Watch Columbo Season 3 Episode 3: Candidate for Crime Online

	IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 from 1,049 votes
	Release: 1973 / Columbo / Season 3 / Episode 3
	Genre: Crime \| Drama \| Mystery
	Director: Boris Sagal
	Stars: Peter Falk, Jackie Cooper, Joanne Linville
	Synopsis: Nelson Hayward is running for the senate as a man tough on crime. His dictatorial campaign manager, Harry Stone, orders the candidate dump his mistress, backing up his demand with threats to expose the politician's shady past. Stone little guesses that his own publicity-minded lie about anonymous killers threatening the politician's life will lead Hayward to murder him and blame it on the invented assailants. Hayward sets up a tricky alibi for himself around a surprise birthday party for his wife. No one suspects the clever deception except that annoyingly observant Italian-American cop in the rumpled raincoat - the redoubtable Lt. Columbo.