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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!

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 all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Networks:ABCNBC

Season 9 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Columbo" season 9 is "Murder, a Self Portrait", rated 6.3/10 from 19 user votes. It was directed by James Frawley and written by Sy Salkowitz. "Murder, a Self Portrait" aired on 11/25/1989 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Columbo Cries Wolf".

  • Murder, a Self Portrait
    6.3/10 19 votes

    #1 - Murder, a Self Portrait

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/1989

    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

  • Columbo Cries Wolf
    6.9/10 21 votes

    #2 - Columbo Cries Wolf

    Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1990

    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

    Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson

  • Agenda for Murder
    7.6/10 16 votes

    #3 - Agenda for Murder

    Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/1990

    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

  • Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
    7.1/10 18 votes

    #4 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo

    Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/1990

    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

  • Uneasy Lies the Crown
    6.6/10 17 votes

    #5 - Uneasy Lies the Crown

    Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/1990

    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

  • Murder in Malibu
    6.3/10 18 votes

    #6 - Murder in Malibu

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/1990

    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