EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker was on the CBS Late Movie on November 16, 1979; August 28, 1981 and December 18, 1987.

As in so many episodes of Kolchak, there are murders throughout Chicago and they have a supernatural feeling about them, as all of the murders were committed with medieval weapons. The big difference is that Captain Rausch (John Dehner) is the first cop who seems like he actually wants to deal with Kolchak.

It also has Minerva Musso (Lieux Dressler), a decorator who has David Bowie lined up as her next client. For now, she’s renovating a home into a disco club and that’s why the knight has come back from the grave, enraged that his ancestral home is being used in such a way and destroying anyone who gets in his way.

Director Vincent McEveety was a TV veteran, directing eight episodes of Star Trek, 11 of Diagnosis Murder, 28 installments of Murder, She Wrote, 18 visits to In the Heat of the Night and movies like Herbie Goes Bananas, The Watcher In the Woods, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Gus, The Strongest Man In the World, the original Wonder Woman TV movie, Superdad and The Million Dollar Duck. This episode was written by David Chase, his eighth script for the series, and Michael Kozoll, who went on to write First Blood and one of my favorite TV movies, Vampire.