The BEST episodes written by Gene Kearney

8.65

20 votes

#1 - A Killing in the Second House

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 11

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.

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8.54

13 votes

#2 - When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead

Kojak - Season 4 - Episode 17

A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.

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8.53

15 votes

#3 - A Long Way from Times Square

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 12

Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.

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8.45

11 votes

#4 - The Summer of '69 (1)

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 9

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.

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8.40

0 votes

#5 - The Painted Mirror

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 39

A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures in an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.

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8.38

8 votes

#6 - The Summer of '69 (2)

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 10

After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.

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8.33

9 votes

#7 - Out of the Shadows

Kojak - Season 4 - Episode 4

Kojak and the detectives scour the city for ""The Grim Reaper"", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.

8.25

12 votes

#8 - A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 14

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.

8.24

17 votes

#9 - Therapy in Dynamite

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 21

A psychopathic bomber (Steven Keats) targets people who hurt his friends.

8.22

9 votes

#10 - Both Sides of the Law

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 24

Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.

8.20

15 votes

#11 - Queen of the Gypsies

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 18

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.

How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars

8.17

12 votes

#12 - How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 15

(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.

8.10

91 votes

#13 - My Friend, My Enemy

Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 6

A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain specialist and mind control expert. Unable to break Paris, Tabor blanks out Paris' memories and uses an implanted electrode to program him to attack Jim by convincing the disguise expert Jim represents an authority figure, similar to the ones he has lost two women to in the past. Doug and Jim find nothing wrong with him, but Barney finds fingerprints pointing to Maur and Jim delays reporting to the Secretary and tries to find out what's going on with Paris. Paris is befriended by a Communist agent working with Tabor - Tabor murders her and makes it set up as if Jim did it. Paris attacks Jim but snaps out of it when Jim's life is threatened and turns against Tabor.

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8.00

12 votes

#14 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 13

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

Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death

8.00

11 votes

#15 - Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 7

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.

7.89

9 votes

#16 - I Want to Report a Dream

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 25

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

7.76

21 votes

#17 - Before the Devil Knows

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 17

A man who had stolen a million dollars in US Government bonds created many enemies along the way-all of which want their own type of justice.

7.69

13 votes

#18 - Once More from Birdland

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 5

A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.

7.69

51 votes

#19 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 9

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.

7.67

3 votes

#20 - Photos Must Credit Joe Paxton

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 20

A photographer(played by Tige Andrews) becomes the prime suspect in a jewel theft and phony kidnapping of a former actress (played by Antoinette Bower) in which he photographs.

7.50

4 votes

#21 - Scoop

Lou Grant - Season 1 - Episode 8

Pressured to get the latest scoop at any cost, Lou ends up in hot water after running two of Rossi's exclusive stories which turn out to be false. So when Billie has information about a possible fake kidnapping, Lou is reluctant to run the story.

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7.38

36 votes

#22 - Junior

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 13

A twist on daddy's midnight feeding.

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7.35

48 votes

#23 - Acts of Desperate Men

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 17

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

7.33

6 votes

#24 - No License to Kill

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 17

Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.

7.25

53 votes

#25 - Death is Not a Passing Grade

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 13

While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college,Kojak embarrasses a student(James Woods),prompting him to leave a stolen item of Kojak's behind at a crime scene in which he commits in order to have the upperhand in future classroom discussions.

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7.03

29 votes

#26 - Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 17

A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.

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7.00

4 votes

#27 - 60 Miles to Hell

Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 21

Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.

7.00

41 votes

#28 - The Devil Is Not Mocked

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 19

A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.

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6.78

149 votes

#29 - Phantom of What Opera?

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 4

The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.

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6.67

25 votes

#30 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes

Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 4

After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.

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6.59

23 votes

#31 - The Other Way Out

Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 7

Bradley Manning kills a woman who threatened to expose their affair to Bradley's wife. When Bradley returns from vacation, someone threatens him with exposure unless Bradley brings $10,000 to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

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