Robert Bryan Berger

A serial killer who preys on women haunts Chicago, and Kolchak (Darren McGavin) comes to believe that the killer is the original Jack the Ripper, a seemingly immortal killer who has slain women in many cities over the last century.

Furillo continues to search for the suspect who wounded Hill and Renko even as the two officers deal with a voodoo-spouting woman, and Belker confronts a man who claims he's a vampire.

Starsky is kidnapped and threatened with death unless a drug cult leader and nine-time-murderer is set free in "Bloodbath." Starsky is abducted and the place he was last seen is ritualistically smeared with blood graffiti. An agonized Hutch knows he cannot prolong the sentencing of the most sensational criminal of the decade -- even if it means Starsky may die. ate the gang's hiding place. His gamble leads him to a deserted zoo where Starsky has been tortured and is about In desperation, he studies the strange, sing-song symbolic language of the killer, hoping to find a clue and loc to be killed.

Sgts. Anderson and Crowley try to protect a 12-year old girl who is intent on locating her father, a man being hunted by the mob.