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What is Kojak's signature catchphrase?

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The 1970s gave us some truly iconic TV detectives, but none had quite the swagger of Lieutenant Theo Kojak prowling the streets of New York City. Telly Savalas played the bald, lollipop-sucking cop from 1973 to 1978, and he turned what could have been just another police procedural into something genuinely cool. But there was one line that became his signature phrase and outlasted the show itself. What was Kojak's catchphrase?