• 1973
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
Kojak

Summary A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city. View more details

  • 1973
  • TV-PG
  • 1h

Kojak

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Telly Savalas Kevin Dobson Dan Frazer George Savalas

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7.1

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Genres : Action Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Oct 23, 1973

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : YouTube

Language : English

Filming locations : Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Universal Television

Summary A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Oct 23, 1973

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : YouTube

Language : English

Filming locations : Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Universal Television

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 23, 1973
Siege of Terror
A robbery of armored car guards morphs into a deadly hostage standoff, with bulldog Lt. Theo Kojak as the negotiator. Half the Talaba Brothers gang escapes with the cash, but when the other half is cornered, they invade a surplus store, crammed with guns and ammo. The robbers also have bargaining chips: the 5 people in the building, plus a badly wounded patrolman, who dove in the store to warn of the incoming robbers. While young Detective Bobby Crocker pursues the thieves who got away, his boss at Manhattan South, the dapper, bald Kojak smooth-talks Jerry Talaba to get the hostages out. Hothead Talaba demands a crewed, fueled 707 at JFK, or he'll start killing the hostages, then toss them out before the TV cameras and hundreds of spectators - one by one.
Episode 2 • Oct 30, 1973
Web of Death
A police detective kills a Manhattan lawyer, after setting up an elaborate alibi for himself. First, Nick Ferro lets Pinky, who he just busted on the street, inject some horse the junkie bought. Ferro then phones in the collar. While Pinky is nodding off in Ferro's car, the policeman digs a gun with a silencer out of a sidewalk hiding place, and cabs to the male attorney's hotel love nest. Ferro switched the rest of the street heroin for another packet, and turns in a baggy of soap powder at the precinct, along with the addict, after the shooting. Why did one of Lt. Kojak's most decorated badges want the mouthpiece dead?
Episode 3 • Nov 06, 1973
One for the Morgue
When mobster Michael X. Tomasso is shot during a speech all clues lead to a Harlem based rival. But Kojak suspects something fishy is going on and decides to dig deeper.
Episode 4 • Nov 13, 1973
Knockover
The murder of a young woman at a bus stop and the arrival of a mobster from Las Vegas, lead Kojak on a trail of jewelry and valuables stolen in a recent robbery.
Episode 5 • Nov 20, 1973
Girl in the River
The elusive 'Excalibur' killer has returned to New York after an absence of two years and Kojak is determined to catch him this time. All of the victims are single women strangled with a stocking with a quarter in it, then left in water with the mark of Excalibur on their forehead and a purple cord around their neck. Clues soon lead Crocker to a bar called The Body Boutique where a regular group of artists, models and gurus hang out.
Episode 6 • Nov 27, 1973
Requiem for a Cop
The entire precinct is shocked when one of their most trusted officers, Tom Donnoly is shot dead carrying $10.000 in his pocket. Kojak has just 48 hours to clear Donnoly's name and make sure he gets buried with honors.
Episode 7 • Dec 04, 1973
The Corrupter
Manhattan is awash with re-cut stolen gems after a legit jeweler is killed, but Kojak ties the honest gem-smith's silent partner to Lawrence, a shady power broker. The partner was "The Prettiest Girl in New York," then fell on hard times, but was taken into the gem business by the honest Max Krouse. Now Celia Lamb is back living high under Lawrence's oily thumb. Kojak perceives the guilt Celia holds about her savior Max, and hopes to use it to bring down Lawrence and the gem chop shops.
Episode 8 • Dec 11, 1973
Dark Sunday
Kojak begins sucking lollipops, after a wheel-man brags he's in on a caper which will make the NYPD more laughable than the Keystone Kops. Soon, a fellow gang member ices Artie the driver and dumps the corpse in a park. The gang member who jerked the trigger was only supposed to stash Artie out of town, so the gang leader's antsy that when Artie's body and belongings are discovered, the police will be on alert. Lt. Kojak keeps the murder out of the obits, but has no clue what the gang's target is. Loud-mouthed Artie owes a lot of people bread, and some tell Kojak's detectives that Artie'll cough up their cash on Monday. So Kojak has less than a week to foil the mammoth heist, plus his struggles to give up smoking make him even more caustic than usual.
