The Pioneering Horror of 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker': An Enigmatic TV Legacy

Dive into the eerie world of the 70s TV series 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker' with Jim as he unveils the trailblazing essence of this vintage horror gem. From its 'Monster of the Week' formula to its profound impact on later supernatural shows like 'The X Files' and 'Supernatural,' explore the undying legacy of Carl Kolchak's chilling investigations. Discover the intriguing behind-the-scenes stories, its unique spot in the historical TV landscape, and the remarkable journey from its inception to the contemporary tributes. Catch the waves of nostalgia with rare snippets and insights into the series that left an indelible imprint on horror storytelling. 🎥👻📺
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[@deanmcdiarmid7068]

I'm 60. This show when I was a kid was the very best of TV. The opening music, all of it was great.

[@texassmokingmonkey]

61 here, and YUP. a favorite

[@brooke8567]

I'm 56. 7 years old on Friday nights at 10 pm after planet of the apes on Cbs

[@brooke8567]

Correction - ABC tv

[@Jackdelroy1]

T.V. movies of the seventies were so well done. Period!

[@user-re6id4qh3j]

Me and my brother couldn't wait to watch the night stalker

[@donnab.42]

Darin McGavin made that series. I remember his facial expressions were brilliant. Night Stalker one of TV’s best.

[@sgrafx]

Darren McGavin was so great in this and pretty much everything. The music and sound was impeccable and that opening theme simply amazing. As a young boy I loved it.

[@chirelle.alanalooney8609]

I LOVED KOLCHAK, AND I STILL MISS IT.

[@BrianRPaterson]

Me too! I recommend you track down the audiobook of the original job. Also, there is a podcast about the TV movies and the series, called The Kolchak Tapes. It's really fun, informative, and has some great guests. Track it down. You won't regret it. Cheers

[@cindienolin564]

If you can get metv night stalker is on Saturday night 11:00 pm

[@KRYPTOS_K5]

Believe me... You didn't miss anything... Signed Vinsenzo

[@cindienolin564]

@@KRYPTOS_K5 😂

[@dbomber69]

I have every episode and movie. 1080p on the movies and 480p on the tv episodes. I've watched them dozen's of times and it never gets old or dated.

[@Pgresham3]

I loved, Kolchak, The Night Stalker

[@lesliepowell-mccarty7067]

This was my favorite show when I was a kid!!

[@geoffreygarwood5826]

Me too.. The swamp monster (Parmafay?), the headless biker and the rakshasa scared the crap out of me..

[@johncmitchell4941]

@@geoffreygarwood5826 For me it was the episode about the Succubus. So relatable. 🤣

[@eg395]

I love this show this day and watch it on MeTV in Chicago. When Darren McGavin passed away his passing was overshadowed by Don Knotts who passed away the day before. Mr. McGavin you are missed but never forgotten.

[@johnkeenan1829]

For some reason, a headless motorcycle rider swinging a sword terrified me as a kid. Also, if you watch the series enough times, you come to realize how brilliantly funny some of the dialogue was.

[@glam_goth6662]

One of the best shows ever!

[@vixtex]

I’m 73. Saw this on an old black &white TV followed by “The Night Strangler” Been a fan of Carl Kolchak ever since. Now I have the TV series on Blu-ray. Life is good.

[@rfletch62]

Getting Dan Curtis to produce/direct was a masterstroke. He'd been scaring people in broad daylight for years with Dark Shadows.

[@jeffanon1772]

Check out some Dan Curtis movies on YT... The Norliss Tapes & Curse of the Black Widow...

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

Yup. As a matter of fact; we will be hosting a watch party on youtube in two weeks to watch The Norliss Tapes as a group.

[@delavalmilker]

A show that still holds up very well to anything else on TV today. The scene where Kolchak gets "up close and personal" with a rotting zombie in an old hearse in an auto junkyard is still intense today.

[@user-rj6gd5yo4l]

I loved that show. Never missed an episode.

[@Underdog67-mr2ld]

One of my two favorite TV shows EVER growing up Jim!!! 🙂

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

I've got some more coming on Kolchak. I'd love to do a look at each episode.

[@Underdog67-mr2ld]

Sounds great Jim! I can't wait! ;)

[@jameswyman5752]

Great show. Darren Mcgavin was great in that role.

