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The Best Episodes of Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Seasons5

  1. Background image for Queen of the Gypsies
    8.1/10(228 votes)

    #1 - Queen of the Gypsies

    S2:E18

    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.

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  2. Background image for A Need to Know
    8.1/10(150 votes)

    #2 - A Need to Know

    S4:E5

    Kojak and the detectives try to stop a child molester, who has diplomatic immunity, before he strikes again.

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  3. Background image for Requiem for a Cop
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Requiem for a Cop

    S1:E6

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

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  4. Background image for Cop in a Cage
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Cop in a Cage

    S1:E10

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

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  5. Background image for Marker to a Dead Bookie
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Marker to a Dead Bookie

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Jack Laird
  6. Background image for Death Is Not a Passing Grade
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Death Is Not a Passing Grade

    S1:E13

    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.

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  8. Background image for Deliver Us Some Evil
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Deliver Us Some Evil

    S1:E15

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

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    8.0/10(137 votes)

    #8 - Mouse

    S5:E14

    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.

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  10. Background image for Hush Now, Don't You Die
    7.9/10(182 votes)

    #9 - Hush Now, Don't You Die

    S2:E3

    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.

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  11. Background image for Out of the Frying Pan . . .
    7.9/10(154 votes)

    #10 - Out of the Frying Pan . . .

    S3:E8

    A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.

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  12. Background image for A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves
    7.9/10(214 votes)

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

    S3:E14

    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.

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    7.9/10(145 votes)

    #12 - A Shield for Murder (1)

    S4:E9

    A wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case.

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    7.9/10(133 votes)

    #13 - A Shield for Murder (2)

    S4:E10

    When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.

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  15. Background image for When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead
    7.9/10(148 votes)

    #14 - When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead

    S4:E17

    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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  16. Background image for The Best Judge Money Can Buy
    7.8/10(156 votes)

    #15 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  17. Background image for Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
    7.8/10(168 votes)

    #16 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

    S2:E20

    Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.

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    Writer:Jack Laird
  18. Background image for The Trade-Off
    7.8/10(151 votes)

    #17 - The Trade-Off

    S2:E24

    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.

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  19. Background image for A Long Way from Times Square
    7.8/10(144 votes)

    #18 - A Long Way from Times Square

    S3:E12

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Dead Again
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #19 - Dead Again

    S4:E14

    A woman informs the detectives that she had seen a wanted man that had supposedly died in a house fire, but they don't believe her until it's too late.

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  21. Background image for The Queen of Hearts Is Wild
    7.8/10(141 votes)

    #20 - The Queen of Hearts Is Wild

    S5:E1

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

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  22. Background image for The Summer of '69 (1)
    7.8/10(137 votes)

    #21 - The Summer of '69 (1)

    S5:E9

    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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  23. Background image for The Good Luck Bomber
    7.7/10(150 votes)

    #22 - The Good Luck Bomber

    S2:E21

    Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.

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  24. Background image for A Question of Answers (1)
    7.7/10(185 votes)

    #23 - A Question of Answers (1)

    S3:E1

    An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.

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    Director:Jerry London
  25. Background image for Secret Snow, Deadly Snow
    7.7/10(150 votes)

    #24 - Secret Snow, Deadly Snow

    S3:E6

    Kojak is determined to nail a big-time drug dealer who shot a plastic surgeon who was already dead from what they first believed to be natural causes.

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  26. Background image for No Immunity for Murder
    7.7/10(160 votes)

    #25 - No Immunity for Murder

    S3:E11

    Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further.

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    Director:Andy Sidaris
    Writer:Joe Gores

Best Episodes Summary

"Queen of the Gypsies" is the best rated episode of "Kojak". It scored 8.1/10 based on 228 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Gene R. Kearney, it aired on 1/19/1975. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Need to Know".