TV Series 1974. Created by Jeff Rice. Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage and Ruth McDevitt.
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1Al and Fred's TV Repair Shop BBBServicesRepair Services

Al and Fred's TV Repair Shop
Electronics store that Kolchak mentions at the police station press conference: Sir, Raydyne Electronics may have a national security problem, but what about the security of Al and Fred's TV Repair Shop, and what about Henry Ansgaroni's stereo, and what about Mrs. Shank's microwave oven?



2The Angels BBBCinemaMovies-misc

The Angels


3Archaeological Quarterly BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

Archaeological Quarterly
Science Magazine.

4The Blue Monitor BBBPeriodicalsNewspapers

The Blue Monitor
College newspaper.

5Brennan Building Materials and Electrica... BBBRetailHardware Stores

Brennan Building Materials and Electrical Supply Co.
Company where Kolchak picks up supplies on his way to find the Ripper.



6Bureau of Sewers BBBNightlifeNightclubs

Bureau of Sewers




7The Camelot Bar BBBNightlifeBars

The Camelot Bar


8The Camelot Discoteque BBBNightlifeNightlife-Dancing

The Camelot Discoteque


9Canadian American Leisure Corporation BBBCorporationsCompanies

Canadian American Leisure Corporation
CALC.

10The Char-Pit BBBDiningRestaurants-BBQ

The Char-Pit
Restaurant that Kolchak mentions on the phone with Vincenzo while he's in L.A.: Yeah, well, there's a little place down off the lobby down here. It's, uh... It's called The Char-Pit. It's real cheap, Tony.



11Chatteau Mettencourt BBBBeverage ProductsAlcohol

Chatteau Mettencourt


12Chez Voltaire BBBDiningRestaurants-French

Chez Voltaire
French restaurant, murder scene. Kolchak: Chez Voltaire was the Frenchiest of Chicago's French restaurants, which meant that people paid exorbitant funds to be abused by the waiters and eat minuscule portions. The total value of Chez Voltaire's wine cellar exceeded the gross national product of Paraguay, and their chef was put on a level with Debussy and Gauguin. But now he'd been murdered, and he looked just as dead as any short-order cook in any greasy spoon.



13The Chicago Dispatch BBBPeriodicalsNewspapers

The Chicago Dispatch
Newspaper headline: Wolves Slaughter Family of Four.



14Cook County Warehouse BBBServicesShipping and Storage

Cook County Warehouse


15Dantonville Herald BBBPeriodicalsNewspaper Heralds

Dantonville Herald
Package sent to INS. Vincenzo: Oh, that's from Henry De Witt, the Dantonville Herald. That's the Palmer material. Now look, read it. Write up something I can use. Something constructive, sensible.



16Dark Star Coven BBBReligionReligious Organizations

Dark Star Coven
Group of Satan worshippers in Los Angeles mentioned at the police station press conference: The two suspects both are admitted members of the Dark Star Coven, a group of Satan worshippers.



17Dear Emily BBBPeriodicalsNewspaper Columns

Dear Emily
Advice column at INS that Kolchak's boss Tony Vincenzo orders him to handle while Miss Emily is on vacation.



18Doc Harris BBBHealthcareTherapy

Doc Harris
Psychiatrist that the Captain Warren mentions when Kolchak claims that the current active killer is the original Jack the Ripper: I'd better tell Doc Harris to stand by. I think we got a nut that needs certifying.

 

19Domino Car Company BBBTransportationTaxicabs

Domino Car Company
Where the first victim of the headless motorcycle rider is killed.

20Domino Taxi BBBTransportationTaxicabs

Domino Taxi


21Dr. Rosetti BBBHealthcareDoctors

Dr. Rosetti
Doctor that Midtown Garage owner and Syndicate member Benyamin Sposato mentions, threatening Kolchak: You ever been to Mercy General Hospital? They got a great gastrointestinal man, one of the best in the midwest. (speaking Italian) Doctore Rosetti. Vittorio, why don't you make an appointment for Mr. Kolchak with Dr. Rosetti?



22Durning Freight Lines Inc. BBBServicesShipping and Storage

Durning Freight Lines Inc.
Shipping company truck being used as a counting house by low-level members of the Syndicate crime organization.



23The Fever BBBCinemaMovies-misc

The Fever


24First Country Bank and Trust BBBFinancial CompaniesBanks

First Country Bank and Trust
Site of robbery. Kolchak: May 25, 10 a.m. Tony Vincenzo and I were debating my coverage of the robbery at First County Bank and Trust, where thieves had escaped with over $700,000.

 


25Funeral Workers Association BBBOrganizationsProf. Orgs

Funeral Workers Association
Association that the cemetery employee mentions when Syndicate member Benyamin Sposato makes Kolchak dig up Francois Edmond's grave.



26Gay 90s a Go-Go BBBNightlifeBars

Gay 90s a Go-Go
Bar next door to the Sultan's Palace massage parlor.



