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Kojak

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Kojak	label	Kojak
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Kojak	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Kojak was a Police Procedural drama that aired on CBS from 1973-78.Set in "Manhattan South" (New York City's Thirteenth Precinct), the series is named for Lt. Theodore "Theo" Kojak (Telly Savalas in his most famous role besides that one time he played Blofeld). He might not observe all the niceties when it comes to his $240-a-week-after-taxes job, but he gets the job done, ya dig? A Greek-American who pronounces the "w" in "sword," this cop knows who Confucius is, and has read Edgar Allan Poe. He grew up in a "sewer" he now wants to clean up, but he's also sympathetic to the junkies, whores, stoolies, and other damaged people he encounters. After all, he grew up alongside them, in the same neighborhood. Also added to the mix are members of his squad: wet-behind-the-ears Det. Crocker (Kevin Dobson), slovenly Det. Stavros (George Savalas), and fretful Cpn. McNeil (Dan Frazer).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Kojak originated in a TV movie called The Marcus-Nelson Murders, based loosely on the "Career Girls Murders" used in the ground-breaking Miranda Supreme Court decision. Kojak was a stand-in for the various detectives involved in the case. In the early episodes of the series, Kojak smoked heavily; in order to reflect the anti-smoking sentiment gaining momentum on American TV, the writers decided that Kojak had quit smoking. He began sucking on lollipops as a substitute, which became a trademark of the character — along with his Bailey Gentry fedora and sunglasses.The series was rebooted in 2005 starring Ving Rhames in the title role, but was axed again after a single ten episode season. Vin Diesel has more recently been trying to develop a feature film adaptation of the series as a starring vehicle.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Not to be confused with Kolchak. Or Kodak, for that matter.
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Kojak / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Kojak / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: As with most fictional cops before The '90s, the police on this show are way too trigger happy, frequently firing off warning shots and trying to shoot out people's tires in high-speed chases.
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Kojak / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Kojak / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: "One for the Morgue" was loosely inspired by the attempted assassination of Mafia boss (and self-proclaimed "Italian-American rights activist") Joe Colombo, which occurred two years previously.
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Kojak / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Kojak / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Death Is Not A Passing Grade." Yes, someone (James Woods, no less) actually says it.
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Kojak / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Kojak / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Cleveland, the mobster suspected of ordering the assassination attempt in "One for the Morgue," spends the entire episode in hiding. Kojak only encounters his goons.
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Kojak / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
Kojak / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: the switch to the ubiquitous lollipops.
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Kojak / int_266b283	type	Crime After Crime
Kojak / int_266b283	comment	Crime After Crime: In "Web of Death," a police detective murders his wife's lover. Then he murders the junkie he had planned to use as his alibi when he thinks he might talk. When Kojak catches him, he's literally seconds away from a third murder, this time of the pimp who sold him the gun. In "My Brother, My Enemy", a young Sylvester Stallone plays a rookie cop who accidentally shoots a kid in the night due to being trigger happy and scared. This was bad in itself, but he immediately fired an extra round into the wall and then dumped the gun so he could say that someone was shooting at him rather than admit he fired without warning. A grand jury clears him of the shooting but Kojak and other cops see the cracks in his story and it's the fact that he tried to cover up his mistake that gets him dumped from the force.
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Kojak / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Kojak / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: It is about crime in New York City in the 1970s.
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Kojak / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Kojak / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Leans to the cynical side. The 1970s was a time of rising crime in New York City, and the show reflected the frustration.
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Kojak / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Kojak / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet/Downer Ending: The episode "Monkey on a String" is about a down-on-his-luck cop who gets increasingly caught up with a rich criminal who pays him handsomely for supplying information, thus saving him from various debts and allowing him to splash out on his beautiful wife. Things come to a head as the cop is eventually asked to commit One Last Job for the criminal - a takedown of a witness that could land the criminal in jail. After a series of complications the cop ends up in the same car as the witness and his partner as the killers arrive to take the hit. The cop saves the witness and his partner but he gets killed in the process, and dies mid-sentence asking Kojak to tell his wife something. Damn.
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Kojak / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Kojak / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: The pilot episode, "Siege of Terror."
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Kojak / int_51dc66f6	type	Hardboiled Detective
Kojak / int_51dc66f6	comment	Hardboiled Detective: Kojak's speech was clearly inspired by a lot of hard-boiled fiction, such as when he forces a guy to jump from a pier, then tells a subordinate, "Look, there's some debris floatin' in the river. Would you fish it out before it pollutes the entire eastern seaboard?"
