Julie Harris plays Adrian's formidable secretary, who realizes that Columbo suspects Carsini of killing his brother, and has plans of her own for Carsini.įinal clue/twist: Columbo realizes Carsini had locked Rick in the airtight wine cellar with the air conditioning turned off, and realizes further that this happened when a heatwave had struck Los Angeles. Upon his return, he concocts a scuba diving accident to explain Rick's death by suffocation. He travels to New York to accept the award and attend wine auctions, at the same time establishing his alibi. Adrian knocks him unconscious and leaves him to die in an airtight wine cellar. When Rick gets tired of Adrian's indulgences, he announces his decision to sell the land to mass producers of cheap, profitable wines.
His half-brother, Rick ( Gary Conway), only wants to spend money on various hobbies and interests like sports and fast cars and has also been married several times. He is about to be named the wine industry's Man-of-the-Year. Wine connoisseur Adrian Carsini ( Donald Pleasence) runs a small winery specializing in unprofitable but prized wines. It is very similar to a notable line said by the Norman Bates character in the 1960 film. There is a sly reference to the film Psycho, in which Miles appeared, when Scott claims to Columbo that she "couldn't even hurt a fly". However, Columbo tells her the poison ivy was actually on the slide of Lessing's microscope, shards of which they both touched – he while examining the crime scene, while she could only have done it around the time that Lessing was killed. Scott suspects the wrinkle remover is responsible for her itching. So Scott kills her too.įinal clue/twist: Columbo notices Viveca itching and, as he suffers in the same way, he realizes they both have poison ivy and must have contacted it from the same source. Lang's secretary, Shirley Blaine ( Sian Barbara Allen), has been giving information to Scott about his operation, and, knowing about Lessing's negotiations with Lang, she attempts to blackmail Scott. Lessing refuses to sell it back to her at any price, and when he taunts Scott, she bludgeons him to death and covers up her tracks as best she can. Martin Sheen as Karl Lessing and Sian Barbara Allen as Shirley BlaineĬosmetics queen Viveca Scott ( Vera Miles) has developed a seemingly magic wrinkle remover, but her former lover, Karl Lessing ( Martin Sheen), a chemist for her company, knows the formula and intends to sell it to Scott's rival, David Lang ( Vincent Price). The season was released on DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The season originally aired Sundays at 8:30-10:00 pm ( EST) as part of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie.
Main article: 1973–74 United States network television schedule
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