◄ Kojak
Episode List
Season 5
Oct. 9, 1977
A Strange Kind of Love
A taxicab driver listens to a female late-night talk-radio host during his beat. The host frequently inveighs against evildoers in the city, and the psychotic driver decides to take her up on it - stalking the people who she names and gunning them down.
Oct. 16, 1977
Laid Off
A New York City budget crisis results in "last hired, first fired" for a friend of Kojak's who had recently joined the police force. As the rookie's bills mount, he winds up in debt to a numbers-running gang as well and joins it, secretly feeding information to Kojak from inside the gang.
Oct. 30, 1977
Once More from Birdland
A singer helps clear her father of a murder for which he was imprisoned 14 years earlier.
Nov. 6, 1977
Caper on a Quiet Street
A year ago, a gang of thieves knocked over a bank, killed three people and got away with $6 million. They then split up, leaving one member to hide the loot. Now that the heat has died down, the gang plans to reunite and divide the cash. The bag man, however, is recognized by a cop and suffers a fatal heart attack while running away. The thieves decide to scour the neighborhood where the bag man died, and eventually focus on an apartment building which they invade with assault rifles. Kojak, trying to slip into the building, is cornered by a woman who used to be the ...
Dec. 4, 1977
The Summer of '69: Part 1
A young woman is found stabbed to death in the trunk of a car and the MO is the same as a serial killer known as the "Clothesline Killer", who terrorized Manhattan some eight years earlier. However, the main suspect in the killings was shot and killed by Kojak while trying to escape. Theo then questions whether or not he killed the right man, especially after another body eventually turns up.
Dec. 10, 1977
The Summer of '69: Part 2
Kojak is placed on suspension due to the his behavior following the return of the Clothesline Killer. However, he continues to work the case and during the course of his investigation he reunites with several people who were in his life during the original case, including a young woman with whom he had a brief affair.
Dec. 24, 1977
I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer
Everett Coughlin is a divorce attorney as Satan in a business suit, harassing a cop (whose wife he represents) mercilessly. Even his client doesn't know some of the lawyer's tricks: at mid-show the lawyer hires a thug to bomb the cop's pleasure boat. When the bomb explodes prematurely and kills the bomber, Kojak, the cop and the cop's wife team to try to put the attorney out of business and hopefully in jail.
Feb. 11, 1978
No License to Kill
Kojak gets word from Crocker about a sniper shooting on a golf course. The M.O. is that of a notorious hit man whose tally is 110 victims. When Kojak asks who did the sniper kill this time, Crocker replies: "He didn't, he missed." A stunned Kojak and a Federal agent tracking the hit man try to find out what might have happened. The slug came closest to an up-and-coming politician who's trying to woo the ethnic groups in New York City, and has made a powerful enemy in Koreatown, and when Kojak and a Korean-American officer (whose father was African-American and who ...
Feb. 18, 1978
The Halls of Terror
A mystery about an unseen, psychotic strangler who is stalking the corridors of a hospital.
Feb. 25, 1978
May the Horse Be with You
Horse stealing in New York City is the focus of this episode, focusing on the kidnapping of a mare in foal and the attempts to sell her offspring (which has already been pegged as a champion racehorse) to various bidders.
Mar. 11, 1978
60 Miles to Hell
While traveling to Las Vegas to pick up a suspect, Crocker and a female magician are kidnapped by the suspect and his associates. Kojak travels to Vegas himself, where he meets Liberace (playing himself and explaining his act in one long scene) and the magician's identical twin sister -- they form an act together pretending to be the same person. Crocker and the kidnapped magician try to cobble together a way to capture the kidnappers before they can flee to Mexico.
Mar. 18, 1978
In Full Command
The regular-series finale, described by other authors as "A 'The Caine Mutiny' for the police force" and directed by Telly Savalas (his fifth directing credit on the series), features Danny Thomas as an assistant chief inspector who is haunted by an error he made years ago, keeping him from the top chief-inspector position he so desperately wants even though he is aging and his skill as a police officer is falling to pieces. Desperate to prove himself, he latches onto Kojak's investigation of the mob and tries to run it to bring a "scalp" to the top brass. Kojak soon ...
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