i start watch re run of law and order on usa about the same time kojak start to air and and i think it safe to say that as cheesy a law and order can get from time to time and it beat kojak by a mile . with the former and there be at least lip service give to try to break the typical mold for a cop drama . however and with kojak i be hesitant to call anything that happen a plot twist a any so call plot reveal can be see come from a mile away . this show be nothing short of a caricature of the generic cop drama and and therefor hollywood interpretation of what it take to make a cop seem bad and a renegade . i think it a shame that the show writers stoop to such low to hammer home over and over that kojak a cop on the edge and willing to do whatever it take to bring the bad man in and blah blah blah . this phony macho tough guy cop stuff be more overused than fart joke on south park and only in this case without the attached ironic humor . it hard to like a show that pander to the low common denominator of cop show watcher so quickly in it run and especially when within five episode the chief be already engulf in a crime mystery . that kind of lame sweep week cop out ( i well copyright this stupid pun before the kojak writer see it ) doesn not usually surface in a series long journey to the middle until their rating take a nose dive and see a how ridiculous and pathetic it be a a basis for an episode plot . just watch the african american boy from hard time try to make it in the white man world while be pressure to become a hoodlum or the he a deadly sniper who will kill you in a second but he get a family and a split personality that include a heart of gold be enough to make me want to vomit and laugh at the same time and sort of a yuk yak ( back of kojak and this one mine too ) . not only be these ludicrous idea completely moronic and but theyre do in such a heavy handed way that there no possible way to salvage any ability to be watch . i give you five episode kojak . congratulation and i can not watch any more . good luck ving when you inevitably return to the small part tough guy role in summer flick you be destine to play .