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When Kojak aired on CBS on Wednesday, October 24, 1973, it bumped the crime drama Cannon from its usual time slot. There’s a new detective in town. Smoking gun. Kojak became synonymous with the crime drama genre and with lollipops / Everett Collection. Who loves smoking, baby? Detective Kojak did.
- It started with a TV movie based on real-life murders. TV writer Abby Mann introduced Savalas’ Kojak — spelled “Kojack” at the time — in the 1973 CBS movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders.
- The show was a family affair — though that wasn’t evident for two seasons. Telly Savalas’ brother George Savalas starred as Detective Stavros on Kojak.
- Savalas used lollipops to curb his smoking habit. Viewers often saw Telly Savalas’ detective character sucking on a lollipop while working a case — a quirk first seen in Kojak’s eighth episode, “Dark Sunday,” per MeTV.
- The show won Emmys, Golden Globes, and even an Edgar. Savalas won the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy Award for his Kojak work in 1974. The following year, guest star Zohra Lampert won an Emmy for her performance in Season 2’s “Queen of the Gypsies.”
Jan 23, 1994 · Jan. 23, 1994 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Telly Savalas, the bald-headed actor who played movie villains but gained his most fame as a hard-boiled, lollipop-loving New York City detective in...
Jan 23, 1994 · to popular language while portraying a New York detective in the 1970's television series "Kojak," died on Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 70. Mr. Savalas died in his suite at the...
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Jan 23, 1994 · Telly Savalas, the gruff, bald-headed actor who became a television favorite as the lollipop-loving New York detective in the 1970s series ``Kojak,'' died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 70. Savalas, surrounded by his family, died in his sleep one day after his birthday at his suite in the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, said ...
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A former detective (Vincent Gardenia), now with the Las Vegas police force, collars a "retired" counterfeiter and calls his ex-boss, Kojak, to come get his prisoner, only to have someone prefer him dead.
Jan 23, 1994 · Telly Savalas, the gruff, hairless actor who became a television favorite as the lollipop-loving New York detective in the 1970s series “Kojak,” died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 70....
