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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Black Thorn
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1976
Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - A Long Way from Times Square
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1975
Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.
#11 - The Frame
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1976
A hood claims that Kojak accepted a bribe.
#12 - When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1977
A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.
#13 - 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.
#14 - The Summer of '69 (1)
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1977
Kojak must reopen a case in which the prime suspect of three women was shot and killed after a shootout with him. Now, eight years later, the murders have started again and it appears that Kojak may've killed the wrong man.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Over the Water
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1975
A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.
#17 - Kojak's Days (2)
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1977
The search continues for a woman who murdered her husband, abandoned her child and is threatening to commit suicide.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Birthday Party
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1976
On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.
#20 - The Summer of '69 (2)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1977
After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.
#21 - Monkey on a String
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1977
A veteran police officer whose gambling has put him in financial straits decides to go on the take.
#22 - By Silence Betrayed
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1976
Kojak finds that the longshoreman's lips are sealed when he inquires into labor-related waterfront murders.
#23 - A Shield for Murder (1)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1976
A wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case.
#24 - 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.
#25 - A Souvenir from Atlantic City
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1974
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.