Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
20 episodes
E01
The Ripper
A serial killer murders attractive women in the Illinois/Indiana area, and soon comes to Chicago. Kolchak begins to suspect that the killer is not just imitating the 18th century Jack the Ripper, but actually is the seemingly immortal killer.
E02
The Zombie
Carl investigates a series of brutal murders--someone is breaking mobsters' backs like twigs. All the signs point to Francois Edmonds, a young up-and-comer in the black numbers racket. The trouble is, Francois died a week before the first murder. Soon Carl realizes that someone has brought the young man back from the dead and he is murdering those who murdered him. No one likes a snoop, so soon enough Carl finds himself a target of this killer. The only way he can save his own life is to figure out how to kill a zombie for good.
E03
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Invisible aliens stalk Chicago, possessing the strength of a hurricane, an interest in lead and electronic components... and a thirst for bone marrow.
E04
The Vampire
A victim of Janos Skorzeny, the vampire that Kolchak dispatched in Las Vegas, has risen from a shallow grave and traveled to Los Angeles. Now she is posing as a prostitute and feeding on her clients, and Kolchak comes to town to investigate the killings.
E05
The Werewolf
When Tony receives a surprise visit from the New York auditors, he sends Carl in his place to do a story on the last voyage of the ocean liner Hanover. However, a series of vicious deaths soon convince Carl that a werewolf is loose on the ship... and only the captain's silver buttons, melted into buckshot, can stop it.
E06
Firefall
A petty arsonist is killed in a shooting at a penny arcade. However, his fascination with a concert conductor brings him back as an angry spirit--a doppelganger--intent on incinerating anyone who could tell the difference when he takes over the conductor's body.
E07
The Devil's Platform
A series of mysterious deaths strike individuals tied to both parties in an Illinois senatorial race. Kolchak, intrigued, looks into the deaths and soon discovers that a Satanic hound is tied to each of them.
E08
Bad Medicine
A giant Indian is stealing jewelry and hypnotizing the owners into killing themselves. Kolchak looks into the deaths and discovers that he is facing the spirit of a medicine man who can take the form of a wolf or a crow, and whose only weakness are his own eyes.
E09
The Spanish Moss Murders
An experiment in dream suppression goes horribly wrong, and the subject manifests a Cajun legend from his childhood--Peremalfait--to kill the people that he hates. Unfortunately, Kolchak becomes the next target when he threatens to unplug the subject.
E10
The Energy Eater
An Indian deity, Matchemonedo, is brought out of its hibernation beneath Lake Michigan by the construction of a new hospital... and soon begins draining the plasma from its victims.
E11
Horror in the Heights
Roosevelt Heights has certainly seen better days. One problem the Jewish neighborhood has experienced lately is a rat infestation, which has led to several fatalities. Another is an elderly Hindu man, drawing swastikas everywhere. These two problems turn out to be connected, and the horrible truth behind the rat attacks nearly costs Carl his life, and forces him to kill the person he trusts the most.
E12
Mr. R.I.N.G.
When threatened with "death", a military-sponsored android escapes its lab and goes on a rampage... or does it?
E13
Primal Scream
An oil company brings back microbe samples from the Antarctic... which thaw into savage primates which go on a rampage through Chicago.
E14
The Trevi Collection
Kolchak is contacted by a fashion industrial spy who is thrown to his death, and the reporter soon discovers that a witch is killing and maiming the competition.
E15
Chopper
A developer moves a cemetery as he prepares to build. But carelessness allows an old evil, once laid to rest, to return again: a motorcyclist with no head, resuming an old agenda of revenge for a prank gone horribly wrong. As usual, Kolchak finds himself in the middle of it, and if he's not careful he may lose his own head.
E16
Demon in Lace
Several college men drop dead of heart attacks, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is a female demon--a succubus--who terrifies her male victims to death.
E17
Legacy of Terror
An Aztec ritual spells doom for physically fit victims in Chicago... and Kolchak must stop the last sacrifice before an ancient god is resurrected.
E18
The Knightly Murders
The ghost of a misanthropic knight swears vengeance on anyone who desecrates his resting place... and developers plan to turn the museum containing his armor into a disco.
E19
The Youth Killer
Young members of a computer service start dying... of old age. When Kolchak investigates, he discovers a connection to Greek mythology.
E20
The Sentry
A humanoid subterranean lizard creature starts killing workers at a government underground archive, and Kolchak must figure out why while dodging police and government interference.
Cast
Darren McGavin
as Carl Kolchak
Simon Oakland
as Tony Vincenzo
Wally Cox
as Titus Berry
Margaret Hamilton
as Prof. Hester Crabwell
Scott Brady
as Capt. Roscoe Schubert
Jo Ann Pflug
as Louise Harper
