The BEST episodes of Kojak season 2

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - I Want to Report a Dream

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1975

A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Loser Takes All

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1974

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).

#10 - Hush Now, Don't You Die

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1974

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.

#11 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1975

Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.

#12 - Slay Ride

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1974

When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.

#13 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1974

A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.

#14 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1974

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.

#15 - The Chinatown Murders (1)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1974

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.

#16 - The Best War in Town

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1974

A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.

#17 - The Good Luck Bomber

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1975

Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.

#18 - The Chinatown Murders (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1974

#19 - A Very Deadly Game

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1974

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.

#20 - Wall Street Gunslinger

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1974

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.

#21 - Acts of Desperate Men

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1975

An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.

#22 - Nursemaid

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1974

Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.

#23 - You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1974

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.

#24 - The Betrayal

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1974

An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.

#25 - Close Cover Before Killing

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1975

Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.