ANOTHER KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER timeline
ANOTHER KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER timeline and it's too good to trust the internet not to delete it for whatever reason. SO I'm posting it here!
1200 B.C.
The birth of Helen to Leda, who claims that the father is
Zeus.
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c. 1183 B.C.
Helen is stolen away by Paris, precipitating the Trojan War.
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1173 B.C.
The city of Troy is destroyed by "Greeks bearing
gifts."
Date is based on current archaeological evidence in Grun's
"The Timetables of History")
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c. 1171 B.C.
Helen makes a pact with the goddess Hecate allowing her to
remain eternally young and beautiful in return for offering perfect young men
and women as sacrifices to the goddess.
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1200's
A knight of Burgundy named Guy de Mettencourt makes a pact
with the forces of darkness. In return for his service, a necromancer makes Guy
a suit of armor which renders him invincible.
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1227
Pope Gregory IX (reigned 1227-1241) blesses a huge battle
axe and gives it to a Straussburg knight to overcome Guy de Mettencourt. Guy is
killed, but not before declaring that he will never tolerate music and
merrymaking near his resting place.
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1500s
Italian traveler Picafetta writes of a Mesopotamian tablet
and the deaths associated with it - the work of a succubus.
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1507
The Aztec civilization is destroyed after 520 years by
invading Spanish armies. The warrior head of the cult of of the evil god
Tezcatlipoca, Nanauatzin, has himself mummified to await the Aztec millenium,
reviving every fifty-two years to gain sustenance from heart sacrifices. The
mummy is watched over by the Arquilla family.
History trouble: I believe it was actually 1521 when Cortes
and his conquistadors conquered the Aztecs.)Legacy of Terror 14 Feb 75
1673
June
Father Duvane writes of the Indian bear god Matchemonedo in
the area that will become Chicago, IL.
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1714
July
Monsignor Denassi writes of the Indian bear god Matchemonedo
in the area that will become Chicago, IL.
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1793 - 1794
The French "Reign of Terror" - thousands are
beheaded and stories circulate of headless specters roaming the streets looking
for their missing heads.
Chopper 31 Jan 75
1795
Vampire Barnabas Collins turns Marie Cosgrove into a
vampire.
Interview With A Vampire? by Mark Dawidziak
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles
1804
December 24
Illinois territorial governor Isaac Lipton decrees all
inmates in local prisons be pardoned. Samuel Coggins goes to the governor's
mansion to thank him and is invited to stay for dinner. After drinking too
much, Coggins robs the governor and burns down his house.
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1868
six women during an eighteen day period found strangled in
New York, New York.
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Several months later Richard Malcolm moves from New York,
New York to Seattle, Washington.
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The first in what will be a chain of hotels ran by the
Arquilla (later 'Andrews') family opens in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Five people have
their hearts ripped out at around the same time.
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1882
Westside Mercy Hospital opens in the Pioneer Square district
of Seattle, Washington. A Dr. Richard Malcolm, former Union Army surgeon, is on
staff.
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1885
Ottawa, Illinois - a man and a woman spontaneously combust
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1887
Seattle Daily Chronicle founded
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1888
August 31 - 9 November
Five prostitutes are brutally murdered in the Whitechapel
district of London, England. The killer is never found.
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There's a Ripper killer in Paris, also.
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1889
June 6
Dr. Richard Malcolm disappears after his family is killed
when Westside Mercy Hospital burns down during the Great Seattle Fire
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six women during an eighteen day period found strangled in
the Pioneer Square district of Seattle
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1896
Ali Lakshimi is born in India
He tells Carl his is almost eighty. This the year the actor,
Abraham Sofaer, was born.)[/]
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1899
Janos Skorzeny born in Craesti, Rumania
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1900
Llewellyn Crossbinder born
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1904
August 14
Athens - a firing squad attempts to execute their Ripper
killer. Doesn't work very well.
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Independent News Service founded by Enrico Paluzzi
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74
1908
The electric chair goes into use in New York, New York,
giving their Ripper murderer pause for some reason.
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1910
March 30
The first of a string of six women are found strangled in
the Pioneer Square district of Seattle. An eyewitness describes the killer as
having 'the face of a corpse.'
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Dr. Malcolm Richards builds a free clinic on the site of
Westside Mercy Hospital
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1914
Ali Lakshimi begins his world-wide hunt for the Rakshasas.
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1917
former Seattle Post-Intelligencer copy boy Llewellyn
Crossbinder joins the Army
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1919
Vampire Marie Cosgrove turns Janos Skorzeny into a vampire.
Interview With A Vampire? by Mark Dawidziak
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles
1920s
In Germany, a killer uses his teeth to rip out his victim's
throats
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1922
October 31
Karel (later Carl) Michail Kolchak (a second generation
American) born in New York, NY to Janos and Fanny Kolchak.
25th Anniv. Companion
He has a grandfather named Anton.
It Came From Monkey Skull Creek by Dave Ulanski
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1923
Janos Skorzeny's father dies, leaving behind somewhere
between 75 and 100 million dollars. Afterwards, Janos begins traveling and
becomes known throughout western Europe as a big lover of night life.
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Five people have their hearts cut out in Atlanta, Georgia,
around the same time as the first Sherwood Hotel in America opens there.
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1926
A photo of Dr. Malcolm Richards (showing a man in his 40s)
is taken and put up in the Richard's Clinic.
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1927
May 20 - 21
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo flight across the
Atlantic. According to Kolchak, this is also the last year that there's a
Christmas party in the Independent News Service office in Chicago.
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early 1930s
The good ship Hanover, 900 feet long sleeping 2000
passengers, puts to sea for the first time.
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1931
March 29 - April 16
Six women during an eighteen day period found strangled in
the Pioneer Square district of Seattle. Seattle Daily Chronicle reporter Jimmy
Stacks uncovers some of the repressed details, including a loss of blood and
the superhuman strength of the killer.
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Dr. Malcolm Richards disappears after stories of him
developing a rare, degenerative skin condition circulate.
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Seattle Daily Chronicle is taken over by Llewellyn
Crossbinder, nephew of owner Marcus Crossbinder
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1934
Ryder Marshall Bond is born
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74
1936
Fourteen year-old Carl Kolchak goes to his last summer camp
with friends Jimmy Patterson and Rusty Gowarczyk. Something happens and Jimmy
disappears. It will be forty years before Kolchak discovers exactly what
happened.
It Came From Monkey Skull Creek by Dave Ulanski
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1937
Titus Berry starts working in the research department of
Seattle Daily Chronicle.
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1938
Maurice Shapiro leaves the Bronx for Chicago to get into
organized crime. He doesn't meet the height requirements, so he takes up the
identity of 'Pepe LaRue' and hangs with the street musicians.
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1940s
Skorzeny is in England during World War II, passing himself
off as Dr. Paul Belascoe, specialist in hemotology research. His work involved
freshly killed air raid victims. At his home he installed special sumps, tubs
and an extremely large commercial meat freezer.
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1940
College boy Tony Vincenzo is a drummer with his own band -
"Tony Vincenzo's Neopolitans" They win the Westchester County Battle
of the Bands where their version of "Stomping at the Savoy" brings
down the house.
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1941 - 1945
approx.
Kolchak spends almost two years in Europe during the war,
most of it behind a typewriter. He comes out of the war with a trick knee which
keeps him out of the later "police action" in Korea.
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1942
December 2
The Manhattan Project - An experiment by Enrico Fermi and
his colleagues achieve the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby
initiate the controlled release of nuclear energy in a makeshift laboratory
under the grandstands of Stagg Field Stadium at The University of Chicago. The
nuclear age is born.
Primal Scream 17 Jan 75
1944
Adele Saperstein designs her first bra while an aircraft
worker in Glendale, CA. She'll go on to found a multi-million dollar empire
under the name Rhonda June Marsky.
Bad Medicine 29 Nov 74
While onboard the Hanover, Kolchak tries to pass himself off
as crewmate of captain Wells, saying they were co-helmsmen on the Yorktown in
'44. Unfortunately, the Yorktown was sank at the battle of Midway in June,
1942.
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1945
Chicago Cubs in their last World Series until 1974 (they
lose to the Detroit Tigers 4 to 3).
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1948
Skorzeny/Belascoe shows up in Canada. He makes himself known
all along the border, wherever rioting and violence and large numbers of dead
bodies could be found.
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Carl Kolchak graduates near bottom of class with journalism
degree from Columbia Univ. - his first job is copy boy at Boston Globe
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Ryder Bond is considered a musical prodigy at the age of
fourteen
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74
Last reported wolf sightings in Yellowstone County, Montana.
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1950
Kolchak graduates to full-fledged reporter
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1952
Future Seattle police department captain Schubert first
becomes a cop.
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March 27
Myra Jones is found strangled in the Pioneer Square district
of Seattle
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March 30
A second strangulation victim is found in the same area
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April 02
A third victim is found in Pioneer Square - another
strangulation
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April 05
Yet another strangulation
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April 14
Sixth woman found strangled in the Pioneer Square area.
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1953
a case of spontaneous combustion occurs in Levelcross, North
Carolina
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74
1955
approx. - future Chicago police captain Vernon W. Rausch
makes his reputation in homicide by solving the Mercer-Debrans murders.
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1956
Joe Morton of the motorcycle gang the Jokers is busted nine
times for offenses including 'drunk and disorderly', 'aggravated assault' and
'grand theft auto.'
Chopper 31 Jan 75
August 22
Harold 'Swordman' Baker of the Bishops motorcycle gang is
decapitated in a prank by Henry Barlow "Studs" Spake, Joe Morton and
Turk Pelliteer of rival gang the Jokers - his head is carried around in a pail
by Pelliteer.
