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Kojak

1973TV-PG5 seasons7.2 / 10

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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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Synopsis

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

Season 1 episodes

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Episode 1

Siege of Terror

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

Episode 2

Web of Death

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

Episode 3

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.

Episode 4

Knockover

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

Episode 5

Girl in the River

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

Episode 6

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.

Episode 7

The Corrupter

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

Episode 8

Dark Sunday

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

Episode 9

Conspiracy of Fear

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

Episode 10

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.

Episode 11

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.

Episode 12

Last Rites for a Dead Priest

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

Episode 13

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.

Episode 14

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.

Episode 15

Deliver Us Some Evil

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

Episode 16

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.

Episode 17

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.

Episode 18

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.

Episode 19

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.

Episode 20

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.

Episode 21

Therapy in Dynamite

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

Episode 22

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.

Episode information updated Jul 22, 2026