The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 1

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

Director: William Hale

Writer: Jack Laird

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

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

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

Director: Joseph Sargent

Writer: Abby Mann

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: William Hale

Writer: Halsted Welles

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

Director: Joel Oliansky

Writer: Jack Laird

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

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

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

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

Director: Charles R. Rondeau

Writer: Jack Laird

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

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Jack Laird, Mark Rodgers

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

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

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Morton S. Fine

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

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

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: James M. Miller