Vera Miles plays a determined cosmetics founder of a company called Beauty Mark that is desperate to perfect a new wrinkle cream that would make her a fortune, and stave off her chief business rival David Lang(played by Vincent Price). Trouble is that her chief chemist's assistant(played by Martin Sheen) has stolen the formula and plans to blackmail her to get a fortune, but his refusal of her romantic advances enrages her to murder him with a large microscope. This brings on Lt. Columbo(Peter Falk) whose wife uses her products, but that wont stop him from getting the poisonous proof to arrest her. Mediocre episode strangely wastes legendary actor Vincent Price in a supporting role, though the other stars are fine.
Review of Lovely But Lethal
