Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Season

1974

USA

8.4

TV-PG

Carl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Ripper

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

S1 • E2

The Zombie

An old Haitian woman uses voodoo to resurrect her dead grandson to kill the mobsters who murdered him, as well as those like Kolchak who would interfere with her revenge.

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

S1 • E3

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

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.

S1 • E4

The Vampire

Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Kolchak's more interested in tracking down and stopping an extremely vicious female vampire.

S1 • E5

The Werewolf

Kolchak's assigned to interview singles aboard a cruise ship, but finds there's some kind of wolf creature killing passengers during the full moon.

S1 • E6

Firefall

The evil spirit of a murdered arsonist who loved classical music is somehow incinerating his former enemies, while simultaneously trying to take to life again.

S1 • E7

The Devil's Platform

A promising young politician has made a deal with the Devil to gain the ability to kill those running against him in ways made to look like accidents.

S1 • E8

Bad Medicine

A creature which takes animal forms and uses its hypnotic eyes to incapacitate and kill wealthy matrons is stalking Chicago.

S1 • E9

The Spanish Moss Murders

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

S1 • E10

The Energy Eater

Carl discovers that a restless spirit known as Matchemonedo, is killing the patients of a new hospital which is being built over its resting place.

S1 • E11

Horror in the Heights

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

S1 • E12

Mr. R.I.N.G.

Kolchak investigates a US military developed weapon called R.I.N.G; a robot which uses deadly force to defend itself against those who would harm it.

S1 • E13

Primal Scream

Ancient cells discovered in the arctic give rise to a carnivorous lifeform, and a cover-up.

S1 • E14

The Trevi Collection

Kolchak finds a witch in the fashion industry, who's maiming and killing her competitors.

S1 • E15

Chopper

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.

S1 • E16

Demon in Lace

A succubus takes over the bodies of recently deceased young women so it can seduce and kill young college students.

S1 • E17

Legacy of Terror

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

S1 • E18

The Knightly Murders

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

S1 • E19

The Youth Killer

Kolchak (Darren McGavin) discovers a very attractive woman (Cathy Lee Crosby), who maintains her youth and beauty by sacrificing young men and women to ancient Greek gods.

S1 • E20

The Sentry

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.