The BEST episodes of Kojak
Every episode of Kojak ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kojak!
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier it aired on CBS from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978. In 1999 TV Guide ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.
#1 - Laid Off
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1977
A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.
#2 - Kojak's Days (1)
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1977
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.
#3 - A Killing in the Second House
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1974
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.
#5 - Unwanted Partners
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1975
Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
#6 - A Question of Answers (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1975
To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.
#7 - I Was Happy Where I Was
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1977
A Puerto Rican cop goes undercover in his old neighborhood to find out who is trying to start a barrio gang war.
#8 - The Forgotten Room
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1976
Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.
#9 - Deadly Innocence
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1976
Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.
#10 - Cry for the Kids
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1977
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.
#11 - A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1975
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.
#12 - The Frame
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1976
A hood claims that Kojak accepted a bribe.
#13 - Lady in the Squad Room
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1977
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.
#14 - The Queen of Hearts is Wild
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1977
The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.
#15 - Queen of the Gypsies
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1975
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.
#16 - Out of the Frying Pan...
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1975
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.
#17 - Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1975
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.
#18 - A Shield for Murder (2)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1976
When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.
#19 - Black Thorn
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1976
Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.
#20 - Night of the Piraeus
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1975
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.
#21 - The Trade-Off
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1975
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.
#22 - How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1975
(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.
#23 - The Godson
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1977
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?
#24 - Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1975
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.
#25 - Out of the Shadows
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1976
Kojak and the detectives scour the city for ""The Grim Reaper"", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.