Plot

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

After newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak and his managing editor Tony Vincenzo parted company on less than good terms in Las Vegas due to Kolchak's incredulous and thus unpublishable story of a vampire killer, they are reunited in their independently chosen new home base of Seattle, Vincenzo, somewhat against his better judgment, offering Kolchak a job on his paper, the Daily Chronicle, in knowing that Kolchak is dogged at getting the story and that the vampire story was probably true. The first story Vincenzo assigns Kolchak is the murder of belly dancer Ethel Parker in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Her murder is the first in what ends up being a series of murders in the same neighborhood, all of young women. In discovering some similarities between the murders and some historical information seemingly tying them back to murders over the past century, Kolchak believes that the perpetrator is a living corpse who requires the blood of young women to stay alive. While this story again raises the ire in Vincenzo who is at least used to it with Kolchak, it also raises the ire with Vincenzo's boss, publisher Llewellyn Crossbinder, and Police Chief Roscoe Schubert who is leading the investigation into the murders. Needing to get irrefutable evidence as to his belief, Kolchak enlists the help of college student Louise Harper, one of Parker's belly dancing colleagues, they putting her in potential harm's way as a decoy i.e. the killer's next victim.—Huggo

Reporter Carl Kolchak is now in Seattle, Washington, trying to solve the mystery of several strangulations that recur every few years where the victims are drained of blood in this second made for TV pilot.—Humberto Amador

After being run out of Las Vegas, Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer kills a certain number of people, drains them of their blood and then disappears into the night, that is until the next 21 years passes. Kolchak is on his trail, but the question is, can he stop him before he disappears again?—SindyMac

Reporter Carl Kolchak is back and this time he is on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting dancers in the Seattle area. The strange thing about the killings is the fact that all the victims had some of their spinal fluid drained and that there was rotting flesh found around the victims necks. Soon Kolchak learns that similar killings have been occurring in the Seattle area every twenty-one years for over 100 years. The trail soon leads to Seattle's underground city and he winds up meeting the killer who tells him that he uses the spinal fluid for a elixir which has been keeping him alive. Unfortunately, it only lasts for twenty-one years and after that time period is up he must leave his abode and go looking for fresh victims. It is now up to Kolchak to stop this madman before he takes the elixir.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>

In this sequel to 'The Night Stalker', reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin), now living in Seattle, Washington (having been run out of Las Vegas at the end of the previous film), is hired by his former editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all exotic dancers, are strangled, have their necks crushed and are then drained of a few ounces of blood. A coroner's report also reveals that the victims all had traces of rotting flesh on their necks.

Researcher Titus Berry (Wally Cox) discovers that there was a similar rash of killings in 1952, setting Kolchak on the trail of another unbelievable story. Kolchak is stonewalled by the police, who want to have certain details of the murders kept secret. Out of "burning curiosity," Berry researches further back, and learns of another series of murders in 1931. Berry and Kolchak discover that similar murders have been occurring every 21 years since 1889, with each series of murders taking place over a period of 18 days. Kolchak determines that the killer needs the blood for a kind of elixir of life which keeps him alive for 21 years at a time. Of course, no one believes Kolchak, and the powers that be want to silence him.

Berry uncovers further clues in an old interview with Mark Twain leading to a Dr. Richard Malcolm, a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War, who was one of the original staff at Seattle's Westside Mercy Hospital. Though the hospital is long gone, Kolchak goes to the clinic standing on the site, in the hope that it might still have the hospital's old records, but he finds something far more important just inside the front door: a painting of the clinic's founder, a Dr. Malcolm Richards, who is the spitting image of Richard Malcolm.

Kolchak calls Berry to meet him there and proceeds to alter the painting to make the similarity more obvious. Berry is amazed, but the police are less than impressed, and Kolchak is arrested.

Finally, Kolchak and Berry convince the police (and their boss) of the facts: that the killer really is practically immortal, and that he will kill again. But the story is once again suppressed.

Kolchak, working with helpful exotic dancer Louise (Jo Ann Pflug), enters into a race against time to stop the killer before he is able to complete the creation of his elixir and disappear for another 21 years. In the Seattle Underground under the old clinic, Kolchak has a face-to-face confrontation with Dr. Malcolm/Richards (Richard Anderson); the night strangler admits having first tried the elixir in 1868 and that he had hoped to spread the knowledge of immortality until he started aging in 1889 and his family also died (their mummified remains are kept near the doctor's laboratory). He intends to continue each 21-year cycle until he can make the process permanent. Before Richards can drink his sixth dose of elixir, Kolchak smashes the beaker. Richards tries to kill Kolchak but fails due to rapid aging; as the police burst into the room the aging killer commits suicide by throwing himself outside a high window. The film concludes with a once-again unemployed Kolchak bickering with Vincenzo and Louise as Carl drives the three of them to New York City.