ABC airs the 19th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Cathy Lee Crosby guest stars. 
A series of unidentified elderly bodies are turning up around Chicago, dying of natural causes. Only Kolchak believes that they may be connected to the disappearances of a series of young swingers. He finds out that the disappearances had one thing in common – each was a member of an exclusive dating service run by a mysterious Helen. A taxi driver and former Greek professor identifies Helen from a photo as Helen of Troy, whose face launched a thousand ships. She is able to maintain her youthfulness by sacrificing to the gods the youth of physically perfect victims. Each of the victims is given a special ring as part of their membership, which marks them as a sacrifice to the gods. Carl accidentally dons one of the rings, and must confront Helen in her modern-day Greek shrine before she ages him to death as well.
written by Rudolph Borchert
directed by Don McDougall
music by Gil MilleCast: Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Cathy Lee Crosby (Helen), Dwayne Hickman (Sgt. Orkin), Kathleen Freeman (Bella Sarkof) , Demosthenes (Kaz Kazantarkis), Ruth McDevitt (Emily Cowles), John Fiedler (Gordon “Gordy the Ghoul” Spangler), Eddie Firestone (Conventioneer), Michael Richardson (Mervin), Penny Santon (Mother), James Murtaugh (Manager), James Ingersoll (1st Young Man), Reb Brown (2nd Young Man), Joss White (Secretary)
Notes: Primarily a comedy episode, there is very little overt horror and even more scenes played for laughs than usual. Demosthenes is a stage name for actor George Savalas; he frequently used it when appearing on Kojak alongside his older brother, Telly Savalas.
LogBook entry by Steve Crowe