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The Only Way Out: Directed by Joel Oliansky. With Telly Savalas, Lee Montgomery, John Hillerman, Dan Frazer. A boy asks Kojak to find his father who's gone missing. What they don't know is that he is being held captive.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Joel Oliansky
- 1974-05-08
- It started with a TV movie based on real-life murders. TV writer Abby Mann introduced Savalas’ Kojak — spelled “Kojack” at the time — in the 1973 CBS movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders.
- The show was a family affair — though that wasn’t evident for two seasons. Telly Savalas’ brother George Savalas starred as Detective Stavros on Kojak.
- Savalas used lollipops to curb his smoking habit. Viewers often saw Telly Savalas’ detective character sucking on a lollipop while working a case — a quirk first seen in Kojak’s eighth episode, “Dark Sunday,” per MeTV.
- The show won Emmys, Golden Globes, and even an Edgar. Savalas won the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy Award for his Kojak work in 1974. The following year, guest star Zohra Lampert won an Emmy for her performance in Season 2’s “Queen of the Gypsies.”
Sep 18, 2024 · Whether he was delivering a heartfelt catchphrase or a humorous one-liner, Kojak always knew how to leave an impression. So, if you’re in need of some inspiration or just want a good laugh, take a trip down memory lane and revisit the unforgettable quotes from “Kojak.”
Feb 21, 2019 · While Detectives Weaver and Gomez must have been wondering what they did to deserve an early exit, Detective Bobby Crocker went from strength to strength. Kojak looked on him as the son he never had but I suspect that the blatantly ambitious Crocker was using Kojak more than a little.
This is a list of episodes for the television series Kojak. The first five seasons (Pilot + 118 ep.) were aired on CBS from 1973 until 1978. CBS also commissioned a pair of TV movies in 1985 and 1987. ABC revived Kojak in 1989 for five additional TV movies, the last of which aired in 1990.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleDirected By11"Siege of Terror"22"Web of Death"33"One for the Morgue"44"Knockover"Kojak is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978.
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This particular Kojak story involves Telly Savalas assuming the guise of a private detective when one is in fact shot dead in his office. His partner in fact is a former NYPD detective who went to the Academy with Kojak.
