EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker didn’t air on the CBS Late Movie because ABC packaged “it with “Legacy of Terror” as the TV movie The Demon and the Mummy.

The monster of the week this week is a succubus, a demon who reanimates the corpses of freshly dead women to coerce young men into sexual situations, at which point it sucks the life out of them. And best of all, one of Kolchak’s other enemies shows up, Captain “Mad Dog” Siska, played again by Keenan Wynn. He was last in “The Spanish Moss Murders.”

Illinois State Tech is a wacky school, what with Morticia Adams — Carolyn Jones — as the registrar, Jackie Vernon (the voice of Frosty the Snowman and the star of Microwave Massacre) as a coach and Andrew Prine as Prof. C. Evan Spate, the archaeology professor who Carl tries to pry info about the Mesopotamian demoness out of.

It ends as all episodes must with Carl pretty much alone against supernatural evil, trying to smash a stone tablet with a hammer while demonic winds blow in and threaten to overwhelm him. That said, Spate actually covers for him, which is more than anyone else has done in this series.

Vincenzo has plans to turn the paper into an upbeat and dignified place, which seems to suggest that there’s no place for Carl in that world. I wonder what he would have thought about AI content creation.

Directed by Don Weis and written by Michael Kozoll and David Chase, this also played in syndication as The Succubbus.