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The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 3

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Every episode of Columbo Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Columbo Season 3!

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...
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8
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7.7
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  1. 8.3/10(4.1k votes)

    #1 - Any Old Port in a Storm

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    S3:E2

    A wine connoisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.

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  2. 8.2/10(3.1k votes)

    #2 - A Friend in Deed

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    S3:E8

    A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.

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  3. 8.0/10(3.6k votes)

    #3 - Swan Song

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    S3:E7

    A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety.

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  4. 7.8/10(2.9k votes)

    #4 - Double Exposure

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    S3:E4

    A filmmaker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign

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  5. 7.7/10(3.0k votes)

    #5 - Candidate for Crime

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    S3:E3

    A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  6. 7.6/10(2.8k votes)

    #6 - Publish or Perish

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    S3:E5

    A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.

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  8. 7.2/10(3.0k votes)

    #7 - Lovely But Lethal

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    S3:E1

    Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.

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  9. 7.0/10(2.6k votes)

    #8 - Mind Over Mayhem

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    S3:E6

    The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Any Old Port in a Storm" is the best rated episode of "Columbo" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 4074 votes. Directed by Leo Penn and written by Stanley Ralph Ross, it aired on 10/7/1973. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Friend in Deed".