- 7.5/10167 votes7.5/10(167)
#1 - The Chinatown Murders (1)
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/15/1974
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jack Laird
- 7.6/10159 votes7.6/10(159)
#2 - The Chinatown Murders (2)
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/15/1974
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jack Laird
- 7.9/10174 votes7.9/10(174)
#3 - Hush Now, Don't You Die
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 9/22/1974
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
- 7.5/10147 votes7.5/10(147)
#4 - A Very Deadly Game
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 9/29/1974
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.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Stephen Downing
- 7.1/10139 votes7.1/10(139)
#5 - Wall Street Gunslinger
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/6/1974
Kojak goes undercover as a Greek millionaire to track down the person responsible for the theft of $20 million in securities as well as three murders.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Halsted Welles
- 7.2/10154 votes7.2/10(154)
#6 - Slay Ride
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 10/13/1974
When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Morton S. Fine
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- 7.5/10149 votes7.5/10(149)
#7 - Nursemaid
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 10/20/1974
Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Joel Oliansky
- 7.5/10141 votes7.5/10(141)
#8 - You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 10/27/1974
Kojak suspects that a small-time criminal was framed for a murder, but the man refuses to cooperate when Kojak tries to prove his innocence.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Albert Ruben
- 7.7/10154 votes7.7/10(154)
#9 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 11/3/1974
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
- 7.2/10143 votes7.2/10(143)
#10 - A Souvenir from Atlantic City
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 11/10/1974
Kojak's attempt to solve a terrorist bombing is frustrated by the fact that the only eyewitness is being held incommunicado by the police in another case.
Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: Charles Sailor, Eric Kaldor
- 7.6/10144 votes7.6/10(144)
#11 - A Killing in the Second House
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 11/17/1974
Kojak comes up against a former cop, now a private investigator, who tries to make his client's suicide look like murder so he can collect money from life insurance.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr., Christian Nyby
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
- 7.3/10145 votes7.3/10(145)
#12 - The Best War in Town
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 11/24/1974
A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Burton Armus
- 7.6/10171 votes7.6/10(171)
#13 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 12/1/1974
A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.
Director: David Friedkin
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
- 7.6/10161 votes7.6/10(161)
#14 - The Betrayal
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 12/15/1974
An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.
Director: Telly Savalas
Writer: Joseph Gunn
- 7.6/10156 votes7.6/10(156)
#15 - Loser Takes All
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 12/22/1974
A woman (Ja'net DuBois) intentionally plots to have her husband murdered during a diamond heist that she had planned with her secret love interest (Leslie Nielson).
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.4/10156 votes7.4/10(156)
#16 - Close Cover Before Killing
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 1/5/1975
Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
- 7.5/10141 votes7.5/10(141)
#17 - Acts of Desperate Men
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 1/12/1975
An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
- 8.1/10215 votes8.1/10(215)
#18 - Queen of the Gypsies
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 1/19/1975
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
- 7.5/10143 votes7.5/10(143)
#19 - Night of the Piraeus
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 1/26/1975
The murder of a sailor newly arrived on a freighter from Greece and a strangely unconcerned witness lead Kojak to suspect that an object was smuggled into the country in the man's belt.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Don Rene Patterson, George Bacos
- 7.8/10166 votes7.8/10(166)
#20 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 2/2/1975
Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Jack Laird
- 7.7/10145 votes7.7/10(145)
#21 - The Good Luck Bomber
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 2/9/1975
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
- 7.6/10138 votes7.6/10(138)
#22 - Unwanted Partners
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 2/16/1975
Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Burton Armus
- 7.4/10144 votes7.4/10(144)
#23 - Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 2/23/1975
While an accused thief sits in jail waiting for his lawyer to arrange bail, Kojak tries to decipher a phrase heard during an unsuccessful attempt to steal a paint company truck.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: James M. Miller
- 7.9/10148 votes7.9/10(148)
#24 - The Trade-Off
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 3/2/1975
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
- 7.3/10164 votes7.3/10(164)
#25 - I Want to Report a Dream
Season 2 Episode 25
Aired 3/9/1975
A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.
Director: Telly Savalas
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
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A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Genres:CrimeAction & AdventureDramaMystery
Episodes
25
Avg. Rating
7.5
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.5
7.6
7.9
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Chinatown Murders (1)" is the best rated episode of "Kojak" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 167 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Jack Laird, it aired on 9/15/1974. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Chinatown Murders (2)".