NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Both Sides of the Law
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1976
Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.
Director: David Friedkin
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
6.2/10140 votesLoading...#2 - Money Back Guarantee
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1975
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
6.3/10130 votesLoading...#3 - May the Horse Be with You
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1978
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
6.6/10130 votesLoading...#4 - The Captain's Brother's Wife
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1978
Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Chester Krumholz
6.8/10138 votesLoading...#5 - How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1975
(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
6.8/10125 votesLoading...#6 - The Halls of Terror
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1978
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
6.8/10119 votesLoading...#7 - 60 Miles to Hell
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1978
Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.
Director: Gene R. Kearney
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
6.9/10224 votesLoading...#8 - The Corrupter
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/1973
Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: James M. Miller
7.0/10188 votesLoading...#9 - Mojo
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/27/1974
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Mark Weingart
7.0/10156 votesLoading...#10 - Birthday Party
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1976
On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Steven W. Carabatsos
7.0/10134 votesLoading...#11 - A Hair-Trigger Away
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1976
The drug addicted girlfriend of a cop is under scrutiny for accidentally killing his partner during a drug bust.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Chester Krumholz, Andy House, Jack Epps Jr.
7.0/10116 votesLoading...#12 - Where Do You Go When You Have No Place To Go?
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1976
A desperate unemployed ironworker accidentally kills a construction kingpin.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Chester Krumholz
7.0/10122 votesLoading...#13 - The Condemned
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1977
A boxer accused of murder holes up inside a church and threatens to kill the parishioners unless the police meet his demands.
Director: Noel Black
Writer: Michael Grais, Anthony Spinner
7.0/10125 votesLoading...#14 - Laid Off
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1977
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
7.0/10122 votesLoading...#15 - Tears for All Who Loved Her
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1977
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
7.1/10251 votesLoading...#16 - Knockover
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1973
A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Morton S. Fine
7.1/10191 votesLoading...#17 - Down a Long and Lonely River
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/1974
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.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Robert Foster
7.1/10138 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.1/10124 votesLoading...#19 - On the Edge
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1976
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
7.1/10122 votesLoading...#20 - The Pride and the Princess
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1976
An émigré princess and her servant scheme to recover family jewels they believe are held by a mobster.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: James M. Miller
7.1/10133 votesLoading...#21 - A Strange Kind of Love
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1977
A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Joseph Gunn
7.1/10125 votesLoading...#22 - Cry for the Kids
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1977
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
7.1/10131 votesLoading...#23 - Once More from Birdland
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1977
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
7.1/10117 votesLoading...#24 - Letters of Death
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1977
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
7.2/10248 votesLoading...#25 - One for the Morgue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1973
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Jerrold Freedman
Worst Episodes Summary
"Both Sides of the Law" is the worst rated episode of "Kojak". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by David Friedkin and written by Gene R. Kearney, it aired on 3/7/1976. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Money Back Guarantee".