27Gem Exchange BBBFinancial CompaniesFinancial Services

Gem Exchange
A shape-shifting Indian robs the gem exchange. Kolchak and the police show up in time see him dive off the rooftop and disappear.



28Glengarry Mortuary BBBServicesFuneral Homes

Glengarry Mortuary


29Grace's Catering Service BBBServicesCatering Services

Grace's Catering Service
Front company name for a sex service that Kolchak uses when attempting to confront the vampire. He makes an appointment, but a different girl shows up.



30Grassland State Mental Hospital BBBHealthcareHospitals-Mental Health

Grassland State Mental Hospital


31Great Lakes Symphony BBBMusicMusic-Orchestra

Great Lakes Symphony
Local symphony featuring conductor Ryder Bond and violinist George Mason.



32Great Wall of Peking BBBDiningRestaurants-Asian

Great Wall of Peking


33The Handgun Review BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

The Handgun Review
Gun Magazine.

34Hanover BBBTravelTravel Services

Hanover
Crusoe ship on which Kolchak investigates a werewolf.

 

35The Herald BBBPeriodicalsNewspaper Heralds

The Herald
Ron Updyke mentions to Kolchack and Tony Vincenzo, regarding what he learned about the Ripper's victim.



36Hills of Leafy BBBServicesBurial Grounds

Hills of Leafy


37Hydecker Museum BBBEntertainmentMuseums

Hydecker Museum


38Hydecker Wine Import Co. BBBCorporationsImport Export Companies

Hydecker Wine Import Co.


39Illinois State Technical College BBBEducationSchools-Science/Tech

Illinois State Technical College


40INS BBBPeriodicalsNewspapers

INS
Independent News Service.

 


41Intercity Neon Service BBBServicesServices-misc

Intercity Neon Service
Company Kolchak claims to be with in order to access Champion Towers to look for the shape-shifting Indian.



42International Nickel Syndicate BBBCorporationsCompanies

International Nickel Syndicate


43Joe's Vacuum Cleaner Repair BBBServicesRepair Services

Joe's Vacuum Cleaner Repair


44Johannsen Tire Company BBBVehiclesAutomotive Services

Johannsen Tire Company


45Jolette State College of Barbering BBBEducationVocational Schools

Jolette State College of Barbering
Kolchak: I decided to look up Albert Delgado, an old acquaintance and fairly reliable source for underworld gossip. Delgado was a onetime cutter of stone and gems and, more recently, a graduate of the Joliet State College of Barbering, where he had studied for seven years.



46Kentucky Maid Packing Co. BBBFood IndustriesFood Companies

Kentucky Maid Packing Co.
Prepared Meals.

47Ladies World Weekly BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

Ladies World Weekly
Magazine for Women.

48Lakefront Hospital BBBHealthcareHospitals

Lakefront Hospital


49Lakshmi Restaurant BBBDiningRestaurants-misc

Lakshmi Restaurant


50Las Vegas Daily NewsBBBPeriodicalsNewspapers

Las Vegas Daily News
From the first Kolchak television movie.

51Launderama BBBMaintenance ServicesLaundry Services

Launderama


52Le Bocor BBBServicesServices-misc

Le Bocor
Voodoo shop on the South Side here Kolchak goes looking for a lucky number while investigating the mysterious death of Francois Edmond.

 

53Little Romany Tearoom BBBNightlifeNightclubs

Little Romany Tearoom
Restaurant where gypsy Maria Hargrove conducts business. Kolchak mentions to Monique requesting her assitance in paying Maria for her services.

 
 

54The Lollipop Factory BBBHealthcareHospitals-Mental Health

The Lollipop Factory


55Macy's Wedding PortraitsBBBServicesWedding Services

Macy's Wedding Portraits


56Maison de Markay, Incorporated BBBApparelClothing Stores

Maison de Markay, Incorporated
Rhonda June Markay's brassiere manufacturing company - victim of the shape-shifting Indian.

 


57Manny's BBBDiningCafes and Delis

Manny's
Restaurant mentioned in multiple episodes.

 

58Mark Hopkins Hotel BBBTravelHotels

Mark Hopkins Hotel


59Marymount Archive Inc. BBBServicesShipping and Storage

Marymount Archive Inc.


60Mathmatico BBBEducationAcademic Fields

Mathmatico
Universal language intended for communication with alien beings. Kolchak (VoiceOver): September 2, 10 p.pm. Leon Van Heusen. Single, ambitious, slightly paranoid. By day, a television repairman, by night an observer, a man with a purpose. The author of Mathmatico, a universal language that Leon has refined for use in unconventional communication. Unfortunately, on September 2, at 10 p.m., Leon learned the oldest word in the universal language.



