Kolchak: The Night Stalker

at around evening time on Tuesday, the 23rd of August 2005 by Anarchy

All I can say is… it’s about time!

In 1972, Darren McGavin (who is probably best known as the furnace-fighting, major-award winning father from “A Christmas Story”) took up the role of Carl Kolchak… a wise-cracking, hard-biting newsman in a seersucker suit and a straw boater hat. Sounds kind of uninteresting at first… but each episode inevitably brought him into contact with the paranormal or supernatural. There were vampires, werewolves, aliens, zombies, witchcraft, and so much more!

His first appearance as Kolchak was in “The Night Stalker”, a made for TV movie. This was followed up by a second television movie in 1973 entitled “The Night Strangler”. This eventually led to a short-lived television series (which is soon to be released to DVD) called “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”.

For those of you out there who are unfamiliar with this series… let me recommend it. If you loved the X-Files, then you should take a moment to check out Kolchak. After all… “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” was the television series that inspired Chris Cater to create “The X-Files”.

Now… I realize that this classic television gem is only being released now in prelude to the new, upcoming Kolchak remake series. However, I don’t care… I’ll take it any way I can get it! As for the new series… I’ll check it out… but I’m a purist.

The original two television movies are already available on DVD. It’s an inexpensive buy… and worth checking out at twice the price!