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The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 2

Every episode of Kojak Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kojak Season 2!

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

  • The Chinatown Murders (1)
    7.5/10(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

  • The Chinatown Murders (2)
    7.6/10(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

  • Hush Now, Don't You Die
    7.9/10(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

  • A Very Deadly Game
    7.5/10(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

  • Wall Street Gunslinger
    7.1/10(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

  • Slay Ride
    7.2/10(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

  • Nursemaid
    7.5/10(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

  • You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler
    7.5/10(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

  • The Best Judge Money Can Buy
    7.7/10(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

  • A Souvenir from Atlantic City
    7.2/10(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

  • A Killing in the Second House
    7.6/10(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

  • The Best War in Town
    7.3/10(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

  • Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
    7.6/10(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

  • The Betrayal
    7.6/10(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

  • Loser Takes All
    7.6/10(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

  • Close Cover Before Killing
    7.4/10(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

  • Acts of Desperate Men
    7.5/10(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

  • Queen of the Gypsies
    8.1/10(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

  • Night of the Piraeus
    7.5/10(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

  • Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
    7.8/10(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

  • The Good Luck Bomber
    7.7/10(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

  • Unwanted Partners
    7.6/10(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

  • Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
    7.4/10(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

  • The Trade-Off
    7.9/10(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

  • I Want to Report a Dream
    7.3/10(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