61Max Match BBBServicesDating Services

Max Match


62Mercy General Hospital BBBHealthcareHospitals

Mercy General Hospital
Doctor that Midtown Garage owner and Syndicate member Benyamin Sposato mentions, threatening Kolchak: You ever been to Mercy General Hospital? They got a great gastrointestinal man, one of the best in the midwest. (speaking Italian) Doctore Rosetti. Vittorio, why don't you make an appointment for Mr. Kolchak with Dr. Rosetti?



63Midtown Garage BBBVehiclesAutomotive Services

Midtown Garage
Garage owned by Syndicate member Benyamin Sposato where Kolchak hides out, recording a meeting between Sposato and bookie Sweetstick Weldon.

 

64Minerva Musso BBBServicesPsychic Services

Minerva Musso


65Miss Physical Therapist Contest BBBEventsBeauty Pageants

Miss Physical Therapist Contest
Contest that murder victim Debbie Fielder leaves shortly before she is killed.



66Moore Auto Graveyard BBBMaintenance ServicesWaste Management

Moore Auto Graveyard
Junkyard where Kolchak goes looking for zombie Francois Edmond.



67Morton Mining and Manufacturing BBBIndustrial CompaniesMining

Morton Mining and Manufacturing


68Mount Alavant HospitalBBBHealthcareHospitals

Mount Alavant Hospital


69The Moze Kazan Show BBBRadioRadio Programs

The Moze Kazan Show
Radio talk show playing on the radio in Kolchak's car, giving him a clue in his case regarding Mariposa Way being repaved.



70Museum of Science and Industry BBBEntertainmentMuseums

Museum of Science and Industry
Museum with a French Revolution exhibit called Reign of Terror.

71Nebachudnezzar Motel BBBTravelMotels

Nebachudnezzar Motel


72Oceanic International Oil CorporationBBBCorporationsFuel Companies

Oceanic International Oil Corporation


73Organic Hair Care BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

Organic Hair Care
Magazine the coroner who wants to be a beautician is reading when Kolchak goes to the morgue to get information about a murder.

74Pacific First National Bank BBBFinancial CompaniesBanks

Pacific First National Bank
Bank visible in background at the intersection of Dalstrom and Ravannel, where Patrolman Warren Lunt is killed.



75Peele's Footwear BBBApparelShoe Stores

Peele's Footwear
Shoe brand worn by the Ripper. Kolchak: That fire was a big one - a six-alarmer. A blast furnace couldn't have done a better job. Everything gone - the house, my story, the evidence. Like they say, ashes to ashes. One thing survived the inferno however. There's enough of it left to read the name of the maker. Peele's Footwear, London, Southwest 1. They're still there, of course, but they don't make this style shoe anymore. It was discontinued over 70 years ago.



76Queen of Angels Hospital BBBHealthcareHospitals

Queen of Angels Hospital
Hospital where Susan Driscoll is taken after her dog attack: This is rescue unit 1882. Proceeding to Queen of Angels Hospital with dog attack victim. Name - Driscoll, Susan Marie. Address - 44228 Coriander Way.

 


77Rabino's Amusement Arcade BBBAmusementVideo Game Arcades

Rabino's Amusement Arcade
Arcade where Frankie Markoff is killed. Kolchak: Rabino's Arcade was a little different than the one you might remember. It was a regular bagman's drop, a narcotics pickup and sometimes a center for cleaning up old business. Frankie Markoff, convicted arsonist, was cleaned up.

 

78Randolph Hotel BBBTravelHotels

Randolph Hotel


79Raydyne Electronics BBBRetailElectronics Stores

Raydyne Electronics
Electronics store where aliens steal a warehouse full of lead ingots. Kolchak is on his way to the zoo to investigate missing animals when he hears the police call on the radio.

 

80The Regent BBBCinemaMovies-misc

The Regent


81Reliance Guard Dog Incorporated BBBServicesSecurity Services

Reliance Guard Dog Incorporated
Company that Kolchak visits during his investigation: Kolchak: Reliance Guard Dog, Incorporated, and George M. Schwartz, trainer of the three-time Midwestern guard dog champion, Reliance's Teutonic Knight. Mr. Schwartz knew his dogs. He also had the caution that comes from a lifetime of paranoia.

 

82Rhonda June Brassieres BBBApparelClothing Products

Rhonda June Brassieres
Brassiere manufactured by Rhonda June Markay's company, Maison de Markay, Incorporated - victim of the shape-shifting Indian.



83Ripper Murderers Throughout the Ages BBBLiteratureBooks-True Crime

Ripper Murderers Throughout the Ages
Book Kolchak researches.



84Robert W. Palmer and Associates BBBLegal AidLaw Firms

Robert W. Palmer and Associates
State Senate candidate Robert Palmer's law firm in the Brandon Building.



85The Rouge Room BBBNightlifeNightclubs

The Rouge Room


86Ryder Bond BBBMusicMusic-Orchestra

Ryder Bond
Musical prodigy at 14, internationally respected conductor of the Great Lakes Symphony at 40. A gifted man with a nearly fatal devotion to punctuality.



