Kojak — Season 5

Aired 2 October 1977 • 60 min

The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.

Aired 9 October 1977 • 60 min

A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.

Aired 16 October 1977 • 60 min

A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.

Aired 23 October 1977 • 60 min

A teenager accidentally kills a gangster's hired hand while robbing him, only to have a rival gangster hire him to take out the competition in order to control the neighborhood in which he doesn't own.

Aired 30 October 1977 • 60 min

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

Aired 6 November 1977 • 60 min

A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.

Aired 13 November 1977 • 60 min

Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.

Aired 20 November 1977 • 60 min

Crocker (played by Kevin Dobson) falls for a woman (played by Jennifer Warren) while investigating the death of her mobster husband.

Aired 4 December 1977 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 December 1977 • 60 min

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

Aired 17 December 1977 • 60 min

Kojak poses as a murdered private investigator in order to find out why he was murdered.

Aired 24 December 1977 • 60 min

A detective (Joey Aresco) believes that his wife's divorce lawyer (David Ladd) hired an arsonist to destroy his boat.

Aired 7 January 1978 • 60 min

While Kojak is contemplating leaving the police department to become a law firm's investigator, a series of recent drug related deaths begin to overshadow his decision.

Aired 21 January 1978 • 60 min

Kojak encounters a case where a highly respected surgeon may be doing unnecessary surgeries in order to use the money to pay off gambling debts.

Aired 28 January 1978 • 60 min

Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.

Aired 4 February 1978 • 60 min

Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.

Aired 11 February 1978 • 60 min

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

Aired 18 February 1978 • 60 min

Kojak and the detectives go undercover in a local hospital in order to investigate a string of murders that have been occurring while the victims were on duty.

Aired 25 February 1978 • 60 min

A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.

Aired 4 March 1978 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 March 1978 • 60 min

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

Aired 18 March 1978 • 60 min

After being rejected for a promotion, a disgruntled inspector sees a current case as a way to boost his career.