Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.

Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.

Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.

The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.

Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.

Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.

Kojak pretends to be corrupted (buying even more expensive suits than usual and a brand new Cadillac)—not without opposition from Capt. McNeil, who tries save as much police money he can—to catch a narcotics dealer in the act.

During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.

While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college, Kojak embarrasses a student with a criminal background, forcing him to leave a stolen item to have the upper hand in future classroom discussions.

A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.

A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.

A woman is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrives in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back.

A detective is hiding his terminal illness, while pursuing his partner's murderer. As he knows that he won't make it he's even more motivated to find a murder even if he'll have to pay the highest price.

A young psychologist asks Kojak for help after her fiancee attempts to settle an old score with the people who left him to take the whole responsibility for the crime which sent him to prison.

Kojak goes undercover as a chemist in order to expose the thieves who stole morphine from an insurance company, to sell it at an inflated price.

A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.

A 12-year-old boy wants Kojak's help in locating his missing father. Case takes an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the kid's missing father, but to a thief who fled to Brazil with stolen $25 million. With John Hillerman.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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