Kojak (TV Series) Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred (1975) User Reviews

Stavros gets a line

[bkoganbing · 8/10 · 8 January 2013]

This fine Kojak episode begins with the ever intrepid plant loving Stavros on stakeout with Saperstein listening to a wire on an informant with Dick O'Neil as one of the talkers. They don't learn enough, but when a night watchman interrupts the plotters these two go into action. The informant is wounded and O'Neil brought into custody.

It's a heist that's being planned with the robbers intending to go in disguised as a paint crew working overtime at a very swank hotel. It's richest resident is dowager Rose Marie who has enough in jewelry to justify the heist in and of itself.

The planner is Robert Loggia and O'Neil whom Stavros and Saperstein got the tip on in the first place is the fence. Loggia gets a triple A for chutzpah actually walks in to Manhattan South pretending to be a lawyer to calm a nervous O'Neil. That might have fooled anyone but Telly Savalas.

To see how it all comes down check this Kojak episode out, one of the better ones they did. Worth seeing just for how they got the loot out of the hotel.

A Holmes-Type Mystery

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 20 March 2012]

What does a robbery of a paint truck at its warehouse have to do with a major crime? Well....a lot, as it turns out.

This episode almost reminded me of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with a lot of figuring out to do by Kojak and the boys. In the end, it comes down to solving "What do the numbers 2-4-6-for-200 mean?

On the road to that we get some interesting performances by a couple of well-known actors, such as Robert Loggia, Dick O'Neill and Rose Marie. Loggia, who began his career a little late at the age of 26, and has always been credible playing gangsters.

Meanwhile, the always-spunky Rose Marie is still with us at the age of 90. I think she'll always be remembered best in her role as "Sally Rogers" on "The Dick Van Dyke Show."