Chopper 31 Jan 75
Turk Pelliteer of the Jokers motorcycle gang is killed by a
headless motorcycle rider - Henry "Studs" Spake realizes Baker's head
must be placed with his body so the headless rider may rest and the rest of the
Jokers will be spared his wrath.
Chopper 31 Jan 75
deaths attributed to spontaneous combustion occur in
Artesia, California and Honolulu, Hawaii
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74
1959
two deaths by spontaneous combustion; one in Grand Rapids,
Michigan and one in Rockford, Illinois
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74
1960
Mel and Wendy Tarter are married. It's a rocky relationship.
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74
1962
Kolchak fired from New York Daily News
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1963
after being fired twice in Washington, three times in New
York, twice in Chicago and three times in Boston, Kolchak starts with Las Vegas
Daily News
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June 21
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is elected
Pope and becomes known to the world as Pope Paul VI.
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1964
Charles Johnson becomes Brewster Hocking's butler.
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1965
Kids from Seattle High School spend five successive
Saturdays clearing ten tons of debris out of "The Forgotten City Which
Lies Beneath Seattle's Streets" so tours can be held.
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1967
Last time the INS records on Professor Avery Walker are
updated.
Mr. R.I.N.G. 10 Jan 75
1968
Tony Vincenzo takes his last real vacation.
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December
Carl Kolchak takes his last vacation until May, 1971
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1969
Brewster Hocking forms the Canadian-American Leisure
Corporation.
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1970
Mel and Wendy Tarter are divorced. Their relationship
improves dramatically.
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74
Late in the year, Catherine Rawlins (25) is reported missing
in Las Vegas. Previously, she'd been booked several times for prostitution.
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1971
April 19
Skorzeny (as Detective Constable Alan Helmsley) leaves
Canada headed for Las Vegas, NV.
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May 16 (Sunday 2:30AM)
Cheryl Ann Hughes, 23 year old swing-shift change girl at
the Gold Dust Saloon, decides to walk home because her ride is late. She never
makes it. Later that morning, her body is found in a garbage can by sanitation
workers. During the autopsy, it is discovered she has been drained of blood.
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May 18
Las Vegas Daily News reporter Carl Kolchak is called off his
first vacation in two and a half years to report on the murder of Cheryl
Hughes, which he doesn't consider particularly newsworthy - at first
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May 20 (Thursday 7:02AM)
Bonnie Reynolds, 27 year old cocktail waitress, is found
dead at a construction site. No footprints in the soft sand around her reveal
how her body got there. She'd lost a lot of blood but it's not at the scene.
Kolchak speculates she was thrown the twenty-two feet from the only signs of
struggle to where her body lay and that a super-powerful madman is loose in
Vegas. His editor, Tony Vincenzo, is not amused.
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May 21 (Friday 8:06AM)
Carol Hanochek, swing-shift cocktail waitress at the Bird of
Paradise Show Lounge is found dead in her apartment. Her roommate, sleeping a
few feet away, heard nothing. With the local cops not talking, Kolchak asks his
FBI friend Bernie Jenks to check for leads, similar killings, maybe an insane
asylum has recently lost a nut who thinks he's Count Dracula. Meanwhile,
Parkway Hospital is robbed - of blood!
May 21 (Friday 6:30PM)
Kolchak crashes a meeting at the Clark County Courthouse
where coroner Robert Mokurji reveals all the victims died due to shock from a
massive and quick loss of blood. And they all had human bites on their throats.
Kolchak's theory about a madman with a Dracula complex is met with disdain by
all except Mokurji, who tells the others not to dismiss it out of hand. But
such news could be bad for business, so the cover-up officially begins.
That night, showgirl Mary Brandon (25 years old) is killed,
but this time there's a witness to the crime and a sketch appears in the next
paper.
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Shelly Forbes disappears and her Doberman Pinscher is
killed. Kolchak is positive she's the fifth victim.
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May 25 (Tuesday 7:30PM)
Kolchak is tipped to a lead on the car used in the Brandon
killing. Kolchak questions Fred Hurley, the used-car dealer who sold the car,
and later suggests to his girlfriend Gail Foster that she quit her night job.
She gives him books on vampires and suggests 'what if the killer's a real
vampire?'
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May 26
Kolchak gets word of a brawl at Old Towne Hospital and
arrives just in time to see a suspect easily toss aside burly orderlies and
gun-toting police and escape on foot after stealing blood.
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May 27 (Thursday 8:27AM)
The morning edition of the Daily News tells of the hospital
robbery and the suspect's escape. An official briefing is held where the
suspect is identified as Janos Skorzeny - born in Craesti, Rumania in 1899!
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May 28 (Friday 3:17AM)
Kolchak sees Skorzeny escape from a dozen cops, despite
repeatedly being clubbed and shot at point-blank range. A massive man-hunt
fails to turn up any sign of the vampire. Finally, the officials are willing to
listen to Kolchak's theories about what they're up against. The DA agrees to a
deal; they'll follow Kolchak's plan and if he's right, he can print the story.
Part of his plan involves equipping the officers in the field with crosses and
wooden stakes.
One of Kolchak's sources, Mickey Crawford, tells Kolchak
he's found Skorzeny's house. Kolchak goes, after making sure Crawford won't
tell the cops for thirty minutes, giving Kolchak a chance to scout the place
out and making sure the cops don't arrive before sunrise. While taking pictures
in the house, Kolchak finds Skorzeny's stolen blood supply, and dirt-lined
coffin and Shelly Forbes, barely alive and being used as a private blood bank.
Naturally, Skorzeny returns while Kolchak is in the house. Kolchak's FBI friend
Jenks arrives just in time to keep Carl from being the next victim, and with
the aid of the rising sun, they corner Skorzeny and Kolchak drives a stake in
his heart, just as the sheriff arrives.
Carl returns home to write up the story and propose to Gail,
but when he gets to the office he's told the District Attorney wants to see
him. The deal is off. If Kolchak tries to tell his story, he'll be arrested for
murder. His only choice is to keep quiet and leave town. He can't even take
Gail with him. She's already been ran off.
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Janos Skorzeny and all his victims are cremated.
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Kolchak heads to LA, trying to find work but doesn't have
any luck (one paper closes the day after he's hired)
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1972
Kolchak ends up in Seattle, where his car dies
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April 1 (Saturday, 2:35AM)
Merissa (real name Ethel Parker, 32 years old), one of three
belly dancers at the Seattle bar Omar's Tent (in the Pioneer Square area) is
attacked and killed. Official cause of death - strangulation
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April 3
finally working up the nerve to try out the Seattle press
club in hopes of finding a job, Kolchak runs into his old Las Vegas Daily News
editor Tony Vincenzo, now of the Seattle Daily Chronicle, who offers Carl a job
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April 4 (Tuesday)
Vincenzo introduces Carl to Llewellyn Crossbinder and gives
him his first assignment for the Seattle Daily Chronicle: Ethel 'Merissa'
Parker's murder. Carl visits the other two dancers from Omar's Tent; Gladys
'Charisma Beauty' Weems and Louise Harper (32 years old). Weems is a no-go
thanks to her 'husband' Wilma Krankheimer, but Harper tells Kolchak to stop by
the club to talk.
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April 6
Gail Manning (26 years old) is strangled and her body
disposed of sometime after 2AM. "No new elements" the police say,
until...
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April 7 (Friday, 2:00PM)
At the press conference with the coroner the next day, it's
revealed Gail Manning has a puncture wound in at the base of her skull and
suffered a loss of blood. Bribing the morgue attendant, Kolchak finds out that
Ethel Parker had the same wound and blood loss, and also that both their necks
were crushed and there were traces of decomposed flesh on both of them, as
though they were strangled by a dead man.
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April 7 (Friday, 10:21PM)
Kolchak goes to Omar's Tent to talk with Louise Harper. He
notices a tour group visiting 'Old Seattle,' a section of the city that was
built over after the fire, leaving a portion of the city underground as it was
in the late 1800s.
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April 8
Kolchak goes to the Seattle Daily Chronicle's morgue to do
research. Titus Berry clues Kolchak in on the similar strings of murders that
in 1952. Also by an incredibly strong killer with the features of a rotting
corpse.
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April 9 (Sunday, 1:42AM)
Joyce Gabriel, cutting through Pioneer Square after a late
date, happens upon the killer and his latest victim, Claire Bisbee (29 years
old). Gabriel describes the murderer as looking 'like a dead man.'
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April 10
Seattle Daily Chronicle reporter Janie Watkins issues an
open invitation to the killer - she's going to walk the Pioneer Square area
every night.
Meanwhile, Titus Berry has found stories about another
string of similar killings in 1931. Kolchak realizes there's a 21 year pattern
forming and they check further back in the archives and find stories of the
strangulations dating back to 1889. As usual, Vincenzo is less than enthused
about Kolchak's story, but allows Kolchak to bring in an artist to sketch Joyce
Gabriels description. It is the face of a corpse.
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April 10 (Monday, 2:07PM)
The police come down hard on Kolchak's story. Crossbinder
threatens to fire Kolchak and anyone else responsible (meaning Vincenzo) if
anything like that is published again.
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April 10 (11:45PM)
While roaming Pioneer Square, Kolchak is stopped by cops.
Before they can question him, the killer is spotted after claiming a new victim
and the chase is on. Kolchak watches (and takes pictures) as the mysterious
figure tosses police about like ragdolls and then escapes. Police Captain
Schubert takes Kolchak's camera.
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April 11
Kolchak contacts Louise Harper about taking a tour of
Seattle's underground. They break away from the tour and do a little
investigating on their own. They find no sign of the killer, but do stumble
upon a wino.
