A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes aired
- 118
- Latest aired
- S05E22
- Total runtime
- 4d 11h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 1973 – May 1974 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1974 – March 1975 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1975 – March 1976 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1976 – March 1977 25 episodes
- Season 5 October 1977 – March 1978 22 episodes
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S05E01 The Queen of Hearts Is Wild
October 2 · 60min find the promo
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The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.
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S05E02 A Strange Kind of Love
October 9 · 60min find the promo
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A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.
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S05E03 Laid Off
October 16 · 60min find the promo
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A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.
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S05E04 Cry for the Kids
October 23 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S05E05 Once More from Birdland
October 30 · 60min find the promo
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A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.
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S05E06 Caper on a Quiet Street
November 6 · 60min find the promo
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A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.
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S05E07 Letters of Death
November 13 · 60min find the promo
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Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.
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S05E08 Tears for All Who Loved Her
November 20 · 60min find the promo
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Crocker (played by Kevin Dobson) falls for a woman (played by Jennifer Warren) while investigating the death of her mobster husband.
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S05E09 The Summer of '69 (1)
December 4 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak must reopen a case in which the prime suspect of three women was shot and killed after a shootout with him. Now, eight years later, the murders have started again and it appears that Kojak may've killed the wrong man.
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S05E10 The Summer of '69 (2)
December 10 · 60min find the promo
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After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.
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S05E11 Case Without a File
December 17 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak poses as a murdered private investigator in order to find out why he was murdered.
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S05E12 I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer
December 24 · 60min find the promo
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A detective (Joey Aresco) believes that his wife's divorce lawyer (David Ladd) hired an arsonist to destroy his boat.
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S05E13 Justice for All
January 7 · 60min find the promo
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While Kojak is contemplating leaving the police department to become a law firm's investigator, a series of recent drug related deaths begin to overshadow his decision.
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S05E14 Mouse
January 21 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak encounters a case where a highly respected surgeon may be doing unnecessary surgeries in order to use the money to pay off gambling debts.
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S05E15 Chain of Custody
January 28 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.
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S05E16 The Captain's Brother's Wife
February 4 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.
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S05E17 No License to Kill
February 11 · 60min find the promo
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Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.
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S05E18 The Halls of Terror
February 18 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S05E19 May the Horse Be with You
February 25 · 60min find the promo
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A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.
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S05E20 Photos Must Credit Joe Paxton
March 4 · 60min find the promo
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A photographer (played by Tige Andrews) becomes the prime suspect in a jewel theft and phony kidnapping of a former actress (played by Antoinette Bower) in which he photographs.
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S05E21 60 Miles to Hell
March 11 · 60min find the promo
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Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.
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S05E22 In Full Command
March 18 · 60min find the promo
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After being rejected for a promotion, a disgruntled inspector sees a current case as a way to boost his career.