TV series
“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.
1 season · 20 episodes
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 creatur
S1 E1The Ripper
Sep 13, 197460 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 women in many cities over the last century. The reporter mus
S1 E2The Zombie
Sep 20, 197460 min
A voodoo priestess animates her dead son to take revenge on the gangsters that killed him.
S1 E3They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Sep 27, 197460 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 electromagnetic field, steal lead and electronic equipment, and suck th
S1 E4The Vampire
Oct 4, 197460 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 Angeles. She takes up her old profession of call girl and Ca
S1 E5The Werewolf
Nov 1, 197460 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 last cruise of an ocean liner, the USS Hanover, Carl takes his
S1 E6Firefall
Nov 8, 197460 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 that an arsonist, Frankie Markoff, was a fan of Bond's, and w
Darren McGavin
Carl Kolchak
Simon Oakland
Tony Vincenzo
Jack Grinnage
Ron Updyke
Ruth McDevitt
Emily Cowles
John Fiedler
Gordon Spangler
Carol Ann Susi
Monique Marmelstein
Richard Kiel
The Monster
Ramon Bieri
Captain Joe Baker
Keenan Wynn
Capt. Joe 'Mad Dog' Siska
Dennis McCarthy
Guard
Tom Anfinsen
Exhibit Guest (uncredited)
Robert Easton
Bernard Carmichael