In the Space Needle elevator, Kolchak tells Louise about his
encounter with Skorzeny in Vegas, undoubtably playing havoc with the other
elevator passengers appetites.
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April 12
Louise suggests Kolchak go to the University and talk to
Professor Crabwell, an anthropology teacher and a buff on "every crazy
subject in the world." She tells him about the 'elixir of life.' Kolchak
shares his theory with Vincenzo; the killer has such an elixir and every 21
years needs to make a new batch, using fresh blood among other ingredients. As
usual, Vincenzo doesn't buy it.
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April 13 (Thursday,
1:25AM)
While Louise is onstage at Omar's Tent, Gladys 'Charisma
Beauty' Weems is killed in the dressing rooms despite Wilma Krankheimer's
constant presence.
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Kolchak bulls his way into Captain Schubert's office and
tells him what's going on. It turns out the police have done some checking on
the other murders, but still refuse to see a direct connection. Schubert
threatens to throw Kolchak in jail if he sees or hears from him one more time.
Before leaving the office, Kolchak finds out that the Underground was searched
by the police. They found nothing. Schubert's office then calls Crossbinder,
who calls Vincenzo, and Kolchak is pulled from the story.
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Berry meanwhile finds a newspaper story about Mark Twain
visiting Seattle and talking with a Dr. Richard Malcolm, who believes
immortality is possible. Berry has found a drawing of the doctor. Kolchak goes
to the clinic now occupying the spot Westside Mercy Hospital stood at, hoping
to find some records of Malcolm. He doesn't need to look in the records. After
defacing a portrait of the clinic's founder, Malcolm Richards, Kolchak is
convinced it's the same man in the drawing from the late 1800s. Kolchak is arrested
and brought before Crossbinder, Vincenzo and Schubert. He calls in Berry for
support, who has more facts about Richard Malcolm's past. While he's not
arrested for defacing the portrait of Malcolm Richards, his story is killed so
as not to panic the city.
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April 15 (Saturday, 2:00AM)
Kolchak enlists Louise to patrol the Pioneer Square area in
hopes of drawing out the killer. They do this for several nights without
incident.
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April 19
While patrolling the Pioneer Square district, Kolchak is
separated from Louise as he hides from the police and she, not looking back so
as not to look suspicious, doesn't notice and continues on. Just before she's
attacked, a police cruiser spots her and picks her up. Kolchak is spotted and
arrested, too. Meanwhile, Michelle Briand, manager of Aversano's restaurant, is
killed. The last of the six victims needed.
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April 19 (Wednesday, 3:00AM)
Knowing they've missed their chance at the murderer for
another 21 years, Kolchak and Louise are released by the police. They then go
to the Richard's Clinic, figuring that was the killer's way in and out of some
secret part of the Underground. Kolchak finds the Malcolm's hiding place,
complete with the remains of his family. Kolchak also finds Malcolm, and during
a struggle Kolchak destroys the last batch of elixir and Malcolm begins to age.
Schubert and the police show up in time to witness Malcolm throwing himself
from a window to his long-delayed death.
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April 19 (2:30PM)
Newspapers announce the unidentified killer is found.
Kolchak and Vincenzo are fired, and with Louise Harper they leave Seattle
headed for New York.
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December
Chicago PD Lt. Jonas is promoted to Captain after arresting
Rueben Estevez.
Chopper 31 Jan 75
1973
Chicago Police Captian Joe "Mad Dog" Siska is
convinced to join group therapy to calm down and reduce the chances of a
coronary and/or divorce.
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1973
May 2 - 11
While stopped by a flat tire outside of Las Vegas, Nevada,
stewardess Elena Munoz sees a figure emerging from the ground. When she returns
with the cops, there's no sign of anyone and she's written off as a crank. But
then the murders start. By May 6th, there are three, not in Vegas but working
their way southwest towards LA. Kolchak is clued into this by Jim "The
Swede" Brytowski - a reporter buddy from Carl and Tony's Las Vegas days.
Now a TV newsman called James Bright, the Swede tells Carl the victims were
drained of blood. As luck would have it, the INS has to send a reporter from
their Chicago bureau to LA to cover the story of a fifteen year-old guru who's
about to be married. Kolchak works his way into the trip, then starts
investigating the murders. Meanwhile, in LA, the no longer missing Catherine
Rawlins claims two more victims - one of which is her sister Linda Courtner,
also a prostitute working for Ichabod Grace's "Catering Service."
Kolchak heads to Barstow to check out the story of a man named Mitchell found
dead in a car, surprisingly dehydrated. The windows of the car had been taped
over on the inside, to keep the sun out. The Barstow side trip causes Kolchak
to miss his noon appointment with the young guru, but he does run into Faye
Krueger, the real estate agent who sold the guru the house he used during his
stay in LA. Finding out she spent a lot of time talking to the guru, Kolchak
gets the former NC State journalism student to write up a story for him while
he continues to investigate the vampire killings, running afoul (naturally) of
police Lt. Jack Matteo in the process. Kolchak's investigations lead him to
Grace's Catering, where Rawlins now works. He sets a date with her, but another
girl comes to his room instead. Carl talks to Grace and finds out she's
'entertaining' Clayton "Stacker" Schumaker of the Los Angeles Rams.
Carl arrives at the house just in time to see Rawlins wipe the floor not only
with Schumaker but the other members of the Rams' "Godzilla Gang."
Matteo has had enough of Kolchak and his vampire story and tells him to leave
town. As he's packing, Faye bemoans her destiny to stay in real estate. Carl
spends ten hours with her searching real estate listings until he find the
place where Catherine Rawlins hides during the day. Even though it's after
sundown, Carl goes after her.
The Vampire 4 Oct 74
1973
July 22
Eric Barringer, a heavy campaign contributor to Illinois
Senator James Talbot, is killed in a car crash.
The Devil's Platform 15 Nov 74
1973
August 7
Dennis DeSilva, Senator James Talbot's main speechwriter, is
killed when his boat explodes.
The Devil's Platform 15 Nov 74
1973
August 14
Senator James Talbot's political rival, Robert Palmer, is
heading to the elevator with his campaign manager Stephen Wald. Wald has
evidence of dirty dealings on Palmer's part in past campaigns and is going to
turn it over to the authorities. Palmer and Wald get into the elevator. Waiting
in the parking garage for an elevator, Carl is surprised by the sudden arrival
of another one, this one plunging forty floors. When workers pry open the
doors, Wald's body falls out. Amongst the other bodies there's one survivor -
one big, mean dog. Carl gets a few pictures before it runs out of the elevator
and right over Carl. He manages to snag the dog's tag before it gets away. It's
an odd tag with a pentagram on it. By the time the elevator incident is cleared
up, Carl is late for his interview with Palmer and is told the politician has
already left for a debate. Since the television station where the debate is to
be held has a "hearty dislike" of Kolchak, he walks down the street
to a bar to watch the debate on TV. The dog follows. Palmer doesn't show up at
the debate.
The next morning, Kolchak develops his photos and fills Tony
in on the story, bringing up the recent deaths of Eric Barringer and Dennis
DeSilva in the process and gets Tony upset wondering which party Kolchak
implicated and who's going to sue them this time. Meanwhile, Miss Emily returns
from Europe with gifts for all. Healthy artichoke pasta for Tony and a brand
new hat for Kolchak. Also, she has a bottle of Holy Water for herself, blessed
by Pope Paul IV himself. After the gifts are disseminated, Carl goes back to
his photos and finds that the image of the dog has disappeared from the
pictures. Since Carl is so wrapped up in politics, Vincenzo calls Henry Dewitt
of the Dantonville Herald in Palmer's old district. He has them send Carl all
their files. Carl goes to Palmer's house to see if he's returned. He hasn't,
but his wife Lorraine isn't too worried, or too talkative. She shuts the door
in Kolchak's face. Walking back to his car, Carl is again attacked by the dog.
This time it tears out the pocket of this jacket. The pocket Carl had put the
dog's tag into. Running back to the Palmer house, Kolchak runs into Palmer
himself out on the porch. Back at the INS offices, Carl tells Tony that Palmer
said he was depressed after Wald's death, but Carl notes he didn't act very
out-of-sorts at all. He also tries to get a cost voucher out of Tony to pay for
his torn clothes.
In the morning, Palmer is in Lincoln Park to meet Susan
Marie Driscoll, Wald's secretary. Wald had forgotten his briefcase before
getting into the elevator with Palmer. Driscoll had tried to get it too him but
was too late. After Wald's death and Palmer's disappearance, she checked the
contents and found Wald's file. She's after money. What she gets is a huge
black dog attacking her. Nearby cops arrive and pump six shots into the dog,
which runs away. Carl gets to the hospital about the same time as Driscoll and
one of the cops talks briefly (off the record) about how the shots had to hit
the dog, but he just watched them before running off. That night, Palmer is in
Driscoll's hospital room. She doesn't survive her second meeting.
Carl tells Dr. Kline he suspects murder in Driscoll's case
but she insists it was a natural stroke brought about by her injuries and
experience. He researches dogs but can't find one with five toes like the dog
he's seen. Up**** tells him only wild African or Asian dogs have five toes.
Meanwhile, Senator Talbot plans on taking a day off from campaigning and goes
to the lake to meet his family. He's killed in a head-on crash.
