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The girlfriend of a local gangster who hates Kojak is the only witness in the murder of a police officer.

Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.

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 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 Puerto Rican cop goes undercover in his old neighborhood to find out who is trying to start a barrio gang war.

Private eye Salathiel Harms returns, pursuing the same bail jumper as Kojak.

Kojak and the bomb squad are stymied by a series of bombs that seemingly can't be defused.

When Kojak gets too close to discovering the truth, he is framed.

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

Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.

A wealthy ecologist's wife plans to murder him and use a fake phone message to frame a nonexistent call girl.

Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.

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

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.

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'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.

The search continues for a woman who murdered her husband, abandoned her child and is threatening to commit suicide.

A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.

Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.

After Kojak is placed on suspension, he continues to review the 8-year old case while a serial killer (Stephen McHattie) strikes again.

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

On her birthday, Kojak's niece is kidnapped by criminals who want to exchange her for an incarcerated cop killer.

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 wealthy political leader quashes Kojak's efforts to reopen a two-year-old matricide case.

Kojak finds that the longshoreman's lips are sealed when he inquires into labor-related waterfront murders.

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.

Kojak and the detectives scour the city for "The Grim Reaper", a slasher who murders his victims out of greed.

An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.

Crocker accidentally shoots a fashion model while trying to stop a robbery, jeopardizing his career.

Kojak is suspended after reacting to an incompetent district attorney who failed to convict a known killer.

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.

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.

A vengeful nun tries to bring to justice the gangster who ordered the murder of her sister. (60 mins)

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.

Crocker is taken hostage while trying to transport a prisoner back to New York.

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

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

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

Kojak offers to help a jealous police officer search for a professional hit man.

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.

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

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.

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

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 is Kojak's only link to finding $6 million dollars, but her boyfriend (Armand Assante) has other plans.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anonymous messages begin turning up informing a model that someone close to her is in danger of being murdered.

Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.

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.

Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.