Kojak

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A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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9 episodes

S0 E1 · The Marcus-Nelson Murders

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

S0 E2 · The Belarus File

Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.

S0 E3 · The Price of Justice

Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.

S0 E4 · Ariana

One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate...

S0 E5 · Fatal Flaw

While Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposé, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.

S0 E6 · Flowers for Matty

A fellow cop and Kojak's close friend is shot to death. Theo immediately starts an investigation, but to his dismay the case is taken away from him by the Internal Affairs Bureau, as his killed friend is suspected of bribery. Regardless of that, Kojak's continuing his own private research, as he believes in the detective's innocence. Cast includes Glynnis O'Connor and Ed Lauter.

S0 E7 · It's Always Something

After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Columbian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former place detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.

S0 E8 · None So Blind

When an accountant is murdered, Kojak becomes suspicious of the activities of a wealthy department store own and his family.

S0 E9 · Who Loves Ya Baby-Featurette

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Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · Siege of Terror

Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.

S1 E2 · Web of Death

A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.

S1 E3 · One for the Morgue

Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.

S1 E4 · Knockover

A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.

S1 E5 · Girl in the River

Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.

S1 E6 · Requiem for a Cop

Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.

S1 E7 · The Corrupter

Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.

S1 E8 · Dark Sunday

The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.

S1 E9 · Conspiracy of Fear

Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.

S1 E10 · Cop in a Cage

Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.

S1 E11 · Marker to a Dead Bookie

Kojak pretends to be corrupted (buying even more expensive suits than usual and a brand new Cadillac)—not without opposition from Capt. McNeil, who tries save as much police money he can—to catch a narcotics dealer in the act.

S1 E12 · Last Rites for a Dead Priest

During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.

S1 E13 · Death Is Not a Passing Grade

While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college, Kojak embarrasses a student with a criminal background, forcing him to leave a stolen item to have the upper hand in future classroom discussions.

S1 E14 · Die Before They Wake

A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.

S1 E15 · Deliver Us Some Evil

A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.

S1 E16 · Eighteen Hours of Fear

A woman is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrives in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back.

S1 E17 · Before the Devil Knows

A man has embezzled a million dollars in US Government bonds, and David and Kevin burgle the bonds from the safe in his high rise apartment.

S1 E18 · Dead on His Feet

A detective is hiding his terminal illness, while pursuing his partner's murderer. As he knows that he won't make it he's even more motivated to find a murder even if he'll have to pay the highest price.

S1 E19 · Down a Long and Lonely River

A young psychologist asks Kojak for help after her fiancee attempts to settle an old score with the people who left him to take the whole responsibility for the crime which sent him to prison.

S1 E20 · Mojo

Kojak goes undercover as a chemist in order to expose the thieves who stole morphine from an insurance company, to sell it at an inflated price.

S1 E21 · Therapy in Dynamite

A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.

S1 E22 · The Only Way Out

A 12-year-old boy wants Kojak's help in locating his missing father. Case takes an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the kid's missing father, but to a thief who fled to Brazil with stolen $25 million. With John Hillerman.

Season 2

25 episodes

S2 E1 · The Chinatown Murders (1)

To head off a bloody war between rival crime families, Kojak must find out who committed a series of murders in Chinatown and bring them to justice.

S2 E2 · The Chinatown Murders (2)

To head off a bloody war between rival crime families, Kojak must find out who committed a series of murders in Chinatown and bring them to justice.

S2 E3 · Hush Now, Don't You Die

Kojak tracks down a college student that he suspects has been raped, but is too afraid to come forward after she witnesses one of the assailants murdered by the other.

S2 E4 · A Very Deadly Game

After a policeman is shot by a local known criminal, Kojak sets out to get the man behind bars, but his efforts are disrupted by FBI agents who are supposed to be helping. He then pursues the trail alone, taking him to Califormia where the criminal is hiding out.

S2 E5 · Wall Street Gunslinger

Kojak goes undercover as a Greek millionaire to track down the person responsible for the theft of $20 million in securities as well as three murders.

S2 E6 · Slay Ride

When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.

S2 E7 · Nursemaid

Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.

S2 E8 · You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler

Kojak suspects that a small-time criminal was framed for a murder, but the man refuses to cooperate when Kojak tries to prove his innocence.

S2 E9 · The Best Judge Money Can Buy

A judge (John Randolph) whose son was also a judge was murdered and his death was made to look like he had committed suicide. Now, his father must decide whether or not he should allow a murderer (Abe Vigoda) to walk, or risk letting information out that shows his son as a corrupt judge.

S2 E10 · A Souvenir from Atlantic City

Kojak's attempt to solve a terrorist bombing is frustrated by the fact that the only eyewitness is being held incommunicado by the police in another case.

S2 E11 · A Killing in the Second House

Kojak comes up against a former cop, now a private investigator, who tries to make his client's suicide look like murder so he can collect money from life insurance.

S2 E12 · The Best War in Town

A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.

S2 E13 · Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.

S2 E14 · The Betrayal

An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.

S2 E15 · Loser Takes All

A woman (Ja'net DuBois) intentionally plots to have her husband murdered during a diamond heist that she had planned with her secret love interest (Leslie Nielson).

S2 E16 · Close Cover Before Killing

Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.

S2 E17 · Acts of Desperate Men

An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.

S2 E18 · Queen of the Gypsies

A young gypsy woman who witnesses a a bank robbery decides that looting banks is preferable to telling fortunes, so she recruits the thieves for a master plan to rob six banks in one day.

S2 E19 · Night of the Piraeus

The murder of a sailor newly arrived on a freighter from Greece and a strangely unconcerned witness lead Kojak to suspect that an object was smuggled into the country in the man's belt.

S2 E20 · Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.

S2 E21 · The Good Luck Bomber

Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.

S2 E22 · Unwanted Partners

Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.

S2 E23 · Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred

While an accused thief sits in jail waiting for his lawyer to arrange bail, Kojak tries to decipher a phrase heard during an unsuccessful attempt to steal a paint company truck.

S2 E24 · The Trade-Off

Kojak arrests the ringleader (Mark Stevens) of a drug operation, whose gang kidnaps Captain McNeil's wife in order to trade her for the evidence they have against him.

S2 E25 · I Want to Report a Dream

A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.

Season 3

24 episodes

S3 E1 · A Question of Answers (1)

An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.

S3 E2 · A Question of Answers (2)

To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.

S3 E3 · My Brother, My Enemy

Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.

S3 E4 · Sweeter Than Life

While responding to a homicide call, Kojak discovers his camera that had disappeared earlier at a party in which he, his nephew and friend attended. His nephew's friend steals the camera and uses it to buy drugs from the murdered man. They witness the murder and are reluctant to involve the police. Kojak's nephew must go 'cold turkey' before he ends up like his friend who overdosed.

S3 E5 · Be Careful What You Pray For

Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.

S3 E6 · Secret Snow, Deadly Snow

Kojak is determined to nail a big-time drug dealer who shot a plastic surgeon who was already dead from what they first believed to be natural causes.

S3 E7 · Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death

A woman who witnesses a body being dumped into the harbor is so fragile minded that the man who dumped the body tries to use psychology against her in order to eliminate her from the picture.

S3 E8 · Out of the Frying Pan . . .

A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.

S3 E9 · Over the Water

A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.

S3 E10 · The Nicest Guys on the Block

A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds.

S3 E11 · No Immunity for Murder

Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further.

S3 E12 · A Long Way from Times Square

Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.

S3 E13 · Money Back Guarantee

A murdered cop and a wealthy young woman put Kojak on the trail of a car-theft ring in which the victims appear to cooperate with the thieves.

S3 E14 · A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves

An old colleague calls from Las Vegas to say he has captured a counterfeiter Kojak has been looking for, but the elderly man is murdered before Kojak can bring him back to New York.

S3 E15 · How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars

(Christmas Episode) Stavros helps a woman (Betsy Slade) find her desperate boyfriend (Darrell Fetty), while Kojak tries to find out why a man (James Griffith) shot at a woman (Jesse Welles) in a local bar.

S3 E16 · The Forgotten Room

Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.

S3 E17 · On the Edge

Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.

S3 E18 · A Wind from Corsica

Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.

S3 E19 · Bad Dude

A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next target.

S3 E20 · A Grave Too Soon

Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.

S3 E21 · The Frame

Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bribe.

S3 E22 · Deadly Innocence

Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.

S3 E23 · Justice Deferred

The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.

S3 E24 · Both Sides of the Law

Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.

Season 4

25 episodes

S4 E1 · Birthday Party

On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.

S4 E2 · A Summer Madness

Already confronted with problems at home, Detective Jeff Braddock must face the inquiry of the murder of his mistress, while Kojak investigates the bombing of a restaurant.

S4 E3 · Law Dance

Kojak searches for the killer of a key witness in a prominent murder trial.

S4 E4 · Out of the Shadows

Kojak and the detectives scour the city for ""The Grim Reaper"", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.

S4 E5 · A Need to Know

Kojak and the detectives try to stop a child molester who has diplomatic immunity before he strikes again.

S4 E6 · An Unfair Trade

The shooting of a Puerto Rican youth by the Police anders the community.

