The Best Episodes of Kojak

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.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Chester Krumholz

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.

Director: Robert Day

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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.

Director: Harvey S. Laidman

Writer: Art Eisenson

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.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Robert W. Lenski

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.

Director: David Friedkin

Writer: Robert Swanson

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.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Jack Laird

Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Burton Armus

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

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: William P. McGivern

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

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: William P. McGivern

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.

Director: Jim Benson

Writer: Michael Kozoll

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

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Jack Laird

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

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Burton Armus

A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

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.

Director: Gene R. Kearney

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

Director: Alex March

Writer: Alvin Sapinsley

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

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Ray Brenner

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

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Albert Ruben

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.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Morton S. Fine

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.

Director: Andy Sidaris

Writer: Joe Gores

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

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: Burton Armus