The BEST episodes of Columbo season 9
Every episode of Columbo season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Columbo season 9!
A Los Angeles homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo, uses his humble ways and shrewd demeanor to ferret out even the most careful criminals.
#1 - Columbo Cries Wolf
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1990
Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with.
#2 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/1990
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.
#3 - Uneasy Lies the Crown
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/1990
While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.
#4 - Murder in Malibu
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/1990
An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.
#5 - Agenda for Murder
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/1990
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
#6 - Murder, a Self Portrait
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/1989
A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women.