7.4/1022 votes#1 - Fade in to Murder
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1976
Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Lou Shaw
7.0/101 votes#2 - Devil's Island
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1983
Fred wants Mary detained long enough to keep her from testifying against his boss. She is in Mexico. Opening stunt is a choreographed battle in free fall.
Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: Lou Shaw
6.6/1017 votes#3 - A Case of Immunity
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1975
An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just has one problem crushing the ambassador's alibi and then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Lou Shaw
6.0/101 votes#4 - Westworld Destroyed
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1980
After the events of Westworld, John Moore is assigned to hunt down Simon Quaid who has made off with a collection of androids for his own dangerous purposes. Moore must find a renegade android aboard a nuclear submarine.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Lou Shaw
6.0/101 votes#5 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1980
Quaid blackmails an owner of the Stoner Oil company for the company's profits. John and Pamela must find the android in the company's ranks before Quaid can win.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Lou Shaw
5.0/101 votes#6 - The Play
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1968
Milos Kuro, minister of culture has been using propaganda to discredit his premier, Leon Vados. Vados is a progressive trying to negotiate a nonagression pact with the U.S. When in the U.S. Kuro witnesses a play written by Cinnamon that undermines Vados and the U.S. He arranges to have it staged in his country. But Cinnamon and Rollin leak the play's existence to Vados. Vados attends a rehersal and is seated beneath a special radar disk that creates a sound envelope so that Vados hears only the special dialogue the IMF has created that makes Vados out to look like a fool. Vados has Kuro arrested.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Lou Shaw
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"Fade in to Murder" is the best rated episode written by Lou Shaw. It scored 7.4/10 based on 22 votes. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It aired on 10/10/1976 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Devil's Island".