10.0/101 votes#1 - Crash Diet
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1978
Jon and Ponch gently try to coax a disturbed veteran out of throwing dirt at passing autos. Also, Getraer orders his officers to peel off excess pounds.
Director: Don McDougall
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
10.0/101 votes#2 - Dynamite Alley
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1980
Officer Bonnie Clark believes she was forced off the road by a truck after crashing on a dangerous mountain road.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
10.0/101 votes#3 - The Great 5K Star Race and Boulder Wrap Party (1)
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/1980
The guys save Hollywood icon Milton Berle's Malibu mansion from a threatening boulder. Gilligan's Island's Tina Louise costars.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
10.0/101 votes#4 - Weed Wars
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1981
Drug syndicates are being reckless on the road and loose with the law. A boy puts a hex on Ponch for asking him too many questions.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
8.0/103 votes#5 - Say Goodbye to Jennifer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1975
John Micelli's an old war buddy of Jim', who's now a fashion photographer. He hires Jim to track down a beautiful fashion model, whom the authorities claim is dead; killed in a fiery multi-car accident, but, he thinks otherwise. As Jim starts to look into this, he runs into several intimidating figure who want to make certain she stays that way.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
6.0/101 votes#6 - They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
A bizarre alien presence invisibly sweeps through Chicago, killing a petty thief and a UFO nut. The alien or aliens have the strength of a hurricane, generate a massive electromagnetic field, steal lead and electronic equipment, and suck the bone marrow out of humans and animals alike. Kolchak must track the alien(s) from an electronics warehouse to an observatory to Lincoln Park and drive them off before they kill again. His camera seems to hold the key to the creatures' weakness, although initially Carl is wrong in guessing what the weakness is. Carl follows the aliens and manages to keep them from feeding on him before they depart once and for all.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
6.0/101 votes#7 - The Energy Eater
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1974
Several Indian construction workers are killed during high-rise work on a new hospital. They leave the job, and the hospital is completed. However, a series of strange electrocutions continue to plague the hospital after its grand opening. Kolchak investigates and finds that a ""bear-god"" spirit, Matchemonedo, was resurrected from its burial spot beneath Lake Michigan by the hospital construction. Now the creature, which feeds on energy, is beginning to awaken. Kolchak must convince the hospital officials to re-refrigerate the ""bear-god"" and drive it back into hibernation before it awakens once and for all.
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
4.0/102 votes#8 - The Ripper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
A serial killer who preys on women haunts Chicago, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is in fact the original Jack the Ripper, a seemingly immortal killer who has killed women in many cities over the last century. The reporter must track the killer to the old house where he has taken up residence and put an end to his existence once and for all.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
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"Crash Diet" is the best rated episode written by Rudolph Borchert. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Don McDougall. It aired on 2/23/1978 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Dynamite Alley".