Kolchak: The Night Stalker
I just picked up the three season box set of the original 1974 Kolchack: The Night Stalker on dvd. Kolchak is a newspaper reporter linking Chicago city deaths to the supernatural. Carl Kolshack, played by Darren McGavin, breaks all the rules and a few laws to scoop the story and is often in trouble with his editor, Tony Vicenzo.
I'll be binge watching the series this coming weekend.
Carl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
The original trailer:
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I remember watching this when it was first run with my stepfather. Then in late night reruns. I also have the original book in paperback that inspired the series by Jeff Rice where the story was located in Las Vegas, not Chicago.
During the X-Files run they were begging and pleading to allow Darren McGavin to appear on the show. I believe it took a couple seasons and they were not allowed to have him play Carl Kolshack. He eventually showed up as a different character entirely.
Too bad, would have been totally cool for Carl Kolshack to be a part of the X-Files universe.
That would have been a cool nerdy easter egg!
I've never seen an episode of the x-files. half of my adult life was spent working nights and the other half was spent working days installing cable TV. when my kids asked me what I did for a living when they were young, I told them I went into other people's homes and watched TV ...
No time like the present. It's streaming all over the place.
I didn't see a lot of prime time TV from '71 to 2015, so I may have some catching up to do.
X-Files is definitely worth your time, ( most episodes at least ).
I'm still trying to catch up on mash and cheers ...
If you like the X-Files you watch the first 3 seasons of Fringe.
is that the show where the stars were sex addicts in real life, or something like that?
Maybe. But I'm pretty sure they had an episode about that as well.... To try to break him of his habit they enclosed Mulder's gun hand in a glass jar or something.
that would do it, unless he was ambidextrous ...
Besides the physical media of DVD it's available on Peacock or rent/buy on Amazon. I've seen some episodes on YouTube, but I don't know if they are all there or what quality you might get.
My brother and I were crazy about this show when we were kids
I'm reliving my youth by binge watching a lot of those old TV shows on streaming platforms. mission impossible, kung fu, beverly hillbillies, the original star trek ...
... although I kind of play the dead or alive game when I'm watching those old shows. not so difficult these days ...
The one episode that i always think of when this show is mentioned , the one with the headless motorcycle rider .
One night, I must have been 14 years old. My stepfather was camping in Canada and my mother was working midnights. I just finished watching that headless motorcycle rider episode and went to relieve myself in the bathroom. I'm standing at the toilet and I can hear something scraping on the side of the house. Note there were no trees that close... The next morning I went looking to find a porcupine had been chewing on the siding.
at least you found the source of the noise...sometimes you don't!
wtf? what kind of siding was on the house?
I'm really lucky here. There are a whole lot of episodes of The Night Stalker on the web site biiibili that is accessible here. Watched part of episode one and really looking forware to a lot of hours of great retro entertainment.
It did really inspire a bunch other shows later. They even tried a reboot in the 2005 with Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchack. It ran for 2 seasons, but wasn't very good.
I love Kolchak. I have just finished watched the series on Peacock.
I thought of you first when this article was published ...
Cuz I am weird like him?
... no, supernatural stuff.
I'm a world class cynic, yet I've witched 3 wells with divining rods that twist blisters in my palms. go figure ...