Season Four 6 Episodes September 15 1974 to April 27 1975,
Information from: The Columbo Phile by Mark Dawidziak

"An Exercise in Fatality" (1974)
Season: 4, Episode - 1
Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
Written by:Peter S. Fischer
Produced by:Edward K. Dodds
Originally aired:September 15, 1974
Run Time:120 (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as LT. Columbo
  
Robert Conrad		as Milo Janus
Philip Bruns		as Gene Stafford
Pat Harrington		as Buddy Castle
Gretchen Corbett	as Jessica Conroy
Collin Wilcox		as Ruth Stafford
Jude Farese		as Al Murphy
Darrell Zwerling	as Lewis Lacey
Dennis Robertson	as Jerry
Raymond O'Keefe		as SGT. Rickets
Victor Izay		as Medical Examiner
Eric Mason		as Fred
J.R. Clark		as Harry Lassiter
Mel Stevens		as DR. Freeman
Manuel Depina		as Photographer
Kathleen O'Malley	as Nurse
Don Nagel		as Doberman
Susan Jacoby		as Woman ( Rose )

 

Plot:

Physical fitness expert, Milo Janus, the owner of a string of successful health spas, looking much younger than his fifty-three years. His financial accounts, however are not in such good shape. He has been skimming off the profits and shipping then into European bank accounts. A business associate, Gene Stafford, is close to uncovering the truth about Milo’s creative accounting methods. Working in the office at one of the spas, Gene has promised to follow the trail of corruption to the end. Milo puts up a brave front while he plans to murder gene. He has thought out an ingenious alibi.

 

Columbo - "Negative Reaction" (1974)

"Negative Reaction" (1974)
Season: 4, Episode - 2
Director:Alf Kjellin
Written by:Peter S. Fischer
Produced by:Everett Chambers
Originally aired:October 6, 1974
Run Time: (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as LT. Columbo

Dick Van Dyke		as Paul Galesko 
Antoinette Bower	as Frances Galesko
Don Gordon		as Alvin Deschler
Joanna Cameron		as Lorna McGrath
David Sheiner		as Ray ( Serge San Martin )
Larry Storch		as Mr. Weekly
Joyce van Patten	as Sister of Mercy
Michael Strong		as SGT. Hoffman
Vito Scotti		as Thomas Dolan
Alice Backes		as Mrs. Mayland
Harvey Gold		as Harry Lewis
Bill Zuckert		as Capt. Sampson
Adrin Ricard		as Dept. of Motor Vehicles Clerk
Thom Carney		as Manager
Tom Signorelli		as Doctor
John Ashton		as Calvin Macgruder
Edward Colmans		as Minister
Irene Tedrow		as Mrs. Charleswort
Mike Santiago		as First Policeman
Edward Cross		as Second Policeman

 
Plot:

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.

 

Columbo - "By Dawn's Early Light" (1974)


"By Dawn's Early Light" (1974)
Season: 4, Episode - 3
Director:Harvey Hart
Written by:Howard Berk
Produced by:Everett Chambers
Originally aired:October 27, 1974
Run Time: (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as LT. Columbo

Bruce Kirby     	as Sergeant Kramer
Patrick McGoohan 	as Col. Lyle C. Rumford
Tom Simcox		as William Haynes
Mark Wheeler		as Cadet Roy Springer
Burr Debenning		as Captain Loomis
Karen Lamm		as Susan Gerard
Madelene Sherwood	as Miss Brady
Sidney Kirby, SR.	as SGT. Kramer
Sidney Armus		as Officer Corso
B. Kirby, Jr.		as Cadet Morgan

 
Plot:

Colonel Lyle C. Rumford, the strict commandant of the Haynes Military Academy, is appalled to learn that board chairman William Haynes intends to turn the venerable old institution into a coed junior college. The idea is abhorrent to Rumford, who prizes tradition, discipline and duty. He is not about to relinquish his command, even if enrollment is down. The country needs places where boys learn to become men. The impudent Haynes has become the enemy, and the enemy must be removed.

