Columbo - "Murder, a Self-Portrait" (1989)

Season Nine
6 Episodes
November 25 1989 to May 14 1990, 


     



"Murder, a Self-Portrait" (1989)
Season: 
9, Episode - 1
    
    
Director: James Frawley


Written by: Robert Sherman

     

Cast: 


Peter Falk

Guest Starring 

Patrick Bauchau 
Fionnula Flanagan 
Shera Danese
Isabel Lorca 
Vito Scotti 
George Coe 		as Dr Hammer 
David Byrd 		as Ralph 
Don Bovingloh 		as Customer 
Lenny Hicks 		as Morgue Attendant 
Danny Hassel 		as Lifeguard 
Roger Etienne 		as Night Visitor 
Frank L Wiltse 		as Officer 
Harold Harris 		as Harry Chudrow
David Byrd 		as Ralph 
Don Schneider 		as Bystander At Beach





Plot: 

An artist Barsini has an ex-wife, a wife and a live in model and they all
              live at the beach in two houses. He loves all three but his ex-wife Louise
              plans on moving in with her lover and psychologist. He agrees to paint
              the restaurant of an old friend, and while he is supposed to be painting
              he sneeks out and kills Louise and completes the picture from sketches.
              The psychologist gives Columbo tapes of dreams Louise made while his
              patient, and Columbo plays them for Barsini while he has his portrait
              painted. Columbo interprets her dreams as Barsini killing his agent years
              earlier.










Columbo - "Columbo Cries Wolf" (1990)


      



"Columbo Cries Wolf" (1990)
Season: 

9, Episode - 2
    
    
Director: Daryl Duke


Written by: William Read Woodfield

     

Cast: 

Peter Falk

Guest Stars

Ian Buchanan 		as Sean Brantley
Rebecca Staab 		as Tina
Alan Scarf 
Mark Margolis
John Finnegan		as Police Commissioner
David Huddleston 	as the Mayor
Deidre Hall		as Diane Hunter

Special Guest Star

Deidre Hall 		as Dian Hunter

Co-Starring

Jean Wolf 		as Herself 
Gigi Rice 		as Dian's Secretary
Ralph Wilcox 		as Chef 
Peter Zapp 		as Mayor's aide
Morgan Jones 		as Wilson 
Darrel Kunitomi 	as Factotum
Daphne Cheung 		as Next Nymph Of The Month 
Kendra Booth 		as Southern Nymph 
Paula Trickey 		as Nymph At Pool 
Rainelle Saunders 	as Art Director
Matt Flynn 		as Guest 
Tom Moses 		as Chief Of Detectives 
Mike Masters 		as Security Guard
James Willett 		as Security Man 
Gil Newsome 		as Reporter 
Beebe Smith 		as Reporter 
Jimmy Ortega 		as Reporter
Primo Lopez 		as Reporter 
Sandra Wild 		as Nymph 
Alicia Gilbert 		as Nymph 
Cameron 		as Nymph 
Craig Hosking 		as Helicopter Pilot 
Farrell Mayer 		as Police Official 
Laurance Grant 		as Reporter 
Bill Edward Rogers 	as Policeman 
Luis Delgado 		as City Employee 
George Chavez 		as Tile Man







Plot: 

Bachelor's World founder, playboy Sean Brantly, announces he is to marry a
                  model Tina. His long time lover and business partner Diane Hunter decides to
                  sell her 51% share in the magazine and lets it be known she is flying to
                  London. When she goes missing in London Columbo is asked to investigate.
                  He believes she was killed on her way to the airport when her driver heard a
                  gun shot during a stop on the way, Tina then pretends to be Diane flying to
                  London in her place. The police tear apart the mansion looking for a body
                  only for Diane to return from Europe, the whole thing a hoax to generate
                  publicity and increase circulation. When Diane decides to sell anyway Sean
                  kills her, but Columbo proves she really is dead by calling her beeper to
                  locate the body.

