Kojak
Kojak Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | ||
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| S1 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 7.6 | ||||
| S2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.3 | |
| S3 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 7.9 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | |||
| S4 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.1 | |
| S5 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 7.8 |
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"A bald, lollipop-loving cop defined the decade"
Kojak follows a tough, sharply dressed NYPD detective working the streets of New York, solving murders and street crime with equal parts charm and grit. Each episode is a fairly self-contained case, shot with a gritty 1970s urban texture that captures the era's crime-drama mood. What carries it is the lead performance: a magnetic, lollipop-sucking, catchphrase-dropping cop whose swagger and moral clarity anchor otherwise standard procedural plotting. It's slower and more talky than modern crime shows, leaning on character and atmosphere rather than twists or serialized mystery.
the iconic, magnetic lead performance that turned a standard cop show into a genre touchstone.
you expect fast pacing or serialized storytelling instead of episodic, old-school procedural cases.
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