8.0/10(3,203)Loading...#1 - Negative Reaction
Season 4 Episode 2
Aired 10/15/1974
Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
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7.8/10(3,124)Loading...#2 - By Dawn's Early Light
Season 4 Episode 3
Aired 10/27/1974
The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Howard Berk
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7.8/10(3,023)Loading...#3 - Troubled Waters
Season 4 Episode 4
Aired 2/9/1975
While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.
Director: Ben Gazzara
Writer: Jackson Gillis, William Driskill
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7.6/10(2,957)Loading...#4 - An Exercise in Fatality
Season 4 Episode 1
Aired 9/15/1974
A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
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7.6/10(2,765)Loading...#5 - Playback
Season 4 Episode 5
Aired 3/2/1975
An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Booker Bradshaw
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7.4/10(2,454)Loading...#6 - A Deadly State of Mind
Season 4 Episode 6
Aired 4/27/1975
A doctor kills the husband of the woman he is having an affair with but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
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Every episode of Columbo Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Columbo Season 4!
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...
Every episode of Columbo Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Columbo Season 4!
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...
Episodes
6
Avg. Rating
7.7
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.6
8.0
7.8
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Negative Reaction" is the best rated episode of "Columbo" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 3203 votes. Directed by Alf Kjellin and written by Peter S. Fischer, it aired on 10/15/1974. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "By Dawn's Early Light".