Kojak - Season 3

An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.

To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.

Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.

While responding to a homicide call, Kojak discovers his camera that had disappeared earlier at a party in which he, his nephew and friend attended. His nephew's friend steals the camera and uses it to buy drugs from the murdered man. They witness the murder and are reluctant to involve the police. Kojak's nephew must go 'cold turkey' before he ends up like his friend who overdosed.

Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.

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.

A woman who witnesses a body being dumped into the harbor is so fragile minded that the man who dumped the body tries to use psychology against her in order to eliminate her from the picture.

A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.

A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.

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.

Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries to investigate further.

Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.

A murdered cop and a wealthy young woman put Kojak on the trail of a car-theft ring in which the victims appear to cooperate with the thieves.

An old colleague calls from Las Vegas to say he has captured a counterfeiter Kojak has been looking for, but the elderly man is murdered before Kojak can bring him back to New York.

(Christmas Episode) Stavros helps a woman (Betsy Slade) find her desperate boyfriend (Darrell Fetty), while Kojak tries to find out why a man (James Griffith) shot at a woman (Jesse Welles) in a local bar.

Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.

Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.

Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.

A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next target.

Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.

Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bribe.

Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.

The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.

Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.