Columbo/Prescription: Murder

Prescription: Murder
Airdate	February 20, 1968
Teleplay by	Richard Levinson & William Link based on their play
Directed by	Richard Irving
Produced by	Richard Irving
Network	NBC
Style	120-minute crime drama
Company	Universal TV
Origin	USA
— N/A	Pilot Movie 2 → Ransom for a Dead Man
Columbo

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Prescription: Murder is the first pilot movie of Columbo, and the first episode overall.

Starring: Peter Falk (Lt. Columbo), Gene Barry (Dr. Ray Flemming), Katherine Justice (Joan Hudson), William Windom (Burt Gordon)

and Nina Foch (Carol Flemming)

with Virginia Gregg (Miss Petrie), Andrea King (Cynthia Gordon), Susanne Benton (The Blonde), Ena Hartman (Nurse), Sherry Boucher (Air Hostess), Anthony James (Tommy)

Plot Overview

Because he wants to murder his wife, a Los Angeles famous psychiatrist, Dr. Ray Flemming plans what he thinks is the most perfect murder : to create himself an alibis, he talks his mistress Joan, a patient of his, to dress up like his wife even though he has already murdered her so that his wife could be seen still alive while he has left for an exotic country for the holiday. But when he comes back, the perfect plan starts to fall apart as he learns that his wife is not dead but in the coma and that she could wake up to tell the identity of the person that almost killed her and that Lieutenant Columbo will be investigating the case...