Season 3 · Episode 8 — Out of the Frying Pan . . .
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.
Season 3 episodes
E1An unjustly imprisoned man hopes to clear his name by helping Kojak trap the load shark who framed him.
E2To clear his name, a man helps Kojak take down a loan shark.
E3Kojak must overcome outside influences in order to protect a detective (Sylvester Stallone)who accidentally shot a boy.
E4While responding to a homicide call, Kojak discovers his camera that had disappeared earlier at a party in which he, his nephew and friend…
E5Crocker lectures female students on rape at a local catholic school, while two Puerto Rican brothers kill a priest during a truck heist.
E6Kojak 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 natu…
E7A 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 aga…
E8A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murde…
E9A mobster's son puts out a contract on Kojak's life after he breaks up a barroom brawl.
E10A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of…
E11Refusing to believe that a prostitute and her partner are responsible for a bookkeeper's murder, Kojak run afoul of the FBI when he tries t…
E12Kojak and Crocker head to Cory, Nevada to pick up a witness (Vincent Bagetta), but they encounter trouble in town.
E13A 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 thiev…
E14An old colleague calls from Las Vegas to say he has captured a counterfeiter Kojak has been looking for, but the elderly man is murdered be…
E15(Christmas Episode) Stavros helps a woman (Betsy Slade) find her desperate boyfriend (Darrell Fetty), while Kojak tries to find out why a m…
E16Kojak doubts a young man is guilty in the murder of a prostitute, even the circumstantial evidence points to him.
E17Kojak is concerned that a fellow detective's obsessive work habits are endangering both his home life and his career.
E18Kojak must prevent a man from killing the person who framed his recently deceased brother.
E19A private detective recently arrived from the West Coast puzzles Kojak when he appears to be deliberately making himself a killer's next ta…
E20Kojak puts the pressure on a known member of an organized crime syndicate when a dead undercover cop is found murdered.
E21Kojak finds himself under investigation by Internal Affairs when a thief he arrested without sufficient evidence claims he paid Kojak a bri…
E22Kojak investigates the hit-and-run death of a police chemist and uncovers a frame-up.
E23The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.
E24Kojak competes with a world-famous criminologist to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.