1An Exercise in Fatality
A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident
2Negative Reaction
Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money.
3By Dawn's Early Light
The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.
4Troubled Waters
While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.
5Playback
An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.
6A Deadly State of Mind
A doctor kills the husband of the woman he is having an affair with but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind.