In the mid-1980s 2 TV-movies were aired on CBS. 1989 brought what seemed to be revival of Kojak, the 6 season, in which Kojak had a rank of captain. The last season lasted until 1990 and consisted of 5 episodes. It was aired by ABC.
| # |
Title |
Original Airdate |
| 0 |
"The Marcus-Nelson Murders (Pilot)" |
March 8, 1973 |
| Kojak suspecting that a black youth who confessed to the murder of two white girls was coerced by his police interrogators and is actually innocent of the crime. This is the pilot episode and it runs for above 90min (unlike later normal episodes which are about 60min long, There's also difference in cast, as we're not seeing any of Kojak's colleagues, the precinct building is different and he also drives other car never seen later in series). |
| 1 |
"Siege of Terror" |
October 24, 1973 |
| Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store. |
| 2 |
"Web of Death" |
October 31, 1973 |
| A fellow detective Nick Ferro kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up. |
| 3 |
"One for the Morgue" |
November 7, 1973 |
| Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war. |
| 4 |
"Knockover" |
November 14, 1973 |
| A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery. |
| 5 |
"Girl in the River" |
November 21, 1973 |
| Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances. |
| 6 |
"Requiem for a Cop" |
November 28, 1973 |
| Kojak races a 48h deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, a officer accused of corruption. |
| 7 |
"The Corrupter" |
December 5, 1973 |
| Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner. |
| 8 |
"Dark Sunday" |
December 12, 1973 |
| The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist. |
| 9 |
"Conspiracy of Fear" |
December 19, 1973 |
| Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case. |
| 10 |
"Cop in a Cage" |
January 2, 1974 |
| Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day. |
| 11 |
"Marker to a Dead Bookie" |
January 16, 1974 |
| Kojak is pretending corrupted cop (buying even more expensive suits than usual and brand new Cadillac) - not without opposition from Capt. McNeil who tries save as much police money he can), in order to catch a narcotics dealer in the act. |
| 12 |
"Last Rites for a Dead Priest" |
January 23, 1974 |
| During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief (played by Jackie Cooper) disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable jewelry. |
| 13 |
"Death is Not a Passing Grade" |
February 30, 1974 |
| While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college, Kojak embarrasses a student with criminal background (James Woods), forcing him to leave a stolen item to have the upper hand in future classroom discussions. |
| 14 |
"Die Before They Wake" |
February 6, 1974 |
| A junkie prostitute (Tina Louise) holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter. |
| 15 |
"Deliver Us Some Evil" |
February 13, 1974 |
| A small time crook (John Ritter) prepares to a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge. |
| 16 |
"Eighteen Hours of Fear" |
February 20, 1974 |
| A woman (Lynne Marta) is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrived in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back. |
| 17 |
"Before the Devil Knows" |
February 27, 1974 |
| A man who stole a million dollars in US Government bonds has made many enemies along the way. Now all of them wants the different kind of justice. |
| 18 |
"Dead on His Feet" |
March 6, 1974 |
| A detective (Harry Guardino) is hiding with 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. |
| 19 |
"Down a Long and Lonely River" |
March 20, 1974 |
| A young psychologist asks Kojak for help after her fiancee (Paul Michael Glaser), 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. |
| 20 |
"Mojo" |
March 27, 1974 |
| 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. |
| 21 |
"Therapy in Dynamite" |
April 10, 1974 |
| A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend, Kojak is finding out the link between victims in order to find suspect. |
| 22 |
"The Only Way Out" |
May 8, 1974 |
| A 12 year old boy wants Kojak 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 flied to Brazil with stolen $25 million. |
| # |
Title |
Original Airdate |
| 23 |
"The Chinatown Murders (1)" |
September 15, 1974 |
| A series of gang members murders in Chinatown starts a war, Kojak is finding out that those murders were only pretending to be prepared by rival gangs in order to take over the territory from old families by a complete new gang. |
| 24 |
"The Chinatown Murders (2)" |
September 15, 1974 |
| Kojak is in pursuit of the individuals who started the war, in order to prevent from even worse bloodshed when old gangs stand against each other. |
| 25 |
"Hush Now, or You'll Die" |
September 22, 1974 |
| A college girl has been kidnapped when going late back from school, she's taken to old warehouse and raped by two assassins, when in fight between them (assassins) one of them is shot by another and the girl escapes. Now Kojak has a one dead on crime scene and no clue what's happened Girl's testimonies would surely help find the other criminal who was this night with them but because of fear from publicly saying that she was raped she's not going to police, her father though is starting his own vendetta as he wants to find and kill other assassin by himself. Kojak must fight through the wall of mistakenly taken parent's care to find the truth about what actually happened that night. |
| 26 |
"A Very Deadly Game" |
September 29, 1974 |
| A fellow policeman from Kojak's precinct is killed on duty. Theo is starting his investigation while he doesn't realize how fragile this case will be, as he doesn't knows yet that the murderer is a well known criminal pursued by the CIA. Because of this, Kojak supervisors are forcing Kojak to leave the case CIA, as they're after him in a large fraud case. Kojak though doesn't think to give up and challenges agents (one of whom is an old Kojak rival) and is going all the way to L.A. since he desperately wants that criminal to be jailed for a murder not a fraud. |
| 27 |
"Wall Street Gunslinger" |
October 6, 1974 |
| Kojak takes the case about fake stocks at Wall Street, which includes also three murders. When usual procedures fails he's taking big risk on his shoulders going undercover as a Greek Millionaire to get into office of well known broker and catch him when as soon as he tries sell him the stocks. Things don't go as Kojak planned, when the thieves finding out that the real Greek Millionaire which Kojak was pretending is in Europe. Theo is kidnapped and can count only that his colleagues will save him. |
| 28 |
"Slay Ride" |
October 13, 1974 |
| In hotel there's an architect's convention, during it a couple of suicides is happening one by one. Kojak doubts that those were actually suicides, he's more convinced when he's starting to finding connection between deaths. The story is going back to the last architect convention at which all of the victims were involved in a young girl rape and her sister death. The dead girl was a soldier girlfriend who was at the time at outpost in Germany now, after this time when he's eventually home, he wants vengeance and is finding (with the guidance of her sister) and killing all the people related to his girlfriend death. As he's about to kill the last person related to the girl's death, Kojak is finding the link between victims and wants to prevent from next murder. |
| 29 |
"Nursemaid" |
October 20, 1974 |
| A gun dealer is forced by a gang to sell them large amount of guns. When a gang is killing members of rival gang Kojak starts his investigation. Together with Crocker and Stavros they're organizing a raid on gang owned pub in which their finding a vault with large number of pistols among which there are also the ones supplied by a threatened gun dealer. Kojak quickly locates dealer with help of pistols serial numbers. He's visiting him and convincing to testify against gang members, the storekeeper don't have much time to think about Kojak proposition because he's kidnapped and killed by a gang. Shortly after this there's a call in which women describes this, as it happens she's a former gun shop bookkeeper who's also not so keen to testify, but when Kojak convincing her, that gang members will very likely find her soon and kill, just like her boss, she's changing her mind. She's taken to the motel away from Manhattan but even though she's under police wings she can't sleep calm as gangsters won't give up easily on a plan to kill her, since she's only one witness of illegal gun sale, and killing of gun dealer. |
| 30 |
"You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler" |
October 30, 1974 |
| Small time criminal is suspected murder, Kojak thinks that in fact he was framed in this and tries to find the real men responsible for the crime and prove his. The suspect doesn't want to cooperate as he thinks that his new criminal 'friend' (who's in fact responsible for murder and indeed wants frame his freshly met colleague) will help him. He getting more certain when he's bailing him out from the prison, but soon he will learn about real plans of his 'fellow-man'. Kojak is using this and convincing that he should help him, in order to help himself, eventually equipped with microphone is sent by Kojak to his "friend's" flat and is getting testimonies essential for investigation and for him, to be free. |
| 31 |
"The Best Judge Money Can Buy" |
November 3, 1974 |
| A judge died in interesting circumstances, it's becoming soon obvious that he has been murdered, Kojak has to find out who, after research he's coming to fact that the judge was corrupted. The solution to the case rests in the hands of Mackie's father, likewise a judge who upstanding before moral dilemma when needs decide whether or no set a known murderer free to cover up for his son's misdeeds. |
| 32 |
"A Souvenir from Atlantic City" |
November 10, 1974 |
| The only witness to a terrorist bombing also happens to be a police informer. In his efforts to locate the witness, Kojak is must cooperate with a rival police precinct which is keeping the man under wraps. Meanwhile, the witness escapes custody to his sister just as the terrorist group El Compadre prepares to strike against him. |
| 33 |
"A Killing in the Second House" |
November 17, 1974 |
| A wealthy man hires private detective to follow his wife as he suspects she has an affair. Detective is soon delivering a photos at which the wife is seen with his assistant after seeing pictures man is killing himself. Private detective wants to help widow get the money from insurance company (and take his share too), so he's making his ex-client suicide looks like a murder. Unfortunately the case is given to Kojak who will always find the truth. As it happens the private detective is a former police detective from Kojak precinct, who has been laid off work after corruption accusations. |
| 34 |
"The Best War in Town" |
November 24, 1974 |
| This is to be the first day of work for rookie cop, but on the way to his precinct he's noticing a group of men which are trying to strangle an individual. He takes this as his duty and is freeing him. In an attempt to chase assassins car he's shooting in its direction, and the car is killing one woman. It seems that he done right thing, but he doesn't know yet who he was just saved life and that was a gangster who was about to die from rival gang members hands. The cop is immediately in the centre of the whole case as he's only one who can point responsible for this assault (and killing an innocent women). |