 




Columbo - "Agenda for Murder" (1990)



      



"Agenda for Murder" (1990)
Season: 
9, Episode - 3
    
    
Director: Patrick McGoohan


Written by: Jeffrey Bloom

     

Cast: 
Peter Falk

Patrick McGoohan 	as Oscar Finch  
Annie Stewart 		as Rebecca Christy
Denis Arndt		as Paul Mackey                      
Carol Barbee 		as Diane
Louis Zorich 		as Frank Staplin                    
Peter Allas 		as Security Man
Penny Fuller                     
Kirk Thornton 		as Police Technician
Bruce Kirby                      
Doug Franklin 		as Coroner's Man
Anne Haney                       
Rande Leaman 		as Staffer
Stanley Kamel                    
Bryan Montgomery 	as Security Man #2
Steven Ford                      
Eva Charney 		as Gal
Arthur Hill 		as The Governor      
Jake Jacobs 		as D A
Michael Goldfinger 	as Laundry Truck Driver                     
Huey Redwine 		as 1st Man
Shaun Toub 		as Amir               
Jim Carson 		as Radio Announcer  







Plot: 


This 2-hour TV movie was originally presented as an installment of
  	The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie in February of 1990. Patrick McGoohan (who
  	also directed) plays a vice presidential candidate whose best friend murders a
  	blackmailing racketeer. With "damage control" foremost in his mind, McGoohan
  	arrange to make the murder look like a suicide. At this point, Lt. Columbo (Peter
	Falk) enters, and it's "cat and mouse" for the remaining 90 minutes. Oscar Finch 
	is a long time friend of congressman Paul Machy, running
        mate of governor Montgomery. Oscar kills a business man Frank
        Staplan after he threatened to expose him and the congressman for
        helping him in 1969 unless he helps him again by shreading evidence
        against him. Oscar makes it look like a suicide, but a dry patch in the car
        park from his car, dried blood under the gun, a half sent fax and teeth
        marks in a piece of cheese help Columbo to catch him.  




	



Columbo - "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990)



      



"Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990)
Season: 
9, Episode - 4
    
    
Director: Vincent J. McEveety


Written by: Peter S. Fischer

     

Cast: 

Peter Falk

Guest Starring

Helen Shaver		as Vivian Dimitri 
Ian McShane		as Leland StJohn 
Ed Winter 
Tom Isbell 
Teresa Ganzel 
Michael Alldredge 
Hugh Gillin 
Rosanna Huffman		as Steadman 
George Buck 
Don Calfa 
Roscoe Lee Browne 	as Dr Steadman 
Peggy Walton Walker 	as Liz Cooper 
Joe Bellan 		as Joe
Robert Balderson 	as Jerry 
Julius Branca 		as Abe Lasko 
Roger Hampton 		as Theo Kellerman 
Robin Bach 		as Waiter 
Jean-Paul Vignon 	as Maitre D' 
Ed McCready 		as Plainclothesman 
LaRue Stanley 		as Gracie 
Michael Bandoni 	as Landscaper
Rob Narita 		as Uniformed Policeman 
Ken Bryan 		as Ambulance Attendant 
Dafidd McCracken 	as Bernie, 
Susan Bachli 		as Hooker 
Bill Edward Rogers 	as Uniformed Policeman 2




	
 
Plot: 

A psycotic woman kills the man, her boss, responsible for having her
              husband sent to prison then turns her attention to Columbo who made
              the arrest. She slips out during dinner to use the man's cash card in an
              ATM to obscure the time of death, but the man had $1400 in winnings in
              his pocket. She tries to lay the blame on a number of families in dispute
              with the company. She attempts to kill Columbo's wife using poisoned
              marmalade, so Columbo pretends she died to trick a confession out of
              the woman.




	







      



"Uneasy Lies the Crown" (1990)
Season: 
9, Episode - 5
    
    
Director: Alan J. Levi


Written by: Steven Bochco

     

Cast: 

Peter Falk		as Lieutenant Columbo

James Read        	as Wesley Corman
Morgan Jones 		as Lab Technician
Jo Anderson		as Mrs. Lydia Corman
Mimi Cozzens 		as Person At Track
Paul Burke         	as Horace Sherwin
Marshall R. Teague	as Adam Evans
Nancy Walker
John Bowman 		as Man
Dick Sargent
Khin-Kyaw Maung 	as Maitre D' Ron Cey
Eugene Davis as Man #2
Marshall Teague
Daniel Bryan Cartmell 	as Bartender At Turf Club
Mark Arnott
John Idakitis 		as Bartender At Restaurant
James A Jr Watson
Randall James Jeffries 	as Wesley's Friend
Steven Gilborn
Melissa Young 		as Blonde
Raymond Singer
Steve Kelso 		as Policeman
Victor Bevine
Henry A Jr Crowell 	as Spectator
John Roarke
James Landi 		as Police Officer
Paul Burke 		as Horace Sherwin
Edward Talbot 		
"Chip" Matthews 	as Paramedic



