COLUMBO TV MOVIE 1989

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• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Plot: The legendary Peter Falk is back checking his pockets for clues as everyone's favorite trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant in five immensely popular TV movies on DVD for the first time ever in the Columbo Mystery Movie Collection 1989. Smart, witty and always entertaining. Columbo is on the beat after unlikely criminals who always think they can outsmart TV's most probing and perceptive detective.; ; Join a host of guest stars including Fisher Stevens and Lindsay Crouse, in the landmark TV movie set that opens a new chapter of the Columbo legacy!; ; Disc One; ; • 'Columbo Goes to the Guillotine'; A gruesome accident leaves a magician dead after a mishap with his guillotine illusion. When Columbo begins to dig into the facts, he discovers the recently departed had recently conspired with a bogus psychic to convince a government agency to continue funding the mock medium's work. But, as the detective soon deduces, the conspiring parties might have unceremoniously parted ways with an accident that might not have been so accidental. Anthony Andrews guest stars.; ; Original Broadcast Date: February 6, 1989; ; • 'Murder, Smoke, and Shadows'; A self-absorbed film director employs the use of movie magic to dispatch a vengeful pursuer. The adversary, it seems, had determined the stunt-related death of his sister was the fault of the egocentric director. Fisher Stevens guest stars.; ; Original Broadcast Date: February 27, 1989; ; Disc Two; ; • 'Sex and the Married Detective'; Although this installment's title sounds more like an episode of Love, American Style, it involves the radio host of 'The Sex Therapist of the Airwaves.' When she discovers her personal assistant in bed with her lover, the incensed announcer murders the lover and attempts to implicate the assistant. Lindsay Crouse guest stars.; ; Original Broadcast Date: April 3, 1989; ; • 'Grand Deceptions'; It's a case of 'infernal affairs' when a general who owns a private military academy suspects his trusted administrator is embezzling from him. He enlists a colleague to investigate the potential skimming, but the colleague decides to blackmail the administrator for a cut of the bleeding funds. Naturally, a murder plot quickly ensues. Robert Foxworth guest stars.; ; Original Broadcast Date: May 1, 1989; ; Disc Three; ; • 'Murder: A Self Portrait'; An accomplished artist has successfully assembled his own harem, made up of his current wife, a live-in model, and his nearby ex-wife. Holding emotional and financial control over all of them, the artist dares to dabble in a group discussion asking what the three women think of one another. He is completely unprepared for their intense jealousies that result in a dire outcome. Patrick Bauchau guest stars.; ; Original Broadcast Date: November 25, 1989;
• Cast: Peter Falk, Anthony Andrews, Karen Austin, James Greene, Alan Fudge, Dana Andersen, Robert Costanzo, Michael Bacall, Charles Howerton, Milt Kogan, Tony Amendola, Rob Garrison, Frank Simons, Lenny Hicks, Ben Yudell, Nick DeMauro, Peter Noel Duhamel, Steve Zettler, Andrew Philpot, Charles Champion, Christopher Hart, Dan Birch, Leo Penn
• Director: Leo Penn
• Runtime: 7:40
• Company: Universal
• Media Format: Series