Kojak Opening 

The global sales of the lollipop skyrocketed thanks to kojac .

Who DIDN'T love him, baby? Thanks for the memory.

No one could play Kojak , Telly was priceless , his brother, George too , this show lives on forever

My 87 year old grandpa loved Telly and his role as Kojak. Grandpa usually hit the sack around 8-8:30pm and got up at 5am every morning. But when Kojak was on, I think Sunday nights, Gramps stayed up late, sat in his favorite chair and stayed glued to that show.

Kojak holds up very well today. Surprisingly gritty.

I never want to see a remake. The original Kojak is absolutely perfect. I was born in the early 60s and grew up watching all those fantastic 70s cop shows. Cannon, Kojak, Ironside, Rockford, Petrocelli (remember that one?), Columbo. Great memories and even better themes.

Probably one of the greatest TV detective characters of all time

Grew up watching this as a kid. My dad was a fan and still is. I miss 70s and 80s television. Kojak. Streets of San Francisco. Starsky & Hutch. Baretta. Omg, best times ever!!

RIP Kevin Dobson aka Det. Bobby Crocker as well on this brilliant iconic show.

Kojak was the epitome of the '70s cool cop.

When I was a kid, the opening credits were something I really looked forward to, sometimes more than the TV show itself. They could do openings back then...

On this day in 1973 {October 24th} the detective series "Kojak" debut on the CBS-TV network... The show ran from 1973 to 1978 with a total of 118 episodes... Telly Savalas won a Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Actor - Drama'... After the series ended, between 1985 and 1990 seven 'Kojak' made for TV movies aired on CBS-TV... R.I.P. Mr. Savalas {1922 - 1994}, Dan 'Capt. Frank McNeil' Frazer {1921 - 2011}, and George 'Detective Stavros' Savalas {1924 - 1985}...

Outstanding! RIP Telly George and Kevin. God's Blessings to everyone.

My dad still watches this. He doesn't like much modern stuff so just watches shows from the 50s-80s.

70 and 80: the T.V. of today NEVER will can match this inmortal series with full actions, drama, tricks, jumps and all real stunts without computers and digital efects seating in a office; I am waiting yet the return of these wonderfull decades!.

This is one of the best intros ever!!!!

That was one cool dude.... An actor who was used to playing heavy villains brought that same dark side to create an anti-hero that was one for the ages... His Kojak and the theme is pure 70's cool...Immortal. He is long gone, and we miss him but his style of tough, smart guy will never be forgotten.

😲 Oh wow, just hearing this theme song takes me back to when I was 9 years old and of course I enjoyed watching kojak too. The other one I enjoyed watching as well back then too, Charlie Chan as well. Nowadays, it's hard to find timeless stuff like this on television to watch. It's a shame they don't play stuff like this no more

Kojak, Columbo, Steve McGarrett, Starsky & Hutch, and Rick Hunter: The most badass, cool ass cops in tv history!

Anyone today can shave their head, but there can only be one Kojak!

I had a manager that used to go to Roosevelt park and Telly was there all the time playing the ponies. He was a regular guy anyone could talk to.

Now THAT was a badass show!!!!! Kojak forever!

My late grandmother was a fan of this show!

Thanks to Kojak the world, as a kid, felt a little bit more safe!

The best theme tune and a great Cop series of the 70's

I agree, leave Kojak alone, there is only one, Telly Savalas ,well loved indeed

Awesome theme song and creative opening. That cool transition from building strips to the name KOJAK has been the one thing standing out the most in my memory through the years about this series.

I still LOVE watching Kojak today. it comes on the Get T.v channel. and Me T.v. Classic cop show...WHO LOVES YA BABY. LOL

Sunday nights in the 1970s I could hear this theme throughout my home....

Out of all the openings for Kojak, this theme song was the best one in my opinion. RIP 🙏 to Telly and George Savalas (brothers), Kevin Dobson, Dan Frazier, Roger Robinson, and Vince Conti who have all passed away and were all part of this great detective show from back in the day.

one of the best Tv Themes!!

Kojak had a tough job, NYC was a mean city back in his day.

Still love this and watched it all the time as a kid. “Who loves ya baby” 🙏🏿

Loved this show when I was a kid and would love this entire series on Dvd. One of my favourite episodes was How Cruel The Frost How Bright The Stars which was a Christmas episode from 1975 which showed what Christmas was like back in the 70s instead of the so festive season of the 21st century.

Anyone who is attune to lighting and cinematography I think would see Kojak was beyond everyone else, then or now.

My mum loved this, Hawaii 5-0 and Rockford. I was allowed to stay up and watch if I was quiet :)

One of the best cop shows from the 70's and one of the best theme songs kojak rules

Telly was amazing, kojak was too , big part of my youth. Godspeed Telly

Currently watching this show right now and it rocks

So Kojak so cool for the 70's enjoyed every episode / series....

Nothing gets my attention faster than a great opening theme song. Kojak was gritty, powerful, and excellent.

