Kolchak: The Night Stalker
“A hard-bitten reporter with a nose for news and an open mind.”
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.
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Carl Kolchak was a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, and a trouble magnet for situations involving the supernatural. Kolchak turned his investigative skills to vampires, werewolves, zombies and all manner of legendary creatures, but in the end he always failed to convince his skeptical editor, Tony Vincenzo, that the stories weren't products of Kolchak's own overworked imagination.
1.The Ripper
3.013-09-197460mA 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...
2.The Zombie
7.020-09-197460mA voodoo priestess animates her dead son to take revenge on the gangsters that killed him.
3.They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
6.027-09-197460mA 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...
4.The Vampire
3.004-10-197460mCatherine 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...
5.The Werewolf
6.001-11-197460mBernhardt 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...
6.Firefall
7.008-11-197460mA 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...
7.The Devil's Platform
6.015-11-197460mKolchak discovers a young rising politician, has made a deal with the Devil to murder off his competition through incidents made to look like accidents.
8.Bad Medicine
5.029-11-197460mA 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...
9.The Spanish Moss Murders
7.006-12-197460mA 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...
10.The Energy Eater
6.013-12-197460mSeveral 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...
11.Horror in the Heights
6.020-12-197460mKolchak’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...
12.Mr. R.I.N.G.
6.010-01-197560mKolchak 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...
13.Primal Scream
7.017-01-197560mIn 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...
14.The Trevi Collection
3.024-01-197560mA 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...
15.Chopper
6.031-01-197560mThe 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...
16.Demon in Lace
6.507-02-197560mOn 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...
17.Legacy of Terror
7.014-02-197560mPhysically 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...
18.The Knightly Murders
6.007-03-197560mVarious 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...
19.The Youth Killer
6.014-03-197560mYoung 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...
20.The Sentry
6.028-03-197560mThe 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...
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