The BEST episodes of Kojak season 2
Every episode of Kojak season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kojak season 2!
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 - 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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Chinatown Murders (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1974
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Acts of Desperate Men
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1975
An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
#25 - 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.