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A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Genres:CrimeAction & AdventureDramaMystery
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Season 1

  • Siege of Terror
    7.5/10378 votes
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    Siege of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1973

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

    Director: Joseph Sargent

    Writer: Abby Mann

  • Web of Death
    7.6/10291 votes
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    Web of Death

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1973

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

    Director: William Hale

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • One for the Morgue
    7.2/10247 votes
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    One for the Morgue

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1973

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

    Director: Charles S. Dubin, Richard Donner

    Writer: Jerrold Freedman

  • Knockover
    7.1/10250 votes
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    Knockover

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1973

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

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Morton S. Fine

  • Girl in the River
    7.3/10245 votes
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    Girl in the River

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1973

    Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.

    Director: William Hale

    Writer: Halsted Welles

  • Requiem for a Cop
    7.5/10245 votes
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    Requiem for a Cop

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1973

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

    Director: Gary Nelson, Paul Stanley

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • The Corrupter
    6.9/10223 votes
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    The Corrupter

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/1973

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

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: James M. Miller

  • Dark Sunday
    7.2/10240 votes
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    Dark Sunday

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/1973

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

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • Conspiracy of Fear
    7.2/10220 votes
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    Conspiracy of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/1973

    Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jack Laird, Mark Rodgers

  • Cop in a Cage
    7.7/10234 votes
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    Cop in a Cage

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/2/1974

    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

  • Marker to a Dead Bookie
    7.4/10211 votes
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    Marker to a Dead Bookie

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1974

    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.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • Last Rites for a Dead Priest
    7.3/10205 votes
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    Last Rites for a Dead Priest

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/1974

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

    Director: Joel Oliansky

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • Death Is Not a Passing Grade
    7.6/10250 votes
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    Death Is Not a Passing Grade

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1974

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: Gene R. Kearney

  • Die Before They Wake
    7.3/10237 votes
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    Die Before They Wake

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1974

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

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: Robert W. Lenski

  • Deliver Us Some Evil
    7.4/10208 votes
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    Deliver Us Some Evil

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1974

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

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Jack Laird, Robert C. Dennis

  • Eighteen Hours of Fear
    7.3/10190 votes
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    Eighteen Hours of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1974

    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.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin, Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

  • Before the Devil Knows
    7.6/10220 votes
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    Before the Devil Knows

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1974

    A man has embezzled a million dollars in US Government bonds, and David and Kevin burgle the bonds from the safe in his high rise apartment.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • Dead on His Feet
    7.5/10213 votes
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    Dead on His Feet

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1974

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Leo Penn

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • Down a Long and Lonely River
    7.1/10193 votes
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    Down a Long and Lonely River

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/1974

    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.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: Robert Foster

  • Mojo
    7.0/10190 votes
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    Mojo

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/27/1974

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Mark Weingart

  • Therapy in Dynamite
    7.7/10204 votes
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    Therapy in Dynamite

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1974

    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

  • The Only Way Out
    7.6/10188 votes
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    The Only Way Out

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1974

    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.

    Director: Joel Oliansky

    Writer: Alvin Sapinsley