List of Columbo episodes
Season 3 (1973–74)

List of Columbo episodes

Section Title: Season 3 (1973–74)
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No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Murderer played by	Victim(s) played by	Original air date	Runtime

18	1	"Lovely But Lethal"	Jeannot Szwarc	Story by : Myrna Bercovici Teleplay by : Jackson Gillis	Vera Miles	Martin Sheen, Sian Barbara Allen	September 23, 1973	73 minutes

19	2	"Any Old Port in a Storm"	Leo Penn	Story by : Larry Cohen Teleplay by : Stanley Ralph Ross	Donald Pleasence	Gary Conway	October 7, 1973	96 minutes

20	3	"Candidate for Crime"	Boris Sagal	Story by : Larry Cohen Teleplay by : Irving Pearlberg & Alvin R. Friedman and Roland Kibbee & Dean Hargrove	Jackie Cooper	Ken Swofford	November 4, 1973	93 minutes

21	4	"Double Exposure"	Richard Quine	Stephen J. Cannell	Robert Culp	Robert Middleton, Chuck McCann	December 16, 1973	70 minutes

22	5	"Publish or Perish"	Robert Butler	Peter S. Fischer	Jack Cassidy	Mickey Spillane, John Chandler	January 13, 1974	73 minutes

23	6	"Mind Over Mayhem"	Alf Kjellin	Story by : Robert Specht Teleplay by : Steven Bochco and Dean Hargrove & Roland Kibbee	José Ferrer	Lew Ayres	February 10, 1974	73 minutes

24	7	"Swan Song"	Nicholas Colasanto	Story by : Stanley Ralph Ross Teleplay by : David Rayfiel	Johnny Cash	Ida Lupino, Mrs. Edna Brown	March 3, 1974	99 minutes

25	8	"A Friend in Deed"	Ben Gazzara	Peter S. Fischer	Richard Kiley and Michael McGuire	Rosemary Murphy and an uncredited actress	May 5, 1974	98 minutes

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