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The Best Episodes of Kojak Season 2

Every episode of Kojak Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kojak Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Kojak Season 2 Episode 1 - The Chinatown Murders (1)
    7.6/10(193 votes)

    #1 - The Chinatown Murders (1)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  2. Kojak Season 2 Episode 2 - The Chinatown Murders (2)
    7.6/10(182 votes)

    #2 - The Chinatown Murders (2)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  3. Kojak Season 2 Episode 3 - Hush Now, Don't You Die
    7.9/10(208 votes)

    #3 - Hush Now, Don't You Die

    S2:E3

    Kojak tracks down a college student that he suspects has been raped, but is too afraid to come forward after she witnesses one of the assailants murdered by the other.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Robert W. Lenski

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  4. Kojak Season 2 Episode 4 - A Very Deadly Game
    7.5/10(175 votes)

    #4 - A Very Deadly Game

    S2:E4

    After a policeman is shot by a local known criminal, Kojak sets out to get the man behind bars, but his efforts are disrupted by FBI agents who are supposed to be helping. He then pursues the trail alone, taking him to Califormia where the criminal is hiding out.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Stephen Downing

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  5. Kojak Season 2 Episode 5 - Wall Street Gunslinger
    7.0/10(161 votes)

    #5 - Wall Street Gunslinger

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Halsted Welles

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  6. Kojak Season 2 Episode 6 - Slay Ride
    7.3/10(179 votes)

    #6 - Slay Ride

    S2:E6

    When several men fall to their deaths at the same convention, Kojak doubts that mass suicide is the explanation.

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Morton S. Fine

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  7. Kojak Season 2 Episode 7 - Nursemaid
    7.5/10(174 votes)

    #7 - Nursemaid

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Joel Oliansky

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  8. Kojak Season 2 Episode 8 - You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler
    7.6/10(159 votes)

    #8 - You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Albert Ruben

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  9. Kojak Season 2 Episode 9 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy
    7.8/10(175 votes)

    #9 - The Best Judge Money Can Buy

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  10. Kojak Season 2 Episode 10 - A Souvenir from Atlantic City
    7.3/10(166 votes)

    #10 - A Souvenir from Atlantic City

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Daniel Haller
    Writers:Eric Kaldor, Charles Sailor

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  11. Kojak Season 2 Episode 11 - A Killing in the Second House
    7.7/10(163 votes)

    #11 - A Killing in the Second House

    S2:E11

    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.

    Directors:Sigmund Neufeld Jr., Christian Nyby
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  12. Kojak Season 2 Episode 12 - The Best War in Town
    7.3/10(162 votes)

    #12 - The Best War in Town

    S2:E12

    A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Burton Armus

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  13. Kojak Season 2 Episode 13 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
    7.7/10(195 votes)

    #13 - Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

    S2:E13

    A mentally depressed woman (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses her date being murdered by her neighbor who has an interest in her.

    Director:David Friedkin
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  14. Kojak Season 2 Episode 14 - The Betrayal
    7.7/10(184 votes)

    #14 - The Betrayal

    S2:E14

    An informant (Paul Anka) uses a detective in order to further his way up the criminal ladder.

    Director:Telly Savalas
    Writer:Joseph Gunn

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  15. Kojak Season 2 Episode 15 - Loser Takes All
    7.6/10(177 votes)

    #15 - Loser Takes All

    S2:E15

    A woman (Ja'net DuBois) intentionally plots to have her husband murdered during a diamond heist that she had planned with her secret love interest (Leslie Nielson).

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  16. Kojak Season 2 Episode 16 - Close Cover Before Killing
    7.4/10(179 votes)

    #16 - Close Cover Before Killing

    S2:E16

    Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  17. Kojak Season 2 Episode 17 - Acts of Desperate Men
    7.5/10(167 votes)

    #17 - Acts of Desperate Men

    S2:E17

    An accountant assists a sniper (Bruce Kirby Jr.) on a vendetta.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  18. Kojak Season 2 Episode 18 - Queen of the Gypsies
    8.3/10(256 votes)

    #18 - Queen of the Gypsies

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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  19. Kojak Season 2 Episode 19 - Night of the Piraeus
    7.6/10(162 votes)

    #19 - Night of the Piraeus

    S2:E19

    The murder of a sailor newly arrived on a freighter from Greece and a strangely unconcerned witness lead Kojak to suspect that an object was smuggled into the country in the man's belt.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writers:George Bacos, Don Rene Patterson

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  20. Kojak Season 2 Episode 20 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard
    7.8/10(190 votes)

    #20 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

    S2:E20

    Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  21. Kojak Season 2 Episode 21 - The Good Luck Bomber
    7.8/10(170 votes)

    #21 - The Good Luck Bomber

    S2:E21

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

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Ray Brenner

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  22. Kojak Season 2 Episode 22 - Unwanted Partners
    7.6/10(161 votes)

    #22 - Unwanted Partners

    S2:E22

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

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Burton Armus

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  23. Kojak Season 2 Episode 23 - Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred
    7.5/10(165 votes)

    #23 - Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred

    S2:E23

    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.

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:James M. Miller

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  24. Kojak Season 2 Episode 24 - The Trade-Off
    7.9/10(173 votes)

    #24 - The Trade-Off

    S2:E24

    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.

    Director:David Friedkin
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  25. Kojak Season 2 Episode 25 - I Want to Report a Dream
    7.3/10(186 votes)

    #25 - I Want to Report a Dream

    S2:E25

    A psychic (Ruth Gordon)informs police involving a dream in which she sees a murder take place before it ever happened.

    Director:Telly Savalas
    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Chinatown Murders (1)" is the best rated episode of "Kojak" season 2. It scored 7.6/10 based on 193 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Jack Laird, it aired on 9/15/1974. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Chinatown Murders (2)".