Just super
I can remember 'Kojak' as the number one TV show from the 1970's. A must see for Saturday night at 9.00 p.m. then!

This DVD box set brings all this back.

A must for a fan from the 1970's - a must for the new fans today.

BRILLIANT!!!
It may be old, but its certainly not dated, the storys are gritty and realistic, and still have the power to grab you, mainly due to the quality of the writing, and the excellent, low key performances of the actors, which prevent it looking like 70's kitch.An award winner in its day, and it's easy to see why.
One question.....when's season 2 coming out?

The Best New York Cop
Kojak is a terrific show. Great performances and chemistry from a terrific cast. No chocolate box good looks here, these are real characters played believably by real actors in a gritty situation which today's voguing TV cops in their stylised grittiness would do well to take a lesson from. The plots are suprisingly hard nosed and the episodes are often bitter sweet with more of a gallows humour of cops who have seen the seedy underbelly of society rather than other shows of the period the tone of which was far lighter and eventually degenerated into more humour than drama (Starsky & Hutch) or ridiculous premises such as McCloud (the plot of the cowboy in New York worked for Coogan's Bluff because it was a one-off and besides Dennis Weaver is no Clint).
My one complaint is the packaging. Kojak is a New York cop. New York as in Manhattan: an island with a number of bridges, beautiful bridges; the Brooklyn or Queensboro bridges over the East River the washington Bridge over the Hudson. these are good bridges, nothing wrong with these bridges so why is there a picture of San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge on the DVD cover? Dumb graphic designers. Sad.

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