List of Columbo episodes
Pilot episodes
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.

List of Columbo episodes

Section Title: Pilot episodes
Table Section Text: Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.

No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Murderer played by	Victim played by	Original air date	Length

1	"Prescription: Murder"	Richard Irving	Richard Levinson & William Link based on their play	Gene Barry	Nina Foch	February 20, 1968	94 minutes

Dr. Ray Fleming (Gene Barry), a psychiatrist, murders his wife (Nina Foch) and persuades his mistress Joan Hudson (Katherine Justice), who is an actress and one of his patients, to support his alibi by impersonating her.

2	"Ransom for a Dead Man"	Richard Irving	Story by : Richard Levinson & William Link Teleplay by : Dean Hargrove	Lee Grant	Harlan Warde	March 1, 1971	92 minutes

Leslie Williams (Lee Grant), a brilliant and ruthless lawyer, murders her husband Paul (Harlan Warde) to get his money, arranging the act to look as if he had been kidnapped and killed by his captors.

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Katherine Justice had a role in Columbo's Prescription Murder (1968).
Katherine Justice had a role in the television series Columbo: Prescription Murder (1968).
Katherine Justice acted in the TV series Columbo: Prescription Murder (1968).

final_sentence: Katherine Justice had a role in Columbo's Prescription Murder (1968).
final_sentence: Katherine Justice had a role in the television series Columbo: Prescription Murder (1968).
final_sentence: Katherine Justice acted in the TV series Columbo: Prescription Murder (1968).