Kim Cattrall in Season 7
Another future star who showed up on Columbo was Sex & the City’s Kim Cattrall, aka Samantha Jones. Her appearance in the episode of Season 7 called “How to Dial a Murder” was something of a twinkle in the eye of TV producers when Cattrall made her biggest appearance of her career as Joanne Nicholls.
She was a love interest in the episode, but that’s the only similarity to Samantha Jones. Cattrall, in this episode, was a much less confident, more troubled girl than the one she became synonymous with. Cattrall herself referenced how much of a big break this was for her. She even paid tribute to Peter Falk on Twitter.