Kojak: It's Always Something

Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer... - www.wikipedia.org

Andre Braugher is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Thomas Searles in the film Glory, as the fiery detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993 to 1998 and again in a 2000 made-for-TV movie, and as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the TNT show Men of a Certain Age...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: Three Men and a Baby, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Parallax View, Home Improvement and Greased Lightning

Son of Greek immigrants. Soldier during World War II. Studied psychology. Worked as journalist for ABC News. The bald-headed actor played character roles, often as sadistic or psychotic types. He became a TV favorite in the 1970s when his role as Det. Theo Kojak in the TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders was expanded into the gritty Kojak TV series, lasting from 1973-78.

Credits include: Kojak, All Night Long, Crash Landing, F/X: The Series and Beast of the Bering sea