ABC airs the second episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Scatman Crothers guest stars. 
A series of brutal crimes are taking place in Chicago’s underworld. Each victim has his spine snapped. Things become more bizarre when the same corpse is discovered at the scene of two of the murders – a Haitian, his ears filled with chicken blood. Despite police resistance, Kolchak discovers that the Haitian, Francois Edmonds, was killed by the same men who are now being murdered. Edmonds’ mother is a voodoo priestess, capable of raising the dead to seek vengeance for their murder. In this case, she is animating her own son to avenge himself. When he gets too close to the truth, Kolchak becomes a target. He tracks the zombie to the auto junkyard where it rests in a hearse. The only way to permanently kill it? Fill its mouth with salt and sew the lips together, or strangle it while burning holy candles.
written by Zekial Marko
directed by Alex Grasshoff
music by Gil MilleCast: Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Charles Aidman (Captain Leo Winwood), Joe Sirola (Benjamin Sposato), Val Bisoglio (Victor Friese), J. Pat O’Malley (Cemetery Caretaker), John Fiedler (Gordon Spangler), Antonio Fargas (Sweetstick Weldon), Scatman Crothers (Uncle Filemon), Antonio Fargas (Sweetstick Weldon), Paulene Myers (Mamalois Edmonds), Earl Faison (The Zombie), Carol Ann Susi (Monique Marmelstein), Ben Frommer (The Monk), Roland Bob Harris (Poppy)
Notes: This is one of the better episodes, particularly the climax when Kolchak must climb into a hearse and try to sew the zombie’s lips together.
LogBook entry by Steve Crowe