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Buy Columbo - The Complete Fourth Season

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025192925221
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 60
Label: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
MPN: D29252D
Number Of Discs: 3
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Running Time: 539 minutes
Studio: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Theatrical Release Date: February 09, 1975

Product Description
Legendary actor Peter Falk returns in his 4-time Emmy® award-winning role as everyone’s favorite trenchcoat-wearing Police Lieutenant in Columbo The Complete Fourth Season! From a spoiled kidnapping plot to murder at a historic military academy, join Columbo in this three-disc set as he asks all the right questions in some of the most deceptive and deadly cases. The captivating fourth season also features such brilliant guest stars as Dick Van Dyke, Larry Storch, George Hamilton, Robert Conrad and more. The landmark crime series that inspired a genre is back, and no murderer can hide for long with Columbo on the beat!

Season Four Episode Guide (1974–1975, 6 episodes)
"An Exercise in Fatality" (9/15/74)
Robert Conrad is Milo Janus, an exercise guru, who is squeezing his franchisees who operate his namesake gyms. When one of those owners threatens to expose Janis and open his operation to fraud and extortion investigations, Janis kills the man in his own gym. He then concocts a complicated plan to create the perfect alibi, and as Columbo eventually reveals, "You tried to create the perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's going to hang you."

"Negative Reaction" (10/6/74)
Dick Van Dyke is Paul Galesko, a professional photographer. In order to kill his domineering, nagging wife Frances, Galesko hires ex-con Alvin Deschler to take pictures of country property for him, while he stages a kidnapping of his wife. Galesko then kills his captive, and proceeds to meet Deschler at a staged ransom drop, where he proceeds to kill his unsuspecting dupe. He then shoots himself in the leg, plants the gun on Deschler, and reports that he killed the "kidnapper". Columbo, as usual, doggedly digs at the details until he unravels the plot.

"By Dawn's Early Light" (10/27/74)
Patrick McGoohan is Colonel Lyle C. Rumford, head of the all boys military style Haynes Academy. William Haynes is the head of the Board of Trustees who has decided that the answer to declining enrollment is to make the Academy a coed school. The Colonel's answer is to rig the school cannon to explode and finesse Mr. Haynes into firing the cannon on Founder's Day. He then tries to pin the "accident" on a cadet who had gun cleaning duty that week. Ironically, Rumford is tripped up by his own fanatic sense of duty. Bruno Kirby, son of Columbo regular Bruce Kirby, plays one of the academy students. McGoohan won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series for his portrayal of Colonel Rumford.

"Troubled Waters" (2/9/75)
Robert Vaughn is Hayden Danziger, an auto executive who is having an affair with the cruise's lounge singer Rosanna Wells. When she threatens to expose the affair to his much older wife Sylvia (Jane Greer), Hayden plots to stop her from "singing". Columbo happens to be on board, since his wife won the cruise in a church raffle. He is pressed into service by the ship's captain (Patrick Macnee) once the murder is discovered, much to Danzinger's bad luck. Actor Ben Gazzara took his third turn behind the camera to direct this episode.

"Playback" (3/2/75)
Oskar Werner is Harold Van Wick, an electronic-gadget obsessed man, who runs his mother-in-law's company. When she decides to remove him from his position, he retaliates by removing her instead. He uses his high-tech home security system to tape the murder, which he then plays back to the guards' monitor on a time delay, making it appear as if the murder occurred after he had left the house for a party. Columbo uses the same system to break his alibi. Gena Rowlands portrays Harold's wheelchair bound wife, who proves instrumental in convicting her husband.

"A Deadly State of Mind" (4/27/75)
George Hamilton is Dr. Mark Collier, a psychiatrist having an affair with patient Nadia Donner, portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren. When confronted by the cuckolded husband in their beach house, Collier kills Mr. Donner. He then concocts a cover story involving a home robbery gone astray. When Nadia's resolve begins to weaken, Collier uses hypnosis to trick her into diving into an imaginary swimming pool from her 5th story balcony. Ironically, the only witness to the original crime, a blind man walking past the house as Collier was leaving, proves to be his undoing.