Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.

A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.

Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.

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

Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.

Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.

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

The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.

Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.

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

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.

During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.

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.

A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.

A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.

A woman is coming back from winter holidays from Canada, smuggling two twenty Canadian dollar plates in her fake cast. Once she arrives in US she needs to run from the ex-partner in crime, who murdered her boyfriend and wants get the plates back.

A man has embezzled a million dollars in US Government bonds, and David and Kevin burgle the bonds from the safe in his high rise apartment.

A detective is hiding his terminal illness, while pursuing his partner's murderer. As he knows that he won't make it he's even more motivated to find a murder even if he'll have to pay the highest price.

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.

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.

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

A 12-year-old boy wants Kojak's help in locating his missing father. Case takes an interesting twist in which Kojak is not led to the kid's missing father, but to a thief who fled to Brazil with stolen $25 million. With John Hillerman.

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.

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.

To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.

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.

Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.

Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak 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.

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 angers 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 member of the police force falls prey to a powerful crime figure. With Albert Paulsen and Judith Light.

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)

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.