The Angels find themselves in a race against political assassins when the motive for the kidnappings is revealed.

The Angels are called in when a pair of ice-show performers disappears less than one week before opening night.

The Angels witness a broad-daylight kidnapping while roller-skating on the Venice boardwalk.

A crown prince concealing his true identity from assassins encounters former Angel Jill and they experience a mutual attraction.

The Angels uncover a psychological crisis when they investigate the beating of a music-school owner's daughter by a local pimp.

Another hood snatches Charlie from the original kidnapper, complicating the Angels' efforts to rescue him.

A woman kidnaps Charlie and threatens to kill him if the Angels don't get her husband out of jail.

Jill and Bosley go to work at a massage parlor whose owner died in a shootout with a veteran vice officer.

A recently widowed, ex-film star (Ida Lupino) attempting a comeback suffers traumatic incidents that parallel her early movies.

Kris goes under cover in prison to probe a robbery committed by an inmate while on a work-release furlough.

An opera singer hires the Angels to protect a blue diamond she is to wear on stage from an elegant jewel thief (Timothy Dalton).

The Angels are hired to find the culprit behind three nearly fatal mishaps suffered by a bridegroom-to-be.

Sabrina goes under cover in a sleazy dance school to trap a blackmailer who took $10,000 from a customer.

An attacker disguised in a surgical mask and gown violently assaults and almost rapes two hospital nurses; guest Jack Bannon.

The Angels travel to Las Vegas to learn why an advertising executive's wife is stealing from her husband.

The owner of a movie film-lab hires the Angels to discover who is trying to burn him out of business.

Sabrina suspects more than a bad memory when a new friend (Theodore Bikel), a Polish political writer, seems not to know her.

A drug addict (Cameron Mitchell) Kelly helped imprison returns and secretly causes her to ingest heroin.

The head (Joanne Linville) of an all-woman trucking company is threatened with bankruptcy by the theft of a $500,000 shipment.

Kris finds herself falling in love with the handsome thief she and the Angels are pursuing aboard a cruise liner.

The Los Angeles Police Department hires the Angels to sour the luck of a compulsive gambler playing with $40,000 in stolen cash.

Self-made millionaire Jonathan and freelance writer Jennifer are the Harts - a globetrotting married couple with a talent for finding mysteries wherever they go. And even when they're uncovering thefts, espionage and assorted skullduggery, they still find time for romance.

"Columbo" isn't the typical detective whodunit TV show. On most detective shows, viewers don't know who committed the crime until the detective pieces the clues together and figures it out. On this show, however, viewers see the crime unfold at the beginning of most episodes, including who the perpetrator is. The mystery and fun for viewers is trying to spot the clues that will lead Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) to discover the culprit and watching the tricks he uses to get a confession. Episodes of "Columbo" were movie-length and ran sporadically on multiple networks during its run.

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City. They get their inside information from flamboyant bad-boy Huggy Bear and spar with their no-nonsense boss, Capt. Harold Dobey.

Who loves ya, baby? That would be Theo Kojak, the bald, lollipop-sucking New York detective who isn't afraid to bend the rules to bust the bad guys. Cynical but upbeat, Kojak not only has a talent for detecting, he also is blessed with perfect parking karma - he is always able to find a parking space right at the crime scene, even in Manhattan. Now that's power.