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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S03E01 A Question of Answers (1)
September 14 · 60min find the promo
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An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.
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S03E02 A Question of Answers (2)
September 14 · 60min find the promo
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To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.
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S03E03 My Brother, My Enemy
September 21 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.
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S03E04 Sweeter Than Life
September 28 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E05 Be Careful What You Pray For
October 5 · 60min find the promo
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Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.
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S03E06 Secret Snow, Deadly Snow
October 12 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E07 Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death
October 26 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E08 Out of the Frying Pan . . .
November 2 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E09 Over the Water
November 9 · 60min find the promo
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A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.
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S03E10 The Nicest Guys on the Block
November 16 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E11 No Immunity for Murder
November 23 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E12 A Long Way from Times Square
November 30 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.
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S03E13 Money Back Guarantee
December 7 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E14 A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves
December 14 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E15 How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars
December 21 · 60min find the promo
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(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.
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S03E16 The Forgotten Room
January 4 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.
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S03E17 On the Edge
January 11 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.
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S03E18 A Wind from Corsica
January 18 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.
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S03E19 Bad Dude
January 25 · 60min find the promo
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A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next target.
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S03E20 A Grave Too Soon
February 1 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.
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S03E21 The Frame
February 8 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bribe.
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S03E22 Deadly Innocence
February 15 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.
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S03E23 Justice Deferred
February 22 · 60min find the promo
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The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.
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S03E24 Both Sides of the Law
March 7 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.