Kolchak: The Night Stalker season 1 The Spanish Moss Murders - Metacritic

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ABC
Dec 6, 1974
52 m

ABC
Dec 6, 1974
52 m

Summary Kolchak was originally two made-for-TV movies that aired in the early 70's, and featured the adventures of Carl Kolchak, a down-on-the heels reporter who ran afoul of a vampire in Las Vegas and an alchemist in Seattle. These movies proved popular enough that they were spun off into a series, which placed Kolchak in Chicago with the Indep...

Directed By: Gordon Hessler

Written By: Jeffrey Grant Rice, Alvin R. Friedman, David Chase

ABC
Dec 6, 1974
52 m

ABC
Dec 6, 1974
52 m

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

S1 • Episode 9

The Spanish Moss Murders

Air Date: Dec 6, 1974

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Summary Kolchak was originally two made-for-TV movies that aired in the early 70's, and featured the adventures of Carl Kolchak, a down-on-the heels reporter who ran afoul of a vampire in Las Vegas and an alchemist in Seattle. These movies proved popular enough that they were spun off into a series, which placed Kolchak in Chicago with the Indep...

Created By: Jeffrey Grant Rice

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Episode 1 • Sep 13, 1974 • 52 m

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

Episode 2 • Sep 20, 1974 • 51 m

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.

Episode 3 • Sep 27, 1974 • 52 m

They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...

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.

Episode 4 • Oct 4, 1974 • 52 m

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

Episode 5 • Nov 1, 1974 • 51 m

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.

Episode 6 • Nov 8, 1974 • 51 m

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.

Episode 7 • Nov 15, 1974 • 52 m

The Devil's Platform

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.

Episode 8 • Nov 29, 1974 • 52 m

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

Episode 9 • Dec 6, 1974 • 52 m

The Spanish Moss Murders

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

Episode 10 • Dec 13, 1974 • 52 m

The Energy Eater

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.

Episode 11 • Dec 20, 1974 • 51 m

Horror in the Heights

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.

Episode 12 • Jan 10, 1975 • 51 m

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.

Episode 13 • Jan 17, 1975 • 50 m

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

Episode 14 • Jan 24, 1975 • 50 m

The Trevi Collection

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

Episode 15 • Jan 31, 1975 • 51 m

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.

Episode 16 • Feb 7, 1975 • 51 m

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

Episode 17 • Feb 14, 1975 • 50 m

Legacy of Terror

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

Episode 18 • Mar 7, 1975 • 50 m

The Knightly Murders

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

Episode 19 • Mar 14, 1975 • 51 m

The Youth Killer

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.

Episode 20 • Mar 28, 1975 • 50 m

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.

Top Cast

Darren McGavin

Carl Kolchak

Simon Oakland

Tony Vincenzo

Jack Grinnage

Ron Updyke

Ruth McDevitt

Emily Cowles, Edith Cowels, Elderly Woman

Craig R. Baxley

Mr. R.I.N.G., Robert Gurney, Staff Sgt. Rolf Anderson

John Fiedler

Gordon Spangler, Gordy, Gordy Spangler

Carol Ann Susi

Monique Marmelstein

Don Mantooth

Paul Langlois - Sleep Subject, Policeman, Tim Brennan

Dennis McCarthy

Ballistics Man, Guard, The Figure

Keith Walker

1st Reporter, TV Reporter

Bill Deiz

2nd Reporter, First Reporter, Second Reporter

Keenan Wynn

Capt. Joe 'Mad Dog' Siska

Ramon Bieri

Captain Joe Baker, Captain Webster

Richard Kiel

The Diablero, The Monster

Ned Glass

Apartment Superintendent, Jo

Vince Howard

Policeman

Alyscia Maxwell

3rd Reporter, Freshman Reporter

Alice Backes

Dr. Shropell, Elena Munoz

Barry Cahill

Dr. Alan Ross, Murray Vernon

Mickey Gilbert

Nanautzin, the Mummy, The Ripper

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