Kolchak: The Night Stalker Episode Guide

The Night Stalker

First aired: Jan/11/1972
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Carol Lynley (Gail Foster), Ralph Meeker (Bernie Jenks), Claude Akins (Sheriff Warren A. Butcher), Charles McGraw (Police Chief Ed Masterson), Kent Smith (District Attorney Tom Paine), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Mickey Crawrford), Stanley Adams (Fred Hurley), Larry Linville (Dr. Robert Makurji), Jordan Rhodes (Dr. John O'Brien), Barry Atwater (Janos Skorzeny), Buddy Joe Hooker (Intern), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Brandon), Edward Faulkner (Las Vegas Policeman)

Investigative reporter Carl Kolchak is working in Las Vegas when a series of grisly serial killings of young women occur. Looking into the murders, Kolchak soon discovers that the killer has been draining the blood from his victims, and may in fact be a vampire.

The Night Strangler

First aired: Jan/16/1973
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Dan Curtis
Guest star: Jo Ann Pflug (Louise Harper), Scott Brady (Capt. Schubert), Wally Cox (Titus Berry), Margaret Hamilton (Professor Crabwell), Al Lewis (Tramp), John Carradine (Llewellyn Crossbinder), Nina Wayne (Charisma Beauty), Virginia Peters (Wilma Krankheimer), Richard Anderson (Dr. Richard Malcolm), Kate Murtagh (Janie Watkins), Ivor Francis (Dr. Webb), Diane Shalet (Joyce Gabriel), Anne Randall (Policewoman Sheila), Francoise Birnheim (Restaurant Woman), Regina Parton (Regina Parton), George Tobias (Jimmy Stackhaus (deleted scenes)), George DiCenzo (Underground Tour Guide), Bill McLean (Charlie The Bartender), Bill Speidel (Himself)

After the events in Las Vegas, a down-and-out Kolchak manages to get work in Seattle with his old boss Tony Vincenzo. However, a new series of serial killings plague the city, and this time a centuries-old alchemist is responsible for the series of grisly murders.

1 :01x01 - The Ripper

First aired: Sep/13/1974
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
Director: Allen Baron
Guest star: Ruth McDevitt (Elderly Woman), Donald Mantooth (2nd Policeman), Dulcie Jordan (Driver's Wife), Lilyan MacBride (2nd Museum Patron), Ike Jones (Mail Boy), Gwyn Karon (Cheryl), Denise Dillaway (Debbie Fielder), Roberta Collins (Police Detective Susan Cortazzo), Mickey Gilbert (The Ripper), Lavina Dawson (1st Museum Patron), Beatrice Colen (Jane Plumm), Ken Lynch (Captain R.M. Warren), Ivor Francis (Wax Museum Curator), Mews Small (Masseuse), Cathy Paine (Ellen), Clint Young (Driver)

After four young women are murdered, Kolchak sees some eerie coincidences to the Whitechapel killings of 1888 and must race to find and save the fifth victim from "Jack the Ripper".

2 :01x02 - The Zombie

First aired: Sep/20/1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Guest star: J. Pat O'Malley (Cemetary Caretaker), Roland Bob Harris (Poppy), Gary Baxley (Willie Pike), Hank Calia (Albert Berg), Chuck Waters (Jerry), Paulene Myers (Mamalois "Marie Juliette" Edmonds), Val Bisoglio (Victor Friese), Joseph Sirola (Benjamin Sposato), Charles Aidman (Capt. Leo Winwood), Ben Frommer (The Monk), Antonio Fargas (Sweetstick Weldon), John Fiedler (Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler), Carol Ann Susi (Monique Marmelstein), Scatman Crothers (Uncle Filemon), Earl Faison (Francois Edmonds)

Someone is using a twice dead Haitian named Francois Edmunds to put a hurt on the mob, but Kolchak's the only one who believes the man is a zombie.

