Since today is the anniversary of Virginia Vestoff's final appearance on DS-- 34 years ago today (she appears in the home page montage in Episode #1192 for Jan. 19 and #1193 for Jan. 20)-- I thought I'd finally get those screen caps posted from her 1977 Kojak two-parter. I don't know about the rest of you, but this is her only dramatic appearance that I've seen that was set in modern day.
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Re: Susan Sullivan, Virginia Vestoff on Kojak eps in Southern California :
I'd love to see a couple of captures of the fabulously talented Virginia Vestoff on that show. Hope it was a good role for her.
It was a terrific role-- she was the original desperate housewife. And as was the case with Grayson Hall, she and Telly Savalas had wonderful chemistry.
"Kojak's Days" is a classic and was unusual in that it depicted what happens to him in a typical day, from breakfast to [a late] dinner, and as always his private life and professional duties collided. Since it involves several cases instead of just one, the cast was untypically large; the eps starred Maud Adams (Selby's "Girl in Blue") as Kojak's girlfriend; also William Hurt, Robert Picardo, and others. Here are caps from Part I. Enjoy!
Kojak enters, shouting about his parking space while carrying a little girl whose wealthy father
(Michael Storm, James' brother) was murdered by her mother while the girl hid in the house.
The mother ran away and is suicidal.
Helen: "Who's that, Attila the hun?"
"If you had any guts you'd meet me in an alley on even terms. I told ya,
I didn't roll nobody. I told ya, I'm an entertainer."
"Hi. What's a nice kid like you doing in a dump like this?"
Kojak learns she was arrested in a bar for rolling a tourist for $500.
The child is played by Danielle Brisebois.
Since he's hesitant about handing the girl over to a children's shelter (better
"the warm arms of a hooker"), he asks Helen to babsit as a favor.
(continued in post#2)