Plot: 

A dentist's father-in-law throws him out of his practice and encourages his
                  daughter to divorce him. He decides to frame his wife Lydia for murder,
                  mixing up a time release paste cement laced with digitalus which he uses to
                  fix her lovers crown. That night the lover dies and he helps to cover up the
                  death planting false clues pointing at his wife Lydia. Columbo uses the
                  dentists poor understanding of chemistry to trick him into confessing.







Columbo - "Murder in Malibu" (1990)




      



"Murder in Malibu" (1990)
Season: 
9, Episode - 6
    
    
Director: Walter Grauman


Written by: Jackson Gillis

     

Cast: 

Peter Falk

Andrew Stevens		as Wayne                  
John Petlock 		as Plainclothesman #2
Brenda Vaccaro    	as Jess              
Louise Fitch 		as Mrs Gompertz
Floyd Levine                    
Peter Jolly 		as Charlie
Laurie Walters                  
Jill Beber 		as Waitress
Sondra Currie                   
Marr Nealon 		as Nurse's Aide
Janet Margolin 		as Theresa Goren 
Janna Brown 		as Usher
Tom Dreesen 		as TV Host          
Liddy Roley 		as Policewoman
Charles Walker 		as Truck Driver  
Maggie Mellin 		as Woman
Ben Slack 		as Doctor             
Linda Surroughs 	as Another Woman
Yolanda Lloyd 		as Rosa           
Annie Waterman 		as Third Woman
Efrain Figueroa 	as McGee        
Virginia Bingham 	as Fourth Woman
Mary Margaret Lewis 	as Mavis    
Michele Bernath 	as Fifth Woman
Robin Gordon 		as Shorts          
Sandra Giles 		as Sixth Woman
Bill Zuckert 		as Father          
Larry Grant 		as Photographer
Judy Jean Berns 	as Middle-Aged Spinster                        
Kathy Lukather 		as Saleswoman
Connie Danese 		as Receptionist   
Joe Staton 		as Plainclothesman
Michael G Hawkins 	as Plainclothesman

 
 
Plot: 

A romance novelist Theresa Goren agrees to marry her playboy lover Wayne
                  Jennings. He drives through the night from a tennis tournament in palm
                  springs after he gets a call from Theresa claiming she does not want see him
                  again and he shoots her dead. Jess McCurdy, Theresa's sister and publicist,
                  made the call to break them up and hired a detective to gather dirt on him.
                  He confesses to murder after the mileage on his car does not match, but he is
                  released when the fatal shot is not from his gun. Wayne killed her while she
                  slept, dressed her and made it look like a robbery. He planned to return to
                  palm springs but could not get away when a cable repair truck parked in the
                  street outside so shot her again, but the label in Theresa's panties was on the
                  wrong side, a mistake only a man could make. 











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	`"Murder, a Self-Portrait" (1989)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 1`
`Director:`	`James Frawley`
`Written by:`	`Robert Sherman`
`Cast:`	`Peter Falk Guest Starring Patrick Bauchau Fionnula Flanagan Shera Danese Isabel Lorca Vito Scotti George Coe as Dr Hammer David Byrd as Ralph Don Bovingloh as Customer Lenny Hicks as Morgue Attendant Danny Hassel as Lifeguard Roger Etienne as Night Visitor Frank L Wiltse as Officer Harold Harris as Harry Chudrow David Byrd as Ralph Don Schneider as Bystander At Beach`
`Plot:`	An artist Barsini has an ex-wife, a wife and a live in model and they all live at the beach in two houses. He loves all three but his ex-wife Louise plans on moving in with her lover and psychologist. He agrees to paint the restaurant of an old friend, and while he is supposed to be painting he sneeks out and kills Louise and completes the picture from sketches. The psychologist gives Columbo tapes of dreams Louise made while his patient, and Columbo plays them for Barsini while he has his portrait painted. Columbo interprets her dreams as Barsini killing his agent years earlier.

