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The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 3

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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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    8.3/10(4.1k votes)

    #1 - Any Old Port in a Storm

    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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    8.2/10(3.2k votes)

    #2 - A Friend in Deed

    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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    8.0/10(3.6k votes)

    #3 - Swan Song

    S3:E7

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

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    7.8/10(3.0k votes)

    #4 - Double Exposure

    S3:E4

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

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    7.7/10(3.0k votes)

    #5 - Candidate for Crime

    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
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    7.6/10(2.8k votes)

    #6 - Publish or Perish

    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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    7.2/10(3.0k votes)

    #7 - Lovely But Lethal

    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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    7.0/10(2.6k votes)

    #8 - Mind Over Mayhem

    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 4129 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".