87Sarriego Construction Company BBBConstructionConstruction Companies

Sarriego Construction Company


88Seattle Daily ChronicleBBBPeriodicalsNewspaper Chronicles

Seattle Daily Chronicle


89A Sense of Self BBBLiteratureBooks-Religious

A Sense of Self
Book on transcendental meditation by Sidney Uvandi that Kolchak mentions to Ron when Vincenzo gives him the story that Kolchak wants: What books have you read, Ron? The, uh, Murti book? The Harris and Lopato work? The, uh, A Sense of Self by Sidney Uvandi?



90Serrano Engineering Company BBBCorporationsCompanies

Serrano Engineering Company


91Sherwood Hotel BBBTravelHotels

Sherwood Hotel


92Shooting Star BBBVehiclesWatercrafts

Shooting Star
Dennis De Silva's family schooner. Kolchak: August 7. Lake Michigan. Dennis De Silva, former advertising genius and now speechwriter for the incumbent Senator Talbot, was cruising on the family schooner, Shooting Star. Never was a boat so aptly named.



93South Side High School BBBEducationHigh Schools

South Side High School


94St. Lucy's Cemetery BBBServicesCemeteries

St. Lucy's Cemetery
Cemetery where Francois Edmond is buried.



95St. Vincent's Hospital BBBHealthcareHospitals

St. Vincent's Hospital


96Sultan's Palace BBBNightlifeStrip Clubs

Sultan's Palace
Massage parlor where the Ripper hunts for his next victim.

 


97Sweetstick Weldon BBBFinancial CompaniesFinancial Services

Sweetstick Weldon
South Side bookie.



98Temptation of Adam BBBPersonal CarePerfumes

Temptation of Adam
Perfume.

99Tony Vincenzo's Neopolitans BBBMusicMusicians-misc

Tony Vincenzo's Neopolitans


100The Trevi Collection BBBApparelClothing Products

The Trevi Collection


101Triple Exposure BBBCinemaMovies-misc

Triple Exposure
Movie poster visible behind the purse thief.



102The Trustees BBBMusicMusicians-misc

The Trustees
Convicted arsonist Frankie Markoff's former band that Frankie's wife tells Kolchak about. He was with them five years.

 

103Tucker Cab BBBTransportationTaxicabs

Tucker Cab
Taxi that takes Kolchak to the airport after his trip on the cruise ship Hanover.



104V.Morrison and Sons Fine MeatsBBBFood StoresButcher Shops

V.Morrison and Sons Fine Meats


105Vito's Meat MarketBBBFood StoresButcher Shops

Vito's Meat Market


106The Washington Airplane BBBCinemaMovies-misc

The Washington Airplane
Movie directed by Carl Kolchak.

107WBEX TV BBBTelevisionTV-News

WBEX TV
TV news from multiple episodes.

 


108Weirdsville University BBBEducationUniversities

Weirdsville University


109Werner's Boom-Boom Room BBBNightlifeStrip Clubs

Werner's Boom-Boom Room
Strip club in Milwaukee where exotic dancer Michele Shifman is murdered. Kolchak: Across the state line at Werner's Boom-Boom Room in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michele Shifman, a dancer - whatever - had just done her last number. I mean, really her last number.



110WNSB-TV BBBTelevisionTV-News

WNSB-TV
TV news crew at the suspected Syndicate burial ground.

 

111Womens Wear Daily BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

Womens Wear Daily
Fashion Magazine.

112Zoo Parade BBBPeriodicalsMagazines

Zoo Parade
Joke Vincenzo makes when he walks in on Kolchak and Updyke discussing dog breeds.



FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
113August 14, 1904 Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

August 14, 1904
A crack-shot, 12-man Athenian firing squad tries three times to execute Jack the Ripper, and can't (according the Kolchak, the original Jack the Ripper has still been murdering women across the world for the last 80 years).

 


114May 2, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 2, 1974
Elena Munoz encounters a vampire. Kolchak (VoiceOver): May 2, 8:15 p.m. Airline stewardess Elena Munoz missed the detour sign and blew a steel-belted radial on a jagged rock. She cursed the power of advertising. She had no idea how cursed her evening really was. When Miss Munoz returned with sheriff's deputies, they found nothing. Just excavated earth. Elena Munoz's name was placed on the crank list.



115May 10, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 10, 1974
Kolchak works to track down what he suspects is a vampire. Kolchak (VoiceOver): May 8, 8:10 p.m., Ichabod Grace, businessman, entrepreneur, was about to make an investment. More of a takeover than a merger. Ichabod's terms were fair, his pitch persuasive. Ichabod thought he had 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 she was actually more closely related to the bat.



