EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker was on the CBS Late Movie on November 2, 1979; September 4, 1981 and December 4, 1987.

Directed by Don McDougall (Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge, Farewell to the Planet of the Apes, Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes) and written by Rudolph Borchert, this time Carl Kolchak discovers that young men are all dying of old age.

Sadly the last episode with Gordon “Gordy the Ghoul” Spangler (John Fiedler) and nemesis Ron Updike (Jack Grinnage) — the show was already canceled — “The Youth Killer” has great casting for its femme fatale. Cathy Lee Crosby is Helen Surtees, a woman using Max Match, the computer dating company she owns, to find men and then sacrificing them to Hecate so that she can remain eternally gorgeous and young. One of those men is Reb Brown, who just a few years later would play Captain America, a fun bit of trivia as Crosby had played Wonder Woman in a TV movie just a year before.

The authority figures in the way of our reporter hero are Sergeant Orkin — that’s Dwayne Hickman, the grown-up Dobey Gillis — and a cop named Kaz, who is played by someone named Demosthenes. That’s the middle name of George Savalas, Telly’s brother.

Carl, as always, goes up against the supernatural menace all by himself and barely survives, leaving behind a statue of Helen and no way to prove any of it. Sadly, this would be the next to last episode.