Theresa Goren's Malibu beach house is the same as that of Joanna & Charles Clay in the "Last Salute to the Commodore," 15 years earlier.
The cable repair company's hats that are given to Columbo and Wayne (though Columbo politely declines) feature the name and logo of Assan Motors, the fictional car company from Gung Ho.
Jess McCurdy, (Brenda Vaccaro) drives the same black BMW 750iL that was driven by Oscar Finch (Patrick McGoohan) in an earlier episode of the season, Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990).
In the second pilot episode: Ransom for a Dead Man (1971), Columbo refers to his next case while talking to the murderer. He says he has to go investigate a "murder in Malibu".
Columbo states that his wife wears Maidenform underwear.
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By what name was Columbo: Murder in Malibu (1990) officially released in Canada in English?
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