Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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.

Genre: HorrorMysteryThriller

Cast:Darren McGavinSimon OaklandJack GrinnageRuth McDevittCraig R. BaxleyJohn FiedlerCarol Ann SusiDon MantoothDennis McCarthyKeith WalkerBill DeizKeenan WynnRamon BieriRichard KielNed GlassVince HowardAlyscia MaxwellAlice Backes


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Ripper

Fri, Sep 13, 1974

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

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Zombie

Fri, Sep 20, 1974

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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...

Fri, Sep 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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Vampire

Fri, Oct 4, 1974

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

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Werewolf

Fri, Nov 1, 1974

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.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Firefall

Fri, Nov 8, 1974

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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Devil's Platform

Fri, Nov 15, 1974

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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Bad Medicine

Fri, Nov 29, 1974

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

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Spanish Moss Murders

Fri, Dec 6, 1974

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

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Energy Eater

Fri, Dec 13, 1974

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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Horror in the Heights

Fri, Dec 20, 1974

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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Mr. R.I.N.G.

Fri, Jan 10, 1975

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.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Primal Scream

Fri, Jan 17, 1975

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

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Trevi Collection

Fri, Jan 24, 1975

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

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Chopper

Fri, Jan 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.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Demon in Lace

Fri, Feb 7, 1975

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

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Legacy of Terror

Fri, Feb 14, 1975

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

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Knightly Murders

Fri, Mar 7, 1975

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

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Youth Killer

Fri, Mar 14, 1975

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.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Sentry

Fri, Mar 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.