Kojak — Season 1

Aired 24 October 1973 • 50 min

Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.

Aired 31 October 1973 • 50 min

A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.

Aired 7 November 1973 • 50 min

Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.

Aired 14 November 1973 • 50 min

A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.

Aired 21 November 1973 • 50 min

Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.

Aired 28 November 1973 • 50 min

Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.

Aired 5 December 1973 • 50 min

Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.

Aired 12 December 1973 • 50 min

The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.

Aired 19 December 1973 • 50 min

Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.

Aired 2 January 1974 • 50 min

Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.

Aired 16 January 1974 • 50 min

Kojak pretends to be corrupted (buying even more expensive suits than usual and a brand new Cadillac)—not without opposition from Capt. McNeil, who tries save as much police money he can—to catch a narcotics dealer in the act.

Aired 23 January 1974 • 50 min

During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.

Aired 30 January 1974 • 50 min

While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college, Kojak embarrasses a student with a criminal background, forcing him to leave a stolen item to have the upper hand in future classroom discussions.

Aired 6 February 1974 • 50 min

A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.

Aired 13 February 1974 • 50 min

A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.

Aired 20 February 1974 • 60 min

A woman is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrives in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back.

Aired 27 February 1974 • 50 min

A man has embezzled a million dollars in US Government bonds, and David and Kevin burgle the bonds from the safe in his high rise apartment.

Aired 6 March 1974 • 50 min

A detective is hiding his terminal illness, while pursuing his partner's murderer. As he knows that he won't make it he's even more motivated to find a murder even if he'll have to pay the highest price.

Aired 20 March 1974 • 50 min

A young psychologist asks Kojak for help after her fiancee attempts to settle an old score with the people who left him to take the whole responsibility for the crime which sent him to prison.

Aired 27 March 1974 • 50 min

Kojak goes undercover as a chemist in order to expose the thieves who stole morphine from an insurance company, to sell it at an inflated price.

Aired 10 April 1974 • 50 min

A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.

Aired 8 May 1974 • 50 min

A 12-year-old boy wants Kojak's help in locating his missing father. Case takes an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the kid's missing father, but to a thief who fled to Brazil with stolen $25 million. With John Hillerman.