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The Best Episodes of Kojak

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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.

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  1. 8.1/10(224 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. 8.1/10(146 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. 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. 8.0/10(209 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 7.9/10(180 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. 7.9/10(151 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 7.9/10(144 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. 7.9/10(133 votes)

    #8 - A Shield for Murder (2)

    S4:E10

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

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  10. 7.9/10(145 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 7.8/10(166 votes)

    #10 - 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
  12. 7.8/10(149 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. 7.8/10(157 votes)

    #12 - 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
  14. 7.8/10(141 votes)

    #13 - 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:N/A
  15. 7.8/10(131 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. 7.7/10(153 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. 7.7/10(149 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. 7.7/10(184 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. 7.7/10(147 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 7.7/10(123 votes)

    #19 - An Unfair Trade

    S4:E6

    The shooting of a Puerto Rican youth by the Police angers the community.

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  21. 7.6/10(159 votes)

    #20 - The Chinatown Murders (2)

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Jack Laird
  22. 7.6/10(145 votes)

    #21 - A Killing in the Second House

    S2:E11

    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.

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  23. 7.6/10(175 votes)

    #22 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

    S2:E13

    A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.

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  24. 7.6/10(163 votes)

    #23 - The Betrayal

    S2:E14

    An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.

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    Director:Telly Savalas
  25. 7.6/10(157 votes)

    #24 - Loser Takes All

    S2:E15

    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).

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  26. 7.6/10(211 votes)

    #25 - A Question of Answers (2)

    S3:E2

    To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.

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    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"Queen of the Gypsies" is the best rated episode of "Kojak". It scored 8.1/10 based on 224 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".