...um..my fingers are 'crossed'...

#3-Light, match, fuse and Columbo's smoking habit.

#5-By DAWN's Early Light and How to DIAL A Murder.

#6. Etude in Black (easy one!). Two that might be stretches: Greenhouse Jungle and Blueprint for Murder. I'll cheat now and see how close I got.

You guys are good!! Great job so far...did i make it too easy for you???

Not quite. I was close to grasping at straws. I almost tried to claim that "port" was a color.

(quid, i was thinking the same exact thing when i was making this up.. )

Publish or Perish and Mind Over Mayhem:

Initials are "MOM" and "POP."

Murder Under Glass is initialed "MUG," having to do with coffee.

Excellent job David...that was my favourite one...I just thought it was kinda cute.

Now to my disclaimer...I sorta made a mistake on #4.......I know..I know...let me hear you all groan...it really should be only 4 titles not 5, because one of the props is actually the murder weapon in a way.
Heck..I wouldn't sweat too much on the last two questions because the answers are kinda dumb.

Somehow I missed Etude in Black (sorry cass, I know he's your guy) and I was willing to accept port as a color.

I should have included port as a color...
And what do you mean TFL?...when you say you missed Etude, do you mean you haven't seen it?

Great quiz.

For #1: Are these the only titles where additional punctuation is used? The colon and the hyphens?

Regarding the prop question:

Book?
Blueprint?
Negative?

Yay! Yay! Yay!....Great job E!
You got it right about the punctuation thingy..
And the props thing too..the last one would have been Any Old Port in a Storm..where a bottle of port is in the episode. The one that I messed up on was I originally included Short Fuse in this category, but a short fuse was actually the murder weapon.

Thanks to everybody, I sometimes screw these quizzes up, and I did a bit this time, as I said, I aint no Headache...but I'm trying.....Yay!!

Of course I have seen Etude in Black, like most people on this board I have seen every Columbo. What I meant was I didn't think of Etude when I was thinking of titles with colors. I just thought it was ironic that I didn't think of that title considering who came up with this quiz in the first place.

Very cute TFL!

And I sort of thought you had seen it..but I just misunderstood you. But you would be surprised how many people here, who post regularly, haven't seen all the episodes....myself included. I have seen all the original 45 but very few of the newer ones.

Very clever & original quiz Franco! You did yourself proud!

thanks birthday buddy!! (and thanks for calling me franco...i love it!! )