[@johnnylightning203]

Darren was AWESOME!! His acting style, his voice...you just couldn't take your eyes off him! Casting him as Kolchak was a masterstroke.

[@johncmitchell4941]

Get good writers and bring the series back with Brian Cranston, the best we have now that we've lost Darren.

[@dbomber69]

I read that Darren actually chose the outfit for him. Something about how he didn't like the one chosen by the director because a reporter who was obsessed with the macabre wouldn't exactly be rich or work for a no.1 news agency so he came in wearing the hat and cheap suit.

[@mariovaccarella6854]

As recently as I checked, Jack Gingrage, who played Updyke, was the last surviving member of the cast & in his late 80s.

[@mariovaccarella6854]

Great Video. I used to love this show & Darren McGavin & the Supporting Cast. Afterwards, when he made A Christmas Story, I'd make my friend (also a fan of the show) laugh by, in using the Carl Kolchak voice of the opening narrative, saying, "December 25th, 1982. I Was Expecting A Tie For Christmas, But, I Didn't Get It, What I Got Was . . . ." LOL

[@PPA-vl3cu]

😂

[@shallendor]

It was such a great series, i so loved it! Darren McGavin was such a great actor!

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

I know exactly how you feel. It is such a shame that we didn’t get more than one season. But the writing was pretty much on the wall when the network made promises they didn’t keep.

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

I loved Kolchak: The Nightstalker. I think it’s time for another watch.

[@daleupthegrove6396]

Kolchak could have been the poster boy for the phrase More Guts Than Sense. He was brilliant.

[@maureencora1]

Glad I've Got the Movies & Series on DVDs.

[@franktheo2055]

This posting explains a lot about how The Night Stalker was aired. I was in high school during the 1970's, and I used to randomly flip through TV stations and find Stalker playing. I never knew when or where to find it, but it was fun to watch Kolchak chasing down The Boston Straggler and in the end the authorities would cover up the evidence and boot him out of town empty handed. It was a short lived series, but a great one !

[@Underdog67-mr2ld]

Wally Cox was awesome in The Night Strangler!!! He also voiced one of my favorite cartoon characters that you might have guessed??? 😁

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

I have no idea 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 Seriously though, the first thing I watched when Boomerang came out years back was Underdog.

[@notmyname3883]

UNDERDOG!!!!!!!!!!

[@genesanford9412]

Nice work!. Grew up with this show as a 10 yr. old fan ,& into this decade . STILL watching.....

[@robvangessel3766]

Vincenzo was a hilarious foil! Poor Vincenzo!

[@carlc5748]

My mother worked at Universal Studios in the 1960's. Sometimes she would take my brothers and I to the movie sets. About 1967, or 1968, me being 9-10 years old, were were on the set of "Ironside". This was a series that starred Raymond Burr. I was rolling around in Raymond Burr's wheelchair prop, that he used for his character in the TV series. All of a sudden, an actor was walking by, and saw my mom, brothers and I on the "Ironside" set. No one else was around. The man, who was Darren Mc Gavin , looked at me, bent down, and said, "hello young man", shook my hand, and then proceeded to continue on to wherever he was walking to. I've always liked the series, and have it on DVD, and was surprised that it had not even a full season's run. Thanks for all of your in depth info about the series, learned quite a bit that I never knew before. Richard Kiel appeared as an Indian in one of the "Night Stalker" episodes. I met him in Jan. of 1988, shook his hand, he was 7 ft. 2 1/2 inches tall, and I have several autographed pictures of him, as he appeared as "Jaws", the villain in two of the Roger Moore James Bond movies, and in the "Twilight Zone", episode "To Serve Man".

[@Atheist7]

Some of the recurring characters were FREAKS...... It was GREAT!!!!

[@boomer7485]

I still watch the series just for old time sake.

[@RETROTV1394]

A legendary show. I remember it well the movie and the TV series. Excellent cast . Nothing like it since.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i watched the original movie when it first came out. it caused a resurgence in an interest in vampires and dracula. another tv movie with darren mcgavin i like A LOT is "tribes" (1970). with jan michael vincent and earl holliman. mcgavin has a credit list about mile long. he appeared or guest starred in practically every tv show of the 60s and 70s. i always liked his on-screen persona. he seemed to always play the part of stability and common sense. thanks mr. mcgavin for all the great performances and memories.

