The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 5

Kojak encounters a case where a highly respected surgeon may be doing unnecessary surgeries in order to use the money to pay off gambling debts.

Director: Harvey S. Laidman

Writer: Art Eisenson

While Kojak is contemplating leaving the police department to become a law firm's investigator, a series of recent drug related deaths begin to overshadow his decision.

Director: Jim Benson

Writer: Michael Kozoll

The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

Kojak must reopen a case in which the prime suspect of three women was shot and killed after a shootout with him. Now, eight years later, the murders have started again and it appears that Kojak may've killed the wrong man.

Director: Gene R. Kearney

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.

Director: Gene R. Kearney

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Chester Krumholz

A detective (Joey Aresco) believes that his wife's divorce lawyer (David Ladd) hired an arsonist to destroy his boat.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Harriet Margulies

Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: Gene R. Kearney, Bob Bralver, Charlene Bralver

A photographer (played by Tige Andrews) becomes the prime suspect in a jewel theft and phony kidnapping of a former actress (played by Antoinette Bower) in which he photographs.

Director: Jim Benson

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

After being rejected for a promotion, a disgruntled inspector sees a current case as a way to boost his career.

Director: Telly Savalas

Writer: Chester Krumholz

A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.

Director: Edward M. Abroms

Writer: Michael I. Wagner

A teenager accidentally kills a gangster's hired hand while robbing him, only to have a rival gangster hire him to take out the competition in order to control the neighborhood in which he doesn't own.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: David Taylor

A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

Kojak poses as a murdered private investigator in order to find out why he was murdered.

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: Joe Gores

A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.

Director: Sutton Roley

Writer: Joseph Gunn

A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: Burton Armus

Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.

Director: Nicholas Sgarro

Writer: N/A

Crocker (played by Kevin Dobson) falls for a woman (played by Jennifer Warren) while investigating the death of her mobster husband.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Writer: Chester Krumholz

Kojak and the detectives go undercover in a local hospital in order to investigate a string of murders that have been occurring while the victims were on duty.

Director: Edward M. Abroms

Writer: Chester Krumholz

Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.

Director: Gene R. Kearney

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Chester Krumholz

A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Rift Fournier