116May 21, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 21, 1974
Exotic dancer Michele Shifman murdered. Kolchak: Across the state line at Werner's Boom-Boom Room in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michele Shifman, a dancer - whatever - had just done her last number. I mean, really her last number.



117May 24, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 24, 1974
Debbie Fielder murdered. Kolchak: May 24. Three days later. Milwaukee again. Debbie Fielder: 22, 5 feet 9, weight 120. Hobbies: breaking horses and collecting bone china. Debbie wanted to be successful. She should have settled for being alive.



118May 25, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 25, 1974
Kolchak: May 25, 10 a.m. Tony Vincenzo and I were debating my coverage of the robbery at First County Bank and Trust, where thieves had escaped with over $700,000.

 


119May 26, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

May 26, 1974
The Ripper murders masseuse Laura Maresco. Kolchak (VoiceOver): May 26. Laramie Street. 3:55 a.m. Chicago. Miss Laura Maresco, age 24, a masseuse. She was fond of stuffed animals and had been given one as a gift by an exceptionally satisfied customer. She was anxious to get home and find a place for it in her bedroom.



120May 28, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 28, 1974
The Ripper escapes from police. Kolchak (VoiceOver): May 28. 1:00 a.m. They had the Ripper trapped, treed and cornered, but he got away. And later, no one could agree on what they saw.

 

121May 29, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 29, 1974
The Ripper hunts for his next victim. Kolchak: May 29. 11 p.m. The Loop. Chicago's answer to Times Square. Miles of neon, crowds, excitement and the usual big-city tourist traps. And that night, a very unusual tourist.

 


122May 30, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 30, 1974
Kolchak meets with fellow reporter Jane Plumm to discuss the Ripper murders.



123May 31, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

May 31, 1974
Kolchak goes undercover at the massage parlor where the Ripper last struck, and gets caught up in an undercover police sting operation.



124June 2, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

June 2, 1974
Kolchak searches for - and finds - the serial killer known as the Ripper. Kolchak (VoiceOver): June 2. 1:20 a.m. Warren's plan was to get me out of the way, and it seemed to be working. I lucked out, and five minutes later, I was back in the middle of the action, just in time to watch Chicago's elite TAC squad trying to pin down one man without any success.

 

125July 3, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

July 3, 1974
Michele Kelly killed. Kolchak: Michele Kelly, age 25, was one of those people. A psychology graduate student and a lab assistant, she was hurrying at 10:45 p.m., the night of July 3, to get off her job early in order to catch the last plane to suburban New Jersey. Michele was rushing because she was anxious to spend the long 4th of July weekend with her family. The family did gather, not for a barbecue, but for a funeral.



126July 5, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

July 5, 1974
Chez Voltaire chef Honore Piaget killed.



127July 6, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

July 6, 1974
Chez Voltaire chef Honore Piaget found dead. Chez Voltaire pastry chef Roman Clementi arraigned for the murder. Street musician Bobby Ray Solange killed. Kolchak: But the big strikeout that night was made by Bobby Ray Solange. Age 22 Occupation - would-be superstar. But at 11:00 the night of July 6, Solange had finished a very hard day of playing street guitar to less-than-enthusiastic audiences, and he figured he owed it to himself to relax with his version of the evening martini.



128July 9, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

July 9, 1974
Kolchak meets Morris Shapiro while investigating the death of street musician Bobby Ray Solange: Every large city has its street musicians. I suppose it says something about us urbanites that we hardly notice them. I know I never did. Always too busy. But when I had to mix among them, I began to realize how many there were. I heard more plinking and twanging the night of July than I ever wanted to. Fortunately, some of it was good. And in one case, it put me on the right trail.

 

129July 10, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

July 10, 1974
Kolchak figures out that the killer is being manifested by a sleep program subject: Let's see. June... June... June 5. June 5. 2:00 a.m. Aha! Yeah. And July 6 - July 6 at 11:00 p.m. Right here. What about yesterday? Yesterday. There we go, at 10:00 p.m. It was on those times that Honore Piaget, Bobby Ray Solange and a little guy named Morris Shapiro were probably killed.



130July 11, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

July 11, 1974
Kolchak recovers in the hospital following his encounter with the Spanish Moss monster in the night before.



131July 21, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

July 21, 1974
Eric Berringer's last supper, as he dies the next day in a car accident. Kolchak: Springfield, Illinois. Eric Berringer, self-made millionaire and heavy contributor to many causes, was driving to a late candlelight supper with his wife, Vivian. He didn't know it, of course, but his last supper had been the night before.



132July 22, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

July 22, 1974
Eric Berringer killed in car accident. Kolchak: Springfield, Illinois. Eric Berringer, self-made millionaire and heavy contributor to many causes, was driving to a late candlelight supper with his wife, Vivian. He didn't know it, of course, but his last supper had been the night before.



133August 7, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 7, 1974
Dennis De Silva killed when his schooner expodes. Kolchak: Lake Michigan. Dennis De Silva, former advertising genius and now speechwriter for the incumbent Senator Talbot, was cruising on the family schooner, Shooting Star. Never was a boat so aptly named.



