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The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 1

Every episode of Kojak Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kojak Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Kojak Season 1 Episode 10 - Cop in a Cage
    7.8/10(289 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

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  2. Kojak Season 1 Episode 17 - Before the Devil Knows
    7.7/10(270 votes)

    S1:E17

    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

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  3. Kojak Season 1 Episode 21 - Therapy in Dynamite
    7.7/10(248 votes)

    S1:E21

    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

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  4. Kojak Season 1 Episode 2 - Web of Death
    7.6/10(376 votes)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:William Hale
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  5. Kojak Season 1 Episode 13 - Death Is Not a Passing Grade
    7.6/10(298 votes)

    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.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  6. Kojak Season 1 Episode 18 - Dead on His Feet
    7.6/10(260 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Leo Penn, Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  7. Kojak Season 1 Episode 22 - The Only Way Out
    7.6/10(225 votes)

    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.

    Director:Joel Oliansky
    Writer:Alvin Sapinsley

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  8. Kojak Season 1 Episode 1 - Siege of Terror
    7.5/10(511 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Abby Mann

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  9. Kojak Season 1 Episode 15 - Deliver Us Some Evil
    7.5/10(271 votes)

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writers:Jack Laird, Robert C. Dennis

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  10. Kojak Season 1 Episode 6 - Requiem for a Cop
    7.4/10(300 votes)

    S1:E6

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

    Directors:Paul Stanley, Gary Nelson
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  11. Kojak Season 1 Episode 11 - Marker to a Dead Bookie
    7.4/10(256 votes)

    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.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  12. Kojak Season 1 Episode 14 - Die Before They Wake
    7.4/10(285 votes)

    S1:E14

    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

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  13. Kojak Season 1 Episode 16 - Eighteen Hours of Fear
    7.4/10(236 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Charles S. Dubin, Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Kojak Season 1 Episode 5 - Girl in the River
    7.3/10(310 votes)

    S1:E5

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

    Director:William Hale
    Writer:Halsted Welles

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  15. Kojak Season 1 Episode 8 - Dark Sunday
    7.3/10(296 votes)

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  16. Kojak Season 1 Episode 12 - Last Rites for a Dead Priest
    7.3/10(250 votes)

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Joel Oliansky
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  17. Kojak Season 1 Episode 3 - One for the Morgue
    7.2/10(309 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Jerrold Freedman

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  18. Kojak Season 1 Episode 9 - Conspiracy of Fear
    7.2/10(271 votes)

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writers:Jack Laird, Mark Rodgers

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  19. Kojak Season 1 Episode 4 - Knockover
    7.1/10(310 votes)

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Morton S. Fine

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  20. Kojak Season 1 Episode 19 - Down a Long and Lonely River
    7.1/10(238 votes)

    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.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Robert Foster

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  21. Kojak Season 1 Episode 20 - Mojo
    7.0/10(231 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Mark Weingart

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  22. Kojak Season 1 Episode 7 - The Corrupter
    6.9/10(278 votes)

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:James M. Miller

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Cop in a Cage" is the best rated episode of "Kojak" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 289 votes. Directed by Alex March and written by Alvin Sapinsley, it aired on 1/2/1974. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Before the Devil Knows".