The Vampire
- Episode aired Oct 4, 1974
- 52m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
637
YOUR RATING
Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Kolchak's more interested in tracking down and stopping an extremely vicious female vampire.Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Kolchak's more interested in tracking down and stopping an extremely vicious female vampire.Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Kolchak's more interested in tracking down and stopping an extremely vicious female vampire.
Noel De Souza
- Chandra
- (as Noel de Souza)
Alice Backes
- Elena Munoz
- (uncredited)
Nick Dimitri
- Football Player
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was actually a reworking of a preexisting script. The original plan had been to set the story in New York, where both Kolchak and Vincenzo had wound up after being kicked out of Seattle. Also, the vampire was going to be Skorzeny, last seen in the original movie, mysteriously back from the dead. Then, word arrived that Kolchak had been green-lit for a series, so the story was reworked into its present form.
- GoofsWhen Kolchak comes into his hotel room for the first time, there's the sound of someone casually whistling. It's clear from the shots of Kolchak's face that he's not whistling. He subsequently turns on the TV to the news, so the whistling isn't coming from the TV. Kolchak is the only one in the room, so who is whistling?
- Quotes
Tony Vincenzo: I'm tired of it, Kolchak. I am fed up. I've got a brother-in-law who's got a 14 year old he's always bailing out of juvenile hall, but I've got you, and you are worse!
- ConnectionsReferences Horror of Dracula (1958)
Featured review
One of the two best episodes
The two best episodes of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" are this one, and "The Ripper", about THE Jack the Ripper.
Some of the other episodes in the series weren't very good, like the one where aliens are sucking the bone marrow out of animals.
If you rent the first DVD in the series, it has "The Ripper " and "The Vampire" on it. You can rent the other DVD's, but none of them will be as good as the first.
I'm not sure why the episodes went down hill as the show went on, but they definitely did.
Kolchak was a real smart aleck, and it's easy to see why people in positions of authority would despise him. He was arrogant and abrasive, a real know-it-all. He would have been fired after every episode, if somebody in real life did the kind of things he did.
But he had an uncanny knack for cutting through the bull crap and figuring out what was REALLY going on. And that's the main reason why the police and other authorities didn't like him---he would poke holes in their phony explanations, and rub their nose in it. He intensely enjoyed showing them up.
But they always had it coming to them. The cops were always trying to cover their behinds, or protect some secret. But Kolchak tried to tell the truth, for the greater good of society.
Some of the other episodes in the series weren't very good, like the one where aliens are sucking the bone marrow out of animals.
If you rent the first DVD in the series, it has "The Ripper " and "The Vampire" on it. You can rent the other DVD's, but none of them will be as good as the first.
I'm not sure why the episodes went down hill as the show went on, but they definitely did.
Kolchak was a real smart aleck, and it's easy to see why people in positions of authority would despise him. He was arrogant and abrasive, a real know-it-all. He would have been fired after every episode, if somebody in real life did the kind of things he did.
But he had an uncanny knack for cutting through the bull crap and figuring out what was REALLY going on. And that's the main reason why the police and other authorities didn't like him---he would poke holes in their phony explanations, and rub their nose in it. He intensely enjoyed showing them up.
But they always had it coming to them. The cops were always trying to cover their behinds, or protect some secret. But Kolchak tried to tell the truth, for the greater good of society.
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- bamatommy
- May 20, 2008
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Filming locations
- 1486 North Sweetzer Ave. Los Angeles, California, USA(The abandoned mansion lair of Catherine Rawlins - the vampire - is actually the historic Mt. Kalmia estate)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime52 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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