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) Carl: (narrating) And who would go near (the house)? Only a vampire . . . or some fool looking for her. (edit) Vincenzo: I'm tired of it, Kolchak. I'm fed up! I've got a brother-in-law who's got a fourteen-year-old kid he's always bailing out of juvenile hall, but I've got you, and you are worse! (edit) Prostitute: What does that witch have that I don't?
Carl: Believe me, baby, you would not want to know. (edit) Carl: You're not Catherine Rawlins.
Prostitute: Well, you're not Marcello Mastroianni, but you don't hear me crying about it. (edit) Faye: Then why was (Vincenzo) shouting?
Carl: Oh, editors always shout. You have to get used to that. (edit) Carl: Ichabod thought he'd added another filly to his stable of trotters. In Ichabod's parlance, his new acquisition was called a "fox.' He had no way of knowing (Rawlins) was actually more closely related to the bat. (edit) Matteo: (to Kolchak) One of the reasons I went into police work is because I thought I'd meet all kinds of people. Interesting people. That's the truth. But you're not interesting. You're just idiotic. (edit) (discussing Faye's story)
Carl: You don't have any more 'ofts', do you? Or 'narys'? Or 'dost thous'?
Faye: I never use 'dost thou'. I do have a 'nary', though. What's the matter with that?
Carl: Well, it went out with 'methinks'. (edit) Vincenzo: Carl? Is that you? I could hear you a lot better if you took that submarine sandwich out of your mouth. (edit) Carl: You should meet my boss - he'd turn Buddha into a chain smoker. (edit) Carl: When can I meet (the Guru) again?
Chandra: In time, no doubt.
Carl: In time for my deadline? (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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