Kojak on CBS

A tough-talking New York City detective isn't afraid to bend the rules in the name of justice

Telly Savalas is back as the brilliant and brazen Lieutenant Theo Kojak for the final season of one of television's grittiest and most memorable detective dramas.

Season Three finds Kojak embroiled in a series of high-profile cases involving the savage murder of a priest, a car theft ring, an18-year-old homicide cold case, a cop killer and a Mob hit ordered on Kojak himself.