The NBC Mystery Movie

Season 3

Showcases a series of many mystery shows shown on a rotating basis in the same time slot on Sunday nights. It featured, Columbo (1971), McMillan & Wife (1971) and McCloud (1970).

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24 Episodes

  • Columbo: "Lovely but Lethal"
    E1
    Columbo: "Lovely but Lethal"The formula for a miracle wrinkle cream leads the founder of a cosmetics company to murder and Columbo is on this case.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend"
    E2
    McMillan and Wife: "Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend"On vacation in the Scottish Highlands to visit his Uncle Michael (with Sally and Mildred in tow; Enright comes over later), Mac walks onto the grounds of the McMillan castle and shouts for Uncle Michael. The response is a rifle shot. Mac rushes in and finds Uncle Michael's lawyer and his housekeeper, who are trying to break into the "keep" which Uncle Michael uses as an office. Uncle Michael is dead on the floor, shot through the head with a rifle lying beside him. All the evidence points to suicide, but Mac won't believe it -- especially when two men run away from ...
  • Columbo: "Any Old Port in a Storm"
    E3
    Columbo: "Any Old Port in a Storm"A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.
  • McCloud: "Butch Cassidy Rides Again"
    E4
    McCloud: "Butch Cassidy Rides Again"Four elderly outlaws hold up McCloud and Broadhurst, who have just robbed a bank during a public demonstration to show the effectiveness of new bank and police procedures. As the robberies continue, and after a sophisticated computer draws the conclusion that the gang's leader is "the son of Butch Cassidy," the NYPD is sent into fits trying to track them down.
  • McMillan and Wife: "The Devil, You Say"
    E5
    McMillan and Wife: "The Devil, You Say"McMillian has to track down a satanic cult that has taken a deadly Interest in Sally.
  • Columbo: "Candidate for Crime"
    E6
    Columbo: "Candidate for Crime"Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Free Fall to Terror"
    E7
    McMillan and Wife: "Free Fall to Terror"A business magnate and friend of Mac's is getting mighty edgy when a car almost runs him down. Mac visits the businessman's upper-floor office, but outside the door hears glass shattering and a woman screaming out the businessman's name. Mac rushes to the broken window, looks out, and sees ... nothing. The woman, the businessman's secretary, won't talk. Mac leaves Enright in charge and goes to pick up Sally, hoping she can interview the woman. As they return to the building, they see a human body plunging down the facade of the building. This time, it really is the ...
  • Hec Ramsey: "A Hard Road to Vengeance"
    E8
    Hec Ramsey: "A Hard Road to Vengeance"A lawman arrives in the town of New Prospect to tell the citizens his side of the story of how he shot an outlaw about to be honored with a monument.
  • McCloud: "The Solid Gold Swingers"
    E9
    McCloud: "The Solid Gold Swingers"McCloud gets himself involved in a series of murders of high-class escorts after a body he discovers in a senator's flat mysteriously disappears.
  • Columbo: "Double Exposure"
    E10
    Columbo: "Double Exposure"A self-styled "motivation research specialist" uses subliminal cues to commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
  • Hec Ramsey: "The Detroit Connection"
    E11
    Hec Ramsey: "The Detroit Connection"Hec sets out to take down the Detroit crime syndicate who plotted an oil driller's murder.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Man Without a Face"
    E12
    McMillan and Wife: "Man Without a Face"In the series' first two-hour episode, Mac is called back to his previous career in CIA intelligence when an agent is found fatally poisoned in a hotel room. Before dying, the agent had grabbed the Venetian blinds over his window and twisted them. Mac and the intelligence community realize the dead man was identifying his killer as "Venice," a notorious rogue agent who sells secrets anywhere and murders anyone who might recognize him. Mac and other agents seek out a woman named Elena Standish, an undercover operative who is the only person to survive a Venice attack. ...
  • Columbo: Publish or Perish
    E13
    Columbo: Publish or PerishA publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of sex novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
  • McCloud: "Cowboy in Paradise"
    E14
    McCloud: "Cowboy in Paradise"When McCloud and Clifford wind up together at a police convention in Hawaii, Clifford is framed for murder. With the help of Clifford's ex-fiancee, several of Clifford's cop friends who are also at the convention, and a Honolulu police detective, McCloud must find out who framed him and why.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Reunion in Terror"
    E15
    McMillan and Wife: "Reunion in Terror"Mac's college football team has a reunion coming up, but someone plans to spoil it with a gun. The killer, using a team photo as a reference, shoots the team members in the order of the numbers on their uniforms. Mac has to try to figure out the killer's motive before his number comes up -- literally.
  • Hec Ramsey: "Dead Heat"
    E16
    Hec Ramsey: "Dead Heat"Hec suspects foul play when a young man dies of heart failure.
  • Columbo: "Mind Over Mayhem
    E17
    Columbo: "Mind Over MayhemThe director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Cross and Double Cross"
    E18
    McMillan and Wife: "Cross and Double Cross"Mac's incarcerated double is "sprung" from prison in a fake breakout so that he can impersonate Mac while Mac goes undercover to break a smuggling operation.
  • McCloud: "The Colorado Cattle Caper"
    E19
    McCloud: "The Colorado Cattle Caper"When a shipper of contaminated stolen beef kills a USDA inspector and flees to Colorado and his employers, McCloud tracks him down, only to run smack into a dumb-but-ambitious sheriff (Claude Akins' prototype for Elroy P. Lobo) and his smart-but-wimpy deputy. Features McCloud's leap from a running horse to tackle a rustler from his dirt bike and roll down a hill punching him out.
  • Columbo: "Swan Song"
    E20
    Columbo: "Swan Song"A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.
  • Hec Ramsey: "Scar Tissue"
    E21
    Hec Ramsey: "Scar Tissue"Matthias Kane comes to New Prospect looking for the father he never met. Hec befriends the hot-headed young man and assists him in locating his father, uncovering dark secrets and shady pasts in the process.
  • McCloud: "This Must Be the Alamo"
    E22
    McCloud: "This Must Be the Alamo"The first of four "Alamo" episodes has the 23rd Precinct (in its last appearance; the show moved to Police Headquarters the next year) under siege by mobsters desperate to locate the diary of a kept woman who knows all about football game fixing. First major role for Robby Weaver, as a phony newspaper reporter.
  • Hec Ramsey: "Only Birds and Fools"
    E23
    Hec Ramsey: "Only Birds and Fools"New Prospect hosts the first flight by two airplane inventors, but a cloud hanging over the celebrated exhibition is Hec's investigation of a mysterious murder. Doc Coogan attempts to heal a family torn asunder by alcoholism.
  • Columbo: "A Friend in Deed"
    E24
    Columbo: "A Friend in Deed"A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.

 

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