Telly Savalas played Theo Kojak in a TV series that first aired from 1973 to 1978. What confectionery is associated with the character?
Telly Savalas sweet tooth, Savalas also smoked heavily onscreen—cigarettes, cigarillos and cigars—throughout the first season's episodes. The lollipops, which Savalas later admitted had given him three cavities, were also part of an (unsuccessful) effort by Kojak (and Savalas himself) to curb his smoking. The critic Clive James explained the lead actor's appeal as Kojak: "Telly Savalas can make bad slang sound like good slang and good slang sound like lyric poetry. It isn't what he is, so much as the way he talks, that gets you tuning in." David Shipman later wrote: "Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators.
Kojak Kojak Kojak is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular "Cannon" series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. In 1999 "TV Guide" ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as "Robert Montgomery Presents" and "Playhouse 90". Universal Television approached him to do a story based on