'The Knightly Murders' by David Chase and Michael Kozoll

Returning from a wake, Ward Captain Leonard Ramuka enters his luxurious home and is promptly killed by a crossbow fired by a knight in medieval armour. After Kolchak picks up the police report on his scanner, he arrives at the crime scene and meets the snobbishly well-educated Captain Vernon Rausch, who, despite being incredibly verbose, fails to give any information away to the reporter. Later that night, wealthy businessman Ralph Danvers is pulling into his driveway when a lance smashes through his windscreen and impales him. Kolchak follows a lead and talks to Pop Stenyold, the owner of a pawn shop, who confirms that the murder weapons are medieval in origin. Meanwhile, soft drink corporation owner Brester Hocking is maced to death by the knight. Kolchak visits a local museum which features displays of medieval weapons; here he encounters the curator, Mendel Boggs, who is furious now that the museum he has looked after for years has just been sold to Hocking’s company, and that a designer named Minervo Musso has been brought in to redesign it into a discothèque. Kolchak bribes a morgue attendant into letting him look at Hocking’s records, and then uses a fake telegram to glean information from the late businessman’s butler. After seeing a crushed telephone in Hocking’s house, Kolchak learns that the damage could have been done by a knight in armour. But when he goes to see the egocentric Minervo Musso, the knight bursts in, knocks Kolchak out and kills the designer with a battleaxe. Avoiding a murder charge from Captain Rausch, Kolchak learns that the murderer is not Boggs after all, but is Guy de Metancourt, a misogynist who swore on his death that his final resting place would never know gaiety and laughter. The only way for Kolchak to stop the killer knight is to destroy the possessed armour using a holy axe blessed by the Pope…

Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke), Ruth Mc Devitt (Emily Cowles), John Dehner (Captain Vernon Rausch), Hans Conreid (Mendel Boggs), Lieux Dressler (Minervo Musso), Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold), Robert Emhardt (Ralph Danvers), Lucille Benson (Mavra), Don Carter (Morgue Assistant), Bryan O-Byrne (Charles the Butler), Sidney Clute (Bruce Krause), Gregg Palmer (Buxbaum), Ed McCready (First Reporter), Alyscia Maxwell (Freshman Reporter), Jim Drum (Leo J. Ramuka), Don Carter (Lester Nash)
Directed by Vincent McEveety

TX (US): 7th March, 1975

Notes:
*Featuring Carl Kolchak and Tony Vincenzo