Universal Crime

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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
00:58 - 02:19
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
02:19 - 04:08
Columbo
Swan Song
A gospel singer kills his evangelist wife when she denies him more money and threatens blackmail.
Columbo
04:08 - 05:56
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
05:56 - 07:48
Columbo
An Exercise in Fatality
Lt. Columbo keeps a close watch on a physical-fitness fanatic suspected of murdering his business partner.
Columbo
07:48 - 09:33
Columbo
Negative Reaction
A prominent photographer hatches a scheme to cover up his wife's murder with a phony kidnapping plot.
Columbo
09:33 - 11:21
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
11:21 - 13:13
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
13:13 - 14:37
Columbo
Playback
After killing his mother-in-law, an electronics magnate's alibi is a video security system.
Columbo
14:37 - 15:59
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
15:59 - 17:46
Columbo
Forgotten Lady
A retired actress/dancer stages her wealthy husband's suicide after he refuses to finance her Broadway comeback.
Columbo
17:46 - 19:08
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
19:08 - 20:56
Columbo
Identity Crisis
A cunning advertising consultant leading a double life as a spy tries to cover up the details of a homicide.
Columbo
20:56 - 22:18
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
22:18 - 23:59
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
23:59 - 01:43
Columbo
Last Salute to the Commodore
Lt. Columbo's prime suspect in the case of a drowned yacht magnate also turns up dead.
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