134August 14, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 14, 1974
Albert Berg, Willie Pike and other low level Syndicate members at a counting house are killed by Francois Edmond, having been turned into a zombie by his grandmother's voodoo after being murdered by the Syndicate. Kolchak (VoiceOver): August 14, 2 a.m. While the upper strata of the Syndicate were accustomed to dealing in millions, the foundation of their fortune was here in their counting houses, in the small change of the numbers racket.

 
 

135August 14, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 14, 1974
Kolchak witnesses the elevator accident falling 40 floors that kills State Senate candidate Robert Palmer's campaign manager Stephan Wald and several other people. A big, scary dog miraculously survives. Kolchak: Preelection time in the Windy City.

 

136August 15, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 15, 1974
Vincenzo talks Kolchak into taking Miss Marmelstein along with him by offering him a exclusive story about a Syndicate burial ground.



137August 16, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 16, 1974
Kolchak attends a police briefing, then visits St. Lucy's Cemetery where the mysterious deceased black man is being buried. Kolchak (VoiceOver): 9 a.m. August 16. The official police briefing, as foolish a game as any that Gordy the Ghoul could make up.

 

138August 16, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 16, 1974
State Senate candidate Robert Palmer meets Susan Driscoll in the park. Kolchak: An early morning phone call from the late Stephan Wald's secretary brought the usually sartorial Robert Palmer to an unexpected meeting at a spot in Lincoln Park historically reserved for lovers.



139August 17, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 17, 1974
Kolchak learns from Gordy the Ghoul that the mysterious deceased black man's name is Francois Edmond.



140August 18, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 18, 1974
A tip from Gordy the Ghoul leads Kolchak to the South Side looking for a lucky number.



141August 19, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 19, 1974
Kolchak hides out, recording a meeting between Syndicate member Benyamin Sposato and bookie Sweetstick.



142August 20, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 20, 1974
Kolchak visits the Monk. Kolchak (VoiceOver): August 20, 2 a.m. Another trip to the Monk. Immigration listed no known relatives for Francois Edmonds. But the Monk had his own listings.



143August 21, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

August 21, 1974
Kolchak visit Francois Edmond's grandmother Marie Juliette Edmonds.



144September 1, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

September 1, 1974
A panther mysteriously disappears from the Lincoln Park Zoo. Kolchak heard about the cheetah the day after it disappeared, but Vincenzo tells him about the panther.

 

145September 2, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

September 2, 1974
Early in the morning, a cheetah mysteriously disappears from the local zoo. Kolchak begins his day tracking down a ticket to the first game of the first World Series with the Cubs in years from new sports editor Updyke, but then gets sidetracked investigating the mysterious disappearances of animals from the Lincoln Park Zoo.

 

146September 3, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

September 3, 1974
Date Kolchak mentions when offering the doctor at the zoo tickets to the World Series game the next day. On September 2 - the day of the first game of the World Series, Kolchak offers the doctor at the zoo tickets to the second game the following day if she does some analysis for him: If I hurry up, I'll be able to catch the last few innings. I've got a box seat. As a matter of fact, I might be able to get two box seats for tomorrow's game.



147September 3, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

September 3, 1974
Convicted arsonist Frankie Markoff shot and killed in Rabino's Amusement Arcade.

 

148September 7, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

September 7, 1974
Violinist George Mason dies of apparent spontaneous human combustion. Kolchak: The Lake Shore apartment of George Mason, first violinist and concertmaster of the Great Lakes Symphony. Mr. Mason was trying for his customary preconcert nap.

 
 

149September 8, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

September 8, 1974
Felicia Porter dies of apparent spontaneous human combustion. Kolchak: Patterson Towers Apartments. Miss Felicia Porter, Sorbonne graduate and international music groupie, stepped out to improve her tan. The sun that day was hot, but not hot enough to cause what eventually happened.



150September 9, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

September 9, 1974
Kolchak encounters Ryder Bond's doppelganger at the symphony. Kolchak: I was faced with two equally unpleasant possibilities. One, some sort of horrible freak note was being played in the brain of Ryder Bond and he was setting fire to his fellow man, or two, to paraphrase Mr. Cardinale, something inexplicable was happening that perhaps I really did want to know about.



151November 12, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

November 12, 1974
Rhonda June Markay killed and robbed by a shape-shifting Indian. Kolchak (VoiceOver): November 12, 11:20 p.m. Rhonda June Markay, real name Adele Sapperstein, was coming home after an unusually successful day. Miss Markay was chairman of the board of Maison de Markay, Incorporated, manufacturers of the famous Rhonda June brassiere line, a longtime bulwark of the garment industry, serving women from 8 to 80.



