7.5/10163 votes#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
7.6/10154 votes#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
7.9/10170 votes#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
7.5/10145 votes#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
7.1/10138 votes#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
7.2/10153 votes#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
7.5/10149 votes#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
7.6/10140 votes#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
7.7/10155 votes#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
7.2/10144 votes#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 votes#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
7.3/10144 votes#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
7.6/10170 votes#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
7.7/10159 votes#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
7.6/10154 votes#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
7.4/10150 votes#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
7.5/10137 votes#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
8.1/10210 votes#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
7.5/10141 votes#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
7.8/10164 votes#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
7.7/10143 votes#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
7.6/10137 votes#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
7.4/10143 votes#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
7.9/10147 votes#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
7.3/10163 votes#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.
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Chinatown Murders (1)" is the best rated episode of "Kojak" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 163 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)".