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The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 2

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Every episode of Columbo Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Columbo Season 2!

The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 2

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves...
  1. Background image for Étude in Black
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #1 - Étude in Black

    S2:E1

    The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.

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  2. Background image for The Greenhouse Jungle
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    #2 - The Greenhouse Jungle

    S2:E2

    Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner.

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  3. Background image for The Most Crucial Game
    7.3/10(35 votes)

    #3 - The Most Crucial Game

    S2:E3

    The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.

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  4. Background image for Dagger of the Mind
    6.4/10(34 votes)

    #4 - Dagger of the Mind

    S2:E4

    While on a work trip to London, to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo gets involved with the murder of Roger Haversham, a rich old businessman who is financing the careers of two rundown theater stars. When Sir Roger threatens to end their careers, because he felt betrayed, he's killed. A short while after, his butler figures out the motives for his master's murder, and blackmails the actors, who have no other choice than to kill him and make it look like he commited suicide due to remorse, because he murdered his employer. Columbo stills manages to catch both the murderers, with the help of a pearl and a new umbrella.

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  5. Background image for Requiem for a Falling Star
    7.4/10(32 votes)

    #5 - Requiem for a Falling Star

    S2:E5

    A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A.

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  6. Background image for A Stitch in Crime
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #6 - A Stitch in Crime

    S2:E6

    Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim.

    Director:Hy Averback
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Most Dangerous Match
    7.1/10(36 votes)

    #7 - The Most Dangerous Match

    S2:E7

    A chess grandmaster disposes of the champion, who keeps coming back on him.

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  9. Background image for Double Shock
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #8 - Double Shock

    S2:E8

    A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Étude in Black" is the best rated episode of "Columbo" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by Nicholas Colasanto and written by Steven Bochco, Richard Levinson, William Link, it aired on 9/17/1972. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Greenhouse Jungle".