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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. Background image for My Brother, My Enemy
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - My Brother, My Enemy

    S3:E3

    Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.

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  2. Background image for Deadly Innocence
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Deadly Innocence

    S3:E22

    Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.

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  3. Background image for Dead on His Feet
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Dead on His Feet

    S1:E18

    A detective is hiding his terminal illness, while pursuing his partner's murderer. As he knows that he won't make it he's even more motivated to find a murder even if he'll have to pay the highest price.

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  4. Background image for Hush Now, Don't You Die
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Requiem for a Cop
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Cop in a Cage
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Marker to a Dead Bookie
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Death Is Not a Passing Grade
    8.0/10(1 votes)

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Down a Long and Lonely River
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Down a Long and Lonely River

    S1:E19

    A young psychologist asks Kojak for help after her fiancee attempts to settle an old score with the people who left him to take the whole responsibility for the crime which sent him to prison.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  12. Background image for Therapy in Dynamite
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Therapy in Dynamite

    S1:E21

    A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  13. Background image for The Only Way Out
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Only Way Out

    S1:E22

    A 12-year-old boy wants Kojak's help in locating his missing father. Case takes an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the kid's missing father, but to a thief who fled to Brazil with stolen $25 million. With John Hillerman.

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  14. Background image for The Chinatown Murders (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Chinatown Murders (1)

    S2:E1

    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
  15. Background image for The Chinatown Murders (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for A Very Deadly Game
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - A Very Deadly Game

    S2:E4

    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.

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  17. Background image for Siege of Terror
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Siege of Terror

    S1:E1

    Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.

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    Writer:Abby Mann
  18. Background image for Web of Death
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Web of Death

    S1:E2

    A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.

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    Director:William Hale
    Writer:Jack Laird
  19. Background image for One for the Morgue
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - One for the Morgue

    S1:E3

    Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.

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  20. Background image for Knockover
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Knockover

    S1:E4

    A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.

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  21. Background image for The Corrupter
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Corrupter

    S1:E7

    Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Dark Sunday

    S1:E8

    The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.

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  23. Background image for Last Rites for a Dead Priest
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Last Rites for a Dead Priest

    S1:E12

    During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.

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    Director:Joel Oliansky
    Writer:Jack Laird
  24. Background image for Die Before They Wake
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Die Before They Wake

    S1:E14

    A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  25. Background image for Eighteen Hours of Fear
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Eighteen Hours of Fear

    S1:E16

    A woman is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrives in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back.

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  26. Background image for Mojo
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Mojo

    S1:E20

    Kojak goes undercover as a chemist in order to expose the thieves who stole morphine from an insurance company, to sell it at an inflated price.

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Best Episodes Summary

"My Brother, My Enemy" is the best rated episode of "Kojak". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Russ Mayberry and written by Alvin Boretz, it aired on 9/21/1975. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Deadly Innocence".