One episode of Kolchak:Night Stalker had a rakshasa, Horror in the Heights.
An odd coincedence had it that I picked up a book of assorted short stories and it had some stories from India and one of them was about a rakshasa about a week or so after the Night Stalker episode aired. I was a regular watcher when it was in first run. Excellent series for the time. I really do like ‘monster of the week’ format shows.