Yes, this is not your typical "Kojak" episode, but is far from the worst. I have always said that whenever a series "veers" from it's main characters or location, the end is in sight. This episode DOES fit in to both of those categories, but there far less appealing broadcasts of the show that have come before this. It is however, listening to the "other cop" in this episode, hard not to envision Dutch Schnell, Manager of the New York Mammoths from "Bang The Drum Slowly". The female Evangelist in the episode also seems to be a portrayal of Kathryn Kuhlman. Around the midpoint of the series' run, they did spit out a few more episodes of the show before it REALLY plunged over the cliff...