	`"Columbo Cries Wolf" (1990)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 2`
`Director:`	`Daryl Duke`
Written by:	`William Read Woodfield`
`Cast:`	Peter Falk Guest Stars Ian Buchanan as Sean Brantley Rebecca Staab as Tina Alan Scarf Mark Margolis John Finnegan as Police Commissioner David Huddleston as the Mayor Deidre Hall as Diane Hunter Special Guest Star Deidre Hall as Dian Hunter Co-Starring Jean Wolf as Herself Gigi Rice as Dian's Secretary Ralph Wilcox as Chef Peter Zapp as Mayor's aide Morgan Jones as Wilson Darrel Kunitomi as Factotum Daphne Cheung as Next Nymph Of The Month Kendra Booth as Southern Nymph Paula Trickey as Nymph At Pool Rainelle Saunders as Art Director Matt Flynn as Guest Tom Moses as Chief Of Detectives Mike Masters as Security Guard James Willett as Security Man Gil Newsome as Reporter Beebe Smith as Reporter Jimmy Ortega as Reporter Primo Lopez as Reporter Sandra Wild as Nymph Alicia Gilbert as Nymph Cameron as Nymph Craig Hosking as Helicopter Pilot Farrell Mayer as Police Official Laurance Grant as Reporter Bill Edward Rogers as Policeman Luis Delgado as City Employee George Chavez as Tile Man
`Plot:`	Bachelor's World founder, playboy Sean Brantly, announces he is to marry a model Tina. His long time lover and business partner Diane Hunter decides to sell her 51% share in the magazine and lets it be known she is flying to London. When she goes missing in London Columbo is asked to investigate. He believes she was killed on her way to the airport when her driver heard a gun shot during a stop on the way, Tina then pretends to be Diane flying to London in her place. The police tear apart the mansion looking for a body only for Diane to return from Europe, the whole thing a hoax to generate publicity and increase circulation. When Diane decides to sell anyway Sean kills her, but Columbo proves she really is dead by calling her beeper to locate the body.

	`"Agenda for Murder" (1990)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 3`
`Director:`	`Patrick McGoohan`
`Written by:`	`Jeffrey Bloom`
`Cast:`	Peter Falk Patrick McGoohan as Oscar Finch Annie Stewart as Rebecca Christy Denis Arndt as Paul Mackey Carol Barbee as Diane Louis Zorich as Frank Staplin Peter Allas as Security Man Penny Fuller Kirk Thornton as Police Technician Bruce Kirby Doug Franklin as Coroner's Man Anne Haney Rande Leaman as Staffer Stanley Kamel Bryan Montgomery as Security Man #2 Steven Ford Eva Charney as Gal Arthur Hill as The Governor Jake Jacobs as D A Michael Goldfinger as Laundry Truck Driver Huey Redwine as 1st Man Shaun Toub as Amir Jim Carson as Radio Announcer
`Plot:`	This 2-hour TV movie was originally presented as an installment of The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie in February of 1990. Patrick McGoohan (who also directed) plays a vice presidential candidate whose best friend murders a blackmailing racketeer. With "damage control" foremost in his mind, McGoohan arrange to make the murder look like a suicide. At this point, Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) enters, and it's "cat and mouse" for the remaining 90 minutes. Oscar Finch is a long time friend of congressman Paul Machy, running mate of governor Montgomery. Oscar kills a business man Frank Staplan after he threatened to expose him and the congressman for helping him in 1969 unless he helps him again by shreading evidence against him. Oscar makes it look like a suicide, but a dry patch in the car park from his car, dried blood under the gun, a half sent fax and teeth marks in a piece of cheese help Columbo to catch him.

