The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 2

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 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

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

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Jack Laird

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

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

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

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

An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.

Director: Telly Savalas

Writer: Joseph Gunn

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

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

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

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

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

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

An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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

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

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

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

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

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