Even for a "Kolchak" episode, this one has a weird setup. Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) is supposed to be going on a cruise but at the last minute he is forced to cancel. However, there STILL is a ticket and Kolchak is sent on the trip. This isn't the weird part. What's weird is that a werewolf is apparently aboard!! Even weirder, the audience is expected to believe some guy in a cheap drugstore wolf-man mask is a real monster!! Yes, the folks making this show really went hog-wild--spending what appears to be $3.98 for a quality wolf-man costume! So, apart from the bad mask, is the episode any good? Well, not really. It is entertaining, I'll grant you that. But the show is silly even by "Kolchak" standards.
By the way, I am a bit of an airplane and boat nut, so a few observations about this episode. First, early in the film you see a 747 that, if you pay attention, changes airlines several times! Also, the ship shown in the program is a combination of two ships. The shots of the ship at sea are of the SS France (later re-christened the SS Norway) and the rest of the shots were done on the Queen Mary--which had been decommissioned and was parked in Long Beach, California (where it remains today as a hotel).