3 :01x03 - They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be

First aired: Sep/27/1974
Director: Allen Baron
Guest star: Gary Glanz (Keeter Hudson), Tony Rizzo (Leon Van Heusen), Dennis McCarthy (Security Guard Riley), Fritz Feld (Waiter), Len Lesser (Crowley), Phil Leeds (Howard Gough), Rudy Challenger (Stanley Wedemyer), Maureen Arthur (Woman Speaker), John Fiedler (Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler), Carol Ann Susi (Monique Marmelstein), Dick Van Patten (Alfred Brindle), James Gregory (Capt. Quill), Mary Wickes (Dr. Bess Winestock)

Animals missing from the zoo, lead ingots, stereo parts and electrical equipment stolen by invisible thieves, and a strange black substance found at the location of each incident lead Kolchak to one conclusion, a UFO.

4 :01x04 - The Vampire

First aired: Oct/04/1974
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Bill Baldwin (Reporter #1), Stuart Nisbet (Hotel Manager), Betty Endicott (Linda Courtner), Tony Epper (Andrew Garth), Scott Douglas (Reporter #2), Alyscia Maxwell (Reporter #3), Howard Gray (Bellboy), Biene Blechscmidt (Elena Munoz), Rand Warren (Stacker Schumaker), Anne Whitfield (Girl), Jan Murray (Ichabod Grace), Larry Storch (Jim "The Swede" Brytowski), Kathleen Nolan (Faye Kruger), Suzanne Charney (Catherine Rawlins), William Daniels (Lieutenant Jack Matteo), John Doucette (Deputy Sample), Milt Kamen (Gingrich), Army Archerd (Man), Selma Archerd (Woman), Noel de Souza (Chandra)

Kolchak convinces Tony to send him to Los Angeles to cover a story about a transcendental meditation guru, but he's using the trip as a cover so he can investigate a series of murders in which the victims have been completely drained of their blood.

5 :01x05 - The Werewolf

First aired: Nov/01/1974
Writer: David Chase, Paul Playdon
Director: Allen Baron
Guest star: Eric Braeden (Bernhardt Stieglitz), Nita Talbot (Paula Griffin), Lyn Guild (Lois Prysock), Ray Ballard (Bernie Efron), Heath Jobes (Radio Man), Steve Marlow (Sailor), Jimmy Hawkins (Jay Remy (as Jim Hawkins)), Dort Clark (Gribbs), Barry Cahill (Dr. Alan Ross), Lewis Charles (George Levitt), Jackie Russell (Wendy), Henry Jones (Captain Julian Wells), Bob Hastings (Hallem), Dick Gautier (Mel Tarter)

Just as Tony's about to take his first vacation in five years, auditors show up at the INS newsroom. Tony decides to send Carl in his place on the condition that Kolchak come back with a few stories about the ship and its single's cruise, not knowing that a werewolf will be along for the trip.

6 :01x06 - Firefall

First aired: Nov/08/1974
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Carol Veazie (Mrs. Sherman), Gary Glanz (Bert, The Stage Manager), Marcus Smith (Young Man), Martha Manor (Woman), Virginia Vincent (Mrs. Markoff), Lenore Kasdorf (Doctor), Alice Backes (Dr. Shropell), David Doyle (Cardinale), Joshua Shelley (George Mason), Patricia Estrin (Felicia Porter), Carol Ann Susi (Monique Marmelstein), Fred Beir (Ryder Bond), Madlyn Rhue (Marie), Philip Carey (Sgt. Mayer)

Several members of the Great Lakes Symphony are seeing a mysterious doppelganger of the conductor, Ryder Bond, and then apparently dying from "spontaneous combustion".

7 :01x07 - The Devil's Platform

First aired: Nov/15/1974
Director: Allen Baron
Guest star: Dick Patterson (Stephen Wald), Bill Welsh (TV Announcer), Bruce Powers (Policeman), Sam Edwards (Mailman), Ross Sherman (Policeman #2), Ike Jones (Maintenance Engineer), John Dennis (Maintenance Engineer #2), Keith Walker (TV Reporter), Robert DoQui (Park Policeman), Ellen Weston (Lorraine Palmer), Julie Gregg (Susan Driscoll), Tom Skerritt (Robert W. Palmer), William Mims (Officer Hale), Jeanne Cooper (Dr. Kline), John Myhers (Senator James Talbot), Stanley Adams (Louie The Bartender)

While being hounded by a devilish dog with a Satanic medallion on its collar, Kolchak tries to piece together the puzzle of a series of mysterious deaths surrounding a young politician.