Episode 9 • Dec 18, 1973
Conspiracy of Fear
Kojak's operative, an undercover lawyer, is killed investigating endless opportunities for graft provided by an elaborate makeover for an inner city neighborhood. The hoods make the murder appear to be an auto accident, delighting those who'll benefit from the bottomless pork barrel. The developer has a spotless rep, plus a mistress working for the planning commission, forcing Kojak to use unconventional tactics to confront the cabal.
Episode 10 • Jan 01, 1974
Cop in a Cage
Kojak receives threats against his life just as his niece is about to get married.
Episode 11 • Jan 15, 1974
Marker to a Dead Bookie
Lt. Kojak fails to bring down a wily heroin kingpin, so he ups the ante by putting himself up for sale, pretending he's got no shot at Captain's bars, so he's going for dirty money instead. Theo Kojak's top undercover operative Gil sets up an elaborate scam with the dealers, where the heroin Gil seized from Janis will be traded back to the smugglers, and bags of sugar will be put in their place in the Manhattan South property locker. But Janis connives to switch the deal around, so he has his own personal Theo on the inside, on the take.
Episode 12 • Jan 22, 1974
Last Rites for a Dead Priest
Kojak and his men are after a gang of a jewel thieves. The bag-man was shot and identified but is still on the run. So Kojak figures his accomplices will try to get to the man before the cops find him.
Episode 13 • Jan 29, 1974
Death Is Not a Passing Grade
Kojak is a guest instructor at a police science class. One of his students is committing burglaries with his brother-in-law and likes to leave false clues at the crime scene. These include a pen with Kojak's name on it and even Kojak's hat.
Episode 14 • Feb 05, 1974
Die Before They Wake
The deaths of a junkie and a television commentator put Kojak onto the trail of a drug/prostitution ring.
Episode 15 • Feb 12, 1974
Deliver Us Some Evil
Kenny Soames, a friendly young delivery man for a local pharmacy, sets up a residence for a big heist and uses his delivery van for the getaway. He then plans to leave the country with his girlfriend and $100,000 from his confederates.
Episode 16 • Feb 19, 1974
Eighteen Hours of Fear
A young girl smuggles a stolen Canadian blank plate to New York in a leg cast. Her accomplice, an artist, is killed by a mob hit man but the girl manages to slip away from him at a hotel thanks to a friendly traveling salesman. Kojak investigates the murder of the artist and the killers trail leads him straight to the innocent salesman from Encino.
Episode 17 • Feb 26, 1974
Before the Devil Knows
Cat burglar David plunges to his death when a banker cuts his cord for burgling $1 million in bonds the financier embezzled. David's partner Le Jeune gets away with the bonds, but must use a Wall Street fence who's another crooked banker - and works with the murderer. Kojak's belief that Le Jeune wouldn't kill his longtime partner so obviously is confirmed when the murderer's much younger wife fingers her husband to clear herself from accessory to embezzlement.
Episode 18 • Mar 05, 1974
Dead on His Feet
On the trail of a ring counterfeiting lottery tickets, a detective's partner is killed. Det. Fiore feels guilty for giving in to his partner's quest for front page heroism, plus being felled by stomach pains when he had a chance to shoot his friend's killer. When Fiore's diagnosed with terminal cancer, he realizes he's sacrificed having his own life for devotion to Det. Ryan and Ryan's wife. Kojak worries that Fiore's quest for salvation will result in murder, blowing their long-pursued case against the counterfeiters.
Episode 19 • Mar 19, 1974
Down a Long and Lonely River
Ex-con Lou is determined to settle old scores with his ex-wife and her mobster boyfriend who set him up to serve hard time. Lou's fiancée, a wide-eyed prison sociologist, enlists Kojak's help to keep Lou from killing and/or being killed.
Episode 20 • Mar 26, 1974
Mojo
Kojak investigates the theft of powdered morphine from a pharmaceutical company.
Episode 21 • Apr 09, 1974
Therapy in Dynamite
A nebbish helps his therapy group by bombing the nemeses they whine about. Kojak can't find a pattern in the serial murders, especially after an innocent secretary who just moved to Manhattan is blown up, but he knows there is one because she was killed in a parking space with her name on it. NYPD holds back that the bombs all come in brown paper bags, to fend off serial confessors. Danny Zucco can't wait for his next group to see the joy he's brought to his adopted family.
Episode 22 • May 07, 1974
The Only Way Out
A boy asks Kojak to find his father who's gone missing. What they don't know is that he is being held captive.
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