Paul Gerard ( Louis Jourdan) is a renowned restaurant critic, but gets rich extorting money from upscale restaurant owners in return for good reviews. Spradlin plays Mitchell’s attorney, who in one scene seems to have guessed what she had done. Mariette Hartley plays Mitchell's trusted assistant, Veronica Bryce, who becomes embroiled in the crime. She pays him a compliment to his cleverness by remarking that, had he been the detective who had investigated her niece's "disappearance," none of this need ever have happened. However, he had earlier cautioned her not to count on his being soft-hearted. ![]() Gordon's character is one of the most sympathetic killers caught by Columbo and he seems genuinely sorry to have to arrest her. At the end of the episode, Mitchell asks Columbo if he can overlook what she did. The most incriminating is the title page of Mitchell's latest manuscript "The Night I was Murdered", which Galvin altered to read "I was murdered by Abigail Mitchell". Galvin, locked in an airless and sound-proofed safe for the whole weekend, suffocates while Mitchell flies off to New York.įinal clue/twist: Columbo eventually solves the case by piecing together clues left by Galvin as he suffocated in the safe. Then she lures him into her large walk-in safe and slams the door shut, locking him in. ![]() She tricks Galvin into a false sense of security by making him her heir. Mitchell decides to take revenge and murder her nephew-by-marriage. Not only that, but Galvin inherited the rights to a play of Mitchell's, which Mitchell had long ago signed over to Phyllis as a present. Teleplay by : Gene Thompson and Paul TuckahoeĮsteemed mystery author Abigail Mitchell ( Ruth Gordon) is convinced that her sole relative, her nephew-in-law Edmund Galvin ( Charles Frank), murdered his wife, Mitchell's niece Phyllis, in a boating "accident" four months earlier and got away with it. The season was released on DVD by Universal Home Video along with season six. After that, the remaining three films were broadcast on Saturday nights beginning on February 25, 1978, and concluding with the final film of the original Columbo series on May 13, 1978. The first two aired on Monday nights, the first on November 21, 1977, and the second on January 30, 1978. This is a list of episodes from the seventh season of Columbo.Īlthough NBC had brought an end to the Mystery Movie series that Columbo had been a part of since 1971, the network decided to keep the series in production and ordered five new telefilms.
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