Kolchak: The Night Stalker
A hard-bitten reporter with a nose for news and an open mind.
Created by Jeffrey Grant Rice
On ABC
A weekly monster-of-the-week procedural where a scrappy reporter uncovers supernatural threats that authorities deny, balancing pulp adventure with paranoid cover-up mythology.
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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