Universal Crime

United States

Universal Crime draws its programming from the extensive catalog of crime-related documentaries, legal procedurals, and true-crime series produced for the United States television market. The channel’s weekday lineup typically includes archival episodes of long-running investigative programs, courtroom analysis shows, and dramatized reenactments of notable criminal cases. Weekend blocks often shift toward feature-length documentaries examining forensic science, cold case investigations, and historical organized crime figures. News-style updates on ongoing trials or recent arrests appear during interstitial segments, though the channel does not produce original live news coverage.

Viewers can access the channel through standard cable and satellite packages across the country, with some providers offering an on-demand library of recent episodes. The channel’s online streaming service requires a participating TV subscription for full access, though select clips and full episodes are occasionally posted to its official website without authentication. TV guide listings for Universal Crime are updated weekly and reflect the network’s focus on uninterrupted crime content without commercial breaks for movies or music programming.

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Schedule

11 Sep Yesterday Today Tomorrow

00:55 - 02:15

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The Most Dangerous Match

An American chess champion plays a private match with his challenger and kills him because the man is a better player.

02:15 - 03:34

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Double Shock

Twins (Martin Landau in a dual role) kill their wealthy uncle just before his marriage to a younger woman.

LIVE 03:34 - 04:56

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Lovely but Lethal

A cosmetics manufacturer is suspected of murdering an employee (Martin Sheen) who stole a wrinkle-removing formula.

04:56 - 06:45

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Any Old Port in a Storm

A wine connoisseur kills his playboy brother to prevent his selling the family winery to expiate his latest scandal.

06:45 - 08:38

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Candidate for Crime

A senatorial candidate exploits death threats, fabricated for publicity, to kill his manager.

08:38 - 09:59

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Double Exposure

A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's wife.

09:59 - 11:21

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Publish or Perish

An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.

11:21 - 12:43

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Mind Over Mayhem

A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son.

12:43 - 14:31

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Swan Song

A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.

14:31 - 16:19

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A Friend in Deed

A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend blackmail him into doing the same favor in return.

16:19 - 18:11

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An Exercise in Fatality

Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.

18:11 - 19:56

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Negative Reaction

A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.

19:56 - 21:44

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By Dawn's Early Light

A military-academy commandant murders to protect his career and prevent his school's conversion to a coed junior college.

21:44 - 23:36

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Troubled Waters

Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician.

23:36 - 01:00

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Playback

After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.

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