Jessica arrives in Hollywood to protest the filming of her novel and prevent it from becoming a trashy movie, only to find herself heading a list of murder suspects.
While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.
Millionaire Clifford Calvert is framed for murdering a man he did business with. Columbo investigates and finds out that Mrs. Calvert has been having an affair and has lots of motive to set up her husband.
Dr. Sloan is stalked by a mad bomber whom he helped incarcerate. Norman and Mark are the main dissenters in negotiations to sell the hospital to a corporate raider.
Steve becomes embroiled in political intrigue after the murder of a city councilman's wife appears to be part of a larger political strategy. Steve investigates two mayoral candidates, as well as a rogue detective and his partner.
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend is represented by Matlock who's convinced the killer is in the courtroom, but isn't the man sitting at the defense table.
A stripper (Kerrie Keane) fighting for custody of her son is charged with murder after her ex-husband is shot, and then finished off later in his hospital room.
After her husband is murdered, a high-society Newport,RI, widow hires Matlock and Charlene to defend the accused, the maid (Theresa Saldana), who admits her guilt and was found holding the murder weapon.
When Henry, the Gourmet Detective, is invited as a guest speaker at a luxury resort spa, he quickly finds himself at the center of another murder. Stars Dylan Neal and Brooke Burns.
San Francisco homicide detective Maggie Price and former, world-class chef Henry Ross are on the case once again. The crime-solving odd couple investigates the murder of Henry's friend.
Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.