At the lot where the wrecked cars are brought in, Carl finds
out there's no sign of the other car's driver, though the car is smashed and no
one could've gotten out without being cut out. The car had been stolen from an
orthodontist in Decatur. No lead there. Tony begins to think that just maybe
Carl is on to something with Palmer and all the deaths. The files arrive from
the other paper. Mostly pictures, one of which attracts Carl's attention. After
a few passes with an enlarger, Carl has one blown up enough to make out the
pendant Palmer is wearing - the same symbol as on the dog's tag. Emily brings
Carl a bunch of books on Satanism, where he finds the symbol and realizes
exactly what is going on. Palmer has sold his soul to the devil and won't stop
until he's President, maybe not even then. Carl snags Emily's Holy Water and
heads to the Palmer residence to put an end to the evil. Palmer invites Carl to
join him, tempting him with what he most desires - the Pulitzer, a job in New
York, a suede-backed chair. Carl refuses and Palmer turns into the dog and
attacks. Carl gets the tag off again and douses it with the Holy Water. It
melts away and the dog undergoes a major attitude adjustment and becomes
friendly.
Public suspicion is that Palmer has been kidnapped and/or
killed by some group or other. And Mrs. Palmer disappears shortly afterwards.
[=-1] (continuity trouble: Not really. I'll most likely swap
places with this and "The Zombie" - August 74 - when all is said and
done. Not sure if 73 could've been an election year or not and I don't think
anything in "The Zombie" prevents it from being moved.)
The Devil's Platform 15 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1] 1973
October
Construction on the new Lakefront Hospital is delayed after
the deaths of two Indian high-steel workers. The crew is pulled from the job by
Jim Elkhorn. Afterwards, construction proceeds with no irregularities.
The Energy Eater 13 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1973
November 10
A six man NATO team in Greenland is attacked and mutilated
by...something. Only one man, Bernhardt Steiglitz, survives. He's sent to the
Billings Naval Hospital in Montana.
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1] 1973
November 22
Thanksgiving - a man stabs his girlfriend to death in the
basement of the old Champlain Apartments building.
The Spanish Moss Murders 6 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1973
December 9
The Rockwell family is killed, horribly mutilated, in
Yellowstone County, Montana.
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1973
December 11
The Rockwell family's bodies are found. Official reports
blame wolves for the deaths.
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1] 1973
December 31
Carl borrows Tony's film projector. When Tony gets it back,
it has guacamole in it.
The Energy Eater 13 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
January
Frank Rivas fumigates the INS offices.
Horror In The Heights 20 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
January 7 - 9
(date derived from dates for the full moon)
Vincenzo's vacation cruise plans are interrupted so he sends
Carl on the good ship Hanover's last voyage - a single's cruise. But something
else is on the ship. When the full moon rises over the Pacific, people start to
die horribly. Meanwhile, Carl's cabin-mate Mel Tarter introduces the reporter
to Paula Griffin, a movie buff. Carl runs out on her at dinner when he hears
the ship's horn sees the captain and crew run off. Two couples from Wayne,
Indiana are dead at the ship's pool, and while Carl snaps pictures, he and the
crew are attacked. Carl is knocked cold. The next day he wakes up in the
infirmary as fellow passenger Bernhardt Steiglitz insists on medication for
recurring nightmares. The doctor won't give him the medicine. Captain Wells
threatens to put Carl in irons in the bowels of the ship if he tries to report
what's going on. They even prevent Carl from making any ship-to-shore calls,
but Paula gets through to Vincenzo and finds out about the mutilations of the
Rockwell family "last month" and the NATO team the month before.
Carl's convinced - it's a werewolf. Relying on Paula's film knowledge, Carl
sets about making silver bullets (the silver stolen from the buttons of the
captain's dress uniforms) as the moon rises and more attacks commence. During
the final showdown, the wolfman goes overboard and is never seen again. The
exact numbers of wounded and killed passengers isn't known, but the survivors
are rumored to have been sent to Sweden because of a rare blood disorder.
[=-1] (continuity trouble: Not a lot really, at least not in
regards to the timeline. If you accept Tony's Xmas vacation was going to extend
through the first part of January for the cruise - which was actually a
buisness trip he'd arranged for himself anyway. Carl states the Rockwells were
a family of 4 whereas Paula tells him 5, but she could've written it wrong.
Strange case of the continuity actually working - the full moon for Dec. 73
actually works with the date of the Rockwell's death. And the phone number Carl
gives for the INS offices - 312-555-8842 - is the same one he gives in
"The Vampire." Considering they couldn't keep Emily/Edith
Cowels/Cowles straight, that's pretty good.)[/]
The Werewolf 1 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
March 12 - 16
Chicago ward captain Leo J. Ramutka is killed by a medieval
crossbow bolt. Kolchak meets legendary homicide Police Captain Vernon W. Rausch
at the investigation. The next night, Rolf Danvers is skewered by a jousting
lance. Pop Stenvold identifies the Ramutka murder weapon for Carl, and Brewster
Hocking of the CALC (Canadian-American Leisure Corporation) is killed by a mace
- the big metal ball with pointy things on it, not the little can of spray.
Researching medieval weapons, Carl goes to the Hydecker Museum and arrives in
the middle of a spat between curator Mendel Boggs and interior decorator
Minerva Musso. Musso works for the soft drink company that's bought out the
museum with plans to turn it into a disco. Carl finds out Hocking is involved
with a bottling company, and begins to put pieces together. He suspects Boggs
is donning the suit of armor from the museum and killing those responsible for
taking his museum and job. Carl visits Musso to get more info but is
interrupted by the Black Knight, who knocks Carl unconscious and kills Musso
with an axe. The police get Boggs to try on the armor but it obviously doesn't
fit. He's not the killer. Carl goes to a coat of arms dealer to research the
shield on display with the armor and discovers the history of Guy de
Mettencourt. Carl realizes de Mettencourt's spirit is animating the armor to
keep the disco from opening. At night in the museum, Carl is attacked by the
Black Cross Knight, but luckily the museum also has on display the battle axe
blessed by Pope Gregory - the only weapon capable of defeating de Mettencourt's
armor.
[=-1] (continuity trouble: Carl's narration states Ramutka
is killed "Tuesday, 11:15PM." The next date given is "Wednesday,
11:42PM." That means Ramutka hung skewered on his door for a full day
without being noticed. Also, counting out the days, that puts an extra day in
the week - per the narration, Ramutka is killed "Tuesday," the cops
investigate "Wednesday," Danvers is killed "the next
night," then Hocking is killed "Thursday." What night could've
come between Wednesday and Thursday? I'll say the 'Wednesday' is a mistake. The
specific date comes thanks to the calendar by the door to the morgue, showing
Friday (from Carl's narration) is on the 15th, which another look at the
calendar lets me know could be February, March or November of 74. November is
taken by "Bad Medicine" so I flipped a coin and picked March.)[/]
The Knightly Murders 7 Mar 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
April 5 - 8
A cemetery relocation separates the head of Harold
"Swordman" Baker from his body, and the headless motorcycle rider
returns to claim his revenge against members of the Jokers motorcycle gang,
who'd decapitated him twenty years earlier in a prank gone awry. Kolchak solves
the mystery (with no help from Police Captain Jonas) and reunites Baker's head
with his body, ending the ride. Jonas is busted to traffic sergeant after these
events.
[=-1] (continuity trouble: The second date mentioned in the
narration is actually February 5th but I'm sticking with April. I'm placing
this in '74 in an attempt to keep the events from happening after the episode
has aired.)[/]
Chopper 31 Jan 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
May
Transplanted Cajun Paul Langois volunteers for a university
sleep research project under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Pollack. He will be
kept asleep but unable to dream for months.
The Spanish Moss Murders 6 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
May 2
College man Pete Burdette is found dead with a beautiful
young woman on campus. Heart attack is the official cause of death.
Demon In Lace 7 Feb 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
May 10 - 12
Another death at Illinois State Technical College - another
top athlete drops dead of a heart attack. Like Pete Burdette last Thursday, Don
Rhiner had been perfectly healthy, and his body was found with the body of a
young woman - Marlene Franks. Investigating the death, Carl meets Rosalind
Winters, a reporter for the campus weekly paper. While Kolchak checks things
out, Craig Donnelly and Betty Walker are going back to Craig's place when Betty
trips and falls down the stairs. A 'Nam vet, Craig knows Betty is dead. As
Craig is on the phone calling for help, Betty gets up and walks out, leaving
behind a horrid stench and a confused Craig. Mark Hansen leaves the home/office
of Prof. C. Evan Spate where he was assisting Spate's translation of an ancient
tablet found by the Julius Whitehead expedition in Iraq - right before
Whitehead goes bananas. Hansen goes back to his dorm and gets a knock on the
door - Betty Walker. The next day, Kolchak intrudes on the investigation of
Hansen's death and gets Betty's name from Capt. Siska. Checking her out, he
talks to Donnelly and finds out Walker was dead before she ever went to
Hansen's. Further research reveals that Franks, the woman found with Rhiner,
had also died several hours before being found with Rhiner. Carl interviews
Spate since it seems all the dead men have had some relationship to him and the
tablet. Meanwhile, Maria Venegas is found dead from a gas leak in her
apartment, but as with Walker, she gets up and walks away leaving behind the
stench of death. While researching demons and succubus' in the INS offices,
Carl is delighted to hear a police report of another missing corpse. He goes to
Venegas' apartment, noting a picture of the disappeared decedent. That night,
Mark Thompson is called to Prof. Spate's. He needs a new assistant. Thompson
introduces the professor to a girl he's just met - Maria Venegas. She begins
laughing hysterically and Thompson storms out, mad and embarrassed by her
actions. Kolchak arrives at Spate's and sees Maria. Spate hears something
outside and is suddenly overwhelmed by a stench, but only Kolchak comes in,
looking for Maria. Spate kicks Carl out so Kolchak goes to Dr. Salem Mozart in
the Department of Classical Ethnology to get some more info on succubus' and
the tablet Spate is translating, which seems to be the same one written about
in the 1500s. Carl realizes he must destroy the tablet to destroy the succubus.
