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List Of Kojak Episodes ...
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. Series overview Episodes Pilot movie (1973) Season 1 (1973–74) Season 2 (1974–75) Season 3 (1975–76) Season 4 (1976–77) Season 5 (1977–78) TV movies (1985–90) References External links * {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Kojak'' episodes Kojak Episodes Episodes may refer to: * Episode, a part of a dramatic work * Episodes (TV series), ''Episodes'' (TV series), a British/American television sitcom which premiered in 2011 * Episodes (journal), ''Episodes'' (journal), a geological science journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kojak
''Kojak'' is an American Action film, action Crime film, crime Drama (film and television), 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 (TV series), Cannon'' series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. In 1999, ''TV Guide'' ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Production The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' and ''Playhouse 90''. Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 1963 Career Girls Murders, Wylie-Hoffert murders, the brutal rape and murder of two young professional women in Manhattan. Owing to poor and corrupt police work and the prevailing casual attitude toward suspects' civil rights, the crimes in the Wylie-Hoffert case were pinned on a youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rhoades
Barbara Rhoades is an American actress, known primarily for her comedy and mystery roles, especially as lady bandit Penelope ("Bad Penny") Cushings in '' The Shakiest Gun in the West'' (1968) with Don Knotts. She had a recurring role on ''Soap'' as Maggie Chandler, Jodie Dallas's future wife. Early years Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, Rhoades is the daughter of Sherry Rhoades. She attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School. She began taking dancing lessons when she was 7 years old. Career Rhoades began acting in the late 1960s, appearing in guest roles on several television series, including '' It Takes a Thief'', '' Ironside'', '' Mannix'', '' McMillan & Wife'', '' Columbo'', '' Kojak'', '' Starsky & Hutch'', '' Alias Smith and Jones'', '' Love, American Style'', '' The Odd Couple'', '' The Six Million Dollar Man'', '' Sanford and Son'', '' Bewitched'', '' Maude'', '' Trapper John, M.D.'','' The Partridge Family'', '' Murder, She Wrote'', '' Cagney & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Latham
Johnie Louise Latham (September 23, 1922 – February 12, 2018) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film '' Marnie''. Background Latham was born on September 23, 1922, in Hamilton, Texas. She came from a long line of ranchers, mostly around San Saba and Mason counties. Latham attended the Hockaday School in Dallas, where one of her classmates was future screenwriter Jay Presson Allen. Career Television Most of Latham's work was on television. In 1965, she made two appearances on '' Perry Mason'': Matilda Shore in "The Case of the Careless Kitten" and Shirley Logan in "The Case of the Cheating Chancellor". She made an appearance on ''The Waltons'', playing Olivia's Aunt Kate, who consoles Olivia through her ordeal with menopause. She also appeared in ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Kojak'', '' Hawaii Five-O'', '' Ironside'', ''Columbo'', '' Quincy, M.E.'', '' Rhoda'', ''Murder, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Nelson (director)
Gary Nelson (October 6, 1934 – May 25, 2022) was an American television and film director. He directed many television series, including ''Get Smart'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', ''The Patty Duke Show'', ''Gilligan's Island'' and ''Happy Days''. In addition, Nelson directed five feature films, including Disney's ''Freaky Friday (1976 film), Freaky Friday'' (1976), and many television movies, including ''Murder in Coweta County'' starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. In 1978, Nelson was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series on ''Washington: Behind Closed Doors''. Nelson was born in Los Angeles, California. He was married to actress Judi Meredith, who died on April 30, 2014; the couple had two sons. During semi-retirement, Nelson continued to occasionally guest lecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He died in Las Vegas of congestive heart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Keach
James Keach (born December 7, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of actor Stacy Keach and son of actor Stacy Keach Sr. Early life and education James Peckham Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Mary Cain (), an actress, and Walter Stacy Keach Sr., a drama coach, actor, writer, and producer. His brother, Stacy Keach, is an actor and narrator. Keach received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 1970, a M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama, and is also a classically trained Shakespearean actor. Career Best known as a producer and director, Keach has also acted, most famously portraying Jesse James in the 1980 film '' The Long Riders'', a film which he co-wrote and produced. Johnny Cash was so taken by the film that he and June Carter became close friends with Keach and asked him to be involved in the development of ''Walk the Line'', which Keach produced. Keach also appeared in numerous supporting roles in fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge (February 27, 1944 – October 10, 2011) was an American actor known for his roles in four television programs, ''Man from Atlantis'', ''Eischied'', ''Paper Dolls'' and ''Bodies of Evidence'', along with a recurring role on ''7th Heaven (TV series), 7th Heaven''. Early years Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of five. He acted with Mary MacMurtrie's Children's Theater in Tucson and with the Tucson Little Theater. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a major in theater. He received the university's Best Actor Award in two seasons worked with the Old Globe Theatre, Globe Theater in San Diego during one summer. Career On television, Fudge portrayed Lou Dalton in the drama ''7th Heaven (TV series), 7th Heaven'', C. W. Crawford in the adventure series ''Man from Atlantis'', and Jim Kimbrough in the crime drama ''Eischied''. Fudge appeared in many television movies based on popular series, such as ''Columbo: Columbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cacavas
John Harry Cacavas (August 13, 1930 – January 28, 2014) was an American composer and conductor probably best known for his television scores, such as '' Kojak'', and ''The Time Machine,'' for which he was the chief composer. He also composed '' Kojak's'' second main title theme for its 5th and final season in 1977-1978. Early life and education Cacavas was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1930. His father was an emigrant from Greece and his mother was born in North Dakota. He had a fraternal twin sister, Jeanne, and three other siblings: Peter David, b. 1928; Penelope, b. 1932; and Adrian G., 1933. Their father's younger brother Chris had also immigrated to South Dakota and lived in Aberdeen, where he married and had a family. John and his siblings attended local schools; he displayed an early talent for music, forming a local band at age 14, at 16 he started a school dance band named “The Golden Blues," he left after having a falling out with his band teacher after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco (born Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.; February 29, 1936 – July 18, 2015) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive, gravelly voice, he was often cast as villains, including Moe Greene in ''The Godfather'' (1972) and his Primetime Emmy Award–winning role in '' The Famous Teddy Z''. Rocco did a significant amount of voice-over work later in his career. Early life Rocco was born as Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.,Obituary cbsnews.com; accessed July 20, 2015. in , in 1936, and raised in nearby Somerville, the son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Fine
Morton Fine (December 24, 1916 – March 7, 1991) was an American screenwriter. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1942 during World War II. A graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis, Fine returned to school after his military service ended in 1944 and earned a master's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh. After an unprofitable stint writing for magazines, he moved to California and turned to writing for radio programs. It was then that he met David Friedkin and began a long writing partnership. Fine wrote several nationally broadcast radio shows in collaboration with David Friedkin, including '' Broadway Is My Beat'' and ''Crime Classics''. The writing duo then moved on to film and television where their credits include '' The Pawnbroker'' (for which he won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama in 1965), '' The Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles S
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Richmond
Kim Richmond (July 24, 1940 – September 20, 2024) was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger. Life and career Richmond was born in Champaign, Illinois, on July 24, 1940. He played piano, clarinet, and saxophone when young, and made his professional debut in 1956. He studied at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s. He played in the U.S. Air Force big band, the Airmen of Note, while serving from 1963–67 in Washington D.C. He then moved to California and played with Stan Kenton (1967), Clare Fischer (1968), Louie Bellson (1969–72), Lalo Schifrin (1979), Bob Florence (1979), Les Brown (1989), Bill Holman (1990), Vinny Golia (1991), Johnny Mandel, Chris Walden, and Clay Jenkins. Richmond arranged professionally from the 1960s, for Schifrin, Buddy Rich, and Ernie Watts . He founded the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra in southern California to perform his works. Additionally, he has worked as a session musician, arranger, director, and conductor for studios and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Metrano
Arthur Metrano (September 22, 1936 – September 8, 2021) was an American actor. He was noted for his role as Lt./Capt./Cmdt. Mauser in '' Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment'' and '' Police Academy 3: Back in Training''. Career Metrano's film debut was as a truck driver in the 1961 Cold War thriller '' Rocket Attack U.S.A.''. Among Metrano's TV appearances were a 1968 episode of ''Ironside'', a 1970 episode of ''Bewitched'', a 1976 episode of ''The Practice'', and ''The Streets of San Francisco''. In 1977, he was a regular in the cast of the short-lived CBS situation comedy '' Loves Me, Loves Me Not''. He also frequently appeared on talk and variety shows in the early 1970s, especially ''The Tonight Show'', as ''The Great Metrano'', a "magician" who performed absurd tricks, such as making his fingers "jump" from one hand to another, while constantly humming an inane theme song – " Fine and Dandy", an early 1930s composition by Kay Swift. His best-known role came in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