8 :01x08 - Bad Medicine

First aired: Nov/29/1974
Writer: John Huff, L. Ford Neale
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Guest star: Riza Royce (Mrs. Charlotte Elaine Van Piet), Troy Melton (Desk Officer), Walt Davis (Policeman #2), Dick Geary (Auction Guard), Madilyn Clark (Hostess), Lois January (Mrs. Rhonda June Marsky), Ernie Robinson (Chauffer), Arthur Wong (Oriental Man), Bob Golden (Police Detective), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Luci Lapont Addison), Alex Sharp (Policeman), Bill Deiz (Reporter #2), Marvin Kaplan (Albert Delgado), Alice Ghostley (Dr. Agnes Temple), Richard Kiel (The Indian (Diablero)), Victor Jory (Charles Rolling Thunder), Ramon Bieri (Captain Joe Baker), James Griffith (George M. Schwartz), Dennis McCarthy (Ballistics Man), Morris Buchanan (Night Watchman), Keith Walker (Reporter #1), David Lewis (Auctioneer Belloy)

The police have ruled the deaths of several of Chicago's upper class as suicides, but Carl believes they were murdered by a Native American shape-shifter.

9 :01x09 - The Spanish Moss Murders

First aired: Dec/06/1974
Writer: David Chase, Al Friedman
Director: Gordon Hessler
Guest star: Brian Avery (Record Producer), Donald Mantooth (Sleep Subject), Bill Deiz (Reporter #1), Frieda Rentie (Reporter #2), Roberta Dean (Michelle Kelly), Elisabeth Brooks (Lab Assistant), James Lasane (Officer Johnson), Ned Glass (Apartment Superintendent), Rudy Diaz (Sgt. Villaverde), Richard Kiel (The Bayou Monster (Peremalfait)), Keenan Wynn (Capt. Joe Siska), Severn Darden (Dr. Aaron Pollack), Randy Boone (Jean The Fiddler), Johnny Silver (Pepe LaRue), Virginia Gregg (Dr. Hollenbeck), Maurice Marsac (Henri Villon)

A slimy green substance, identified as swamp moss, seems to connect a series of deaths to the legend of a Cajun bogeyman.

10 :01x10 - The Energy Eater

First aired: Dec/13/1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Guest star: Bob Golden (Policeman), William Smith (Jim Elkhorn), Joyce Jillson (Diana Lanier), Barbara Graham (Laurie), Melissa Greene (Girl), Dianne Harper (Girl #2), Ella Raino (Receptionist), John Mitchum (Janitor), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Hartfield), Michael Fox (Frank Wesley), Elaine Giftos (Nurse Janice Eisen), Michael Strong (Walter Green), John Alvin (Dr. Ralph Carrie), Tom Drake (Don Kibbey), Robert Yuro (Capt. Webster)

A series of deaths during the construction of a hospital on sacred Indian land leads Kolchak to team with a Native American shaman to stop a vengeful bear god.

11 :01x11 - Horror in the Heights

First aired: Dec/20/1974
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Ned Glass (Joe), Jim Goodwin (Frank Rivas), John Bleifer (Charlie), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Miriam Goldstein), Robert Karnes (Officer Thomas), Paul Sorenson (Officer Prodman), Shelly Novack (Officer York), Benny Rubin (Julius "Buck" Fineman), Barry Gordon (Barry the Waiter), Herb Vigran (Sal Goldstein), Murray Matheson (Lane Merriott), Eric Server (Officer Boxman), Phil Silvers (Harry Starman), Abraham Sofaer (Ali Lakshmi)

Elderly residents of Roosevelt Heights are being killed by a creature that appears as the person they trust the most.

12 :01x12 - Mr. R.I.N.G.