Mark Thompson is on the verge of making up (and out) with Maria when she
suddenly turns into a withered old hag and drops dead. With the spirit of the
succubus gone, her body returns to its beautiful young (but still dead) state.
And why did the succubus leave Maria before killing Thompson? It senses Kolchak
trying to destroy the tablet. Taking physical form, the succubus blows into the
Spate's study and fights with Carl to save the tablet but he manages to shatter
it. The succubus drops and turns to dust, like all Carl's other evidence of
this story. But at least Spate decides to tell the cops the tablet was
destroyed by accident, saving Carl another ride in a cop car.
continuity trouble: Carl states it's 11 May when Rhiner's
body is found. Then states it's 11 May again on what is obviously the next day.
That is changed in narration to 12 May the next time he says anything about it.
I'd rather have this before "Spanish Moss Murders" because Carl refs
Captain Siska's therapy, but that would put it after the airdate plus when Carl
visits Dr. Mozart he says it's the weekend, which works in 74 but not 75.)[/]
Demon In Lace 7 Feb 75 [/]
[=-1] 1974
May 21 - June 2
After taking victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Ripper
murderer comes to Chicago, killing prostitutes; Kolchak comes to believe that
rather than a copycat, this is the same Ripper that terrorized London in 1888
and other places over the years, killing upwards of seventy woman from Paris to
Italy to Athens to New York City
The Ripper 13 Sep 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
June 3
Cynthia Tibbs, a member of the Mix Match dating service, is
inducted into the exclusive group of Olympians by the company's owner, Helen
Surtees.
The Youth Killer 14 Mar 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
July 3 - 10
Michelle Louise Kelly (25), an assistant on Dr. Aaron
Pollack's sleep project, is killed leaving work. Her chest cavity is caved in.
Officially, it's ruled a hit-and-run. On the 6th while on his way to the
dentist's office, Carl picks up a call on his police band radio. A chef at a
ritzy French restaurant has been killed. Carl arrives to find a body covered
with green 'salad.' Captain Siska - formerly known as "Mad Dog" but
now of the "I'm okay, you're okay" set thanks to group therapy - is
on the scene and tells Kolchak they already have a suspect. When Carl goes to
the police station, he finds the cops aren't being completely forthcoming about
the facts of the case. Sneaking into the files, he finds a reference to the
Kelly death. What does a hit-and-run have to do with a murder? Meanwhile, Bobby
Ray Salonge is killed in the basement of the Champlain Apartments. After a few
days of going through the phone book trying to find the right Michelle Kelly,
Carl finds out she was working at Northwestern University on the sleep research
project. On the 9th, Carl interviews Dr. Pollack but gets little out of him
other than Kelly was clumsy and had almost awakened their subject when she
bumped into the equipment. Carl goes to the Chicago Botanic Gardens to find out
what the green stuff at the chef's murder was. It's Spanish Moss. Not native to
Chicago and not likely to be found anywhere other than an expensive greenhouse.
Carl gets a tip about Salonge and goes to the apartment building, where the
building manager tells Carl Salonge was apparently some sort of street
musician. Kolchak checks out the street scene and runs across a fiddler named
Jean who knew Salonge but is to eager to get to a recording studio to talk.
Jean's pal Pepe LaRue (real name Maurice Shapiro) also knew Bobby Ray and his
foul-tempered friend Paul Langois, who disappeared a few months back. As
they're walking along, Maurice telling Kolchak about the Cajuns in Chicago and
their legends like peremalfait, the faux Frenchman disappears. Kolchak checks the
alley and snaps a few pictures of something in the shadows, but doesn't find
any sign of Maurice. Kolchak's photos don't show much (as usual) but he knows
it's the real killer. He tells Siska he thinks Langois is the killer but the
cops are on it - Langois is Pollack's subject and hasn't been awake for six
weeks. Kolchak heads back to Pollack, who gives him a quick brush-off but not
before a bunch of alarms go off. Pollack admits not knowing exactly why it's
happening, but that is just does once in awhile. Meanwhile, a police patrolman
is killed by the peremalfait. Kolchak tracks Jean down at the recording studio
and finds out that peremalfait is a swamp legend - a boogeyman that can only be
killed by a stake of Bayou Gum. Back at the sleep research project, Kolchak
finds Siska already there trying to get Langois awakened. Kolchak points out
that the mysterious alarms all happened at times when murders were being
committed. Somehow, Langois was dreaming a creature from his childhood into
existence and it was killing people who were threatening it. Pollack tries to
wake Langois but he dies. Kolchak hopes the nightmares are over. Those hopes
are dashed when he goes back to the INS offices and finds water and moss all
over his desk. The peremalfait is after him now. He breaks into the Botanic
Garden to get the Bayou Gum for a stake, then heads down into the sewers - hot
and humid and perfect for a swamp monster. After a harrowing chase, Kolchak
stakes the creature and it washes away.
continuity trouble: Not a lot really. When Kolchak is
checking the EEG readouts to match up the alarms against the murders, he
mentions "June 5" for some reason. And it seems weird that nothing
goes on during the 7th and 8th.)[/]
The Spanish Moss Murders 6 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
July 26 - 30
Kolchak attends the dedication of the new Lakefront
Hospital, hosted by hospital director Dr. Ralph Carrie and Walter Green, who's
firm built the hospital. During the dedication, there's a power fluctuation. It
seems minor, but Kolchak notices a nurse whispering to Carrie and Green and
then they tell the gathered reporters that due to time considerations, the
lower levels of the hospital will not be toured. Suspicious, Carl follows Nurse
Janice Eisen down to the pathology lab where she works but she refuses his
questions. Kolchak comments on the heat in the basement even though he can feel
cold air coming from the air conditioning vents and notices cracks in the
walls. Then he feels a small quake. Something is going on. While Vincenzo looks
over Kolchak's article on the dedication (obviously written by Emily), Kolchak
looks over plans he stole from the hospital. Vincenzo tries to assign a gang
shooting to Carl but he scams Tony into tackling it himself. Carl calls up
architectural engineer Don Kibbey into the hospital's basement. He doesn't see
anything too major in the heat and cracking, but admits it could warrant some
further investigation. Then the lights begin to blow and Kibbey runs, leaving
Carl alone in the place. Carl runs into Nurse Eisen again who admits there has
been several deaths in the hospital, including an electrical engineer who was
killed during the power fluctuation at the dedication ceremony. All the
deceased had some connection to electrical equipment. The next day Carl sneaks
into a meeting of pathologists who are discussing the deaths. It seems the
victims blood has been reduced to a "black, tar-like substance." All
the plasma has been removed. Captain Webster bust Carl at the meeting and
tosses him out so he tracks down Jim Elkhorn, who pulled his men off the
hospital construction. Elkhorn is also a tribal shaman, and has little time for
Carl but does mention one word - "Matchemonedo." Back at the
hospital, 22 year-old patient Claudia Granoff is the latest victim. Carl slips
past hospital guards with a disguise of bedpans and gets Eisen to go with him
to Elkhorn's apartment to discuss Matchemonedo. He tells Carl it's an ancient
invisible bear-god that was in the area even before the indians. They convince
Elkhorn to go back to the hospital to try and banish the creature. One of the
offices blows up while they're there, and in the confusion Carl and Elkhorn
steal a stack of un-exposed x-ray slides. Back in the INS offices, they piece
the films together to get their first look at Matchemonedo, which looks like a
giant eye. They do some more research into the history of Matchemonedo and Carl
realizes that all the reports are from summer months. As if, like a bear, it
hibernated during the winter. But at some point the lake shifted and basically
kept that area in a winter-like state. Now that the land has been reclaimed,
the hospital construction has somehow awakened the force. Carl and Elkhorn take
their findings to Green and Dr. Carrie who are ready to throw them out when
there's a disturbance in the basement. The beast is in the Cobalt Room, feeding
on the cobalt and growing. Finally, they have proof that can't be ignored.
Green and Carrie start an evacuation of the hospital, telling the major news
services (not the INS) that it's because of a weakening of the foundation.
Kolchak takes two good cameras and infrared and ultraviolet film down to the
basement to try and get pictures of Matchemonedo for Tony. He bypasses workers
pushing refrigeration hoses down to the basement and something starts to
happen, but before Carl can get away he collapses in the cold. He wakes up in
St. Vincents's Hospital. Tony tells him Green pulled him out and he's got minor
frostbite. The cold also destroyed the fancy film ($40 down the tubes) but Carl
still has pics from his regular camera - a big, blurry eye.
continuity trouble: Nothing so far. Other than all of
Matchemonedo's appearances being during the summer, there's really no dating I
picked up on, so I just picked a few days during a month I hadn't used yet.)[/]
The Energy Eater 13 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
August
"Old Mrs. Resnick" is found dead in the Roosevelt
Heights neighborhood of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Ali Lakshimi opens an
Indian restaurant in the predominantly Jewish area and begins painting
swastikas all over the place.
Starman tells Kolchak she was killed "a couple of
months ago.")[/]
Horror In The Heights 20 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
August 14 - 20
After filing his story on the death of crime syndicate
member Willie Pike, Kolchak is sent to a police stand-off where more syndicate
members, the Russo brothers, are killed. Denied info by the police, Kolchak
goes to morgue attendant Gordon "Gordy the Ghoul" Spangler, who tells
him that not only were the deaths of Pike and the Russo's not your standard
events - they all had their spines snapped - but another body was found with
the Russos. A Haitian named Francois Edmonds that Gordy had seen the week prior
with six .44 magnum slugs in his chest and chicken blood in his ear. Kolchak
realizes a zombie is on the loose, after those involved in his death. One of
those is police captain Winwood, which indicates to Kolchak that Winwood was
involved in some less-than-honest activities, but his evidence is destroyed
during the final confrontation with the zombie and Francois Edmonds is laid to
rest in St. Lucy's Cemetary for the third (and hopefully final) time.
