ABC airs the 14th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Bernie Koppell (The Love Boat) and Lara Parker (Dark Shadows) guest star. 
Kolchak is present at Madame Trevi’s fashion show to meet with an industrial spy who has garment union receipts he needs to write a story. The spy falls to his death. Examination of the man’s camera film shows that the mannequins at the studio he was in were moving. Other bizarre occurrences follow. One model is disfigured by a cat, while another is scalded to death in her temperature-controlled shower. When a driverless car attempts to run him over, Kolchak comes to believe that black witchcraft is being employed by the secretive Madame Trevi. A coven of witches tell him how to strip her of her powers. He does so, only to free the true witch from Trevi’s control. Armed with a mojo bag, Carl must publicly accuse the witch to strip her of her powers.
written by Rudolph Borchert
directed by Don Weis
music by Jerry FieldingCast: Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Nina Foch (Madame Trevi), Marvin Miller (Lecturer), Bernard Koppell (Doctor), Lara Parker (Madelaine), Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke), Ruth McDevitt (Emily Cowles), Richard Bakalyn (1st Killer), Doug Fowley (The Super), Priscilla Morrill (Griselda), Henry Brandon (The Man), Henry Slate (2nd Killer), Peter Leeds (Photographer), Beverly Gill (Melody), Dennis McCarthy (The Figure), Diane Quick (Ariel)
Notes: Lara Parker had played Angelique, a witch, on the Dark Shadows series.
LogBook entry by Steve Crowe