 

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Columbo - "Troubled Waters" (1975)


"Troubled Waters" (1975)
Season: 4, Episode - 4
Director:Ben Gazzara
Written by:Jackson Gillis, William Driskill
Produced by:Everett Chambers
Originally aired:February 9, 1975
Run Time: (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as Lt. Columbo

Poupee Bocar		as Rosanna Wells
Jane Greer		as Sylvia Danziger
Patrick Macnee		as Captain Gibbon
Dean Stockwell		as Lloyd Harrington
Robert Vaughn		as Hayden Danziger
Bernard Fax		as Purser Preston Watkins
Robert Douglas		as Doctor Frank Pierce
Susan Damante		as Melissa
Peter Maloney		as Artie Podell
Curtis Credel		as The Magician

 
Plot:

Lieutenant Columbo and his wife are taking a cruise to Mexico. Mrs. Columbo won the trip in a raffle for the Holy Name Society. Also aboard is auto executive Hayden Danziger, a man cruising in a murderous direction. Hayden is being blackmailed by Rosanna Wells, the featured vocalist on the cruise. If her demands aren’t met, she’ll reveal the details of their affair to his wife, Silvia. Hayden plans to shoot Rosanna and frame Lloyd harrington, the band pianist she recently dumped.

 


"Playback" (1975)
Season: 4, Episode - 5
Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
Written by:David Lewis, Booker Bradshaw
Produced by:Everett Chambers
Originally aired:March 2, 1975
Run Time:90 (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as LT. Columbo

Guest Starring 

Oskar Werner 		as Harold van Wyck
Gena Rowlands		as Elizabeth van Wyck 
Robert Brown		as Arthur Midas
Patricia Barry		as Francine
Martha Scott		as Margaret Midas
Herb Jr Jefferson 	as Baxter 
Trisha Noble 		as Marcy 
Bart Burns 		as Thompson 
Steven Marlo 		as Policeman 
Joe O'Har 		as Attendant

 
Plot:

Electronics genius Harold van Wyck married into wealth and power. But the high-living inventor has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing extravagant experiments, and he’s about to be ousted as head of the family owned Midas Electronics, The only thing that has kept Harold’s iron-willed mother-in-law, Margaret Midas, from firing him before is her devotion to Elizabeth, her sheltered invalid daughter. Elizabeth refuses to think or hear ill of her husband, Harold. This time however, Margaret is holding the trump card. She hired a detective who discovered and documented the details of Harold’s philandering ways. Knowing he is trapped, Harold has devised an elaborate scheme to prevent the imminent purge.

  
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Columbo - "A Deadly State of Mind" (1975)



"A Deadly State of Mind" (1975)
Season: 4, Episode - 6
Director:Harvey Hart
Written by:Peter S. Fischer
Produced by:Everett Chambers
Originally aired:April 27,, 1975
Run Time:92 (mins)
Cast:
Peter Falk		as LT. Columbo
  
George Hamilton		as Dr. Marcus Collier
Lesley Ann Warren	as Nadia Donner
Stephen Elliott		as Karl Donner
Karen Machon		as Dr. Anita Borden
Bruce Kirby		as Sergeant Kramer
William Wintersole	as Dr. Hunt
Ryan MacDonald		as Charles Whelan
Jack Manning		as Daniel Morris
Fred Draper		as David Morris
Glorie Kaufman		as Brenda
Redmond Gleeson		as Arnold
Vance Davis		as Officer Hendryx
Danny Wells		as Gary Keppler
Morris Buchanan		as Lab Man
Kathy Speirs		as Second Receptionist

 
Plot:

The head of the Institute of Behavioral Studies, a university research project, dashing psychiatrist Dr. Marcus Collier is romancing his very beautiful. Very wealthy and very married patient, Nadia Donner. He’s also regularly hypnotizing her and using the revelations for a book that he hopes will be a successful follow-up to his best seller. But Nadia’s husband, powerful and imperious business Karl Donner, has learned about the affair. A trustee of the university, he’s threatening to expose and ruin Mark.

 

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