• Air date: 15 Sep '74 25 episodes
      Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak investigates crimes in New York City.
  • List of Episodes (25)
    • 1. The Chinatown Murders (1)

      15 Sep '74
      To head off a bloody war between rival crime families, Kojak must find out who committed a series of murders in Chinatown and bring them to justice.
    • 2. The Chinatown Murders (2)

      15 Sep '74
      To head off a bloody war between rival crime families, Kojak must find out who committed a series of murders in Chinatown and bring them to justice.
    • 3. Hush Now, or You'll Die

      22 Sep '74
      Kojak tracks down a college student that he suspects has been raped, but is too afraid to come forward after she witnesses one of the assailants murdered by the other.
    • 4. A Very Deadly Game

      29 Sep '74
      After a policeman is shot by a local known criminal, Kojak sets out to get the man behind bars, but his efforts are disrupted by FBI agents who are supposed to be helping. He then pursues the trail alone, taking him to Califormia where the criminal is hiding out.
    • 5. Wall Street Gunslinger

      06 Oct '74
      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.
    • 6. Slay Ride

      13 Oct '74
      When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.
    • 7. Nursemaid

      20 Oct '74
      Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.
    • 8. You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler

      27 Oct '74
      Kojak suspects that a small-time criminal was framed for a murder, but the man refuses to cooperate when Kojak tries to prove his innocence.
    • 9. The Best Judge Money Can Buy

      03 Nov '74
      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.
    • 10. A Souvenir from Atlantic City

      10 Nov '74
      Kojak's attempt to solve a terrorist bombing is frustrated by the fact that the only eyewitness is being held incommunicado by the police in another case.
    • 11. A Killing in the Second House

      17 Nov '74
      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.
    • 12. The Best War in Town

      24 Nov '74
      A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
    • 13. Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

      01 Dec '74
      A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.
    • 14. The Betrayal

      15 Dec '74
      An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.
    • 15. Loser Takes All

      22 Dec '74
      A woman (Ja'net DuBois) intentionally plots to have her husband murdered during a diamond heist that she had planned with her secret love interest (Leslie Nielson).
    • 16. Close Cover Before Killing

      05 Jan '75
      Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
    • 17. Acts of Desperate Men

      12 Jan '75
      An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
    • 18. Queen of the Gypsies

      19 Jan '75
      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.
    • 19. Night of the Piraeus

      26 Jan '75
      The murder of a sailor newly arrived on a freighter from Greece and a strangely unconcerned witness lead Kojak to suspect that an object was smuggled into the country in the man's belt.
    • 20. Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

      02 Feb '75
      Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.
    • 21. The Good Luck Bomber

      09 Feb '75
      Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.
    • 22. Unwanted Partners

      16 Feb '75
      Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
    • 23. Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred

      23 Feb '75
      While an accused thief sits in jail waiting for his lawyer to arrange bail, Kojak tries to decipher a phrase heard during an unsuccessful attempt to steal a paint company truck.
    • 24. The Trade-Off

      02 Mar '75
      Kojak arrests the ringleader (Mark Stevens) of a drug operation, whose gang kidnaps Captain McNeil's wife in order to trade her for the evidence they have against him.
    • 25. I Want to Report a Dream

      09 Mar '75
      A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.