The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 3

An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Albert Ruben

To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: N/A

Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Alvin Boretz

While responding to a homicide call, Kojak discovers his camera that had disappeared earlier at a party in which he, his nephew and friend attended. His nephew's friend steals the camera and uses it to buy drugs from the murdered man. They witness the murder and are reluctant to involve the police. Kojak's nephew must go 'cold turkey' before he ends up like his friend who overdosed.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Burton Armus

Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: James M. Miller

Kojak is determined to nail a big-time drug dealer who shot a plastic surgeon who was already dead from what they first believed to be natural causes.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Morton S. Fine

A woman who witnesses a body being dumped into the harbor is so fragile minded that the man who dumped the body tries to use psychology against her in order to eliminate her from the picture.

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Jack Laird

A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.

Director: Telly Savalas

Writer: Burton Armus

A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Morton S. Fine

Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further.

Director: Andy Sidaris

Writer: Joe Gores

Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: N/A

A murdered cop and a wealthy young woman put Kojak on the trail of a car-theft ring in which the victims appear to cooperate with the thieves.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Dallas L. Barnes

An old colleague calls from Las Vegas to say he has captured a counterfeiter Kojak has been looking for, but the elderly man is murdered before Kojak can bring him back to New York.

Director: Robert Day

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

(Christmas Episode) Stavros helps a woman (Betsy Slade) find her desperate boyfriend (Darrell Fetty), while Kojak tries to find out why a man (James Griffith) shot at a woman (Jesse Welles) in a local bar.

Director: David Friedkin

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: James Bonnet

Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.

Director: David Friedkin

Writer: Alvin Boretz

Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: N/A

A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next target.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Joe Gores

Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Burton Armus

Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bribe.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Jack Laird, Burton Armus

Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Stephen Downing

The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Jack Laird

Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.

Director: David Friedkin

Writer: Gene R. Kearney