[@walterfechter8080]

"They Were, They Are, They Will Be"

[@dan6442]

I'm 69. I very much enjoyed your musing on Kolchak. Loved the character and it is how I remember the actor. He was one of the greats when Hollywood was still Hollywood. Thank you for this and the information you provided.

[@EC-fj7xp]

OH MY GOD!!!!! I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN WITH THESE FILMS OR THE SERIES!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! I STAYED UP AT NIGHT ON A SCHOOL NIGHT FOR BOTH OF THESE FILMS! PLUS THE SERIES! Let me tell you (and I watch this series religiously) even in syndication and it was THE BOMB! Right now it's airing on cable television channel 54 in the west ME TV at midnight on Saturday nights. Darren McGavin aka Carl Kolchak every week took on the supernatural beasties, the RIPPER LEGEND, a LAS VEGAS VAMPIRE, ANCIENT BEASTS, a ZOMBIE even a Outer space EXTRATERRSTRAL who was trying to get back home!

[@andrewkaye2108]

I always felt bad for Kolshack, In that he usually had to deal with the supernatural menaces by himself. He would get advice from others, but Karl was the guy who had to face the monster at the end. Hey at least Dean and Sam have each other and Skully and Mulder have each others backs. But, Karl, he was the lone guy standing against the forces of evil. Hell, he was a reporter! No gun! No combat training! Great series though. :)

[@daleupthegrove6396]

Made you think of the phrase More Guts than Sense. But Mcgavin handled it brilliantly.

[@brianmurphy250]

The guy who created The Sopranos was a writer on this show ( it was his first big job) Darrin unfortunately didn’t enjoy the series because he wanted to do a movie version every other year instead of a weekly series ( and the fact that he didn’t get producer credits/money he was promised) There is a motion comic on YT called The Get of Beliah . It was from one of the unused scripts for the series.

[@Lionize728]

The picture in the thumbnail is the Collinwood Mansion from "Dark Shadows."

[@vixtex]

Dan Curtis

[@6Haunted-Days]

Yep Dan Curtis worked on dark Shadows too!

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

It sure is! I used it as a tribute to Dan Curtis being involved.

[@infinitygirlak]

I loved this show, when I could slip my parents and watch it.

[@MegaMarlynx]

I had a small black and white TV in my bedroom and would watch this when I was supposed to be asleep. This show scared me to death every week!

[@peytonhibdon7659]

Great job on unveiling behind the camera nostalgia on a classic movie-series game changer.

[@bryanboatwright1671]

A bit of trivia: White Wolf Publishing games, Vampire the Masquerade, had a version of Kolchak in one of their early city source books. Special Unit 2, TV series took place in Chicago, battling various supernatural creatures.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

What particularly appeals to me about the original "NIght Stalker" movie is the everyday, ordinary quality of it. Though Las Vegas is not your typical town, I would describe the story as dealing with everyday working people who might be considered blue-collar workers in ordinary circumstances and then the outrageous and seemingly impossible comes into the community. Also at the end of this video we see the closing credits of a "Night Stalker" episode or movie. Some of it is partially obscurred, but the surname Marmlestein can be seen. I wonder if that's a nod to the character Miss Marmlestein that Barbra Streisand played on Broadway in "I Can Get it for You Wholesale" at the beginning of her career and that brought her overnight recognition.

[@Robert-vs4sm]

I got the boxset, remember watching this as a kid

[@tystuff1]

This show use to freak me out when I was seven…

[@dannygreen1964]

The first Night Stalker TV movie alludes to Kolchak having to leave New York in some kind of disgrace. I always wanted to see a prequel built around that. There's no chance of doing one now since all the original 1970's creative team is gone, but maybe using AI in a few years...

[@Farin_50]

This show scared the pee out of me. I totally agree with peoples comments about how great the music was!! X-Files was just a newer take on Nightstalker.

[@peterhoulis1184]

Loved this show as a kid and still watch it now on dvd

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Be cool if someone would create audio dramas of Kolchak or even go as far as an animated movie, keeping in the same era.

[@stretmediq]

Used to watch it all the time

[@NORGCO]

Loved the show. I read an obituary about an investigative reporter in the paper he had worked for, - The Sydney Morning Herald - that proudly compared him to Karl Kolchak in his personality. It said the reporters had all sort of thought of themselves like that in a semi-secretive way. This may sound strange, but I always thought that Lois Lane from Superman should be portrayed the way Kolchak was by the 1972-74 material. Someone that obsessive and relentless after a story would need to be rescued regularly, given the bad guys are never short of resources and are sometimes famous with political connections.

