COLUMBO UNDERCOVER SYNOPSIS MOVIE

Columbo's normal instincts thwarted, he makes several half turns – as though to enter the screening room – where Grace, lost in the past, is watching the film, having already forgotten Diamond's confession. Columbo arrests Diamond, both realizing that by the time he is cleared, Grace will have died. Diamond makes his false confession to Grace who briefly becomes hysterical. Nonetheless, Columbo is prepared to arrest her. This is one of the only two episodes in which the perpetrator is not arrested (the other being 'It's All In The Game'), as Ned Diamond ( John Payne), Wheeler's longtime song and dance partner who has always loved Grace, falsely confesses to save her after Columbo informs him she is suffering from a degenerative brain disease (the primary reason her husband refused to finance her return as the physical strain of acting would have killed her) and likely no longer even remembers the murder. It was then, Columbo concludes, that she was out committing the murder.

COLUMBO UNDERCOVER SYNOPSIS MOVIE

Their elderly butler ( Maurice Evans) believes Grace was in a private screening room the entire time, watching one of her classic films.įinal clue/twist: Columbo believes that a discrepancy between the length of the movie and the time it took Grace Wheeler to watch it, including the few minutes it took her to fix the film after it ripped, proves that Grace spent some time away from the screening room. When elderly physician Henry Willis ( Sam Jaffe) refuses to finance a return to the spotlight for his wife, aging former movie star Grace Wheeler ( Janet Leigh) kills him in his sleep, passing it off as a suicide. The DVD was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The season originally aired Sundays at 9:00-10:30 pm (EST) as part of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie.

Main article: 1975–76 United States network television schedule

Columbo undercover synopsis