'The Ripper' by Rudolph Borchert

In a Milwaukee nightclub, an exotic dancer is savagely murdered in her dressing room; the next day, a woman is viciously killed while walking down a dark street. In Chicago, reporter Carl Kolchak has once again teamed up with editor Tony Vincenzo, this time working for the Independent News Service; Kolchak is still proving troublesome, and so Vincenzo has made him cover for agony aunt Miss Emily, who is away on holiday. That night, a masseuse is killed in similar circumstances to the deaths in Milwaukee; after hearing a police report, Kolchak watches as the attacker shrugs off eleven bullets fired by the police, before jumping off a four-storey building. However, when Kolchak later comes to write up the story, he finds that it has instead been assigned to the neurotic Ron Updyke, although when Updyke becomes ill at the very mention of the reported decapitation, Kolchak takes over the case. Attending a police press call - held by the Kolchak-hating Captain Warren - he learns that fellow reporter Jane Plumm has received a letter from the Ripper. Taking her out to lunch, Kolchak learns that the letter shows that the murders closely follow those of the original Jack the Ripper in the late Nineteenth century. When another masseuse is murdered that night, Kolchak arrives but is promptly run off by the police; he then meets a married couple whose car was written off after hitting the Ripper at thirty m.p.h. - although the killer escaped unscathed. Kolchak soon becomes convinced that the seemingly unstoppable murderer is non other than the original Jack the Ripper, returned to wreak havoc once more…

Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak), Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo), Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke), Beatrice Colen (Jane Plumm), Ken Lynch (Captain R.M. Warren), Mickey Gilbert (The Ripper), Roberta Collins (Detective Cortazz), Marya Small (Masseuse), Ruth McDevitt (Woman), Donald Mantooth (Policeman), Robert Bryan Berger (Mail Boy), Clint Young (Driver)
Directed by Allen Baron
Executive Producer Darren McGavin

TX (US): 13th September, 1974

Notes:
*Featuring Carl Kolchak and Tony Vincenzo