This episode of KOJAK impressed me for the conclusion. So excuse this review if it reveals too much.
Basically in the course of an investigation Kojak is studying a fashionable doctor played by Robert Mandan (best recalled as Chester Tate in SOAP). There is the possibility that the good doctor is feathering his nest with drug dealing. His wife (Elizabeth McRae) happens to be a pitiful woman who is under his thumb, but Kojak is aware that she probably knows much about his operations.
From the start Savalas' Kojak dislikes Mandan - the man is an arrogant bastard. He notes that he is more interested and caring about his various collections of toy soldiers (he collects hundreds of them in sets based on famous military battles) than in his wife, who has health problems. And Kojak slowly gets a feeling of protectiveness towards the lady, who is just too weak to really confront her husband.
HERE IS THE SPOILER: Mandan, realizing that his wife is becoming more than a boring encumbrance to him but a potential threat as a witness poisons her slowly so that he can pass her death off as an illness. At a given point he gives her a sufficient drug overdose to finish the job. But Kojak shows up because he is concerned about the lady, and he suddenly notices something that suggests poisoning. Confronting Mandan he gives him a choice - either give his wife the antidote for the drug poison he used, or the moment she dies Mandan will be arrested for murder. Mandan can't bluff his way out of this - Savalas' fury at him is quite intense, and you can tell that he'd love to blow him away. Trembling, Mandan takes a hypodermic and fills it with another drug, and gives it to his wife. As she begins to rally Savalas eases off, but still arrests Mandan for attempted murder. It was a nice conclusion.
Basically in the course of an investigation Kojak is studying a fashionable doctor played by Robert Mandan (best recalled as Chester Tate in SOAP). There is the possibility that the good doctor is feathering his nest with drug dealing. His wife (Elizabeth McRae) happens to be a pitiful woman who is under his thumb, but Kojak is aware that she probably knows much about his operations.
From the start Savalas' Kojak dislikes Mandan - the man is an arrogant bastard. He notes that he is more interested and caring about his various collections of toy soldiers (he collects hundreds of them in sets based on famous military battles) than in his wife, who has health problems. And Kojak slowly gets a feeling of protectiveness towards the lady, who is just too weak to really confront her husband.
HERE IS THE SPOILER: Mandan, realizing that his wife is becoming more than a boring encumbrance to him but a potential threat as a witness poisons her slowly so that he can pass her death off as an illness. At a given point he gives her a sufficient drug overdose to finish the job. But Kojak shows up because he is concerned about the lady, and he suddenly notices something that suggests poisoning. Confronting Mandan he gives him a choice - either give his wife the antidote for the drug poison he used, or the moment she dies Mandan will be arrested for murder. Mandan can't bluff his way out of this - Savalas' fury at him is quite intense, and you can tell that he'd love to blow him away. Trembling, Mandan takes a hypodermic and fills it with another drug, and gives it to his wife. As she begins to rally Savalas eases off, but still arrests Mandan for attempted murder. It was a nice conclusion.