The BEST episodes of Columbo season 2
Every episode of Columbo season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Columbo season 2!
A Los Angeles homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo, uses his humble ways and shrewd demeanor to ferret out even the most careful criminals.
#1 - A Stitch in Crime
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1973
Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim.
#2 - Double Shock
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1973
A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?
#3 - The Greenhouse Jungle
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1972
Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner.
#4 - The Most Crucial Game
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1972
The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.
#5 - Requiem for a Falling Star
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/21/1973
A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A.
#6 - The Most Dangerous Match
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/4/1973
A chess grandmaster disposes of the champion, who keeps coming back on him.
#7 - Étude in Black
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1972
The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.
#8 - Dagger of the Mind
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1972
While on a work trip to London, to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo gets involved with the murder of Roger Haversham, a rich old businessman who is financing the careers of two rundown theater stars. When Sir Roger threatens to end their careers, because he felt betrayed, he's killed. A short while after, his butler figures out the motives for his master's murder, and blackmails the actors, who have no other choice than to kill him and make it look like he commited suicide due to remorse, because he murdered his employer. Columbo stills manages to catch both the murderers, with the help of a pearl and a new umbrella.