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1. Hassan Salah, the First Secretary of the Suari Legation, commits two murders in this episode titled "A Case of Immunity". First he kills the Chief of Security, Youseff Alafa, and then he bumps off a code clerk named Habib who helped Salah commit the first murder. Which actor played Hassan Salah?
2. In the episode "Candidate for Crime", Nelson Hayward is running for a vacant Senatorial seat. He is also having an affair with his wife's appointment secretary, Linda Johnson. Hayward's campaign manager, Harry Stone, knows about the hanky-panky and tells the candidate in no uncertain terms that he needs to break off the affair in order to have any political future. Resenting the pressure to end the relationship, Hayward figures out a clever way to eliminate his overbearing campaign manager. Which actor portrayed Nelson Hayward?
3. In an episode from season 4 called "Troubled Waters" we find the lieutenant on the high seas due to the extraordinary luck of his wife, who won an all-expenses paid cruise for two in a raffle. The trouble is ... wherever Columbo goes there always seems to be a murder (much like Jessica Fletcher). In this case a used car executive named Hayden Danzinger shoots and kills the ship's lounge singer, Rosanna Wells, because she was blackmailing him. Which actor played the murderer?
4. Not all the murders on "Columbo" are committed by men. Beth Chadwick, a lovely young woman whose family owns and operates a very successful advertising business hatches a scheme to murder her older brother Bryce. He not only runs the company but tries to run Beth's life as well especially her social life. For Beth, the last straw is when Bryce tells her that she must break off her relationship with Peter Hamilton, an attorney employed by the agency and an obvious fortune hunter. Beth ends up shooting and killing Bryce as he arrived home late one night then claimed she thought he was an intruder. Which actress played the role of Beth Chadwick?
5. With an episode title like "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case", you just know it's gonna be a doozy of a cat-and-mouse game. Columbo is called to investigate a murder at the meeting house of 'The Sigma Society', a local group of intellectually gifted individuals. From all indications an intruder broke in and killed one of the club's members, Birdie Hastings, apparently while the weekly meeting was in progress. The murderer however turns out to be one of the club's own, Oliver Brandt. Coincidentally, Brandt was also the business partner of the deceased. Who portrayed Oliver Brandt in this season 6 episode?
6. The episode opens with Hugh Caldwell accidentally strangling his wife to death after learning she was having affairs with several young men. Caldwell, instead of calling the police, asks his next door neighbor, Mark Halperin, for advice on what he should do. Halperin also happens to be the LAPD Deputy Police Commissioner but agrees to help Caldwell who would be facing a murder charge. Halperin hatches a scheme to murder his own wife to get at her inheritance using Caldwell as his alibi. Who is the actor who plays Mark Halperin?
7. Adrian and Enrico Carsini own the Carsini Winery of California. Older brother Adrian owns and operates the business while 'Ric' owns the land on which the winery is situated. When he informs Adrian that he plans to sell the property to the Marino Brothers, a rival winery, Adrian becomes enraged at the thought of losing the family business. So he picks up a heavy telephone set and smashes it over his brother's head knocking him unconscious. Adrian then drags him into the adjacent wine cellar and turns off the ventilation leaving him to die. Which iconic actor played Adrian Carsini?
8. In "Lovely But Lethal" we see another femme fatale. The murder trail leads Columbo to a cosmetic executive named Viveca Scott who has blood on her hands from two murders. One of the chemists at her company, 'Beautymark', has stumbled across a formula that removes skin wrinkles and is trying to blackmail her for cash and co-ownership of the company. During an argument about the formula Viveca accidentally kills the young chemist, Karl Lessing, by clobbering him with a microscope. She then has to eliminate a rival's secretary who suspects her of the first murder. Which lovely lady portrayed Viveca Scott?
9. It gets better and better... in this episode where Columbo is a guest of Scotland Yard, there are two murders committed by a husband and wife duo. The two suspects, Nicholas Frame and Lillian Stanhope, are actors appearing in "Macbeth" at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They have accidentally killed Sir Roger Haversham, who was bankrolling the show's production, during an argument before the opening night's show. Then the pair are forced to bump off Sir Roger's trusty butler because he knows too much. Honor Blackman guest stars as Lillian Stanhope, but which actor played Nicholas Frame?
10. Roger Stanford, an heir to a large chemical manufacturing company, murders his uncle who was planning to sell the business right out from under him. In order to prevent the uncle from selling the company, Stanford rigs a bomb in his uncle's box of cigars that kills both the uncle and his chauffeur. In this episode from season one called "Short Fuse", who portrayed Roger Stanford?
11. Paul Galesko is a very successful photographer who has it all - thriving business, author of several books, beautiful young assistant, lovely home and ... a nagging, overbearing, suffocating wife named Frances. Finally deciding he can't take it anymore he decides to murder Frances and uses a recently paroled convict, Alvin Deschler, to set up his alibi. Galeski then kills the ex-convict and makes it appear as if Deschler were the one that killed Frances. Which of the choices below played Paul Galesko?
12. In this episode titled "An Exercise in Fatality", Columbo goes on a health kick and decides to give up beer, chili and cigars all in order to get his man. The man in this case is one Milo Janus and he is truly lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut. When Gene Stafford, one of the owners of a Milo Janus Health Spa franchise, stumbles across some of Janus' price gouging for gym equipment and creative accounting to hide it from the IRS, he threatens to blow the whistle. Fearing that Stafford will make good on his promise, Milo kills him then tries to make it look like an accident with a barbell. Then just a few days after the murder, Janus meets with Stafford's widow at a restaurant and tries to get her to go back to his place! Which actor played Milo Janus?
13. Another episode with two murderers and two murders committed. Identical twins Dexter and Norman Paris team up to murder their rich uncle who was on the verge of marrying a lovely young woman half his age thereby cutting into their inheritance. They electrocute the uncle in his bathtub with an electric mixer and then stage the murder to make it appear the uncle died while riding an exercise bike. It turns out that both nephews had been recently cut completely out of the will and the uncle's entire fortune and estate is left to his fiancee, Lisa Chambers. When learning of this, the twins decide to bump her off so that the uncle's fortune falls into their laps. Which actor played both Dexter and Norman Paris?
14. Grace Wheeler, a Hollywood starlet from years gone by, is resuming her dancing career in hopes of making a comeback in a big new musical production. She also is counting on her old dance partner, Ned Diamond, to produce and choreograph the new show and she also wants her wealthy retired husband to bankroll the entire production. The husband, Henry Willis, refuses to fork over the half million needed for the show. Determined to become a star again she finds another way to get what she wants - she murders him then makes his death appear a suicide. Which actress played the role of Grace Wheeler?
15. Dr. Barry Mayfield, a bright opportunistic young heart surgeon, has been doing research with his older partner, Dr. Heideman. They are working on a new heart drug that will revolutionize treatment and save many lives. Mayfield decides that he wants all the credit for the development of the new drug so he comes up with a way to kill Heideman and make it appear that he died of natural causes. Their research assistant, Sharon Martin, suspects Dr. Mayfield of foul play so he is forced to eliminate her. Who played the part of the cold-hearted Barry Mayfield?
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