[@billyjohnson2495]

This show needs to be rebooted.

[@rond227]

One of my favorite shows when i was a kid

[@garyleibitzke4166]

I was SUPER PISSED OFF when The Night Stalker was canceled.

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

Saw the movie,and then watched the show,when it was on every week!

[@jeffalanvasconcellos3039]

Great theme music for the series "Kolchak"!

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

Brilliant films and series. The music is iconic

[@kevinmkraft]

I had thought the "husband" reference where Wilma was concerned was a facetious, tongue-in-cheek reference by Carl due to Wilma's imposing presence. I believe she was more of a bodyguard rather than a husband.

[@RodmanShort]

Loved that show.

[@honeysucklecat]

The show rested on Darren’s performance. I was a kid when it came out.

[@seanellio]

That hat rack in the remake series had the hat, the jacket, and a wooden mallet.

[@Milcom34]

Got the Entire DVD Series*** AWESOME*****

[@billblake9665]

All time top gun show for me mcgavin was totally the man to me as a 7 year old.....one of my favorite summertime memories is the night my brother came blasting into our bedroom in 1979 and said WILLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i said yea? He said NIGHTSTALKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I came zooming out into the front room and laid down to watch we were absolutely as happy as could be totally riveted to the tv.....................all these years later davin mcgavin is still the man to me......i will forever be heartbroken he did not reprise the kolchack legend on the x files when given the chance and I will forever maintain that if he understood just how much fans like me not only loved the show but also loved HIM he would have done it...i would have gone absolutely bonkers.......it would have been my number one top tv moment of all time by a million miles......to see kolchacks triumphant return over 20 years after he last battled the supernatural forces of evil........man are you kidding me how awesome would that have been????? when the remake in 2005 came out my brother and I got together for every episode, dimmed the lights and wolfed down the popcorn......sadly it was cancelled after only 6 episodes.......yes it was different but it was good in its own way...........i pray somebody brings a new kolchack to the airwaves before i die...............and does it right.

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

I also would love to see them try this again. And you have touched o something that I've wondered time and time again; why did Darren hate the character so much? Obviously, he knew how much fans loved the character. So what was the source of his distain even 20+ years later?

[@billblake9665]

@@MADE_FOR_TV If you watch the early episodes you will see they are much closer in style to the 2 movies ....they were hard nosed and had some grit....as the show went on however, the writers started to make kolchack the butt of jokes he was looked at by his peers as being a little goofy and maybe a little strange....gone was the grit....and hard nosed carl was soft in the head a little........mcgavin was very serious about his acting and having the show take that direction really hurt his pride....remember, the movies was smash hits and macgavin was at the top of his game.....he must have felt like Charlie Brown when lucy pulled the football away.....the show had drifted far away from what he thought it could be......the straw that broke the kolchacks back was when Jhonny carson made jokes about the show during his opening monologue one night... the season only had a few episodes left and the ratings were awful....mcgavin asked to be let out of his contract and his wish was granted........I guess he never got over it....and the show passed into legend.... A sad ending to a show that had some real promise.

[@TheGamerZapocalypse]

I consider the original movie and the final episode "The Sentry" to be solid gold...

[@geoffreygarwood5826]

Funny enough I spotted a guy in the grocery store yesterday wearing a Kolchak Night Stalker T-Shirt! I had to strike up a conversation with him because if course it was one of my favorite shows too..

[@KennethHults-xo3yr]

The show should have been made with a national Inquirer type newspaper...Kolchak should have been sent around the country...having every supernatural entity making a stop in Chicago was too unbelievable...also, Bruce Campbell would have been a great Kolchak in the remake...

[@user-conservative-wasp]

I don't remember a re-make in 2015, but remember one in about the late 1990's' or 2000. I got all excited when it came out, and my wife and I watched it together. It wasn't anything like the original though.

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

I goofed up on that one. And never even caught it until you made this comment. The reboot was in 2005, not 2015. Same for Supernatural. Oops! Sorry about that! 😀

[@Mar.T.365]

The music in both the series, and especially the two TV movies was absolutely chilling! I wish they had gone ahead with the 3rd TV movie, rather than switching to the weekly TV show.

