Jerry Crews

Commodore Otis Swanson, an expert yachtsman, is presumed drowned in a boating accident. But Lt. Columbo tenaciously investigates the case, suspecting homicide. When Columbo finds key clues that point to Swanson’s money hungry son-in-law, Charles Clay, as the prime suspect, Clay himself becomes a victim of homicide.

Prosperity seems to be imminent for the Walton family when disaster strikes as John Walton is felled by pneumonia, and the family may lose all for which they have worked so hard.

Jim Bob befriends a boy who claims to be joining the Air Corps. Elizabeth adopts Maud as a grandmother, and Myrtle the goat has a baby.