The Worst Episodes of Kojak

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

Director: David Friedkin

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

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

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

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

Director: Charles S. Dubin

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

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

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: James M. Miller

A desperate unemployed ironworker accidentally kills a construction kingpin.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

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

A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Morton S. Fine

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Kojak and a female detective must overcome their dislike for each other when she is transferred from the rape squad to help nab a drug-dealing rapist-muderer.

Director: Edward M. Abroms

Writer: Burton Armus

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