Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Horror in the Heights
TV Flash files “Horror in the Heights” as a desk essential hour — Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975) on ABC, season 1, episode 11, aired 1974-12-20, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E11: listed hour 11 of 20 in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker guide, hour 11 of 20 in season 1. It aired 1974-12-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Energy Eater” (S01E10). Next is “Mr. R.I.N.G.” (S01E12).
Essential hour: “Horror in the Heights”. Horror in the Heights is neighborhood-title dread. One short season of grumbling craft: the mutter still the star, the monster still a story the cops will not sign.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Roosevelt Heights has certainly seen better days. One problem the Jewish neighborhood has experienced lately is a rat infestation, which has led to several fatalities. Another is an elderly Hindu man, drawing swastikas everywhere. These two problems turn out to be connected, and the horrible truth behind the rat attacks nearly costs Carl his life, and forces him to kill the person he trusts the most.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Horror in the Heights sit in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker guide?
S01E11 is listed hour 11 of 20 — hour 11 of 20 in season 1, season 1 episode 11.
When did Kolchak: The Night Stalker S01E11 air?
Horror in the Heights aired 1974-12-20 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…