The Best Episodes Written By Morton S. fine

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Slay Ride

   S2:E610/13/1974

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

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Marker to a Dead Bookie

   S1:E111/16/1974

   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.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Knockover

   S1:E411/14/1973

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

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Mojo

   S1:E203/27/1974

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Secret Snow, Deadly Snow

   S3:E610/12/1975

   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.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The McGregor Affair

   S3:E711/23/1964

   During the year 1827 in Edinburgh, Scotland, John McGregor must take care od his alcoholic wife Aggie. He works for Dr. Knox and must lug large boxes of tanbark to his medical academy. When John learns that the boxes actually contain the murdered victims of two bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, he decides to get rid of his wife by getting her drunk and leaving her on the body snatcher's doorstep. The plan is successful, but John is overtaken by remorse. Unfortunately, he ends up to be Burke and Hare's next victim.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - The Crimson Witness

   S3:E121/4/1965

   Ernest Mullett is a playboy who loses his job, his wife, and his girlfriend to his hated overachieving brother Farnum Mullett. Ernest's hatred turns to murder when he decides to reenact the biblical story of Cain and Abel.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Thou Still Unravished Bride

   S3:E223/22/1965

   On a transatlantic cruise Sally Benner falls in love with a London policeman named Tommy Bonn. On the eve of their wedding, Sally gets cold feet and takes a walk in the London fog. Tommy grows worried because there has recently been a number of stranglings in London. He and his partner Stephen Leslie go looking for her. The find a man named Clarke and suspect that he is the strangler. Clarke tells them that he has just murdered a woman that matches Sally's descriptions. He tells them that he dumped the body into a river. Tommy returns to tells is family, but is shocked when he finds Sally alive and well. Sally tells him that the wedding is back on. Clarke, however, was the strangler and the body of his victim is dredged out of the water.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - The Nicest Guys on the Block

   S3:E1011/16/1975

   A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds.

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    #10 - Change of Address

    S3:E210/12/1964

    Over the protests of his wife Elsa, Keith Hollin rents a beach house. Elsa dislikes the house and is disturbed by her husband's digging of a gravelike hole in the basement. She is further disturbed when she finds out that Keith is seeing a local girl named Rachel. When Keith tells Elsa that he wants to buy the house, she decides to foil his plan by contacting the wife of the current owner to tell her to not to sell. Keith, however, grows angry and kills Elsa. He buries her body in the basement, but is surprised when the police arrive. The police carry shovels and want to dig up the basement. The police tell Keith that Elsa discovered the wife of the house's owner was missing. She tipped off the police and they began an investigation. They called the house's owner in for questioning and he confessed to murdering his wife. He told them that he buried his wife in the basement of the beach house. The police are at the beach house to dig up the basement so they can find the body.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling

    S3:E264/19/1965

    Paul and Anne White visit the Bahamas when their son Howard is scheduled to race in the local Grand Prix. Before the race a Gypsy woman gives Paul a moneky's paw whcih according to legend can grant its bearer three wishes. Paul is desperate for money and makes a wish for money. Unfortunately, he gets the money in the form of a insurance settlement when his son is killed in a fiery crash during the race. Anne is struck with grief and forces Paul to wish his son back to life. Paul does so, but soon regrets it when he realizes what condition his son will be in. He uses the third wish to send his son back to his grave.

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - The Unicorn

    S1:E254/5/1973

    A priest (Fr. Scarne) won't tell Stone where a murderer (Abel Hoffman) is hiding. Stakes are raised by drug smugglers looking for a stolen shipment of heroin.

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