The Best Episodes Written By Jackson Gillis

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Blind Spot

   S2:E410/23/1983

   Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Unfinished Business

   S3:E310/12/1986

   A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

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   7.7/10(27 votes)

   #3 - Troubled Waters

   S4:E42/9/1975

   While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.

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   7.5/10(45 votes)

   #4 - Suitable for Framing

   S1:E411/17/1971

   An art critic, Dale Kingston, kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. All the clues lead to the dead man's first wife. Can Columbo correct the Lieutenant's error before it is too late?

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   7.4/10(34 votes)

   #5 - Requiem for a Falling Star

   S2:E51/21/1973

   A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A.

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   7.3/10(27 votes)

   #6 - Lovely But Lethal

   S3:E19/23/1973

   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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   7.2/10(19 votes)

   #7 - A Bird in the Hand

   S10:E611/22/1992

   Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.

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   7.0/10(41 votes)

   #8 - Short Fuse

   S1:E61/19/1972

   A chemist rigs a bomb in his uncle's car to gain control of his uncle's company, then plants clues to make Columbo suspicious of the company's Vice-President.

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Flip Side

   S5:E29/26/1970

   The IMF must break up a drug-smuggling ring - Bracken gets his drugs from Mexico compliments of Diego Maximillian, who gets his drugs legally from C.W. Cameron. The IMF must connect Cameron to Bracken. Jim plays a Syndicate man who orders the pills from Bracken, and Barney tracks the shipment and switches out the drugs. The team has Maximillian picked up in Mexico so that Bracken has to go directly to Cameron to buy the drugs - the IMF get everything on camera and turn them both over to the authorities.

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    6.4/10(24 votes)

    #10 - Murder in Malibu

    S9:E65/14/1990

    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.

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - The Richest Man in the World

    S3:E172/19/1979

    Diana must find a reclusive millionaire who is the only one who can help her with a secret device that scrambles missile-guidance systems.

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    6.0/10(26 votes)

    #12 - Last Salute to the Commodore

    S5:E65/2/1976

    The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.

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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Deadly Dolphin

    S3:E912/1/1978

    Trained dolphins are being used to put explosives on oil tankers.

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