Kolchak: The Night Stalker
The Spanish Moss Murders
TV Flash files “The Spanish Moss Murders” as hour 9 of 20 in the TV Flash guide — Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975) on ABC, season 1, episode 9, aired 1974-12-06, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 20 in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker guide, hour 9 of 20 in season 1. It aired 1974-12-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bad Medicine” (S01E08). Next is “The Energy Eater” (S01E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An experiment in dream suppression goes horribly wrong, and the subject manifests a Cajun legend from his childhood--Peremalfait--to kill the people that he hates. Unfortunately, Kolchak becomes the next target when he threatens to unplug the subject.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Spanish Moss Murders sit in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker guide?
S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 20 — hour 9 of 20 in season 1, season 1 episode 9.
When did Kolchak: The Night Stalker S01E09 air?
The Spanish Moss Murders aired 1974-12-06 and is listed at 60 minutes.
TV movies first or the series?
The movies launched the ratings event. The 1974–1975 series is the weekly monster beat. Either entry works; McGavin's mutter is the constant.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Darren McGavin's wire-service reporter in a seersucker suit keeps tripping over vampires the police refuse to file. One short, grumbling season of monster-of-the-week journalism that later paranormal hours raided for tone. The mutter, the flashlight, and the scoop that never quite makes page one.
The seersucker arrives before the monster. ABC, 1974–1975: Darren McGavin's Carl Kolchak in rumpled summer cloth, flashlight as jewelry, a wire-service reporter dressed like he lost the dry cleaner and found a vampire. Kolchak: The Night Stalker grew from hugely rated Night Stalker TV movies and lasted one season — twenty hours of investigative mutter while Simon Oakland's Tony Vincenzo demanded ordinary crime copy. Jack Grinnage's Ron Updyke completed the newsroom that did not want this beat. *Wrinkled…
Filed against
- Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak
Darren McGavin’s Carl Kolchak kept tripping over vampires the police refused to file — seersucker, flashlight, a wire-service reporter in one short, grumbling season of monster-of-the-week journalism. Later paranormal hours raided the…
- Simon Oakland as Tony Vincenzo
Simon Oakland barked Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Tony Vincenzo — the editor who will not file the vampire while Darren McGavin's seersucker reporter keeps tripping over monsters the police refuse to see. One short, grumbling season. TV…
- Jack Grinnage as Ron Updyke
Jack Grinnage’s Ron Updyke filed copy while Darren McGavin’s Kolchak tripped over vampires the police would not name — seersucker monster journalism, one short 1970s season, a flashlight that later paranormal hours raided for tone. TV…