When a Brinks Truck heist goes bad and a hostage situation arises, Kojak races against the clock to difuse the situation. He has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers (Harvey Keitel, James J. Sloyan, Jude Farese) in an Army surplus store.
A fellow cop Nick Ferro kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips implicating an underworld boss in the attempted assassination of his rival(Art Metrano).
A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a routine homicide case with that of a million-dollar robbery.
Kojak fears the strangler of seven women has returned when a girl dies in a bizarre manner.
Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial with dishonor of his old friend, a veteran officer suspected of corruption.
A new staff, including a former model, may be involved in a jewelry store owner's murder.
The murder of a car thief yields vital clues to a $500,000 heist.
Kojak tries to stall an urban redevelopment project until he can solve a murder.
An ex-con with a vendetta targets Kojak's niece on her wedding day.
Kojak manipulates everyone into thinking that he is corrupt in order to catch a narcotics dealer in the act.
During a local jeweler's convention, A jewel thief (played by Jackie Cooper)disguises himself as a priest in order to pull off a multi-million dollar heist.
While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college,Kojak embarrasses a student(James Woods),prompting him to leave a stolen item of Kojak's behind at a crime scene in which he commits in order to have the upperhand in future classroom discussions.
A prostitute with a drug addiction (Tina Louise)holds the key to solving the murders of her roomate and a local TV reporter.
A small time thief (John Ritter) arranges a big-time robbery for money in order to flee a pending murder charge.
A woman (Lynne Marta) who smuggled two twenty dollar plates in her fake cast is running from the man who murdered her boyfriend.
A man who had stolen a million dollars in US Government bonds created many enemies along the way-all of which want their own type of justice.
A detective (Harry Guardino) conceals his terminal illness from everyone while pursuing his partner's murderer.
A young psychologist goes to Kojak for help after her finacee (Paul Michael Glaser) who is also on parole, attempts to settle an old score with the people who left him to take the fall for the entire crime in which sent him to prison.
Kojak goes undercover as a chemist in order to expose the thieves who originally stole some morphine from an insurance company, only to turn around and sell it back at an inflated price.
A psychopathic bomber (Steven Keats) targets people who hurt his friends.
A man enlists Kojak for help in locating his missing father only to see the case take an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the man's missing father, but to a thief who had fled to Brazil with 25 million dollars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.
Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.
An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.
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).
Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.
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.
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.
Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.
Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.
Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
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.
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.
A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.
An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.
Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.
While responding to a homicide call, Kojak discovers his camera that had disappeared earlier at a party in which he, his nephew and friend attended. His nephew's friend steals the camera and uses it to buy drugs from the murdered man. They witness the murder and are reluctant to involve the police. Kojak's nephew must go 'cold turkey' before he ends up like his friend who overdosed.
Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.
Kojak is determined to nail a big-time drug dealer who shot a plastic surgeon who was already dead from what they first believed to be natural causes.
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.
A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.
A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.
A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds.
Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further.
Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.
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.
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.
(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.
Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.
Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.
Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.
A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next target.
A hood claims that Kojak accepted a bribe.
Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.
The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.
Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.
Kojak tries to find the parties responsible for the murder of an undercover cop.
On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.
Already confronted with problems at home, Detective Jeff Braddock must face the inquiry of the murder of his mistress, while Kojak investigates the bombing of a restaurant.
Kojak searches for the killer of a key witness in a prominent murder trial.
Kojak and the detectives scour the city for ""The Grim Reaper"", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.
Kojak and the detectives try to stop a child molester who has diplomatic immunity before he strikes again.
The shooting of a Puerto Rican youth by the Police anders the community.
The drug addicted girlfriend of a cop is under scrutiny for accidentally killing his partner during a drug bust.
Kojak finds that the longshoreman's lips are sealed when he inquires into labor-related waterfront murders.
A wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case. When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.
An émigré princess and her servant scheme to recover family jewels they believe are held by a mobster.
Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.
A desperate unemployed ironworker accidentally kills a construction kingpin.
A woman informs the detectives that she had seen a wanted man that had supposedly died in a house fire, but they don't believe her until it's too late.
Kojak's godson becomes mixed up with a gang involved in an armed robbery. Can Kojak get through to his godson before it's too late?
A boxer accused of murder holes up inside a church and threatens to kill the parishioners unless the police meet his demands.
A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.
A Puerto Rican cop goes undercover in his old neighborhood to find out who is trying to start a barrio gang war.
Kojak must unravel the mystery of a white Roll-Royce with a body in the trunk while trying to find a woman who murdered her husband.
The search continues for a woman who murdered her husband, abandoned her child and is threatening to commit suicide.
A veteran police officer whose gambling has put him in financial straits decides to go on the take.
Crocker accidentally shoots a fashion model while trying to stop a robbery, jeopardizing his career.
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.
A vengeful nun tries to bring to justice the gangster who ordered the murder of her sister. (60 mins)
A woman in a Gypsy clan disguises herself and goes to Kojak with false information regarding a serial killer. She is doing this to stop members of another clan from killing that man, whom they think betrayed them to the Communists several years before, resulting in the deaths of several family members. While Kojack trails the wrong man, the Gypsy woman and her friends look for the real serial killer.
The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.
A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.
A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.
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.
A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.
A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.
Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.
Crocker (played by Kevin Dobson) falls for a woman (played by Jennifer Warren) while investigating the death of her mobster husband.
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.
After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.
Kojak poses as a murdered private investigator in order to find out why he was murdered.
A detective (Joey Aresco) believes that his wife's divorce lawyer (David Ladd) hired an arsonist to destroy his boat.
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.
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.
Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.
Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.
Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.
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.
A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.
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.
Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.
After being rejected for a promotion, a disgruntled inspector sees a current case as a way to boost his career.
Homicide detective Kojak comes to suspect that a black youth who confessed to the murder of two white girls was coerced by his police interrogators and is actually innocent of the crime.
Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate...
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
While Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposé, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.
After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Columbian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former place detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.
When an accountant is murdered, Kojak becomes suspicious of the activities of a wealthy department store own and his family.
