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Columbo · S02E03

The Most Crucial Game

Still from Columbo S02E03

Summary

The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.

Guest stars

  • Dean Jagger as Walter Cannell
  • Val Avery as Ralph Dobbs
  • Dean Stockwell as Eric Wagner
  • James Gregory as David Buckner
  • Robert Culp as Paul Hanlon
  • Susan Howard as Shirley Wagner
  • Kathryn Kelly Wiget as Miss Jonhson
  • Richard Stahl as Mr. Fremont
  • Don Keefer as Deputy Coroner
  • Cliff Carnell as Plainclothesman