play.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Evan Hunter
6.6/1016 votes#10 - Strange Bedfellows
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 5/8/1995
Graham McVeigh, a thoroughbred ranch owner, kills his brother, and frames a local mob bookie. Then, under the guise of making good on his brother's debt, he kills the bookie as well, claiming self-defense. Mob boss Vincenzo Fortelli starts to exert pressure on McVeigh. To solve the crime Columbo must work with the gangster.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
6.8/1015 votes#11 - A Trace of Murder
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 5/15/1997
Cathleen Calvert and her lover, crime scene investigator Patrick Kinsley, plot to get rid of Calvert's husband, Clifford, a powerful businessman, by killing an investment broker with whom he is currently feuding, and pinning the murder on Clifford. As long as he is alive and in prison, Cathleen has access to all his money. Columbo must uncover a criminal who is part of the team handling the investigation.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Charles Kipps
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, Jeffrey Hatcher
6.8/1015 votes#13 - 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, Jeffrey Cava
6.8/1014 votes#14 - Columbo Likes the Nightlife
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/2003
The final Columbo story starring Peter Falk, Los Angeles rave promoter Justin Price helps his girlfriend Vanessa get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, who was backing Price's new club, after he drops dead in Vanessa's apartment. When an investigative reporter pieces the crime together and threatens to blackmail Justin, Justin kills him.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Writer: Michael Alaimo
The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 10
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Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Columbo Goes to College" is the best rated episode of "Columbo" season 10. It scored 7/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by E.W. Swackhamer and written by Jeffrey Bloom, Frederick King Keller, it aired on 12/9/1990. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Murder can be Hazardous to Your Health".