A rookie cop (Mark Shea) stumbles upon an attempted murder of a rival gang leader in which he foils, triggering a gang war.

Crocker fails to believe that his old childhood friend who is the main focus of a police investigation, could be involved in illegal activity.

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.

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

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.

The shooting of a Puerto Rican youth by the Police anders the community.

A woman informs the detectives that she had seen a wanted man that had supposedly died in a house fire, but they don't believe her until it's too late.

Kojak and a female detective must overcome their dislike for each other when she is transferred from the rape squad to help nab a drug-dealing rapist-muderer.

A laid off police officer with two jobs and a sick wife takes a bribe under pressure from a loan shark.