The Best Episodes Written By Gene R. kearney

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   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - A Killing in the Second House

   S2:E1111/17/1974

   Kojak comes up against a former cop, now a private investigator, who tries to make his client's suicide look like murder so he can collect money from life insurance.

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Queen of the Gypsies

   S2:E181/19/1975

   A young gypsy woman who witnesses a a bank robbery decides that looting banks is preferable to telling fortunes, so she recruits the thieves for a master plan to rob six banks in one day.

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

   S2:E1312/1/1974

   A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy

   S2:E911/3/1974

   A judge (John Randolph) whose son was also a judge was murdered and his death was made to look like he had committed suicide. Now, his father must decide whether or not he should allow a murderer (Abe Vigoda) to walk, or risk letting information out that shows his son as a corrupt judge.

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Cop in a Cage

   S1:E101/2/1974

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

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Death Is Not a Passing Grade

   S1:E131/30/1974

   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.

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Therapy in Dynamite

   S1:E214/10/1974

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

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Acts of Desperate Men

   S2:E171/12/1975

   An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Marker to a Dead Bookie

   S1:E111/16/1974

   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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - A Long Way from Times Square

    S3:E1211/30/1975

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

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death

    S3:E710/26/1975

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves

    S3:E1412/14/1975

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars

    S3:E1512/21/1975

    (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.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - My Friend, My Enemy

    S5:E610/25/1970

    A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain specialist and mind control expert. Unable to break Paris, Tabor blanks out Paris' memories and uses an implanted electrode to program him to attack Jim by convincing the disguise expert Jim represents an authority figure, similar to the ones he has lost two women to in the past. Doug and Jim find nothing wrong with him, but Barney finds fingerprints pointing to Maur and Jim delays reporting to the Secretary and tries to find out what's going on with Paris. Paris is befriended by a Communist agent working with Tabor - Tabor murders her and makes it set up as if Jim did it. Paris attacks Jim but snaps out of it when Jim's life is threatened and turns against Tabor.

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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow

    S2:E510/20/1971

    A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - I Want to Report a Dream

    S2:E253/9/1975

    A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.

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    4.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Other Way Out

    S3:E611/19/1972

    Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.

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