An ambassador from Suari and his code clerk kill the chief of security in an attempt to make it look like the chief was a traitor, who blew up the legation safe and stole £600.000 on behalf of a dissident group. But Columbo gets suspicious. He just has one problem crushing the ambassador's alibi and then, when the code clerk turns up dead, the ambassador has an alibi again. But even if Colombo could rock the two alibis, there is always the immunity problem.
- Directed by
- Ted Post
- Written by
- Lou Shaw, James Menzies
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All episodes — Season 5
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S5 E1Forgotten Lady
Sep 14, 19757.698 min
A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show.
S5 E3Identity Crisis
Nov 2, 19757.295 min
A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.
S5 E4A Matter of Honor
Feb 1, 19766.675 min
The owner of a bull ranch in Mexico gives his workers the day off, and then talks his number one man into fighting the bull who nearly killed his son. But instead he shoots him with a tranquilizer gun, and lets the bull kill him. Colombo,
S5 E5Now You See Him
Feb 29, 19767.490 min
Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is t
S5 E6Last Salute to the Commodore
May 2, 19766.291 min
The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed t