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
YesterdayTodayTomorrow19 Sep
Columbo
00:02 - 01:23
Columbo
Double Exposure
A motivational researcher blackmails to further his career, kills a man, then frames the victim's wife.
Columbo
01:23 - 02:46
Columbo
Publish or Perish
An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.
Columbo
02:46 - 04:07
Columbo
Mind Over Mayhem
A prodigy and his robot help investigate the murder of a professor who threatened to disgrace a colleague's scientist son.
Columbo
04:07 - 05:55
Columbo
Swan Song
A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.
Columbo
05:55 - 07:43
Columbo
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.
Columbo
07:43 - 09:35
Columbo
An Exercise in Fatality
Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.
Columbo
09:35 - 11:20
Columbo
Negative Reaction
A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.
Columbo
11:20 - 13:08
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
13:08 - 15:00
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
15:00 - 16:24
Columbo
Playback
After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.
Columbo
16:24 - 17:46
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
17:46 - 19:34
Columbo
Forgotten Lady
A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.
Columbo
19:34 - 20:56
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
20:56 - 22:44
Columbo
Identity Crisis
A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.
Columbo
22:44 - 00:06
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.
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