ABC airs the 12th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. 
Kolchak is assigned to write the obituary of a scientist specializing in computers, but finds the death and details surrounding the government project the scientist was working on entirely covered up. Meanwhile, a mysterious marauder with superhuman strength is seen at an undertaker’s establishment and a library of talking books. The police are unable to stop the figure from stealing undertakers’ wax and books on philosophy. Kolchak finds the scientist’s co-worker, Leslie Dwyer, but she disappears shortly thereafter. The government brings pressure to bear on Kolchak’s boss Vincenzo, but he persists, tracing Dwyer to her isolated home. The marauder is R.I.N.G. (Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia), an artificial intelligence housed in an android body that has achieved sentience. Rather then be dismantled, it killed its creator and sought refuge with Dwyer. The military show up to claim their project, and R.I.N.G. is destroyed. Kolchak is given drugs to forget the story.
written by L. Ford Neale & John Huff
directed by Gene Levitt
music by Jerry FieldingCast: Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Julie Adams (Mrs. Walker), Corrine Michaels (Dr. Leslie Dwyer), Burt Freed (Captain Akins), Donald Barry (Tyrell Security Guard), Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke), Ruth McDevitt (Emily Cowles), Henry Beckman (Senator Stephens), Robert Easton (Bernard Carmichael), Maidie Norman (Librarian), Bruce Powers (Peters), Vince Howard (Policeman), Read Morgan (Man), Craig Baxley (Mr. R.I.N.G.), Gail Bonney (Barham)
Notes: A somber tale of government cover-up, this story also parallels several X-Files episodes.
LogBook entry by Steve Crowe