	`"Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 4`
`Director:`	`Vincent J. McEveety`
`Written by:`	`Peter S. Fischer`
`Cast:`	Peter Falk Guest Starring Helen Shaver as Vivian Dimitri Ian McShane as Leland StJohn Ed Winter Tom Isbell Teresa Ganzel Michael Alldredge Hugh Gillin Rosanna Huffman as Steadman George Buck Don Calfa Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr Steadman Peggy Walton Walker as Liz Cooper Joe Bellan as Joe Robert Balderson as Jerry Julius Branca as Abe Lasko Roger Hampton as Theo Kellerman Robin Bach as Waiter Jean-Paul Vignon as Maitre D' Ed McCready as Plainclothesman LaRue Stanley as Gracie Michael Bandoni as Landscaper Rob Narita as Uniformed Policeman Ken Bryan as Ambulance Attendant Dafidd McCracken as Bernie, Susan Bachli as Hooker Bill Edward Rogers as Uniformed Policeman 2
`Plot:`	A psycotic woman kills the man, her boss, responsible for having her husband sent to prison then turns her attention to Columbo who made the arrest. She slips out during dinner to use the man's cash card in an ATM to obscure the time of death, but the man had $1400 in winnings in his pocket. She tries to lay the blame on a number of families in dispute with the company. She attempts to kill Columbo's wife using poisoned marmalade, so Columbo pretends she died to trick a confession out of the woman.

	`"Uneasy Lies the Crown" (1990)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 5`
`Director:`	`Alan J. Levi`
`Written by:`	`Steven Bochco`
`Cast:`	Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo James Read as Wesley Corman Morgan Jones as Lab Technician Jo Anderson as Mrs. Lydia Corman Mimi Cozzens as Person At Track Paul Burke as Horace Sherwin Marshall R. Teague as Adam Evans Nancy Walker John Bowman as Man Dick Sargent Khin-Kyaw Maung as Maitre D' Ron Cey Eugene Davis as Man #2 Marshall Teague Daniel Bryan Cartmell as Bartender At Turf Club Mark Arnott John Idakitis as Bartender At Restaurant James A Jr Watson Randall James Jeffries as Wesley's Friend Steven Gilborn Melissa Young as Blonde Raymond Singer Steve Kelso as Policeman Victor Bevine Henry A Jr Crowell as Spectator John Roarke James Landi as Police Officer Paul Burke as Horace Sherwin Edward Talbot "Chip" Matthews as Paramedic
`Plot:`	`A dentist's father-in-law throws him out of his practice and encourages his daughter to divorce him. He decides to frame his wife Lydia for murder, mixing up a time release paste cement laced with digitalus which he uses to fix her lovers crown. That night the lover dies and he helps to cover up the death planting false clues pointing at his wife Lydia. Columbo uses the dentists poor understanding of chemistry to trick him into confessing.`

	`"Murder in Malibu" (1990)`
`Season:`	`9, Episode - 6`
`Director:`	`Walter Grauman`
`Written by:`	`Jackson Gillis`
`Cast:`	Peter Falk Andrew Stevens as Wayne John Petlock as Plainclothesman #2 Brenda Vaccaro as Jess Louise Fitch as Mrs Gompertz Floyd Levine Peter Jolly as Charlie Laurie Walters Jill Beber as Waitress Sondra Currie Marr Nealon as Nurse's Aide Janet Margolin as Theresa Goren Janna Brown as Usher Tom Dreesen as TV Host Liddy Roley as Policewoman Charles Walker as Truck Driver Maggie Mellin as Woman Ben Slack as Doctor Linda Surroughs as Another Woman Yolanda Lloyd as Rosa Annie Waterman as Third Woman Efrain Figueroa as McGee Virginia Bingham as Fourth Woman Mary Margaret Lewis as Mavis Michele Bernath as Fifth Woman Robin Gordon as Shorts Sandra Giles as Sixth Woman Bill Zuckert as Father Larry Grant as Photographer Judy Jean Berns as Middle-Aged Spinster Kathy Lukather as Saleswoman Connie Danese as Receptionist Joe Staton as Plainclothesman Michael G Hawkins as Plainclothesman
`Plot:`	A romance novelist Theresa Goren agrees to marry her playboy lover Wayne Jennings. He drives through the night from a tennis tournament in palm springs after he gets a call from Theresa claiming she does not want see him again and he shoots her dead. Jess McCurdy, Theresa's sister and publicist, made the call to break them up and hired a detective to gather dirt on him. He confesses to murder after the mileage on his car does not match, but he is released when the fatal shot is not from his gun. Wayne killed her while she slept, dressed her and made it look like a robbery. He planned to return to palm springs but could not get away when a cable repair truck parked in the street outside so shot her again, but the label in Theresa's panties was on the wrong side, a mistake only a man could make.