Monk is sent to Mexico to investigate the strange case of a young man who drowned in mid-air during a parachute drop. Monk is more concerned that he can't get his favorite spring water.
When a powerful CEO and his wife are shot to death in a deserted parking lot, the police investigate the husband's enemies. But Monk thinks it's all about the wife and the affair she was having with a handsome young ballplayer.
When a ringmaster is murdered by an acrobat in a crowded restaurant, Monk suspects his ex wife is responsible. But with her foot broken and in a cast, how could she have done it?
Kay Freestone, assistant to television network executive Mark McAndrews, shares both a professional and an intensely personal relationship with her boss. When Mark is promoted, she expects to move up the corporate ladder with him. But Mark, with a cold professional eye, refuses, believing that she isn't yet ready for the responsibility. Kay retaliates by murdering Mark, whom she feels has used her, and sets up a seemingly airtight alibi. But Columbo unravels her plan with all the practiced ease of an expert screenwriter. Stars Peter Falk.
A tell-all book written by one of Amanda's vindictive old college roommates contains embarrassing secrets of all four roommates. Dr. Sloan tries to discover what happened when the author is found dead.
A prostitute, who tells Jack of her plans to blackmail her clients, is found dead of an apparent drug overdose. Dr. Sloan interviews her clients to discover the real cause of death.
Matlock reluctantly agrees to try to keep Michelle's caustic deejay friend from facing the music when he's accused of canceling a rival jock's show, permanently.
Matlock does the investigating when his friend, a burned-out police captain, constructs an elaborate frame to escape a young cop's accusations of murder.
A distraught man (Mitchell Laurance) takes Matlock's friends hostage and, while they wait for his return, Michelle, Julie and Tyler try to dissuade the gunman with tales of Ben's sly detective work and courtroom heroics.
Reporter O'Neill tracks the mayor's killer to Texas while, back in Chicago, Matlock uncovers the motive - a dirty real-estate deal involving a respected judge.
When Hannah's customer and Delores' theater rival is murdered, Hannah must find her killer in order to save her mother's reputation. Chad and Hannah's romance blossoms. Stars Alison Sweeney, Victor Webster, and Barbara Niven.
Attorney turned therapist Hailey Dean is pulled into another investigation when a popular new dating app links multiple missing persons cases from around the city. Stars Kellie Martin.
