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The Best Episodes of Columbo Season 9

Every episode of Columbo Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Columbo Season 9!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Columbo Season 9 Episode 2 - Columbo Cries Wolf
    8.1/10(360 votes)

    S9:E2

    Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Dian Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with.

    Director:Daryl Duke
    Writers:Richard Levinson, William Link

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  2. Columbo Season 9 Episode 3 - Agenda for Murder
    7.9/10(305 votes)

    S9:E3

    Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.

    Director:Patrick McGoohan
    Writer:Jeffrey Bloom

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  3. Columbo Season 9 Episode 4 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
    7.7/10(322 votes)

    S9:E4

    Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  4. Columbo Season 9 Episode 5 - Uneasy Lies the Crown
    7.5/10(301 votes)

    S9:E5

    While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Steven Bochco

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  5. Columbo Season 9 Episode 1 - Murder, a Self Portrait
    7.4/10(328 votes)

    S9:E1

    A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women.

    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Sy Salkowitz

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  6. Columbo Season 9 Episode 6 - Murder in Malibu
    6.8/10(280 votes)

    S9:E6

    An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Columbo Cries Wolf" is the best rated episode of "Columbo" season 9. It scored 8.1/10 based on 360 votes. Directed by Daryl Duke and written by Richard Levinson, William Link, it aired on 1/20/1990. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Agenda for Murder".