[@robvangessel3766]

I think prior to Kolchak, no series was MORE the "monster of the week" than the Outer Limits, although the series was super intelligent. Pure sci fi, its creator Leslie Stevens had a physics degree and doctored all the scripts interesting science.

[@theretiringbarber]

A great show .

[@MsSabbith]

Long live Karl!

[@dbomber69]

It would be cool if they brought it back with modern cryptids like the rake, the wendigo, skinwalkers, chupacabra, cattle mutilations, ufo's, etc. But they would have to find the RIGHT actor to play Karl. That part was made for McGavin! So they would have to fit the part. But it would have been better if it ran for more than 1 season.

[@thomasswafford250]

Sadly even when Sci-Fi showed it, they clipped a few minutes due to time constraints for commercials. I saw the series in it's original run and notice.

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

Keep in mind that there are also some scenes towards the end that Sci-Fi would have to cut as well to avoid mature audience issues.

[@johnnyv.5142]

All seasons are streaming on Peacock. It's a great binge watch!

[@johncmitchell4941]

How lucky are we that also watched Darren in 'The Outsider'. Think Jim Rockford with an even tougher life. TV gold!

[@shihanuke3683]

Thanks for posting ! Jan. 12th of 72 ? What was I, eight ? Wow. I remember sitting in front of the rabbit eared zenith floor model blk and white watching the opening logo for the ABC tuesday movie of the week. The prior previews made this an event. I was primed by the Hammer Films and Barnabas Collins but this one was...different. No bats. No cape. Dressed in a black suit, he looked like covert CIA. With that Spock-like haircut, he could throw, hurtle, duck, dodge, spin, and sprint past police cars like a running back . And had nothing to say because those dull lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes, made him a driven primal force undiluted by conscious or remorse. Of course, I didn't think that back then. I was eight. But it was quiet the next day in school. All I could remember was "Trauma". Even the teacher paused and explained it was a movie that would become timeless. What did that mean? Then "The Night Strangler" premiered and it started again. Oscar Goldman was never the same to me after that. The Night Stalker should have been released to theaters first. It was that good. Thank You, Dan Curtis for fighting to get Richard Mathison for the script, casting actors who already worked together in "The Twilight Zone", and being on set as the alias director. And Barry Diller for making "The Movie of the Week" the staple of my childhood.

[@brucebezold2714]

I noticed in a cartoon of with a brief appreance of Kolchak in Justice League Unlimited. Titled Fearful Symmetry. Also showed Kolchak in Swamp Thing interving Abby And tribute in Vampirella were Vampirella saves kolchak from Monsters in the t.v. show without him knowing about it.

[@joegotham27]

Omg I was thinking the exact same thing when you brought it up- had Mr Cox lived on he'd have been so amazing at INS Chicago

[@jonathanraven5939]

They should remake this series

[@steveandme63]

I thought he was going to tell us the friend was played by Fran Drescher. 😊

[@user-uq6sz6po3d]

Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea and Lost In Space were the first "monster of the week" shows.

[@PuncherOfAbs]

Both supernatural and Xfiles had a monster that lie dormant for decadeS and killed / drained a specific thing from victims and went back to sleep. Striga and squeeze

[@3dbadboy1]

Oh my mistake. I thought the remark about Wilma Crankheimer being her husband was a tongue-in-cheek remark, lol, because of how domineering her personality and posture was, oops.

[@manuelkong10]

they showed they did NOT understand Kolchak the Night Stalker when they did the remake (2015?)....they made that bright, sickening modern office with TV all over the ceiling....Let me ask you: WHY DID THE ORIGINAL SHOW, SET IN THE 70S, USE AN OFFICE (FOR INS) THAT WAS ABOUT 100% LOOKING LIKE IT WAS FROM THE 1920s?? Why? I mean, the show was set in the 70s so why the wood office walls/dividers with glass and INS and Vincenzo's name in gold leaf on the doors....why the milk glass globe lights from the ceiling? EVERYTHING felt old and WAY out of date, like a set from The Front Page.... I think they were trying to reference a "golden age" of American newspaper reporting, the 20-30s. I think they were also showing that INS was a Real backwater news service where an odd reporter could find a home. | also think they were trying to show a very unique "nest" for this unique reporter and his unique colleges....the harmless "Aunt Bee" type lady, the prickly gay reporter and the stereotypical, thundering, angry Managing editor. The 2015 remake missed EVERYTHING that made the original Kolchak special, with their pasty, zero talent, zero personality , 20 something good looking star, the office with the Huge, bright sky scraper windows, the obnoxious drop ceiling fluorescent lighting, the TVs hung overhead not to mention the TOTALLY FORGETTABLE supporting cast. Some idiot hollywood exec said, "WE'LL MODERNIZE IT!".......Uh, hun, yeah, "great" Kolchak was an Old Time "ace reporter" going out to get the story by hook or by crook, operating out of an old time office and battling old, nay, ANCIENT spirits and demons.... The remake was more than depressing, it was INSULTING