| 35 |
"Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die" |
December 1, 1974 |
| The friend of a mental patient (Andrea Marcovicci) thinks he is protecting her by murdering her aggressive suitor. |
| 36 |
"The Betrayal" |
December 15, 1974 |
| An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective to further his own criminal career. Directed by Telly Savalas. |
| 37 |
"Loser Takes All" |
December 22, 1974 |
| A woman's (Ja'net DuBois) husband is murdered during the diamond heist she plotted with her lover (Leslie Nielsen); guest Antonio Fargas. |
| 38 |
"Close Cover Before Killing" |
January 5, 1975 |
| Kojak is puzzled when a prosperous businessman (Alex Rocco) suddenly is accused of murder and arson; guests Erik Estrada, David Ackroyd. |
| 39 |
"Acts of Desperate Men" |
January 12, 1975 |
| A sniper systematically eliminates a mild-mannered accountant's (Eugene Roche) boss and his associates; guest Elaine Joyce. |
| 40 |
"Queen of the Gypsies" |
January 19, 1975 |
| A Gypsy woman (Zohra Lampert), witness to a bank robbery, recruits the thieves for a heist involving six banks in one day. |
| 41 |
"Night of the Piraeus" |
January 26, 1975 |
| A belt stolen from a Greek sailor causes three murders, but a witness appears unconcerned; guest Norman Lloyd. |
| 42 |
"Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard" |
February 2, 1975 |
| The murder of a Manhattan playgirl affects several lives, including Lt. Kojak's; guest Priscilla Pointer. |
| 43 |
"The Good Luck Bomber" |
February 9, 1975 |
| A series of bombings involving devices that cannot be defused frustrates Kojak; guest Jack Ging. |
| 44 |
"Unwanted Partners" |
February 16, 1975 |
| Crocker is torn when an old school chum is the prime suspect in the investigation of a protection racket. |
| 45 |
"Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred" |
February 23, 1975 |
| A thief tries unsuccessfully to steal a painter's truck, then sits in jail while his lawyer (Robert Loggia) fails to arrange bail. |
| 46 |
"The Trade-Off" |
March 2, 1975 |
| A narcotics dealer (Mark Stevens) facing prosecution kidnaps Capt. McNeil's wife and demands Kojak return the evidence. |
| 47 |
"I Want to Report a Dream" |
March 9, 1975 |
| A psychic (Ruth Gordon) reports to the police a dream in which she sees a murder committed; guest Tracy Reed. |
| # |
Title |
Original Airdate |
| 48 |
"A Question of Answers (1)" |
September 14, 1975 |
| A man tries to clear his name by helping Kojak trap a loan shark; guest Jennifer Warren. |
| 49 |
"A Question of Answers (2)" |
September 14, 1975 |
| A man tries to clear his name by helping Kojak trap a loan shark; guest Jennifer Warren. (Part 2) |
| 50 |
"My Brother, My Enemy" |
September 21, 1975 |
| Kojak resists outside pressures to protect a fellow detective (Sylvester Stallone) who accidentally shot a boy. |
| 51 |
"Sweeter Than Life" |
September 21, 1975 |
| Lt. Kojak asks an ex-addict (Neville Brand) to help his nephew, who seems to be hooked on drugs and involved in a murder. |
| 52 |
"Be Careful What You Pray For" |
October 5, 1975 |
| Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist. |
| 53 |
"Silent Snow, Deadly Snow" |
October 12, 1975 |
| Kojak is determined to nail a big-time drug dealer who shot a plastic surgeon, even though the man was already dead from what they at first believe to be natural causes. |
| 54 |
"Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death" |
October 26, 1975 |
| 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. |
| 55 |
"Out of the Frying Pan…" |
November 2, 1975 |
| A veteran cop, battling alcoholism and demoted 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 gold shield. |
| 56 |
"Over the Water" |
November 09, 1975 |
| After Kojak breaks up a barroom brawl he started, a mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life. |
| 57 |
"The Nicest Guys on the Block" |
November 16, 1975 |
| 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. |
| 58 |
"No Immunity for Murder" |
November 23, 1975 |
| Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak runs afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further. |
| 59 |
"A Long Way from Times Square" |
November 30, 1975 |
| Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness, but they encounter trouble in town. |
| 60 |
"Money Back Guarantee" |
December 7, 1975 |
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| 61 |
"A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves" |
December 14, 1975 |
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| 62 |
"How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars" |
December 21, 1975 |
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| 63 |
"The Forgotten Room" |
January 4, 1976 |
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| 64 |
"On the Edge" |
January 11, 1976 |
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| 65 |
"A Wind from Corsica" |
January 18, 1976 |
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| 66 |
"Bad Dude" |
January 25, 1976 |
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| 67 |
"The Frame" |
February 1, 1976 |
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| 68 |
"Deadly Innocence" |
February 8, 1976 |
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| 69 |
"Justice Deferred" |
February 15, 1976 |
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| 70 |
"Both Sides of the Law" |
February 22, 1976 |
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| 71 |
"A Grave Too Soon" |
March 7, 1976 |
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