Secret Snow, Deadly Snow

Nobody liked nailing bad guys better than Lt. Theo Kojak. But there are some you enjoy nailing more than others. One of those is Robert Mandan, a successful plastic surgeon who has a sideline drug dealing and a doormat of a wife in Elizabeth MacRae.

It all starts out with the death of another doctor who caught on to what Mandan was doing. But when a certain hood shoots him it turns out he got him at the moment when he was expiring from being poisoned. There's a good old horse laugh given to Kojak and the Manhattan South Squad over that one.

But it's another doctor, the medical examiner over lunch at Childs that tells Telly Savalas about the paradox and the poisoning and they have to look elsewhere for a murderer. That scene with Savalas and Raymond Singer the ME is really a classic and a look at long gone Childs from the New York scene.

Thayer David is also good as a most deadly drug dealer and Victor Arnold as the most lucky hood.

The confrontation with Mandan and Savalas at the end is literally a heart stopping climax.

Mandan is a villain that the viewer and Kojak will hate with gusto.

More of a drama, at times, than a cops-and-robbers episode, this one is about a husband and wife. The husband is a rich, cold person who enjoys his collection of miniature soldiers and such more than he does his wife and other people. He's also into crime.

His wife, a loser-type who is afraid to say anything either to her husband or to Kojak, gets in big-time trouble when her hubby decides she would be better dead than alive.

Can Kojak figure out that "Dr. Michael Clausen (Robert Mandan) is a killer and he can he save Clausen's wife, Rob (Elizabeth MacRae)? Stay tuned.

This episode stars Robert Mandan as awell respected doctor...but you KNOW he's a complete and total jerk because Mandan always played these sorts of creeps! So what has this evil doctor done? Well, he's dealing drugs and killed his partner! And, he's more than ready to kill others if they get in his way. However, at first the police think someone else shot the victim...not realizing he was poisoned by the 'good doctor'! So, it's up to Kojak to bring the guy to justice...providing he can prove the Doctor is a dealer.

While I don't think this is a great episode...the Doctor's awfulness did help make the show a bit more interesting.