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Columbo (1971), Season 8 — four new cases in 1989, watch online on iFILM, marking the lieutenant's return after an eleven-year production break. Each episode runs longer than a standard installment, close to a television movie.
A government-funded institute for parapsychology: a fake psychic and a magician share a profitable fraud — and a body. A Hollywood effects studio: a director turns his own craft against a friend who holds evidence from an on-set accident years before. A sex therapist's office: a best-selling author kills her unfaithful business partner while hiding behind a second identity she carefully built. A private military foundation: a colonel steals from the general he works for and removes the sergeant who noticed.
Season 8 suits viewers who prefer Columbo's patient conversation style over clever plot mechanics — the longer format gives every scene room to breathe. Stream Columbo Season 8 online on iFILM.
4 episodes
S8·E1Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
Lt. Columbo delves into the world of magic, ESP and slight of hand as he investigates the death of a magician, and there appears to be a tie to a prodigal psychic supported by a government founded institute on parapsychology.
S8·E2Murder, Smoke and Shadows
An egocentric film director resorts to his mastery of special effects to murder a vengeful friend who discovers the director's role in the movie stunt death of the friend's sister years before.
S8·E3Sex and the Married Detective
A sex therapist catches her boyfriend with another woman when he thinks she is out of town. She then disguises herself and manages to kill him while in disguise, not realizing that a potential suitor saw her enter the bathroom as a dark-haired woman and exit as a blonde.
S8·E4Grand Deceptions
Frank Brailie runs a private military foundation for wanabe soldiers owned by the wheelchair bound General Padget. The General has become suspicious of Frank as a great deal of money seems to be going to a Special Projects Fund. The General tells a close colleague to investigate Frank and the Special Projects Fund. Instead of reporting his fraudulent findings back to the General, he decides to blackmail Frank for some of the money, Frank agrees and starts to plan his murder.
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