152November 13, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sDeath Dates

November 13, 1974
Lucy LaPont Addison killed and robbed by a shape-shifting Indian. Kolchak (VoiceOver): November 13, 1:30 a.m. Lucy LaPont Addison, the reigning queen of what was left of Chicago's old society, was returning home after an opera opening. She supplied the opera house. Lucy Addison had accumulated fortunes like she accumulated husbands. Friends referred to her as the "Steel Butterfly".

 


153November 16, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

November 16, 1974
A shape-shifting Indian robs the gem exchange. Kolchak (VoiceOver): November 16, 6:05 p.m. Police from three divisions of Chicago's finest responded to a 211 that had surrounded the city's most prestigious gem exchange.



154November 17, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

November 17, 1974
Charlotte Elaine Van Piet killed and robbed by a shape-shifting Indian. Kolchak (VoiceOver): November 17, 3 p.m. About the time I was leaving the museum, a Mrs. Charlotte Elaine Van Piet was returning home from an afternoon bridge game with the girls. She had made two grand slams, and she was happy, which was good because it was the last game she would ever play.

 


155November 18, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

November 18, 1974
Kolchak types up his story. Kolchak: Baker and the police have ruled the case closed, all in the public interest, of course. But there is the matter of those stolen gems. Those prized stones worth millions, billions over years of treasure claimed by the Diablero.



156December 11, 1974 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

December 11, 1974
Kolchak (VoiceOver): Yellowstone County, Montana, December 11. Horrified local authorities investigated the gruesome deaths of four area residents The Rockwell family mother, father and two children. All had been discovered strewn around their isolated farm their bodies mutilated. An official coroner's report stated they had been dead three days. Cause of death? Attacked by wolves.



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157Brandon Building MapStructuresBuildings

Brandon Building
Location of State Senate candidate Robert Palmer's office. Kolchak: Palmer's rise had been meteoric, from obscurity to a well-appointed, spacious suite of offices high up in the Brandon Building. Palmer was good copy. From nowhere to odds-on favorite candidate for state senator. No one knew where in the hell he came from.



158Champion Towers MapStructuresTowers

Champion Towers
Half empty high-rise where Kolchak tracks down the shape-shifting Indian.



159Commerce MapTransit RoutesStreets-misc

Commerce
Address of Raydyne Electronics (24th and Commerce), electronics store where aliens steal a warehouse full of lead ingots.



160Coriander Way MapTransit RoutesStreets-Ways

Coriander Way
Susan Driscoll's address: This is rescue unit. Proceeding to Queen of Angels Hospital with dog attack victim. Name - Driscoll, Susan Marie. Address - 44228 Coriander Way.

 


161Dalstrom Avenue MapTransit RoutesStreets-Avenues

Dalstrom Avenue
Street where Patrolman Warren Lunt killed (Dalstrom and Ravannel). Kolchak: About the time I was getting bounced out on my ear, Patrolman Warren Lunt, assigned to a beat in the South Side's hillbilly ghetto, was making his nightly sweep along Dalstrom Avenue in search of undesirables. He found a most undesirable way to die.

 

162Felicity Street MapTransit RoutesStreets

Felicity Street


163Hell MapWorldsAfterlife

Hell
Kolchak mentions - where he claims zombie Francois Edmond is from.



164Lake Hollow MapWaterLakes

Lake Hollow
Incumbent Senator Talbot mentions: Anyway, for right now, I'm gonna get away from all of this for just one day. Join my wife and family up at Lake Hollow.

 

165Lakeshore Club MapResidential CommunitiesApartment and Condos

Lakeshore Club


166Mariposa Way MapTransit RoutesStreets-Ways

Mariposa Way
Recently repaved road mentioned on the Moze Kazan radio program that Kolchak suspects is connected to his investigation. He calls the radio show to find out the caller's name and address, then visits the caller.



167Patterson Towers Apartments MapResidential CommunitiesApartment and Condos

Patterson Towers Apartments
Apartment building where Sorbonne graduate and international music groupie Felicia Porter resides - and dies of apparent spontaneous human combustion.



168Ravannel MapTransit RoutesStreets-Avenues

Ravannel
Street where Patrolman Warren Lunt killed (Dalstrom and Ravannel). Police radio: Ambulance unit requested immediately. Officer down on the corner of Dalstrom and Ravannel.

 

169Roosevelt Heights MapUrban AreasNeighborhoods

Roosevelt Heights


170Samuel de Champlain Apartments MapResidential CommunitiesApartment and Condos

Samuel de Champlain Apartments
Apartment building where street musician Bobby Ray Solange is killed.



171Snake Rock MapStructuresLandmarks

Snake Rock
They tried to make a little park out of the woods near Snake Rock. Daffodils, tulips... but they couldn't get anything to grow. There was an area shaped like a saucer at the bottom. If you want to see it, you'll have to hurry. Our park commission decided overnight to do extensive reclamation work in that particular spot. They're filling it in with concrete.