The Zombie 20 Sep
74 [/]
[=-1]1974
August 22 (approx.)
Temporary sports reporter Ron Up**** writes some
unflattering remarks about roller derby queen Stuffy Padachenko of the Atlanta
Amazons. Carl keeps the lead jammer from twisting Ron's head off by saying he's
an internal bleeder. Ron promises Kolchak tickets to the upcoming World Series.
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... 27 Sep 1974 [/]
[=-1]1974
August 26
Leon Van Heusen, creator of a 'universal language' called
Mathmatico, calls in a UFO report.
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... 27 Sep 1974 [/]
[=-1]1974
September (approx.)
Pepe Torres is transferred to the Sherwood hotel in Chicago,
Illinois. He appears to serve no real function, spending his time playing the
flute and being fawned over by three beautiful "assistants", but
hotel owner George Andrews insists Torres' every whim is catered to.
Legacy of Terror 14 Feb 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 2
Kolchak is excited. Up**** owes him a ticket to the first
game of the first World Series in 29 years to have the Cubs on deck. Vincenzo
has a story about a dead animal at the Lincoln Park Zoo but Carl states the
dead leopard is yesterday's news. In a way, he's right. The leopard was
yesterday, this morning a cheetah died. Two animals in two days arouse Carl's
curiosity and he decides he has time to check it out before the game. On the
way, Carl's malfunctioning radio picks up part of a police report with the
dreaded words "officer down." Carl takes a detour to Radyne
Electronics where he witnesses a wall explode soundlessly and cops get tossed
about like ragdolls. Which is nothing compared to watching two tons of lead
ingot vanish into thin air. Police Captain Quill sees it too, but forbids Carl
from reporting. A security guard was killed during the attack. Carl also
notices several men in suits hanging around. Heading on out to the Zoo, he
hears a radio call-in show with Alfred Brindle complaining about black goo on
his yard. At the Zoo, he finds some black goo himself in the cheetah's cage.
The bars of the cage have also been blown apart, an odd symptom of the heart
attack the Zoo animals were supposed to have had. Calling the radio station to
inquire about the caller, Carl is hung up on after the station denies the call
took place. The man Carl heard had blamed a city paving project, so Carl calls
the city offices and is hung up on again. Missing the first innings of the
game, which he can barely hear due to his radio acting up, Carl heads on out to
Mariposa Way, where the man with the lawn problem lived. The yard is easy to
spot, now being a yellowed mess. Seems an hour after the call, Brindle's
problem was attacked with a variety of methods to remove the goo, up to and
including flamethrowers. But they didn't get it all. Carl finds a chunk of goo
identical to what he found at the zoo. Brindle also tells Carl of what his
neighbors had experienced; one had his stereo ripped out of his house, and
another had several of her cats killed. Meanwhile, purse-snatcher Keeter Hudson
hides out in a condemned building full of electronic equipment...and dies
there. Dr. Bess Winestock at the zoo confirms the goo from Brindle's yard
matches the zoo goo. Hydrochloric acid, acetone and bone marrow. Carl gets
Monique Marmelstein to develop the photos from Radyne, but they show typically
little of use. Carl hits the morgue to get info about the Radyne guard's death.
He's given a tame 'heart attack' story but Gordy the Ghoul slips him a tape
with the real info - bone marrow sucked dry. Heading back to INS, he starts to
fill in Vincenzo and finds his photos gone. Men in suits threatened Monique
with an audit if she didn't hand them over. They also talk to Tony, leading
Vincenzo to tell Carl they don't need another UFO story. But Carl had never
mentioned UFOs. Now he knows what's going on and that the government wants it
covered up. Carls visits a meeting of a UFO group, and hears about Leon Van
Heusen's sighting at Snake Rock. Heading up there, Carl finds Leon's equipment
- and Leon. Also a tape Leon made, talking to something before screaming his
last. At a nearby planetarium (probably Adler Planetarium on Lake Shore Drive),
Carl is attacked by the invisible invader as its studying star charts. Only his
camera flash saves him. He thinks its the light driving the thing off, but when
cops try to pin it down outside with spotlights, it only gets irritated. Carl
realizes its not the flash but the whine of the recharger. Using a compass, which
goes haywire near the thing, Carl finds the spaceship. He's attacked again but
again the camera drives the thing away. It gets back into its ship and leaves
Carl to ponder the story of a traveler with a breakdown, stopping to fix its
vehicle, grab a snack, check the map and be on its way again.
continuity trouble: Not much since all of Carl's actions
take place on one day and night, other than crowding into "Firefall"
a little bit. Might end up moving "Firefall" to '73 when all is said
and done to spread things out a bit.)[/]
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... 27 Sep 1974 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 3
Arsonist and classical music fan Frankie Markoff is killed
in Rabino's Arcade
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 7 (6:40PM)
Not long after conductor Ryder Bond's limo cuts off
Markoff's hearse, violinist and Bond friend George Mason dies of spontaneous
combustion. A witness sees Bond at the scene though others say he was with them
elsewhere.
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 8
Mrs. Felicia Porter, a classical music "groupie"
dies of spontaneous combustion. Again, Ryder Bond is witnessed at the scene but
has an ironclad alibi.
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 9 (5:30PM)
Kolchak follows Philip Rourke, an associate of Bond's, who
dies in car of spontaneous combustion. Carl saw Bond in car before fire but
again, Bond is elsewhere. Kolchak confronts a strangely silent Bond, only to
have him disappear and the apartment burst into flames around Kolchak. A visit
to a gypsy named Maria Hargrove points Kolchak towards a doppleganger - the
spirit of a dead person taking the form of someone living. Carl learns that
when Bond goes to sleep, the doppleganger will be able to take over his body.
In the meantime, Kolchak's nosing around has put him on the death list and if
he goes to sleep, he too will be killed.
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 10 (not stated in narration but obvious)
Kolchak's investigation reveals Bond's encounter with
Markoff's funeral procession and leads Kolchak to realize who the doppleganger
really is. With Bond safely in a church, Carl goes to the cemetary to dig up
Frankie Markoff's body and takes it back to the arcade, where he confronts the
doppleganger with evidence of its death. The arcade goes up in flames, but the
doppleganger is no more. Arrested leaving the scene of the fire, Kolchak looks
forward to a peaceful night's sleep in the slammer.
Fire Fall 8 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
September 20 - 26
Twenty-two year old William Cubby suddenly ages seventy or
so years and drops dead while jogging. The next night, Cynthia Tibbs undergoes
the same rapid aging while exercising and falls from her third floor balcony in
the exclusive singles apartment complex she lives in. Kolchak is there the
morning the body is found, researching an article on the 'swinging singles'
scene. No one can ID the body, but Kolchak finds a ring that slipped from it's
finger. Checking the body of the old jogger in the morgue, he finds a mark on
its finger that indicates he wore a ring also, and he finds a key in the
personal effects. Kolchak searches where the body was found and finds the ring,
then tracks down the apartment, which belongs to Cubby. Kolchak also finds out
Cubby had a glass eye. Meanwhile, "Lance Mervin" (Irvin, to his
mother) is inducted in the Olympians, an exclusive group in the Mix Match
dating service. That night, he too ages and dies. Searching Tibbs' apartment,
Kolchak discovers she too was a member of the Olympians and checks out the Mix
Match service, and its beautiful manager, Helen Surtees. He sneaks in at night
and records Helen praying in a strange language. On a hunch that it's Greek,
Kolchak enlists the aid of ex-college professor/current cab driver Kaz, who
tells him the language is Greek - ancient Greek. Kaz also recognizes a photo of
Helen as being the spitting image of every statue of Helen of Troy he's ever
seen. While trying to remove the Olympian ring Kolchak foolishly slipped on,
Kaz fills Kolchak in on Helen, the sacrifices she must make to Hecate to
maintain eternal youth and beauty and how to destroy her. Kolchak goes back to
Mix Match, destroying the temple and telling Helen about her less-than-perfect
sacrifice, William Cubby of the glass eye. The gods are not amused, and Helen
is turned into a statue. And the ring falls off Kolchak's finger.
continuity trouble: Based on the way I count days, I'd
rather put this episode in 1976. Near the end, Tony tells Carl that
"tomorrow is Friday" and by my count, the ep actually ran from Sep.
20th to the night of the 24th, making Friday the 25th which doesn't happen
until 1976 - or way back in 1970. But I'd prefer to keep from having to figure
out how the show was aired before it actually took place if at all possible, so
I'll allow that there could've been an extra day or so in there. Also, the
driver's license Kolchak looks at in Cubby's apartment is actually for a Jerry
Gaines (or Grimes - not positive) with a Los Angeles address.)[/]
The Youth Killer 14 Mar 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
October 11 - 13
Harry Starman goes to his regular Friday night poker game in
the run-down Roosevelt Heights area with some buddies. Julius "Buck"
Fineman (72) is another player, and goes out for some glasses for the wine. He
doesn't come back. When his body is found, it's been shredded. Officially,
according to Officer York, by rats. Kolchak heads back to the office and talks
to Tony about the conditions in the neighborhood and how bad it is for the
older folks stuck there. Miss Emily is still in the office. She confesses to
Carl that she really just took the job so she can work on her detective novel.
She can get free paper and use of the typewriter. Later that evening, Sol and
Miriam Goldstein are leaving the theater and take an alley shortcut home.
Miriam is worried, because of Fineman's death and the swastikas that have been
popping up all over the neighborhood lately but Sol is stubborn. In the alley,
they're surprised by a police officer which turns out not to be what he seems.
