Ron Rifkin, Robert Alda.
- Slow to get started.
- Quite wordy. Particularly the first half. Maintaining interest is a minor struggle.
- Lots of clunky directing and voice dubbing doesn’t help. Again, in the first half.
- Story does take an unexpected (and enjoyable) twist at the midway point. Things get much better after that.
- The ending doesn’t pack the emotional punch of similar (and better) episodes of Kojak.
- But, it’s still a perfect example of the type of Kojak ending I love: something bad has just happened (usually involving unnecessary death and/or suffering) and our hero carries the weight of it all on his shoulders. I don’t think many shows were doing conclusions like that back in 1975.
7/10