I loved Kojak's suits , he was dressed as a cop to take down the bad guys

The intro music is epic! The climactic final 5-7 seconds is beyond epic. Long live Kojak. 🥰

70's television awesome will never be the same one excellent show after the other.

Gente....😍que delícia eram os temas das séries doas anos 70/80/90🤗🤗🤗🇧🇷

Excellent crime drama and we also get to see various locations of 70s New York City.

God I love this man. I'd have so liked to meet him for a chat and a beer. They don't make them like this Gent anymore. R.I.P Telly. 💚🍺🍢

Kojak was 1970s New York. Remaking it in any form is pointless. Abraham Beame and John Lindsay are gone and so is Kojak. Leave it alone.

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas, *THE ETERNAL KOJAK* . R.I.P.

The perfect actor for the role. The supporting cast was equally good.

Wow, our generation is blessed to grew up with this great shows of Kojak, Starky & Hutch, S.W.A.T, Chips, Hawaiian Five O, Baretta, Charles Angels, Gilligan Island, The love boat and I Dream of Jennie to name a few etc

Una serie que me marcó cuando niño. No sólo un policía excelente, sino que un personaje lleno de valores que en el actual tiempo parece que han desaparecido. Grande/sólido Kojak.

One of the best opening titles, and theme tune, ever!!

This was my dad's show I also liked it too

One of the greatest unknown bass players of all time on this!

This theme song epitomizes the 70s vibe

the best Kojak intro for my dollar.

The coolest cop of all time! Loved the hell out of the theme, the show everything!

Some people think that Telly only played himself. But if you look at what he did with Blofeld, nothing but his face is the same as Kojak. He really was a good actor.

great memories of 1977 I was 8yrs old

Kojak was totally cool! Telly MADE the show. I watch it because of him and of course 'CROCKERRRR!!'

Love this! Took me back.

I m 52, from Romania, and in 1970 the Ceausescu's Communist regime was broadcasting this movie on TV (on bw tv sets of course). Other western series that we had: The Saint, Mannix, The Persuaders, Forsyte Saga, Onedin Line, Long hot summer, Invaders, Rich man poor man, Dallas, Cannon, Toma, Columbo, Daktari, Flipper, Fireball XLFive, Gentle Ben, Dennis the menace, Lost in space, Planet of giants....etc etc......

This Music Brings Back So Many Memories. xx

Gritty police series. "NYPD Blue" owes much of its edge to this series.

Takes me right back. This, plus "Hill St. blues" theme and "St. Elsewhere" theme.Oh, and the"Taxi"theme.

Every so often a characterisation by an actor is so good that it becomes completely synonymous to that actor.The sartorial Telly Savalas as Kojak is one such case. Who LYB.

Telly Savalas and the guy who played his right hand man Stavros we're actually brothers

I was born in the 70’s in New York City. Kojak was the man in New York!

Ah, the TV cops of yesterday. Loved me some Kojak and the late Telly Savalas played one of the greatest TV cops of all time. Today's TV cops will never be able to match the TV cops of yesterday. RIP Telly. You played one of the greatest roles in television history.

Telly pioneered the good looking bald guy for generations to come

unforgettable great Kojak!!

I just have to sit down and see a episode of this in 2023...

To just add little more to the excellent knowledge, he also had a No1 record in the UK with "If", a cover of the Bread song written by their frontman David Gates.

1973 must have been a good year for New York!

Wish he would have been alive to see how much praise that the Bond film he was in, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, has gained in the last 30 years.

So classic .. why cant this be 1974 again. Telly was a very good looking man

LOVE THE THEME.

Wow just took a trip back to memory lane, thanx!

No one as Telly Savalas for ever and ever Kojak in my mind.......

Such a shame that TV show theme songs have become such a lost art and have been discarded as a relic of the past.:-(

Unbelievable bass line.

Happy 100th, Telly! My idol

Otra de las joyas de Canal 13. Que buena programación que había en los 80 s,

I hear this music and immediately think I need to get ready to go to bed....

I love Kojak. Great show, great stories. When cops were cops. Cannon etc Doing it. Yes it's TV, but great TV.

Uffff... that bass, men. That bass...

They don’t make ‘em like these anymore.

Nothing like the 70's

unico e innarrivabile

Kojak Hawaii Five-0 Columbo McCloud Ironside Cannon Barnaby Jones Starsky and Hutch and many more take it back to my childhood

Great memories with my dad always watching this

One of my favorite TV shows/music themes!

Still one of the coolest tv-cops ever. And - ever realized how proudly the cams took pictures oft the great big block us-cars ?

Iconic! Who knew his real life brother was in it too?

Kojak was a great TV show and New York was a great place to live back in the 1970s! Not like today!

Oh man! Thanks for posting!

On the titles themselves the 1st ,2nd and 4th image shots of Telly was from the pilot 'The Marcus Nelson Murders' and the 3rd image shot was from Season 1 Episode 3 'One For The Morgue' that got used.

Estos recuerdos..... Kojak era todo.

on tv in 70s uk.awsome