The NBC Mystery Movie

Season 5

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).

Where to Watch Season 5

23 Episodes

  • Columbo: "Forgotten Lady"
    E1
    Columbo: "Forgotten Lady"A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.
  • McCloud: "Park Avenue Pirates"
    E2
    McCloud: "Park Avenue Pirates"A syndicate involved in the music industry has a major interest in a young singer. While they use pirating and bribery to sell more records, they lean on the singer's manager to get him to sign with their company.
  • McMillan and Wife: "The Deadly Inheritance"
    E3
    McMillan and Wife: "The Deadly Inheritance"A birthday celebration for a friend of Mac's mother ends in a murder attempt.
  • McCoy: "Bless the Big Fish"
    E4
    McCoy: "Bless the Big Fish"F. Morgan Russell, a crafty financial adviser, manages to persuade Papa Leone that he could, thanks to his wise advice, triple the value of the shares he owns, worth 450,000 dollars. Some time later, Papa Leone learns his misfortune: he is ruined. In desperation, he tries to commit suicide. It is then time for McCoy to intervene. He works out a plan to recover the money...
  • Columbo: "A Case of Immunity"
    E5
    Columbo: "A Case of Immunity"The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder, but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.
  • McCloud: "Showdown at Times Square"
    E6
    McCloud: "Showdown at Times Square"When McCloud looks out a window and sees unusual smoke clouds, he tracks them to an Apache chief seeking his grandson -- the grandson has followed four armed robbers who framed his father to New York, where he kills one of them in self-defense and is murdered himself, leaving McCloud and the girlfriend of the dead thief to launch their own investigation.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Requiem for a Bride"
    E7
    McMillan and Wife: "Requiem for a Bride"Mac's closest friend from France, a high-ranking police inspector who recently married a San Francisco socialite, comes to town to show her off and talk business with his wealthy father-in-law. Mac can't give his buddy the royal treatment because he's just arrested a bullying lawyer for witness intimidation. The lawyer, from the inside, apparently hires a gunman to follow Mac around and fire warning shots at him. When Mac and Sally attend a fancy-dress ball, the inspector's wife (herself an old friend of Mac's) asks to talk to Mac on an outside balcony. A rifle shot ...
  • Columbo: "Identity Crisis"
    E8
    Columbo: "Identity Crisis"A top CIA operative commits murder the way only a brilliant spy can, never guessing he'll have to contend with a man like Lt. Columbo.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Aftershock"
    E9
    McMillan and Wife: "Aftershock"Mac and Sally waffle about whether or not to sell their house, especially after a break-in, Mac's surprise birthday party, an earthquake, a skeleton, spies and con men, and stolen jewels.
  • McCloud: "Fire!"
    E10
    McCloud: "Fire!"An arsonist torches Chris's building, killing her nephew and a security guard. When McCloud and Chris discover the building's owner was deep in the hole and probably committed the arson for money, they launch two simultaneous undercover investigations -- one with McCloud as a builder looking for a torch, the other as the torch himself.
  • McCloud: "Three Guns for New York"
    E11
    McCloud: "Three Guns for New York"When three bank robbers finally get out of New Mexico prison, they high-tail it to New York -- both to get vengeance on McCloud for crippling the gang's leader and to force him to track down the bank loot -- which one of them dumped while fleeing and can't find again.
  • McCoy: "Double Take"
    E12
    McCoy: "Double Take"
  • McMillan and Wife: "Secrets for Sale"
    E13
    McMillan and Wife: "Secrets for Sale"During a period of fiscal austerity for the city, Enright takes a lucrative position in a private detective agency in which a person blackmailing politicians might operate.
  • McCoy: "In Again Out Again"
    E14
    McCoy: "In Again Out Again"Bob Mayfield, a retired gold digger, is on the verge of death and J. Carter Sloan takes advantage of his condition to force him to make a 200,000 dollar life insurance contract. This policy affects the interests of Laura, Bob's sister. Laura confides in Brenda Brooks, a journalist, who manages to persuade McCoy to help Laura recover her heritage...
  • McCloud: "Our Man in the Harem"
    E15
    McCloud: "Our Man in the Harem"A crooked businessman hoping to land a Middle Eastern contract tries to "sweeten the pot" for the honest sheik and his extremely corrupt deputy by feeding women to the sheik's harem -- by kidnapping them. This has a slight resemblance to Lou Shaw's "Columbo" episode "A Case of Immunity" (episode 5.2), which aired a few months earlier.
  • McMillan and Wife: "The Deadly Cure"
    E16
    McMillan and Wife: "The Deadly Cure"After being shot while on a stakeout, Mac witnesses a murder in the hospital while partially under sedation while awaiting surgery. Everyone thinks Mac's story is a hallucination, but he's convinced one of the doctors murdered a patient.
  • McCoy: "New Dollar Day"
    E17
    McCoy: "New Dollar Day"
  • Columbo: "A Matter of Honor"
    E18
    Columbo: "A Matter of Honor"When a famous bullfighter's trusted bookkeeper turns up dead in a bullring, Lt. Columbo suspects murder--with a bull as the murder weapon.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Greed"
    E19
    McMillan and Wife: "Greed"In an episode which introduces Mildred's sister Agatha to the cast (Nancy Walker had already committed to her own series for the following season, and Agatha was to become the new housekeeper), the McMillans, Mildred and Agatha go to visit a woman relative of Mildred and Agatha, a very wealthy woman who's dying -- but not quickly enough to suit one of her nephews, who's in debt to a loansharking company later described as "just this side of Murder, Incorporated." Threatened with death if he doesn't come up with the money right away, the nephew smothers the old lady in...
  • McCloud: "The Day New York Turned Blue"
    E20
    McCloud: "The Day New York Turned Blue"The third "Alamo" episode has a blizzard and a police walkout endangering the life of a protected Mob witness in the lockup, while outside a prostitute paints her customers blue!
  • Columbo: "Now You See Him"
    E21
    Columbo: "Now You See Him"A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.
  • McMillan and Wife: "Point of Law"
    E22
    McMillan and Wife: "Point of Law"Mac goes onto temporary duty as a Navy JAG and is immediately given a case defending a Navy officer accused of murder. Mac soon discovers the victim isn't who he was supposed to be and his client isn't telling the whole truth.
  • McCloud: "Night of the Shark"
    E23
    McCloud: "Night of the Shark"When McCloud and Clifford go to Sydney, Australia, to investigate a mob hit in New York, a panicked mole recognizes McCloud from a New Mexico murder case where he jumped bail, and puts out a contract on McCloud.

 

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