A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes aired
- 118
- Latest aired
- S05E22
- Total runtime
- 4d 11h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 1973 – May 1974 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1974 – March 1975 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1975 – March 1976 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1976 – March 1977 25 episodes
- Season 5 October 1977 – March 1978 22 episodes
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S02E01 The Chinatown Murders (1)
September 15 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S02E02 The Chinatown Murders (2)
September 15 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Hush Now, Don't You Die
September 22 · 47min find the promo
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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.
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S02E04 A Very Deadly Game
September 29 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E05 Wall Street Gunslinger
October 6 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E06 Slay Ride
October 13 · 48min find the promo
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When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.
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S02E07 Nursemaid
October 20 · 48min find the promo
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Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.
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S02E08 You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler
October 27 · 47min find the promo
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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.
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S02E09 The Best Judge Money Can Buy
November 3 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E10 A Souvenir from Atlantic City
November 10 · 47min find the promo
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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.
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S02E11 A Killing in the Second House
November 17 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E12 The Best War in Town
November 24 · 48min find the promo
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A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
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S02E13 Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
December 1 · 48min find the promo
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A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.
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S02E14 The Betrayal
December 15 · 47min find the promo
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An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.
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S02E15 Loser Takes All
December 22 · 48min find the promo
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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).
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S02E16 Close Cover Before Killing
January 5 · 48min find the promo
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Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
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S02E17 Acts of Desperate Men
January 12 · 46min find the promo
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An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
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S02E18 Queen of the Gypsies
January 19 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E19 Night of the Piraeus
January 26 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E20 Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
February 2 · 48min find the promo
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Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.
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S02E21 The Good Luck Bomber
February 9 · 48min find the promo
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Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.
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S02E22 Unwanted Partners
February 16 · 48min find the promo
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Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
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S02E23 Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
February 23 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S02E24 The Trade-Off
March 2 · 51min find the promo
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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.
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S02E25 I Want to Report a Dream
March 9 · 48min find the promo
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A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.