Columbo: Season 3
Columbo Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 8 episodes. The American crime drama television series stars Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective and homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the series originally aired on NBC after two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971. As a homicide investigator
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Lieutenant Columbo is a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
- The character is known as a friendly, verbose, and disheveled-looking police detective.
- The series was created by Richard Levinson and William Link.
- The show stars Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo following two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971.
Season overview
Columbo Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 8 episodes. The American crime drama television series stars Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective and homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the series originally aired on NBC after two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971. As a homicide investigator with the Los Angeles homicide department, Lieutenant Columbo applies his unique investigative approach to solving crimes. The show features a television-pg rating and falls into the crime, drama, and mystery genres, continuing to follow the established format of the detective examining complex cases and confronting suspects with his trademark manner.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Lovely But Lethal
Sep 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, h
Any Old Port in a Storm
Oct 7, 1973
A wine connoisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.
Candidate for Crime
Nov 4, 1973
A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.
Double Exposure
Dec 16, 1973
A filmmaker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign
Publish or Perish
Jan 18, 1974
A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.
Mind Over Mayhem
Feb 18, 1974
The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.
Swan Song
Mar 3, 1974
A Country and Western singer kills his overpowering wife in a plane crash while he parachutes to safety.
A Friend in Deed
May 5, 1974
A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.