Carl is awakened by an un-named caller and responds to the alley where the
Goldstein's bodies are found. Officer York again suggests that rats are
responsible for the shape of the bodies. Harry Starman is on the scene, too.
He's the one that called Carl. He tells Carl he knows who's behind the murders,
and takes Carl to an Indian restaurant that opened up shortly after Mrs.
Resnick's death. He's seen the old man that runs the place painting the
swastikas on the walls. Dubious about the existence of Hindu Nazis, Kolchak
hops the fence behind the Lakshimi Restaurant and takes photos while Harry
waits outside. Harry then sees Kolchak coming down the alley towards him and
asks him what he's doing out there. Still inside the fence, Kolchak says he's
not out there, he's in here - then he hears the scream. By the time Kolchak
scrambles back over the fence, Starman is dead, exhibiting the same bite marks
as the others. Carl sees an old Indian man at the end of the alley. The man
says something Carl doesn't quite catch, and when he looks for the man, he runs
into to policemen who arrest Kolchak. Detectives Prodman and Thomas question
Kolchak until Tony bails him out.
Carl tracks down exterminator Frank Rivas and asks if rats
could attack a person in under a minute, as the cops say happened to Starman.
Franks considers the idea highly unlikely. Carl goes to the restaurant and
talks to the young waiter, Barry. He says the owner, Ali Lakshimi, is a little
odd, asking people if they see old friends and relatives around at night -
whether their old friends and relatives or dead now or not. Carl sneaks into
the back of the place where the old man lives and takes a few pictures. The old
man confronts Carl, firing a crossbow at him but missing. Carl high-tails it
and the old man collapses in tears. Carl develops the photos and shows them to
Tony, telling him he's researched the swastika and found out the Nazis didn't
invent it. It's actually and old Hindu symbol. That night, Officers York and
Boxman are on patrol. They see something in an alley and check it out. York
thinks he sees Sgt. DeVito, who should be on sick leave, and Boxman thinks he
sees his mom. Boxman runs to her, and when York follows, he sees DeVito over
Boxman's body.
Carl questions museum curator Lane Marriot about Hindu
culture and finds out that the word he'd heard the old man say was
"Rakshasa." The Rakshasa are demons that can only be killed by a
crossbow firing bolts blessed by Brahma. Tony trashes the story, complaining
that what started out as a serious story about the plight of the elderly in the
city has become drivel about Hindu monsters. Carl goes back to the restaurant
and talks to the old man, sick and probably dying. He tells Carl he's been hunting
Rakshasa for sixty years but now he's too old. He also tells Carl it will
appear to him as someone he trusts, to which Carl says he trusts no one. The
old man tells Carl it's not safe there and to go, giving him the crossbow and
arrows. On his way out, Carl sees Miss Emily in the alley. She tells him she
followed him to do research for her story. Carl tells her to stay away from him
or he'll shoot with the crossbow. She keeps coming, saying she's afraid out
there in the alley at night. Carl pulls the trigger and the Rakshasa drops.
Carl considers telling Emily that it appeared as her, meaning he trusts her,
but doesn't think she'd take kindly to the idea that he ended up shooting her.
continuity trouble: Hoo-boy...by now I don't expect much
continuity from Kolchak, but this... It starts, per Carl's narration, on
October 14th - a Friday. By the middle of the ep when the two policemen are
attacked in the alley, it's "March 3rd, 12:15AM." And right after
this, Officer York asks his partner what time it is and is told it's about
two-thirty. Since the ep aired in December 74, I just picked a Friday in
October to start it and am letting it go at that unless I need this October for
something else later.)[/]
Horror In The Heights 20 Dec 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
November 8 - 12
Dr. Jules Copenick (43), a biologist working for Oceanic Oil
International, returns late to his office after attending an overseas
conference. Kolchak arrives at the lab hours later as the police are
investigating Copenick's death. Captain Molnar doesn't allow pictures but
Kolchak takes a look at the body. Copenick has been ripped apart quite
literally. The police still don't know where his arm is at. While looking
around, Kolchak finds a large, walk-in freezer but it's hot and humid inside.
The freezer had conked out shortly after Copenick closed up the lab and went to
the conference. There are several cannisters inside, at least one of which has
fallen over and opened. Getting the run-around about Copenick's work, Kolchak
ends up at the office of OIO's Vice President of public Relations, Thomas J.
Kitzmiller. Kitzmiller tells Carl a little about Copenick's biology work and
that the cannisters contained core samples from deep in the arctic. He also
mentions Copenick's assistant, Dr. Helen Lynch, but says she's been in the
hospital after a car accident and can't see anyone. When Kolchak finally makes
it back to the INS office with his story, Tony is peeved. All the other
services have already reported Copenick's death. It's old news. Naturally,
Kolchak decides to go to the hospital and, with the help of a potted fern,
sneaks into Lynch's room. Before being found and booted out, Carl finds out
from Lynch that in those core samples they found cells which, when thawed out,
"started to exhibit biological functions." After being frozen for
untold millenia, the cells were alive! That night, photographer Robert Gurnyey
is attacked in his apartment. His leg is nearly torn off. Kolchak arrives to
find that the suspect - a gorilla - has been shot and killed. But neighbors
Kolchak questions state that it looked more man-like than gorilla-like.
Kolchak tries to see Kitzmiller again but is put off, then
he hears that the lab has been broken into. He runs into Capt. Molnar again in
the lab, where one of the windows has been broken out. Molnar states it's just
a case of vandalism at the scene of a previous crime. No big deal.
A nighttime delivery to Vito's Meat Market (near the old
stadium - Stagg Field) is interrupted and truck driver William Pratt is killed.
Kolchak arrives on scene just in time to snap a few pics of some hairy ape-man
escaping the scene. He hears some animal control officers say they'd fired six
tranqualizers into the beast and it wasn't even slowed down. Captain Molnar
"accidentally" throws Kolchak's camera on the ground and stomps on
it.
Kolchak goes to the police station to try and get his camera
back. Molnar apologizes and tells Carl to leave a voucher and he'll be
reimbursed. Kolchak sneaks into Molnar's office and finds pictures of the
ape-man killed at the scene of Gurney's attack. Back at the hospital,
Kitzmiller and some OIO scientists are talking to Lynch. While they don't think
it's possible, it seems the cells brought back from the arctic may have
multiplied and grown into these ape-men. Carl finds out from Vincenzo that the
story has been cancelled. The oil company's reach is far, it seems. That night,
Rosetta Mason is attacked on her way home.
Kolchak gets a picture of the beast's footprint. He tries to
find someone to question about it, but it seems OIO has put the word out to
keep quiet. Kolchak ends up at a high school and talks to biology teacher Jack
Burton. He gives Kolchak some background on the evolutionary chain but admits
that if the samples came from the arctic, it could be anything. They don't know
what happened up there "except that it froze." He does suggest to
Carl that if it's a meat-eater, it probably does it's hunting at night and
hides in caves during the day. Kolchak heads back to the OIO lab, sneaking in
through the boarded up window. Most of the core cannisters are gone but he
finds one under a lamp with some sort of embryo growing in it. There are no
caves in Chicago, but attacks all took place close to OIO and it is in turn
close to Stagg Field, under which are the tunnels used during the Manhattan
Project. With an armload of flares, Kolchak heads into the tunnels. He finds
the body of Mason. He also finds one of the ape-men, and nearly has it calmed
down when a troop of Molnar's police arrive. The creature attacks Carl and is
put down by tranqualizers. It's taken away, somewhere, along with Carl's camera
(again) and Carl is left in the tunnels reporting into his tape recorder.
continuity trouble: Luckily, Kolchak's involvement in
"Bad Medicine" doesn't actually start until the 16th, leaving room
for this episode.)[/]
Primal Scream 17 Jan 75 [/]
[=-1]1974
November 12 (11:20PM)
Rhonda June Marsky is surprised by a raven which turns into
a giant Native American shaman and kills her, taking her 350 caret diamond
pendant.
Bad Medicine 29 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
November 13 (1:30AM)
Luci Lapont Addison is surprised by a coyote which turns
into a giant Native American shaman and kills her, taking her $250,000 emerald
bracelet.
Bad Medicine 29 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1974
November 16 - 17
Kolchak suspects foul play in the deaths of Marsky and
Addison despite an official ruling of suicide. These suspicions are confirmed
when he comes across a gem exchange robbery involving a 7 foot tall Indian. He
discovers the creature is an ancient shaman from a cliff-dwelling tribe called
a Diablero. Kolchak defeats the Diablero in a deserted high-rise.
continuity trouble: Nothing too bad. Thanks to a second look
at the calendar I found I could keep it in '74 by moving "The Knightly
Murders." I had a more detailed synopsis but my computer crashed (twice!)
while trying to open Encarta and research some refs to past jewel thefts
mentioned by Kolchak in this ep. If anyone can help out...)[/]
Bad Medicine 29 Nov 74 [/]
[=-1]1975
May 2 - 5
Summoned to a fashion show by Mickey Patchek, Kolchak sees
the man take a high dive out of a window. Carl grabs the man's camera. He talks
to some of the models, including the beautiful Madelaine, to try and find out
why Mickey called him. Top model Ariel wants Madelaine dropped from the show
but her face is clawed by a cat. Another model, Melody Sedgwick, is scalded in
a shower. Another stoolie, Murray Vernon, calls Carl and tells him he has the
info Patchek wanted to give Kolchak, but Vernon is gunned down before he can
tell Carl what it is or where it's at. The mob guys don't think they got to
Vernon in time, and give Carl sixty hours to come up with the goods. The police
think it has something to do with stealing fashion designs. Madelaine tells
Kolchak Madame Trevi is a witch, which doesn't seem unlikely after a driverless
car tries to run Carl down and he sees Trevi watching from a window. Checking
out info on witches, Carl finds out they can't be drowned, hate the sound of
breaking glass, and will lose their powers if publicly accused. A coven also
gives Carl info on where to find Trevi's source of power. But it's a trick, and
one of the coven members is Madelaine. Carl destroys the box as Trevi walks in.
