Kojak Episode Rating Graph
Oct 1973 - Mar 1978
Oct 1973 - Mar 1978
7.4
Browse episode ratings trends for Kojak. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Kojak's 118 episodes.
S5 Ep3
8.8
16th Oct 1977
A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.
S4 Ep19
8.8
1st Feb 1977
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.
S4 Ep18
8.6
25th Jan 1977
A Puerto Rican cop goes undercover in his old neighborhood to find out who is trying to start a barrio gang war.
S4 Ep12
8.6
5th Dec 1976
Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.
S4 Ep23
8.6
8th Mar 1977
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.
S4 Ep10
8.6
21st Nov 1976
When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.
S2 Ep11
8.6
17th Nov 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.
S2 Ep21
8.5
9th Feb 1975
Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.
S5 Ep1
8.5
2nd Oct 1977
The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.
S3 Ep12
8.5
30th Nov 1975
Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.
S2 Ep9
8.5
3rd Nov 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.
S3 Ep22
8.5
15th Feb 1976
Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.
S3 Ep21
8.5
8th Feb 1976
Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bribe.
S3 Ep2
8.5
14th Sep 1975
To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.
S4 Ep17
8.5
18th Jan 1977
A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.
S4 Ep15
8.4
4th Jan 1977
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?
S3 Ep16
8.4
4th Jan 1976
Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.
S5 Ep9
8.4
4th Dec 1977
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.
S4 Ep1
8.4
26th Sep 1976
On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.
S2 Ep18
8.4
19th Jan 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.
S5 Ep15
8.3
28th Jan 1978
Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.
S4 Ep4
8.3
17th Oct 1976
Kojak and the detectives scour the city for ""The Grim Reaper"", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.
S3 Ep1
8.3
14th Sep 1975
An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.
S4 Ep9
8.3
21st Nov 1976
A wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case.
S4 Ep8
8.3
14th Nov 1976
Kojak finds that the longshoreman's lips are sealed when he inquires into labor-related waterfront murders.
S2 Ep23
8.3
23rd Feb 1975
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.
S2 Ep22
8.3
16th Feb 1975
Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.
S3 Ep9
8.3
9th Nov 1975
A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.
S3 Ep8
8.3
2nd Nov 1975
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.
S3 Ep14
8.3
14th Dec 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.
S1 Ep21
8.2
10th Apr 1974
A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.
S4 Ep20
8.2
8th Feb 1977
The search continues for a woman who murdered her husband, abandoned her child and is threatening to commit suicide.
S3 Ep24
8.2
7th Mar 1976
Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.
S5 Ep10
8.2
10th Dec 1977
After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.
S5 Ep4
8.2
23rd Oct 1977
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.
S4 Ep24
6.4
15th Mar 1977
A vengeful nun tries to bring to justice the gangster who ordered the murder of her sister. (60 mins)
S5 Ep18
6.7
18th Feb 1978
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.
S4 Ep3
6.8
10th Oct 1976
Kojak searches for the killer of a key witness in a prominent murder trial.
S5 Ep6
6.9
6th Nov 1977
A woman is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.
S1 Ep3
7.0
7th Nov 1973
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.
S5 Ep21
7.0
11th Mar 1978
Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.
S5 Ep7
7.1
13th Nov 1977
Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.
S1 Ep14
7.2
6th Feb 1974
A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.
S5 Ep14
7.2
21st Jan 1978
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.
S5 Ep5
7.2
30th Oct 1977
A singer(Andrea Marcovicci) is determined to prove her wrongfully imprisoned father innocent after he spends 14 years in prison.
S5 Ep17
7.2
11th Feb 1978
Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.
S1 Ep1
7.2
24th Oct 1973
Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.
S2 Ep16
7.3
5th Jan 1975
Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.
S2 Ep2
7.4
15th Sep 1974
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.
S2 Ep8
7.4
27th Oct 1974
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.
S1 Ep15
7.5
13th Feb 1974
A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.
S1 Ep16
7.5
20th Feb 1974
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.
S1 Ep19
7.5
20th Mar 1974
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.
S3 Ep6
7.5
12th Oct 1975
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.
S5 Ep13
7.5
7th Jan 1978
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.
S1 Ep7
7.5
5th Dec 1973
Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.
S1 Ep2
7.6
31st Oct 1973
A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.
S1 Ep10
7.6
2nd Jan 1974
Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.
S2 Ep12
7.6
24th Nov 1974
A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.
S1 Ep8
7.6
12th Dec 1973
The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.
S2 Ep1
7.6
15th Sep 1974
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.
S5 Ep16
7.6
4th Feb 1978
Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.
S1 Ep4
7.6
14th Nov 1973
A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.
S1 Ep18
7.6
6th Mar 1974
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.
S1 Ep13
7.7
30th Jan 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.
S1 Ep17
7.7
27th Feb 1974
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.
S1 Ep6
7.7
28th Nov 1973
Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.
S1 Ep9
7.7
19th Dec 1973
Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.
S4 Ep2
7.7
3rd Oct 1976
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.
S5 Ep20
7.7
4th Mar 1978
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.
S1 Ep1
7.2
24th Oct 1973
Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.
S1 Ep2
7.6
31st Oct 1973
A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.
S1 Ep3
7.0
7th Nov 1973
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.
S1 Ep4
7.6
14th Nov 1973
A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.
S1 Ep5
7.7
21st Nov 1973
Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.
S1 Ep6
7.7
28th Nov 1973
Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.
S1 Ep7
7.5
5th Dec 1973
Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.
S1 Ep8
7.6
12th Dec 1973
The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.
S1 Ep9
7.7
19th Dec 1973
Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.
S1 Ep10
7.6
2nd Jan 1974
Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.
S1 Ep11
7.8
16th Jan 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.
S1 Ep12
7.7
23rd Jan 1974
During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.
S1 Ep13
7.7
30th Jan 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.
S1 Ep14
7.2
6th Feb 1974
A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.
S1 Ep15
7.5
13th Feb 1974
A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.
S1 Ep16
7.5
20th Feb 1974
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.
S1 Ep17
7.7
27th Feb 1974
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.
S1 Ep18
7.6
6th Mar 1974
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.
S1 Ep19
7.5
20th Mar 1974
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.
S1 Ep20
8.1
27th Mar 1974
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.
S1 Ep21
8.2
10th Apr 1974
A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.
S1 Ep22
8.2
8th May 1974
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.
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The first episode of Kojak aired on October 24, 1973.
The last episode of Kojak aired on March 18, 1978.
There are 118 episodes of Kojak.
There are 5 seasons of Kojak.
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Kojak has ended.