Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

"A hard-bitten reporter with a nose for news and an open mind."

7.6/10 1974 1 Season 20 Episodes Ended

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
The Ripper
60 min 1974

A serial killer who preys on women haunts Chicago, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is in fact the original …

S1E2
E2
The Zombie
60 min 1974

A voodoo priestess animates her dead son to take revenge on the gangsters that killed him.

S1E3
E3
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
60 min 1974

A bizarre alien presence invisibly sweeps through Chicago, killing a petty thief and a UFO nut. The alien or aliens have…

S1E4
E4
The Vampire
60 min 1974

Catherine Rawlins, a female victim of Janos Skorzeny (the vampire from the original Night Stalker TV movie) is accidenta…

S1E5
E5
The Werewolf
60 min 1974

Bernhardt Stieglitz, a NATO soldier bitten by a wolf, leaves a string of murder victims behind him. When Vincenzo is for…

S1E6
E6
Firefall
60 min 1974

A series of mysterious deaths plague the life of conductor Ryder Bond. In each case, the victim is incinerated by supern…

S1E7
E7
The Devil's Platform
60 min 1974

Kolchak discovers a young rising politician, has made a deal with the Devil to murder off his competition through incide…

S1E8
E8
Bad Medicine
60 min 1974

A series of suicides among high-society matrons coincides with a bizarre jewel theft by a towering Indian who mysterious…

S1E9
E9
The Spanish Moss Murders
60 min 1974

A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Mo…

S1E10
E10
The Energy Eater
60 min 1974

Several Indian construction workers are killed during high-rise work on a new hospital. They leave the job, and the hosp…

S1E11
E11
Horror in the Heights
60 min 1974

Kolchak’s investigation of a series of grisly deaths in a once-plush neighborhood, leads him to a creature who lures its…

S1E12
E12
Mr. R.I.N.G.
60 min 1975

Kolchak writes an obituary for a deceased scientist, but soon becomes involved in further investigation when no one can …

S1E13
E13
Primal Scream
60 min 1975

In a oil company's laboratory, the air conditioning fails, and a primate creature attacks a scientist. The creature, and…

S1E14
E14
The Trevi Collection
60 min 1975

A fashion industry spy is thrown to his death from a room filled with nothing but mannequins as Carl looks on from the s…

S1E15
E15
Chopper
60 min 1975

The strange disappearance of an antique motorcycle is the first indication of trouble. What follows are a rash of murder…

S1E16
E16
Demon in Lace
60 min 1975

On a college campus, young men are dying of heart attacks. According to witnesses, they are last seen with young women w…

S1E17
E17
Legacy of Terror
60 min 1975

Physically fit specimens (an Air Force pilot, a football player, a cop) are all being targeted for a grisly death: their…

S1E18
E18
The Knightly Murders
60 min 1975

Various Chicago citizenry are being killed with medieval weaponry. Upon investigating, Kolchak finds that they were all …

S1E19
E19
The Youth Killer
60 min 1975

Young swinging patrons of an exclusive dating service are turning up, dead of old age. The police don't believe they are…

S1E20
E20
The Sentry
60 min 1975

The government is keen to hush up a series of mysterious deaths at the Merrymount Institute, an underground archival fac…

Cast

Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin
Carl Kolchak
Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland
Tony Vincenzo
Jack Grinnage
Jack Grinnage
Ron Updyke

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