A mystery about an unseen, psychotic strangler who is stalking the corridors of a hospital. Typical killer on the loose story which lacks a bit of excitement but it's made watchable by Zohra Lampert's performance as a mental health counsellor who is too dedicated and Telly "who loves ya baby" Savalas is always a treat to watch with his sympathetic yet no nonsense Kojak.
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Fun, but . . .
schwa8827 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Wow, so they can force a drug into somebody? That part seemed dystopian future stuff, not 1978. But maybe that's how it was back then.
This was an enjoyable episode. Not sure I got the ending. The lady seemed to want to be with Kojak, not comb-over weird doctor guy. But maybe aesthetics were different in the seventies.
BUT, The main thing I am noticing in this episode is that this is I don't get this is in New York, The entrance to the hospital in no way is a New York entrance. Even the street scenes do not look like NYC.
At one point, I thought oh they must have switched the setting to LA because this looks like LA, but apparently, not. There were plenty of shows that mastered the New York look in the seventies, and I don't get why this one couldn't. Otherwise, enjoyable, and Kojak is still very sexy.
P. S., I almost missed the young Ken Kercheval, pre-Dallas, as a mental patient.
This was an enjoyable episode. Not sure I got the ending. The lady seemed to want to be with Kojak, not comb-over weird doctor guy. But maybe aesthetics were different in the seventies.
BUT, The main thing I am noticing in this episode is that this is I don't get this is in New York, The entrance to the hospital in no way is a New York entrance. Even the street scenes do not look like NYC.
At one point, I thought oh they must have switched the setting to LA because this looks like LA, but apparently, not. There were plenty of shows that mastered the New York look in the seventies, and I don't get why this one couldn't. Otherwise, enjoyable, and Kojak is still very sexy.
P. S., I almost missed the young Ken Kercheval, pre-Dallas, as a mental patient.
Method in the victims he selects
bkoganbing16 April 2013
This was one episode of Kojak where I had to wonder about the state of law enforcement in Manhattan South. Some maniac has committed two murders, a doctor and a nurse in a prominent hospital and the heat must really have been intense because the entire squad goes undercover at the hospital. Crocker becomes an intern, Stavros a janitor, etc. Captain McNeill was left all alone to answer the phones and maybe do all the other cases coming up.
As it turns out there is method in the victims he selects and once that is figured out the capture does become a close run thing because the squad does catch our killer right in the act with another victim. Helping out is hospital staff chief Michael Lerner and mental health counselor Zohra Lampert. She particularly takes it all personally as it is obvious it is one of the people she counsels and she feels it is her failure. And she and Kojak feel a mutual attraction.
Young Meeno Peluce delivers a very nice performance as a kid who is undergoing surgery and who also gets attached to Telly Savalas. But I could not buy the whole squad going undercover and leaving the rest of the crime in New York unattended.
As it turns out there is method in the victims he selects and once that is figured out the capture does become a close run thing because the squad does catch our killer right in the act with another victim. Helping out is hospital staff chief Michael Lerner and mental health counselor Zohra Lampert. She particularly takes it all personally as it is obvious it is one of the people she counsels and she feels it is her failure. And she and Kojak feel a mutual attraction.
Young Meeno Peluce delivers a very nice performance as a kid who is undergoing surgery and who also gets attached to Telly Savalas. But I could not buy the whole squad going undercover and leaving the rest of the crime in New York unattended.
I wanted someone to make me better and they didn't
kapelusznik1814 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS**** Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas, is on the hunt for a psycho serial killer who's haunting this city hospital by killing it's both doctors and nurses whom he holds responsible for his deteriorating mental condition. It's Dr. Ellen Page, Zohra Zampert, the head of the psychiatric department who feels that the killer is one of her patients who's taking it out on her and the staff for not curing him of his mental illness. Despite being assigned to find the killer Let. Kojac takes a shine for Ellen and seems more interested to take her to dinner then finding who's been murdering the hospital staff.
As we soon find out that killer is in fact one of the patients in the hospital making it easy for him to get away with his crimes in being able to blend in with the woodwork or furniture as well as those there in the hospital. He's also hip in knowing his way around and whom to target. It's when Let. Kojak taking time off in his pursuit of Dr. Ellen Page finds a link to the killers victims that he stops him cold-together with Det. Crocker & Det. Starvos,Kevin Dobson & "Kid Brother" George Savalas-in his tracks. The man was nuts to begin with, as we saw throughout the entire episode,but the fact that he wasn't cured of being nuts is the reason he took it out on the hospital staff who in fact did their best to cure him!
There's also a nice little side story in all this with young 8 year old Chris, Meeno Peluce, who's to get operated on whom Let. Kojak takes an interest in. Giving his his detective gold shield as a lucky charm Kojak has the boy feel confident enough to go through the very delicate operation and survive it with flying colors. As for Dr. Page whom Kojak is hot to trot for he loses his chance to take her out to dinner to Dr. Samuel Fine,Michael Lerner,one of the killer's intended victims. Not that he's anywhere as attractive as the drop dead gorgeous looking Let. Theo Kojac but that he asked her first for a dinner date!
As we soon find out that killer is in fact one of the patients in the hospital making it easy for him to get away with his crimes in being able to blend in with the woodwork or furniture as well as those there in the hospital. He's also hip in knowing his way around and whom to target. It's when Let. Kojak taking time off in his pursuit of Dr. Ellen Page finds a link to the killers victims that he stops him cold-together with Det. Crocker & Det. Starvos,Kevin Dobson & "Kid Brother" George Savalas-in his tracks. The man was nuts to begin with, as we saw throughout the entire episode,but the fact that he wasn't cured of being nuts is the reason he took it out on the hospital staff who in fact did their best to cure him!
There's also a nice little side story in all this with young 8 year old Chris, Meeno Peluce, who's to get operated on whom Let. Kojak takes an interest in. Giving his his detective gold shield as a lucky charm Kojak has the boy feel confident enough to go through the very delicate operation and survive it with flying colors. As for Dr. Page whom Kojak is hot to trot for he loses his chance to take her out to dinner to Dr. Samuel Fine,Michael Lerner,one of the killer's intended victims. Not that he's anywhere as attractive as the drop dead gorgeous looking Let. Theo Kojac but that he asked her first for a dinner date!
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