She collapses, but manages to tell Carl that Madelaine is the witch and the box
helped Trevi keep her under control. Meanwhile, the mob guys ransack the INS
offices to 'encourage' Carl, who still doesn't know what it is they want. Carl
goes back to Trevi's salon to find the doll Madelaine is using to keep Trevi in
the hospital, when Madelaine shows up and tells Carl the truth. She is indeed a
witch, and would've taken Trevi to the top with her but Trevi turned against
her. Now Madelaine wants to team up with Carl, and even tells him where the
information the mobsters want is at. Carl doesn't give in, and after a struggle
with possessed mannequins manages to get Madelaine out on the street and accuse
her publicly. Madelaine collapses, her mind snapped. She even catches a
medieval case of boils, destroying her looks.
[=-1] (continuity trouble: Kolchak's narration say it's
"Tuesday, May 2nd." Trevi states the show is the "mid-point year
of the seventies" and later states "nineteen seventy-five". May
2nd is not on a Tuesday in '75. And after the opening "May 2nd"
events, there's a scene which takes place the next day, then it's "May
2nd" again for Melody to take her shower. I'll say the 'Tuesday' part is
wrong, I guess.)[/]
The Trevi Collection 24 Jan 75 [/]
[=-1]1975
September 22 - 8 October (approx.)
Football player Lenny Strahan's heart is cut out. Days
later, US Army Special Forces Staff Sergeant Rolf Anderson suffers the same
fate. During a convention in the Sherwood Hotel, Kolchak meets Air Force pilot
Captain Madge Timmins, who's heart is later removed. At the scene where her
body is found, Kolchak is knocked out by a large, feathered creature. Deciding
to check out the hotel, Kolchak ends up locked in the basement while hiding
from police officer Lyons, a medal of honor winner. Carl finds a painting of a
man in a feathered outfit like the one he saw and an ancient Aztec mummy in the
hotel storeroom. After being released, Kolchak meets one of the hotel's key
executives, a young man named Pepe Torres who appears to do nothing except play
the flute and be followed around by three beautiful women. Meanwhile, Officer
Lyons becomes the fourth victim. Kolchak's research leads him to the conclusion
that Torres is to be the fifth, willing, sacrifice to Nanauatzin (the mummy
Kolchak found) following a fifty-two year pattern based on the Aztec calendar
and centering around the hotel chain. It's the time of the last sacrifice,
which has to be done before Venus rises, as Venus is the ally of Quetzalcoatl
and dark deeds are not permitted in its sight. In the sports arena where the
final sacrifice is to take place, Kolchak manages to talk Pepe out of giving
his life. Nanauatzin rises and tries to take Kolchak's life but without the
fifth sacrifice, its time runs out and it collapses...at least until next time.
[=-1] (this ep is a continuity buff's nightmare - according
to Kolchak's narration, it starts on September 22 - a Monday. Seven days later
when Anderson is killed, it's September 29 - a Wednesday. Officer Lyons is
killed 13 days after the first victim, but when Kolchak visits the Mexican
Embassy, he's told the Cultural Attache won't be back until October 1. And
during the final showdown, the date on Kolchak's watch shows MON 25. Unless a
later, better thought-out episode conflicts, I'm using "Monday, September
22nd" as my start date, putting this ep in 1975 and not worrying about the
rest. Also, if I start my calculator on 1507 and keep adding 52, the years work
out correctly.)[/]
Legacy of Terror 14 Feb 75 (Valentine's Day, appropriately
enough) [/]
[=-1]1976
April 20 - 21
Deep in some unfinished tunnels of Merrymount Archives Inc.
Dr. James Verhyden and his assistant Howard Kemper make an unusual find. As
Verhyden takes the strange rock samples back to his lab, Kemper is attacked and
killed.
The next morning, electrician Lawrence Earl Coogan is down
in another section of tunnels when he too is attacked and killed. Police
Lieutenant Irene Lamont is typically tight-lipped about the circumstances of
the two deaths, stating security reasons. Carl is disgusted by how quickly
other reporters succumb to Lamont's feminine wiles and drop their questions. He
worms his way into Coogan's autopsy, where he finds out that, like Kemper,
Coogan's wounds are consistent with reptile teeth. Kolchak, representing the
INS - International Nickel Syndicate - goes to Merrymount and takes a tour of
the facility courtesy of Jack Flaherty. Merrymount stores records for big
business and governments in their extensive underground vault system, keeping
the files safe from most everything including nuclear war. Carl meets a rather
paranoid Verhyden and peeved union man Ted Chapman, who tells Carls where the
bodies were found. Kolchak uses an electric cart and heads off into the tunnels
to investigate. He comes face-to-face with a man-d alligator-type monster.
Running for his life, he lands in the arms of police led by Lt. Lamont. As they
haul him out, a man from the "water department" demands Kolchak be
put in their custody but Lamont refuses. Back in the INS offices after Tony
gets him out of jail, Kolchak calls ex-con Arnie Wisemore. Wisemore builds a
crate and deliver's Carl to Merrymount inside of it disguised as 'precision
instruments.' Carl makes his way to Verhyden's lab and finds Verhyden's big
discovery - eggs. The creature bursts through the wall and kills Verhyden.
Kolchak runs and a bunch of gun-toting "water department" guys are
wiped out by the creature. Kolchak checks one of the bodies and finds military
dog tags. Then Lt. Lamont finds him. Carl talks to head "water
department" guy, Colonel Brody. Brody knows the creatures are real and is
worried about national security - what if the creatures get into underground
missile silos and such? Carl counters with concerns for the general public -
what if they get into subway tunnels? The creature comes through another wall
and Carl gets away. He heads back to Verhyden's lab and grabs the nest. He
takes it deep into the tunnels where the creature takes it from him and heads
off into the darkness. Carl has no doubts this story will be buried like so
many others.
continuity trouble: Another one that I'm putting much later
than I'd prefer. But Carl states that the day of the autopsy is a Wednesday,
and other than 1971 (pre-"The Night Stalker") this is the only time
April 21 falls on a Wednesday in the 70s.)[/]
The Sentry 28 Mar 75 [/]
[=-1]1978
April 2 - 7
Carl lays out of work, spending the day fishing. That night,
Nobel Prize winning Professor Avery Walker is attacked and killed by a robot he
was working on. A mailman is also attacked, his uniform stolen. When Carl
finally shows in the office the next day, Vincenzo assigns the obituary to him,
having just sent Up**** to San Fransisco CA to cover the Mendenham trial.
Listed simply as a heart attack, Walker's death holds little interest for Carl
but the file on Walker hasn't been updated since '67 so he has to get some info
from the widow. He finds her drinking heavily, going on about the top secret,
hush-hush nature of Walker's work at the Tyrell Institute. She also lets slip
the name of Walker's assistant, Leslie Dwyer. On his way to interview her,
Carl's police radio picks up a call. Carl arrives in time to see a man in a
mailman's uniform and odd blue mask bull his way through a dozen or so of
Chicago's finest, who are strangely reluctant to shoot. Stranger, the thief
stole only cosmetic supplies from a mortician... er ... cosmetologist. Carl
gets little out of his interview with Dr. Dwyer. She's a specialist in
'autonetics' and Walker was into micro-circuitry with a few 'books for the
blind' tapes on morality and such lying about her apartment. Meanwhile, the
make-up thief uses the mortician's wax to cover the blue mask in an attempt to
give it a more human-like appearance. Carl's inquiries draw the wrong type of
attention (as usual) and Tony is pressured to kill the story. All manner of
subtle threats are employed, including the possibility of condemning the very
building the INS is housed in. A library is attacked by the robot, which takes
a bunch of those 'books on tape'. At night, Dwyer has a visit from the masked
mailman. When Carl goes back to her place in the morning to try and get more
info, he finds her place full of cops but no Dwyer. With Miss Emily's help,
Carl tracks down a library that's recently checked out more of those tapes, all
dealing with philosophy and morality, and further tracks down who they were
checked out too - Dwyer. He goes to the house she's hiding in and finds her
with with the robot, RING - Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia. She'd been
fired from the project after objecting to the military's insistence that RING
be programmed with aggressive tendencies. RING had only killed Walker because
it didn't want to die itself. The tapes were its attempt to learn right from
wrong. The mailman's clothes and the make-up its way of making itself
presentable for Dwyer. The Army ends up having followed Kolchak and bust into
the house. When RING feels Dwyer is threatened, he attacks and is brought down
by their bullets. Kolchak is spirited away for 'several days' and drugged into
forgetting most of what happened.
continuity trouble: Carl's narration places Walker's death
on "April 2, Sunday, 11:25PM." The events of the next day seem to
pass and then it's "April 3, 7AM." Also, the only times April 2nd is
on a Sunday in the 70s were 72 - when he's in Seattle facing down "The
Night Strangler" - and here - 1978 - which is really later than I'd like
it to take place. I'll most likely move it once all the eps are accounted for,
and blame the date/day trouble on Kolchak's addled state of mind when he was
trying to remember what happened.)[/]
Mr. R.I.N.G. 10 Jan 75 [/]
[=-1]2027
The Aztec millennium, when Nanauatzin is supposed to rise
and lead under the evil god Tezcatlipoca. Hopefully Carl's interruption of the
last cycle prevents this and helps Quetzalcoatl win the battle.
Legacy of Terror 14 Feb 75 [/]
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