S4 E7 · A Hair-Trigger Away

The drug addicted girlfriend of a cop is under scrutiny for accidentally killing his partner during a drug bust.

S4 E8 · By Silence Betrayed

Kojak finds that the longshoreman's lips are sealed when he inquires into labor-related waterfront murders.

S4 E9 · A Shield for Murder (1)

A wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case.

S4 E10 · A Shield for Murder (2)

When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.

S4 E11 · The Pride and the Princess

An émigré princess and her servant scheme to recover family jewels they believe are held by a mobster.

S4 E12 · Black Thorn

Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.

S4 E13 · Where Do You Go When You Have No Place To Go?

A desperate unemployed ironworker accidentally kills a construction kingpin.

S4 E14 · Dead Again

A woman informs the detectives that she had seen a wanted man that had supposedly died in a house fire, but they don't believe her until it's too late.

S4 E15 · The Godson

Kojak's godson becomes mixed up with a gang involved in an armed robbery. Can Kojak get through to his godson before it's too late?

S4 E16 · The Condemned

A boxer accused of murder holes up inside a church and threatens to kill the parishioners unless the police meet his demands.

S4 E17 · When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead

A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.

S4 E18 · I Was Happy Where I Was

A Puerto Rican cop goes undercover in his old neighborhood to find out who is trying to start a barrio gang war.

S4 E19 · Kojak's Days (1)

Kojak must unravel the mystery of a white Roll-Royce with a body in the trunk while trying to find a woman who murdered her husband.

S4 E20 · Kojak's Days (2)

The search continues for a woman who murdered her husband, abandoned her child and is threatening to commit suicide.

S4 E21 · Monkey on a String

A member of the police force falls prey to a powerful crime figure. With Albert Paulsen and Judith Light.

S4 E22 · Kiss it All Goodbye

Crocker accidentally shoots a fashion model while trying to stop a robbery, jeopardizing his career.

S4 E23 · Lady in the Squad Room

Kojak and a female detective must overcome their dislike for each other when she is transferred from the rape squad to help nab a drug-dealing rapist-muderer.

S4 E24 · Sister Maria

A vengeful nun tries to bring to justice the gangster who ordered the murder of her sister. (60 mins)

S4 E25 · Another Gypsy Queen

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Season 5

22 episodes

S5 E1 · The Queen of Hearts Is Wild

The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.

S5 E2 · A Strange Kind of Love

A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.

S5 E3 · Laid Off

A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.

S5 E4 · Cry for the Kids

A teenager accidentally kills a gangster's hired hand while robbing him, only to have a rival gangster hire him to take out the competition in order to control the neighborhood in which he doesn't own.

S5 E5 · Once More from Birdland

A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.

S5 E6 · Caper on a Quiet Street

A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.

S5 E7 · Letters of Death

Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.

S5 E8 · Tears for All Who Loved Her

Crocker (played by Kevin Dobson) falls for a woman (played by Jennifer Warren) while investigating the death of her mobster husband.

S5 E9 · The Summer of '69 (1)

Kojak must reopen a case in which the prime suspect of three women was shot and killed after a shootout with him. Now, eight years later, the murders have started again and it appears that Kojak may've killed the wrong man.

S5 E10 · The Summer of '69 (2)

After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.

S5 E11 · Case Without a File

Kojak poses as a murdered private investigator in order to find out why he was murdered.

S5 E12 · I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer

A detective (Joey Aresco) believes that his wife's divorce lawyer (David Ladd) hired an arsonist to destroy his boat.

S5 E13 · Justice for All

While Kojak is contemplating leaving the police department to become a law firm's investigator, a series of recent drug related deaths begin to overshadow his decision.

S5 E14 · Mouse

Kojak encounters a case where a highly respected surgeon may be doing unnecessary surgeries in order to use the money to pay off gambling debts.

S5 E15 · Chain of Custody

Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.

S5 E16 · The Captain's Brother's Wife

Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.

S5 E17 · No License to Kill

Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.

S5 E18 · The Halls of Terror

Kojak and the detectives go undercover in a local hospital in order to investigate a string of murders that have been occurring while the victims were on duty.

S5 E19 · May the Horse Be with You

A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.

S5 E20 · Photos Must Credit Joe Paxton

A photographer (played by Tige Andrews) becomes the prime suspect in a jewel theft and phony kidnapping of a former actress (played by Antoinette Bower) in which he photographs.

S5 E21 · 60 Miles to Hell

Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.

S5 E22 · In Full Command

After being rejected for a promotion, a disgruntled inspector sees a current case as a way to boost his career.