Columbo: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Columbo Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Try and Catch Me
Nov 21, 1977 · 73 min
A writer of murder mysteries wreaks revenge on her nephew-in-law by blaming him for her niece's murder.
Murder Under Glass
Jan 30, 1978 · 75 min
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
Make Me a Perfect Murder
Feb 25, 1978 · 98 min
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
How to Dial a Murder
Apr 15, 1978 · 73 min
A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning
The Conspirators
May 13, 1978 · 100 min
An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him.