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In-Jokes in S01E13


In S01E13, Death is Not a Passing Grade, which stars James Woods, there is a list of items from a pawn shop seen briefly. This list is full of in-jokes.

George Savalas' name is later seen VERY close-up which people could have easily recognized when watching the show's original broadcast; it's not one of those "blink and you'll miss it" moments.

http://www.kojak.tv/season1/episode13/pawnshop.jpg

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Very interesting. Thanks for discussing this!

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There is more trivia connected with this show:

Kojak consults a piece of paper which has information about Caz (the James Woods character) plus his family that reveals a lot more about Caz than one might expect. A similar sheet is seen for Jonas Wilkins (Mwako Cumbuka), another student in the class, dated January 14, 1975 and prepared by the "Identification Division." Caz's sheet contains several errors. It says his birthday is 12/11/41. However, if the broadcast date of the show is contemporary with events in the show, Caz would be 32 years old. It is more likely Caz was born in 1951, but if he was born on 12/11/51, then he would be 22 years old on his birthday in 1973. When Stavros hands the sheet to Kojak, he says that Caz is 23. He also says that Caz's father stole $4,800, whereas the information sheet says the amount was $2,800. Stavros says that the "crap game" which Caz's father busted was 20 years ago, but according to the sheet, this took place on March 19, 1956, which would have been 17 years before. Kojak says that when the father disappeared, "The kid had to be two or three years old," but he would have been four.

There are also errors in Jonas's sheet, saying his birth date is 2/6/42 and he is 22 years old. If the show date is the same as the real date, you have to also wonder why Jonas's sheet was prepared almost two weeks before.

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If you haven't done so already, you might want to post user reviews for the individual episodes and put the trivia in those. Not everyone who watches an episode reads this message board. Your information is interesting and valuable.

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Thanks for your words of encouragement, but I am already doing that on my own WWW site devoted to the show. 

It's going to take a while for me to finish all the shows, though...

http://www.kojak.tv

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Great. Thanks for the link. I will check it out this weekend when I have more time to devote to it.

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Great stuff, Mike. I love how you are doing it, adding in all the interesting pieces of trivia.

I've only seen the first three seasons, but after I watch 4 & 5, I will probably go back and rewatch the earlier stuff to compare my thoughts with what you have written.

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