Lt. Columbo meets the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team during his investigation of the slaying of the owner of a professional football team by its manager. Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, James Gregory, Dean Jagger, Susan Howard and Dean Stockwell co-star.
With the aid of electronics, Paul Hanlon (Culp) sets up an alibi to cover his absence from a football game and a murder. Columbo’s investigation takes him to a lady of the evening, Eva Babcock (Harper) who mistakes him for a client. (1972)