[@randelthetruth.2889]

2015?

[@randelthetruth.2889]

Pretty sure it was 2007

[@manuelkong10]

@@randelthetruth.2889 not shit....don't know what I was thinking lol

[@notmyname3883]

You nailed it. If they tried again they could get it right. The resources today are unlimited. And the viewing audience available. The walking dead lost most of us viewers in season 5 when they all turned gay. We have nowhere else to turn. Make a good series and we'll watch it. Heck, remake Jericho with a 50-year old Skeet Ulrich and we'll still watch that!

[@stevenpipines7773]

You are 100% correct! I couldn't agree more

[@1armijo]

The episode about a lizard under Chicago complex was the worse , the plastic suit and bouncing boulders were cheap shots.

[@Jackdelroy1]

Dam, I love this series. I watched it when it came out on television, and I still watch it now on KZbin

[@sentimentalbloke185]

The music and theme tune were awesome, you missed that out.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Wally Cox, the guy in the scene in the beginning was the voice of the cartoon character, Underdog.

[@jimmyjambhere]

I love the movies and series. I thought it was kinda corny how his editor follows him from Vegas to Seattle and then to Chicago lol but I guess they had to figure out a way to keep him in the story lol

[@franktproductions5832]

Retired video professional over here......NICE JOB!

[@MADE_FOR_TV]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@Voodoomaria]

I adored this series, It was too bad it only went one season. I always believed that this series, and the Jack Webb series "Project UFO" [two seasons] were the inspiration for the monumentally successful "The X-Files" where elements from both came together just right. They did a reboot series of Kolchak in 2005 that lacked all the charm of the original, it didn't even rate a full season, dogging out after only six episodes.

[@heathgoff4785]

50 yrs this September 13th!

[@JayG63]

I live in the Tacoma area and have been to the underground many times.

[@dannystaton5386]

Awesome

[@bohem5568]

Problem with the remake was the casting. And the changed format that gave Kolchak a female partner. The remake involved a couple of people that worked on the X files and unfortunately, the influence flushed back into the Kolchak remake, and it didn't work.

[@rosemaryhoydocumentaries]

I love it. Why not do a page? Great job anyway and good luck!loved the video.

[@robertstephens1203]

I think Carl was joking when he called Wilma her husband. It was the way he said it.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

It is still running on MeTV. I record it.

[@thack57]

I absolutely LOVED the original movie and I looked for it for yrs with no luck... until the last few yrs it's become available. However, while those Viewing numbers you mentioned were quite good for 2024. Though, for balance you should remind your younger viewers that the average American household at this amazing time in our country only had, on average, 3 to 6 Channels to choose from while today have so many more choices and they can watch them wherever they are. The sequel 'Night Strangler' with, if I remember correctly, Richard Anderson of '6 Million Dollar Man' fame was the villain. While I thought the best part of the film was the smokin' Jo Ann Pflug. Couldn't get into the show but for some odd reason 😏 girls had started to become more important. The remake about 20 yrs ago with Brit Stuart Townshend wasn't bad but not given a chance

[@brucebezold2714]

I thought Jo Ann Pflug was Mary Ann when I watched this in 1973.

[@jimamos7984]

Also, MeTV runs the Kolchack shows on Saturday nights (Midnight Eastern).

[@larry2447]

NEVER miss it, right after Star Trek, TOS🖖

[@thack57]

Were you aware the Wonderful Wally 'Mr. Pipx' Cox was close friends w/ Brando since they had been neighbors in Evanston, Indiana. Small World, is it not?

[@starmnsixty1209]

Anyone out there who tecalls the fan magazines it couldnt happen here..., or The Kolchak Chronicles? The 1990s were a great time tor Kolchak fandom 👻.