172Wilton Park MapNatureParks

Wilton Park
Park mentioned in a Dear Emily column letter that leads Kolchak to the Ripper: "Dear Emily, Since I last wrote you, the man across from me at the south end of Wilton Park has come back. He is up to his old tricks, prowling around nights in that foolish costume, looking right through me with his x-ray eyes. Can he kill me with his eyes, or will they only make me sterile?"



173Wyland Avenue MapTransit RoutesStreets-Avenues

Wyland Avenue


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174Benyamin Sposato & Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Benyamin Sposato & Kolchak
Benyamin Sposato: I remember you. Vittorio, this is the guy that crashed my daughter Barbara's wedding, remember?
Kolchak: No, there's been a horrible mistake. You see, you're thinking of my brother Sidney Kolchak. He writes a society column.


 

175The Bishops OtherCriminalsGangs

The Bishops


176Captain Warren OtherQuotesQuotes

Captain Warren
Captain Warren: Your Superman is upstairs on the maximum-security floor.



177Carl KolchakOtherQuotesQuotes

Carl Kolchak
Carl Kolchak: If by chance you happened to be in the Windy City between May 25 and May 29 of this year, you would have had good reason to be terrified. During this time Chicago was stalked by a horror so frightening, so fascinating, that it ranks with the great unsolved mysteries of all time. It's been the fictional subject of films, plays, even an opera. Now, here, are the true facts.

178Cheetah's name that mysteriously disappe... OtherTriviaName Game-Animals

Cheetah's name that mysteriously disappears from the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Vishnu
Shanka
Conch




179Coroner's name that runs a lottery based... OtherTriviaName Game-Nicknames

Coroner's name that runs a lottery based on the birth years of the corpses he was hired to watch over.
Grody Gordy
Ghastly Gordy
Gordy the Ghoul




180The Crazies OtherMedical ConditionsConditions

The Crazies
Joke Edith Cowels makes on the Hanover: You know, everyone aboard has the case of the crazies. Sometehing is very wrong here.



181The Devil's Advocates OtherCriminalsGangs

The Devil's Advocates


182Eugene Lang OtherCriminalsSerial Killers

Eugene Lang
Serial killer mentioned in the book "Ripper Murderers Throughout the Ages" that Kolchak researches. Tony finds it on Kolchak's desk, flips it open, and starts reading.

 


183The Jokers OtherCriminalsGangs

The Jokers


184Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Kolchak
Kolchak (VoiceOver): If by chance you happened to be in the Windy City between May 28 and June 2 of this year, you would have had very good reason to be terrified. During this period, Chicago was being stalked by a horror so frightening, so fascinating, that it ranks with the great mysteries of all times. It's been the fictional subject of novels, plays, films, even an opera.



185Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Kolchak
Kolchak (VoiceOver): What happened? It's all a point of view really. A traveler has a breakdown, stops to fix it, gets a road map, has a bite to eat, and goes on his way. It's happened to all of us. This traveler happened to be light-years off his course, instead of miles. As for me? Well, I haven't heard from the boys in the sedan... Yet.



186Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Kolchak
Kolchak (VoiceOver): Mr. Albert Berg, head collections man. A graduate of an Ivy League business school. He was an incompetent, even by Syndicate standards. The only smart thing he'd ever done was marry the boss's sister.



187Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Kolchak
Kolchak (VoiceOver): Willie Pike - he had never been convicted of anything by anybody, except the boxing commission. Willie took a dive into the canvas and on through into the bulletproof car set. Willie was making a bundle, a bundle he would never get to spend.



188Kolchak's gypsy friend's name that he co... OtherTriviaName Game

Kolchak's gypsy friend's name that he consults.
Maria
Deb
Rita




189The Ripper OtherCriminalsSerial Killers

The Ripper
Serial killer that Kolchak believes is the original Jack the Ripper: He killed five women in and around the Place Pigalle in Paris in the summer of 1888. Yeah. As a matter of fact, he has killed, mutilated and maimed over 70 women during the past 80 years in 25 major cities from Vladivostok to Milwaukee... They tried to hang him in Germany, and they couldn't. On August 14, in 1904, a crack-shot, 12-man Athenian firing squad tried three times to execute him and couldn't.

 

190Sweetstick Weldon & Kolchak OtherQuotesQuotes

Sweetstick Weldon & Kolchak
Sweetstick: You once described me in an article as being the Duke of the South Side numbers fiefdom and all-around civic headache. You remember now?
Kolchak: No, that, you know, that's a mistake. No, that's my brother, uh, Marshall Kolchak.


 

191The Syndicate OtherCriminalsCriminal Organizations

The Syndicate
Criminal organization that murdered Francois Edmond. Edmond's grandmother turns him into a zombie using voodoo in order to extract revenge on the Syndicate.

192Untitled OtherThemesStarfighter


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193Untitled OtherThemesSin City


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