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...Kodiak, for instance (not to be too confused with Kojak), is an Alaska state trooper (Clint Walker), outfitted for trapping his man properly: snowmobile, snowshoes and icy determination. ABC's Nakia (Robert Banyon Forster) is a hot-tempered Navajo deputy sheriff in New Mexico, evidently intended to be confused with both the cult-film heroics of Billy Jack and the mystical-religious cant of Kung...
...seemed to fall somewhere between these conflicting judgments. Ratings by A.C. Nielsen the day after the first session showed that ABC stations in New York City and Los Angeles initially doubled their normal audiences-but that New York viewers began switching to reruns of CBS's Cannon and Kojak after the first hour. CBS's share of the prime-time audience during its Thursday coverage was lower than ABC's the night before. Whatever the ratings, the live-TV coverage performed a valuable national service in giving the country at large a look at its Representatives...
Divorced. Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas, 51, mean-looking, smooth-skulled film actor (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Dirty Dozen) and television star (Kojak, the Polish sleuth), and Marilynn Savalas, 34; after 13 years of marriage, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...FRIDAY: Kojak and the Marcus-Nelson Murders. 1973. Pilot for the CBS detective series "Kojak" features Telly Savalas trying to save a teenager from a railroaded murder conviction. I have yet to see "Kojak," but I have a friend who swears it's tremendous. Check out his taste. CH. 7. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...less by accident. An agent asked him to find someone who could play an East European judge on television's Armstrong Circle Theater. Although totally untrained, he auditioned for the part on a whim and got it. "I became an actor out of curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series...