About this season
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Episodes (25)
1. The Chinatown Murders (1)
9.0Aired 15 September 1974 • 60 min
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.
2. The Chinatown Murders (2)
8.0Aired 15 September 1974 • 60 min
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.
3. Hush Now, Don't You Die
9.5Aired 22 September 1974 • 60 min
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.
4. A Very Deadly Game
9.0Aired 29 September 1974 • 60 min
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.
5. Wall Street Gunslinger
7.0Aired 6 October 1974 • 60 min
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.
6. Slay Ride
9.0Aired 13 October 1974 • 60 min
When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.
7. Nursemaid
8.0Aired 20 October 1974 • 60 min
Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.
8. You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler
8.5Aired 27 October 1974 • 60 min
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.
9. The Best Judge Money Can Buy
9.0Aired 3 November 1974 • 60 min
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.
10. A Souvenir from Atlantic City
9.0Aired 10 November 1974 • 60 min
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.
11. A Killing in the Second House
10.0Aired 17 November 1974 • 60 min
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.
12. The Best War in Town
9.5Aired 24 November 1974 • 60 min
A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
13. Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
9.5Aired 1 December 1974 • 60 min
A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.
14. The Betrayal
9.0Aired 15 December 1974 • 60 min
An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.
15. Loser Takes All
9.0Aired 22 December 1974 • 60 min
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).
16. Close Cover Before Killing
9.0Aired 5 January 1975 • 60 min
Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
17. Acts of Desperate Men
8.5Aired 12 January 1975 • 60 min
An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
18. Queen of the Gypsies
10.0Aired 19 January 1975 • 60 min
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.
19. Night of the Piraeus
9.5Aired 26 January 1975 • 60 min
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.
20. Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
8.0Aired 2 February 1975 • 60 min
Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.
21. The Good Luck Bomber
Aired 9 February 1975 • 60 min
Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.
22. Unwanted Partners
8.0Aired 16 February 1975 • 60 min
Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
23. Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
8.0Aired 23 February 1975 • 60 min
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.
24. The Trade-Off
9.0Aired 2 March 1975 • 60 min
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.
25. I Want to Report a Dream
4.0Aired 9 March 1975 • 60 min
A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.