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Season 1

7.5/10511 votes
Siege of Terror
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1973
Kojak has two hours to free the hostages from three robbers in an Army surplus store.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Abby Mann
7.6/10376 votes
Web of Death
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1973
A fellow detective, Nick Ferro, kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Jack Laird
7.2/10309 votes
One for the Morgue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1973
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Jerrold Freedman
7.1/10310 votes
Knockover
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1973
A murder victim's diamond ring compounds a homicide case with that of a big robbery.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Morton S. Fine
7.3/10310 votes
Girl in the River
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1973
Kojak suspects that the strangler of seven women has returned, when another girl dies in similar circumstances.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Halsted Welles
7.4/10300 votes
Requiem for a Cop
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1973
Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial without honors of his old friend, an officer accused of corruption.
Director: Gary Nelson, Paul Stanley
Writer: Jack Laird
6.9/10278 votes
The Corrupter
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/1973
Kojak suspects that new store staff may be involved in murder of a jewelry store owner.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: James M. Miller
7.3/10296 votes
Dark Sunday
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/1973
The murder of a car thief reveals vital clues to a $500,000 heist.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Jack Laird
7.2/10271 votes
Conspiracy of Fear
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/1973
Kojak tries to hold up an urban re-development project until he solves a murder case.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jack Laird, Mark Rodgers
7.8/10290 votes
Cop in a Cage
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/2/1974
Freshly freed from prison, a criminal jailed by Kojak wants revenge and is targeting Kojak's niece on her wedding day.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley
7.4/10256 votes
Marker to a Dead Bookie
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1974
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.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Jack Laird
7.3/10251 votes
Last Rites for a Dead Priest
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/1974
During a jeweler's convention, a jewel thief disguises as a priest in order to steal valuable gems.
Director: Joel Oliansky
Writer: Jack Laird
7.6/10298 votes
Death Is Not a Passing Grade
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1974
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.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
7.4/10285 votes
Die Before They Wake
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1974
A junkie prostitute holds the key which would help solving the murder cases of her roommate and a local TV reporter.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Robert W. Lenski
7.5/10271 votes
Deliver Us Some Evil
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1974
A small time crook prepares to pull a big robbery to flee a pending murder charge.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Jack Laird
7.4/10236 votes
Eighteen Hours of Fear
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1974
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Unknown
7.7/10271 votes
Before the Devil Knows
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1974
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jack Laird
7.6/10261 votes
Dead on His Feet
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1974
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.
Director: Leo Penn, Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Jack Laird
7.1/10238 votes
Down a Long and Lonely River
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/1974
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.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Robert Foster
7.0/10231 votes
Mojo
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/27/1974
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Mark Weingart
7.7/10248 votes
Therapy in Dynamite
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1974
A psychopathic bomber targets people who hurt his friend. Kojak must find link between victims in order to find suspect.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Gene R. Kearney
7.6/10225 votes
The Only Way Out
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1974
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.
Director: Joel Oliansky
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley