Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)

A newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago.

Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt


20Season 1

The Sentry

March 28, 1975

Kolchak tries to find some kind of reptilian monster that has been killing construction workers after they open a new tunnel, nearly 2 miles underground.

19Season 1

The Youth Killer

March 14, 1975

Kolchak discovers a very attractive woman who maintains her youth and beauty by sacrificing young men and women to ancient Greek gods.

18Season 1

The Knightly Murders

March 7, 1975

Plans to turn a failing medieval museum into a party center animates the bewitched black armor of an infamously misanthropic knight.

17Season 1

Legacy of Terror

February 14, 1975

Reporter Carl Kolchak investigates Chicago citizens having their hearts cut out by Aztecs.

16Season 1

Demon in Lace

February 7, 1975

A female demon, takes over the bodies recently killed young women, so she can seduce handsome young men and scare them to death.

15Season 1

Chopper

January 31, 1975

Land development disturbs the final resting place of a headless, sword-wielding cyclist who hunts down and beheads the rival gang bikers who killed him.

14Season 1

The Trevi Collection

January 24, 1975

Kolchak finds an evil witch in the high fashion industry, who is maiming and killing her competitors.

13Season 1

Primal Scream

January 17, 1975

Ancient cells discovered in the arctic by oil men give rise to a carnivorous, evolutionary ancestor and a corporate cover-up.

12Season 1

Mr. R.I.N.G.

January 10, 1975

Kolchak investigates a US military backed project called R.I.N.G. (Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia), which is a robot that uses deadly force to defend itself against those who would harm it.

11Season 1

Horror in the Heights

December 20, 1974

Residents of Roosevelt Heights are being caught off guard, and killed, by a flesh eating demon with the ability to appear as a person they know and trust.

10Season 1

The Energy Eater

December 13, 1974

Carl finds a spirit like monster is eating up the structure of a new hospital and draining patients of their protein.

09Season 1

The Spanish Moss Murders

December 6, 1974

A research experiment in dream deprivation produces a corporeal Cajun boogeyman covered in Spanish moss.

08Season 1

Bad Medicine

November 29, 1974

A Native American legend materializes in Chicago, and Carl discovers it when he investigates the mysterious deaths of two wealthy society matrons who possessed priceless jewels. When the murders increase, Kolchak learns that the force at work is know as The Diablero, a being cursed to roam the Earth in search of valuable gems.

07Season 1

The Devil's Platform

November 15, 1974

Kolchak discovers a young rising politician, has made a deal with the Devil to murder off his competition through incidents made to look like accidents.

06Season 1

Firefall

November 8, 1974

Kolchak discovers the murdered spirit of a gangster is incinerating his former enemies, and is trying to take over the body of a music conductor.

05Season 1

The Werewolf

November 1, 1974

Kolchak is on assignment to interview singles aboard a cruise ship, and finds out some kind of wolf creature is killing passengers during the full moon.

04Season 1

The Vampire

October 4, 1974

Carl is determined to kill a beautiful, but extremely vicious, female vampire unknowingly unearthed by a road construction crew.

03Season 1

They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...

September 27, 1974

Kolchak connects a string of bizarre thefts committed by a powerful invisible entity that targets metal deposits to a string of suspicious animal and human deaths connected by the fact that the victims' bone marrow is missing.

02Season 1

The Zombie

September 20, 1974

An old black woman uses voodoo to resurrect her dead son to kill those who murdered him, and to kill those like Kolchak who would interfere.

01Season 1

The Ripper

September 13, 1974

Carl may be up against the original Jack the Ripper, a black-caped, bullet-resistant, super-human killer of women.