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Kojak / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Kojak / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself
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Kojak / int_6d5fb1e0	type	Waistcoat of Style
Kojak / int_6d5fb1e0	comment	Waistcoat of Style: For a guy who constantly complains about his $240-a-week-after-taxes job, Kojak sure can afford some nice threads.
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Kojak / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
Kojak / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: An attempted hit on a Mafia boss at a Columbus Day rally in "One for the Morgue." As it turns out, it was all a frameup to get the cops to break up his biggest rival's gang.
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Kojak / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Kojak / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars" - on the other hand, despite its title, "Slay Ride" is not a Christmas Episode.
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Kojak / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Kojak / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In "One for the Morgue," the cops don't realize that a Mafia boss set up his own assassination attempt until they see him chatting with the hitman, even though they already know he was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time of the attack (which they concede was unusual for him) and that the bullets were packed with only small amounts of gunpowder to make them less deadly.
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Kojak / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Kojak / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Kojak's fondness for lollipops stemmed from the fact that Telly Savalas used them in an attempt to quit smoking. Kojak even admits at one point that he smokes too much and goes for his lollipops every day except Sunday.
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Kojak / int_8015df5d	type	Reverse Whodunnit
Kojak / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit: "Web of Death."
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Kojak / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
Kojak / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural
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Kojak / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Kojak / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: The first two TV movies in the '80s, Kojak: The Belarus Secret and Kojak: The Price Of Justice, were respectively based on the novels The Belarus File by John Loftus and The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak.
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Kojak / int_92f863b6	type	Revival
Kojak / int_92f863b6	comment	Revival: The series was brought back for two TV movies in the mid 80s and then brought back for a sixth season consisting of 5 movie length episodes that featured Kojak in the rank of Inspector as part of The ABC Mystery Movie in 1989 along side a revival of Columbo as part of that series.
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Kojak / int_a98abeda	type	Roguish Romani
Kojak / int_a98abeda	comment	Roguish Romani: Kojak consults with one of his streetwise snitches, a Romani fellow wearing a tattered jacket and a gold watch. Kojak asks him who he stole that from, then confiscates it. The snitch reminds Kojak that when the Romans led Christ to Golgotha, they brought five nails with them, one for each hand, one for each foot, and an extra-long one through the thorax. A Gypsy stole two of the nails, so the long one had to be used on both feet together. Since then, God has granted Gypsies the right to steal for their part in fulfilling the prophecy.
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Kojak / int_a9f392fd	type	Pilot Movie
Kojak / int_a9f392fd	comment	Pilot Movie: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (in which the detective's name is spelled "Kojack").
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Kojak / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Kojak / int_b01abe4f	comment	For a supposed Catchphrase, he doesn't actually say it very often.
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Kojak / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Kojak / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Kojak and his lollipops, as always. Even before he started on the lollipops, he could often be seen snacking on candy or ice cream bars.
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Kojak / int_bcc5c9a5	type	Replaced the Theme Tune
Kojak / int_bcc5c9a5	comment	Replaced the Theme Tune:original from Billy Goldenberg. The replacement by John Cacavas, a Savalasnote and 1970s detective show regular. by this time Savalas' wardrobe was credited to - "Telly Apparel For The Man." (Thus explaining the opening...)
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Kojak / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Kojak / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Nearly every episode is set in NYC.
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Kojak / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Kojak / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Theo Kojak began life as the lead character in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, a TV movie loosely based on a real-life double murder. In this (and the pilot episode of his titular series), his name is alternatively spelled "Kojack".
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Kojak / int_e2a73e74	type	Quip to Black
Kojak / int_e2a73e74	comment	Quip to Black: Kojak has an early version in most episodes.
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Kojak / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Kojak / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Det. Ferro in the season one episode "Web of Death". Ferro finds out his wife is stepping out on him, kills the boyfriend, and attempts to cover it up without much success.
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Kojak / int_ed3dc201	type	Addiction Displacement
Kojak / int_ed3dc201	comment	Addiction Displacement: Kojak's lollipops. They became an icon for both the original and the revival.
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Kojak / int_f4158af7	type	Everybody Owns a Ford
Kojak / int_f4158af7	comment	Everybody Owns a Ford
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Kojak / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Kojak / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: In "Web of Death," Kojak investigates a murder that was committed by his temporary partner.
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