PRESCRIPTION: MURDER {COLMUBO PILOT} (TV)

Summary

This made-for-television movie functioned as a pilot for "Columbo," the police drama series in which an insinuating police lieutenant's suppliant manner masks his keen intelligence sharp investigative abilities. In this drama, psychiatrist Ray Flemming murders his wife after she threatens him with divorce and scandal. Flemming's lover, actress Joan Hudson, pretends she is Mrs. Flemming. Columbo is put on the case. It seems Columbo has met his match -- until he uses an actress to catch a killer. Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: NBC
• DATE: February 20, 1968 Tuesday 9:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 1:38:30
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T80:0113
• GENRE: Drama, police
• SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police
• SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1968-1972; ABC - 1989-2003
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Richard Irving … Producer, Director
• Jerold Freedman … Associate Producer
• Richard Levinson … Writer
• William Link … Writer
• Peter Falk … Cast, Lt. Columbo
• Gene Barry … Cast, Dr. Ray Flemming
• Katherine Justice … Cast, Joan Hudson
• William Windom … Cast, Burt Gordon
• Virginia Gregg … Cast, Miss Petrie
• Andrea King … Cast, Cynthia Gordon
• Susanne Benton … Cast, The Blonde
• Ena Hartman … Cast, Nurse
• Sherry Boucher … Cast, Air Hostess
• Anthony James … Cast, Tommy
• Nina Foch … Cast, Caroline Flemming