Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Season 1
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a television series that originally aired from 1974 to 1975 on ABC. The drama, mystery, and sci-fi and fantasy program follows Carl Kolchak, a hard-bitten investigative reporter with a nose for news and an open mind. Kolchak works as a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, which is also described as a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design, Kolchak becomes a tr
Season overview
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a television series that originally aired from 1974 to 1975 on ABC. The drama, mystery, and sci-fi and fantasy program follows Carl Kolchak, a hard-bitten investigative reporter with a nose for news and an open mind. Kolchak works as a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, which is also described as a Chicago newspaper.
Through more accident than design, Kolchak becomes a trouble magnet for situations involving the supernatural. He turns his investigative skills to homicides and all manner of legendary creatures, including vampires, werewolves, and zombies. Despite his investigations into these extraordinary occurrences, Kolchak always fails in the end to convince his skeptical editor, Tony Vincenzo, that the stories are not simply products of Kolchak's own overworked imagination.
Episodes
The Ripper
Sep 13, 1974 · 60 min
A serial killer who preys on women haunts Chicago, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is in fact the original Jack the Ripper, a seemingly immortal killer who has killed
The Zombie
Sep 20, 1974 · 60 min
A voodoo priestess animates her dead son to take revenge on the gangsters that killed him.
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Sep 27, 1974 · 60 min
A bizarre alien presence invisibly sweeps through Chicago, killing a petty thief and a UFO nut. The alien or aliens have the strength of a hurricane, generate a massive electromagn
The Vampire
Oct 4, 1974 · 60 min
Catherine Rawlins, a female victim of Janos Skorzeny (the vampire from the original Night Stalker TV movie) is accidentally resurrected outside Las Vegas, and makes her way to Los
The Werewolf
Nov 1, 1974 · 60 min
Bernhardt Stieglitz, a NATO soldier bitten by a wolf, leaves a string of murder victims behind him. When Vincenzo is forced to abort his long-awaited vacation and report on the las
Firefall
Nov 8, 1974 · 60 min
A series of mysterious deaths plague the life of conductor Ryder Bond. In each case, the victim is incinerated by supernaturally hot flames. As Kolchak investigates, he finds out t
The Devil's Platform
Nov 15, 1974 · 60 min
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.
Bad Medicine
Nov 29, 1974 · 60 min
A series of suicides among high-society matrons coincides with a bizarre jewel theft by a towering Indian who mysteriously disappears when cornered. Kolchak investigates and finds
The Spanish Moss Murders
Dec 6, 1974 · 60 min
A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim w
The Energy Eater
Dec 13, 1974 · 60 min
Several Indian construction workers are killed during high-rise work on a new hospital. They leave the job, and the hospital is completed. However, a series of strange electrocutio
Horror in the Heights
Dec 20, 1974 · 60 min
Kolchak’s investigation of a series of grisly deaths in a once-plush neighborhood, leads him to a creature who lures its victims by making itself appear to them as someone they kno
Mr. R.I.N.G.
Jan 10, 1975 · 60 min
Kolchak writes an obituary for a deceased scientist, but soon becomes involved in further investigation when no one can give him a straight answer on how the scientist died. Meanwh
Primal Scream
Jan 17, 1975 · 60 min
In a oil company's laboratory, the air conditioning fails, and a primate creature attacks a scientist. The creature, and others like it, begin going on a rampage throughout Chicago
The Trevi Collection
Jan 24, 1975 · 60 min
A fashion industry spy is thrown to his death from a room filled with nothing but mannequins as Carl looks on from the street below. This is but the first in a series of strange mu
Chopper
Jan 31, 1975 · 60 min
The strange disappearance of an antique motorcycle is the first indication of trouble. What follows are a rash of murders where each victim is decapitated with superhuman force by
Demon in Lace
Feb 7, 1975 · 60 min
On a college campus, young men are dying of heart attacks. According to witnesses, they are last seen with young women who apparently died shortly before meeting the men. When Kolc
Legacy of Terror
Feb 14, 1975 · 60 min
Physically fit specimens (an Air Force pilot, a football player, a cop) are all being targeted for a grisly death: their hearts are being cut from their chests while they're still
The Knightly Murders
Mar 7, 1975 · 60 min
Various Chicago citizenry are being killed with medieval weaponry. Upon investigating, Kolchak finds that they were all tied to the conversion of a small museum into a disco. It tu
The Youth Killer
Mar 14, 1975 · 60 min
Young swinging patrons of an exclusive dating service are turning up, dead of old age. The police don't believe they are the same persons, but Kolchak investigates and discovers th
The Sentry
Mar 28, 1975 · 60 min
The government is keen to hush up a series of mysterious deaths at the Merrymount Institute, an underground archival facility. When Carl investigates, he determines that the victim