On Oct. 24, 1973, one of the most memorable cop series in the history of the world officially arrived. Starring Garden City native Telly Savalas, with the indomitable dome and incisive wit, "Kojak" ...

An online campaign launched this week to rename a Duluth street for actor Telly Savalas, the bald-headed, crime-solving, lollipop-sucking star of TV's "Kojak" in the 1970s. "Telly Savalas lived in ...

That’s what Ving Rhames will soon be saying, as star of a potential wheel of “Kojak” movies for USA Network. Rhames has agreed to take the title role, Lt. Theo Kojak, in a re-envisioning of the ...

Who loves ya, baby? I’m prepared to believe that Ving Rhames might, with his earring, lollipop, and jazz licks. I was never entirely convinced that Telly Savalas did, in the original Kojak. Mostly, ...

Universal Studios is gearing up its “Kojak” movie with playwright Philip Gawthorne on board for Vin Diesel’s bigscreen version of the Telly Savalas cop series. Gawthorne recently signed on to write ...

“Who loves ya, baby?” Ving Rhames does. Rhames has signed with USA Network to a weekly series of “Kojak,” debuting in March, Bonnie Hammer, president of USA Network and the Sci Fi Channel, said ...

Telly Savalas returns as the cop from his 1973-78 series to investigate the murders of Russian émigrés. Suzanne Pleshette, Max von Sydow. Buchardt: Herbert Berghof. Elissa: Betsy Aidem. Lustig: Alan ...

The writer's 1973 Emmy-winning film The Marcus-Nelson Murders was the first time New York detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas, was seen on TV screens. Kojak went on to be a long-running ...