Writer:	David Chase, Bill Stratton
Director:	Don Weis
Star:	Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo),  Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak)
Recurring Role:	Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke)
Guest Star:	John Doucette (Deputy Sample),  Noel de Souza (Chandra),  Scott Douglas (Second Reporter (uncredited)),  Tony Epper (Andrew Garth (uncredited)),  Jimmy Joyce (Man Talking (uncredited)),  Milt Kamen (Gingrich),  Alyscia Maxwell (Third Reporter),  Stuart Nisbet (Hotel Manager (uncredited)),  Anne Whitfield (Girl),  Selma Archerd (Woman),  Army Archerd (Man),  Jan Murray (Ichabod Grace),  William Daniels (Lt. Jack Matteo),  Suzanne Charney (Catherine Rawlins),  Kathleen Nolan (Faye Kruger),  Larry Storch (Jim "The Swede" Brytowski),  Bill Baldwin (1st Reporter)

This is the last episode that composer Gil Melle worked on for the series - he left due to creative differences between Darren McGavin and Cy Chermak. Bits of his existing work would be used in later episodes. (edit) Kolchak's car in this episode is a maroon 1973 Chevrolet Impala Custom coupe (a rental). His yellow Mustang is back in Chicago. (edit)

Kolchak: Hollywood. I was beginning to see they do things strangely there. A detective lieutenant puts two suspects in jail and then goes back to the scene of the crime to do his investigation. Well, what can you expect from a city that erects a building to look like a stack of flapjacks and where some of the men dust their eyebrows with glitter. Compared to Tinseltown, Chicago was beginning to look like the Garden of Eden. (edit) Kolchak: (opening narration) They were tearing up an old road to lay more freeway a few miles south of Las Vegas. The State of Nevada's Department of Highway's digging would be a help to thousands of motorists, but to one other person, it would turn out to be a nightmare. (edit) Carl: (narrating) (Catherine Rawlins) had been arrested a few times for prostitution. Late in 1970, at the age of 25, she'd been listed as a missing person. Two things were now clear: she was no longer missing, nor could she now be considered a person. (edit) Carl: What I saw wasn't kung fu and it wasn't chow mein either! It was a female vampire! (edit) Carl: (The cross) was a local landmark so I had to pay for another one, and I didn't mind at all. I just couldn't think of a way to get it on the expense account. (edit)

When Carl flies out of Los Angeles, an exterior shot of the plane shows the airline to be TWA. However the interior shot shows a Pan Am banner at the back of the cabin. (edit)

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