First aired: Jan/10/1975
Writer: John Huff, L. Ford Neale
Director: Gene Levitt
Guest star: Corinne Camacho (Dr. Leslie Dwyer (as Corinne Michaels)), Don 'Red' Barry (Guard), Gail Bonney (Miss Barham), Read Morgan (Man), Bruce Powers (Peters), Vince Howard (Policeman), Myron Healey (Colonel Wright), Maidie Norman (Librarian), Julie Adams (Mrs. Walker), Bert Freed (Capt. Akins), Craig R. Baxley (Mr. R.I.N.G.), Robert Easton (Bernard Carmichael), Henry Beckman (Senator Duncan Stephens)

A hush-hush government project tries to keep Kolchak from reporting a story of a self-aware android who is killing those who would try to shut him down.

13 :01x13 - Primal Scream

First aired: Jan/17/1975
Writer: David Chase, Bill S. Ballinger
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Gary Baxley (The Humanoid), Paul Picerni (Humane Society Man), Paul Baxley (Dr. Jules Copenick), Craig R. Baxley (Robert Gurney), Chuck Waters (William Pratt), Jeanie Bell (Rosetta Mason), Barbara Luddy (Woman), Arnold Williams (Barney), Vince Howard (Policeman), Al Checco (Nils), Barbara Rhoades (Secretary), Jamie Farr (Jack Burton), Pat Harrington, Jr. (Thomas J. Kitzmiller), Sandra Gould (Landlady), John Marley (Capt. Molnar), Katherine Woodville (Dr. Helen Lynch), C. Lindsay Workman (Dr. Fisk), Regis Cordic (Dr. Peel), Byron Morrow (Dr. Cowan)

Carl stumbles into an oil company cover-up involving a murdered research scientist and what may be a creature revived from the ice age.

14 :01x14 - The Trevi Collection

First aired: Jan/24/1975
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Henry Slate (Hood #2), Henry Brandon (Man), Dennis McCarthy (The Figure), Diana Quick (Ariel), George Chandler (Model Agency Manager), Beverly Gill (Melody Sedgwick), Richard Bakalyan (Hood), Peter Leeds (Photographer), Douglas Fowley (Superintendant), Marvin Miller (The Lecturer), Nina Foch (Madame Trevi), Chuck Waters (Mickey Patchek), Lara Parker (Madelaine), Bernie Kopell (Doctor), Priscilla Morrill (Griselda)

Fashion models and snitches are being murdered and the only link is Madame Trevi and her salon. When Carl starts to poke around, he finds evidence that witchcraft may be involved.

15 :01x15 - Chopper

First aired: Jan/31/1975
Writer: Steve Fisher, David Chase, Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
Director: Bruce Kessler
Guest star: Jim Backus (Herb Bresson), Brunetta Barnett (Nurse), Jack Bernardi (Otto), Jimmy Murphy (Beaner), Ralph Montgomery (Claude), Steve Boyum (Harold "Swordman" Baker/Headless Rider), Fern Barry (Mrs. Rita Baker), Jim Malinda (Snow White), Jimmy Joyce (Watchman #2), Jesse White (Watchman), Joey Aresco (Electric Larry), Larry Linville (Capt. Jonas), Sharon Farrell (Lila Morton), Art Metrano (Henry "Studs" Spake), Jay Robinson (Professor Eli Strig), Frank Aletter (Norman Kahill), Steve Franken (Neil, The Morgue Attendant)

A headless biker from the 50's returns from the grave to exact his revenge on those responsible for his grisly death.

16 :01x16 - Demon in Lace

First aired: Feb/07/1975
Writer: Michael Kozoll, David Chase, Stephen Lord
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Andrew Prine (Professor C. Evan Spate), Maria Grimm (Maria Venegas), Carlos Molina (The Landlord), Hunter Von Leer (Don Rhiner), Jackie Vernon (Coach Toomey), John Elerick (Mark Hansen), Iris Edwards (Girl), Teddie Blue (Demon), Carmen Zapata (Spanish Woman), Donald Mantooth (Tim Brennan), Steve Stafford (Craig Donnelly), Ben Masters (Mike Thompson), Carolyn Jones (The Registrar), Kristina Holland (Rosalind Winters), Margaret Impert (Betty Walker), Keenan Wynn (Capt. Joe Siska), Davis Roberts (Coroner), Milton Parsons (Dr. Salem Mozart)

A college professor unknowingly unleashes a succubus, a demon that takes female form, on the male students of Illinois State Tech. Kolchak teams with a reporter from the campus newspaper to find a way to destroy the creature before it kills again.

