The elusive 'Excalibur' killer has returned to New York after an absence of two years and Kojak is determined to catch him this time. All of the victims are single women strangled with a stocking with a quarter in it, then left in water with the mark of Excalibur on their forehead and a purple cord around their neck. Kojak is an American crime drama television series starring Ving Rhames. It aired on the USA Network cable channel and on ITV4 in the United Kingdom. It was a remake of Kojak starring Telly Savalas. Kojak (TV Series –) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. This is a list of episodes for the television series Kojak. The first five seasons (Pilot + ep.) were aired on CBS from until CBS also commissioned a pair of TV movies in and ABC revived Kojak in for five additional TV movies, the last of which aired in Unlike many series which were/are filmed in Hollywood & depict a different location, Kojak was actually filmed in NYC, (even the fictional "11th precinct" shown in the series is a REAL police precinct (the 9th) so there's a lot of cool footage of NYC in the s.

Kojak — Einsatz in Manhattan Originaltitel Kojak ist eine erfolgreiche US-amerikanische Fernsehserie , von der in den Jahren bis insgesamt Folgen zu je 48 Minuten entstanden.

Vorausgegangen war der Serie der minütige Pilotfilm Der Mordfall Marcus-Nelson. Der New Yorker Polizist Theodoros Kojak erledigt seine Fälle so, wie er es für richtig hält.

Mit zynischem Humor spürt der glatzköpfige Grieche die Schlupfwinkel dunkler Elemente selbst auf Partys der High Society auf. Zu Kojaks Team gehören seine beiden Assistenten Crocker und Stavros.

Im Jahr wurde die Serie mit dem Fernsehfilm Mord im Exil wiederbelebt. Es folgten sechs weitere Filme: Kojaks Rückkehr Videotitel: Jeder Mord hat seinen Preis ; , Ariana , Dunkle Beziehungen beide , Tod eines Polizisten , Gefährliche Gier und Die Verschwörung alle In den Filmen erhielt Kojak neue Kollegen; Dan Frazer, George Savalas und Vince Conti sind nur kurz im ersten Film zu sehen.

Ab Dunkle Beziehungen übernahm Charles Cioffi die Rolle des Chief George Morris Sprecher: Friedrich G. The technical adviser, Detective Burton Armus was the guy that gave Telly the idea about the lolly pop.

Burton was a detective working out of the 7th district homicide squad and advised the show. He went on in the film and TV industry as writer and director.

A very special gut and I was proud to work with him for the short time I was there the squad. I met Telly on two occasions and when I told him that I was NYCPD he shook my hand and said he liked and respected our department.

He was much like Jack Webb, anyone who met him , liked him because he was real. Hope the new show will be worth watching.

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What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item. Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 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 young African-American man, George Whitmore, Jr.

After illegally obtaining a confession , the police had the suspect all but convicted until a second investigation by a different team of detectives exonerated the suspect and identified the real killer, Richard Robles, who was convicted in and sentenced to life in prison.

Mann developed the project as a gritty police procedural , but with a subtext focusing on institutionalized prejudice and the civil rights of suspects and witnesses.

The result was a made-for-TV movie , The Marcus-Nelson Murders. The opening and closing titles of the film emphasized the point that it was a fictional account of the events that led to the creation of Miranda rights by the U.

Supreme Court in Selwyn Raab 's book Justice in the Back Room provided Mann with some of his inspiration for the story of The Marcus-Nelson Murders , and the series subsequently included a credits reference to having been "suggested by a book by Selwyn Raab".

Savalas starred in The Marcus-Nelson Murders as a police detective whose last name was spelled "Kojack". The film served as a pilot for the Kojak television series.

Kojak himself was a composite character , based on a number of detectives, lawyers, and reporters who were involved in the Wylie-Hoffert murder case.

The series is set in the New York City Police Department 's Eleventh Precinct the building shown was actually Ninth Precinct , [4] Manhattan South Patrol Borough.

The show revolved around the efforts of the tough and incorruptible Lieutenant Theodopolus "Theo" Kojak Telly Savalas , a bald, dapper , New York City policeman, who was fond of Tootsie Roll Pops and of using the catchphrases , "Who loves ya, baby?

In the context of the script, Kojak's was seen as typical squad room humor, which was picked up later in the TV drama Hill Street Blues.

Savalas described Kojak as a "basically honest character, tough but with feelings—the kind of guy who might kick a hooker in the tail if he had to, but they'd understand each other because maybe they grew up on the same kind of block.

In the early episodes of the series, he is often seen smoking cigarettes. Following the Surgeon General's Report on smoking , cigarette commercials were banned from American television in , and public awareness of the dangers of cigarette smoking increased dramatically during the s.

To cut down on his own habit, Kojak began using lollipops as a substitute. The lollipop made its debut in the Season 1 episode "Dark Sunday", broadcast on December 12, ; Kojak lights a cigarette as he begins questioning a witness, but thinks better of it and sticks a lollipop specifically, a Tootsie Pop in his mouth instead.

Later in the episode, Kevin Dobson's character Crocker asks about the lollipop and Kojak replies, "I'm looking to close the generation gap.

His longtime supervisor was Capt. Frank McNeil Dan Frazer , a man who never seemed to know what was going on. Later in the series, McNeil was promoted to Chief of Detectives in Manhattan.

Kojak is the commander of the Manhattan South Precinct's detective squad. His squad includes one of his favorite employees, young plainclothes officer, Det.

Bobby Crocker Kevin Dobson. In TV Guide ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In seguito, nel corso della serie, McNeil viene promosso a capo dei detective di Manhattan.

La serie si concluse nel , dopo cinque stagioni, a causa dei bassi ascolti. Anni dopo la conclusione della serie, Savalas riprese il personaggio in due film per la televisione, Assassino a piede libero Kojak: The Belarus File , un adattamento del romanzo di John Loftus The Belarus Secret, e Kojak: le scatole cinesi Kojak: The Price of Justice , basato sul di romanzo di Dorothy Uhnak The Investigation.

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