Universal Crime

United States 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.

Schedule
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Columbo
01:19 - 03:07
Columbo
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.
Columbo
03:07 - 04:59
Columbo
Troubled Waters
Columbo's Mexico cruise is disrupted when an automobile executive kills his blackmailing lover, the ship's singer, then frames a musician.
Columbo
04:59 - 06:23
Columbo
Playback
After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.
Columbo
06:23 - 07:45
Columbo
A Deadly State of Mind
A psychiatrist (George Hamilton) romances a wealthy patient (Lesley Ann Warren) then uses her in his alibi after killing her husband (Stephen Elliott).
Columbo
07:45 - 09:32
Columbo
Forgotten Lady
A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.
Columbo
09:32 - 10:54
Columbo
A Case of Immunity
A foreign dignitary murders his rival then disguises the crime as part of a robbery blamed on college protesters.
Columbo
10:54 - 12:42
Columbo
Identity Crisis
A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.
Columbo
12:42 - 14:04
Columbo
A Matter of Honor
A retired bullfighter credited with saving a young man from a bull arranges the death of the boy's father to protect his own reputation.
Columbo
14:04 - 15:45
Columbo
Now You See Him
A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate.
Columbo
15:45 - 17:29
Columbo
Last Salute to the Commodore
Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.
Columbo
17:29 - 18:51
Columbo
Fade In to Murder
An egotistic TV detective matches wits with Columbo after murdering his producer, a former lover and current blackmailer.
Columbo
18:51 - 20:14
Columbo
Old-Fashioned Murder
The curator (Joyce Van Patten) of a strapped family-owned museum stages a robbery, for insurance, then murders to hide her crime; guests Celeste Holm, Tim O'Connor.
Columbo
20:14 - 21:36
Columbo
The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case
An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man discovers his crimes.
Columbo
21:36 - 22:57
Columbo
Try & Catch Me
A mystery writer uses her plot as a guide to murder her nephew, whom she blames for her niece's death.
Columbo
22:57 - 00:18
Columbo
Murder Under Glass
Columbo investigates the murder of a gourmet restaurant owner who had been the victim of an extortionist.
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