The Best Episodes Written By Robert Van Scoyk

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Benedict Arnold Slipped Here

   S4:E183/13/1988

   Someone wants the old historic house enough to kill for it and its supposed hidden treasure AND Jessica is executor of the late owner's will.

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #2 - Murder at the Oasis

   S1:E214/7/1985

   An unpopular show-business personality discovers that elaborate security systems are no guarantee of safety.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #3 - The Cemetery Vote

   S3:E204/5/1987

   First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   7.6/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor

   S3:E912/7/1986

   Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   7.5/10(30 votes)

   #5 - Make Me a Perfect Murder

   S7:E32/25/1978

   Mark McAndrews a top network programmer is promoted to a New York position. His assistant, who is very ambitious and his lover, expects to get his old job. But of course he feels she is out of her league and needs more experience. Kay, feeling betrayed, decides to seek revenge.

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   7.4/10(27 votes)

   #6 - Murder Under Glass

   S7:E21/30/1978

   A famous food critic is threatened by a restaurant owner, and so the critic leaves. Soon after, the cook dies. Columbo's involvement is welcomed by all the other chefs in the area, but Columbo wonders why the dead restaurant owner slammed the drawers before he died. And how could the poison that killed him enter an unopened bottle without the killer even being in the room? Could it have been suicide? But then there's the cheques to a mysterious society, and the victim's calender. Can Columbo's cooking skills really match the food critic's taste?

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   7.3/10(10 votes)

   #7 - Hooray for Homicide

   S1:E410/28/1984

   Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion picture, backed by producer Jerry Lydecker. Jessica is furious to see how her book is being butchered by Lydecker and his crew. She heads out to Hollywood to confront Lydecker, but things take a turn when Lydecker is found dead on stage. Jessica ends up being the prime suspect in the murder, but luckily the officer in charge of the investigation believes she's too smart to be the killer and sets her up to find the real murderer.

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Three Minus Two

   S2:E224/1/1982

   A beautiful fashion designer who has risen to the top of her profession hires Magnum to protect her when one of her two partners in a clothing firm is murdered.

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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   6.0/10(7 votes)

   #9 - A Lady in the Lake

   S2:E711/10/1985

   While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

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   Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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