Columbo (season 5)
| Columbo (season 5) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 14, 1975 – May 2, 1976 |
| Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes from the fifth season of Columbo.
The season originally aired Sundays at 9:00-10:30 pm (EST) as part of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie.
The DVD was released by Universal Home Video.
Commodore Otis Swanson (John Dehner) is a retired naval officer who owns a shipbuilding company, and is not happy with the shady dealings of his son-in-law Charles Clay (Robert Vaughn), who has turned the modest and upstanding business into a name-brand production line for status-seekers. Nor is he pleased with any of the people closest to him -- his alcoholic daughter Joanna Clay (Diane Baker), his middle-aged playboy nephew Swanny Swanson (Fred Draper), his lawyer Jonathan Kittering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), and his ship yard manager Wayne Taylor (Joshua Bryant). He announces at his birthday party his intention to sell the company. That night, someone murders the Commodore. Although we don't see the murder on-screen, Clay is seen covering up the death by taking the Commodore's body out on his yacht at night and throwing it overboard. Columbo investigates with the help of a veteran sergeant and a 29-year-old novice. The detective's conviction that Clay committed the crime proves premature; when Clay himself turns up dead, Columbo realizes that someone else is responsible for both murders, an unusual development for Columbo.
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