17 :01x17 - Legacy of Terror

First aired: Feb/14/1975
Writer: Arthur Rowe
Director: Don McDougall
Guest star: Victor Campos (Professor Jamie Rodriguez), Pippa Scott (Tillie Jones), Ramon Bieri (Captain Webster), Sorrell Booke (Mr. Eddy), Ernesto Macias (Andrew Gomez), Mina Vasquez (Rita Torres), Gene LeBell (Officer Olson), Ron Stein (Officer Smith), Cal Bartlett (Officer Lyons), Merrie Lynn Ross (Nina), Dorrie Thomson (Lona), Scott Douglas (Major Taylor), Erik Estrada (Pepe Torres), Carlos Romero (George Andrews), Sondra Currie (Vicky), Udana Power (Capt. Madge Timmins), Robert Casper (Professor Jones), Mickey Gilbert (Nanautzin (The Mummy)), Craig R. Baxley (Sgt. Rolf Anderson), Alma Beltran (Mrs. Torres), Pitt Herbert (Medical Examiner)

While investigating the deaths of four men whose hearts have been cut out of their chests, Kolchak uncovers ties to an Aztec cult and a 500-year-old mummy in the basement of a hotel.

18 :01x18 - The Knightly Murders

First aired: Mar/07/1975
Writer: Michael Kozoll, David Chase
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Lucille Benson (Maura), John Dehner (Capt. Vernon Rausch), Hans Conried (Mendel Boggs), Robert Emhardt (Roger), Ed McReady (Reporter #1), Alyscia Maxwell (Freshman Reporter), Gregg Palmer (Sgt. Buxbaum), Don Carter (Lester Nash), Bryan O'Byrne (Charles, The Butler), Jim Drum (Leo J. Ramutka), Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold), Lieux Dressler (Minervo Musso), Sidney Clute (Bruce Krause), William O'Connell (Brewster Hocking), Paul Baxley (Rolf Danvers)

Carl Kolchak is the Knight Stalker, as a haunted suit of armor goes on a killing spree when there are plans to turn the museum that houses it into a disco.

19 :01x19 - The Youth Killer

First aired: Mar/14/1975
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
Director: Don McDougall
Guest star: Cathy Lee Crosby (Helen), Dwayne Hickman (Sergeant J. Orkin), George Savalas (Cab Driver (as Demosthenes)), Eddie Firestone (Conventioneer), Michael Richardson (Lance Mervin), Penny Stanton (Lance's Mother), James Murtaugh (Landlord), James Ingersoll (1st Young Man), Reb Brown (2nd Young Man), Joss White (Secretary), John Fiedler (Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler), Kathleen Freeman (Bella Sarkof)

Kolchak believes the owner of a computer dating service is sacrificing her clients to achieve eternal youth when four of their bodies turn up as the corpses of elderly people.

20 :01x20 - The Sentry

First aired: Mar/28/1975
Writer: John Huff, L. Ford Neale
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: Tom Bosley (Jack Flaherty), Kathie Browne (Lieutenant Irene Lamont), Albert Paulsen (Dr. James Verhyden), John Hoyt (Dr. Lamar Beckwith), Frank Marth (Colonel Brody), Cliff Norton (Arnie Wisemore), Frank Campanella (Ted Chapman), Margaret Avery (Ruth Van Galen), Lew Brown (First Detective), Keith Walker (Reporter (Brian)), Bill Deiz (Reporter (Ed)), Greg Finley (Dr. Phillips), Tom Moses (Dr. Gordon), Craig R. Baxley (The Sentry), Kelly Wilder (Receptionist)

A prehistoric lizard is on the loose in a labyrinth of caves and tunnels under a research facility when its eggs, thought to be rocks, are taken for study.