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| - The series lasted for one season, airing from September 13, 1974 to March 28, 1975 after only 20 episodes. It was preceded by two TV movies: "The Night Stalker" in 1972 and "The Night Strangler" in 1973.
- Before the television series began, Jeff Rice had written a novel called "the Kolchak Papers" about a reporter who battled a vampire serial killer in Las Vegas. ABC contacted Rice about turning this unpublished novel into a television movie. This became the 1972 movie, The Night Stalker. It was so successful in the ratings that a second TV movie was made in 1973, The Night Strangler. Rather than make a third movie, the network pushed for a television series. The result was the brief lived Kolchak: The Night Stalker that ran from 1974 to 1975 for 20 episodes.
- Kolchak is one of the few reporters, along with The gay guy, the fat old lady, and the huge, irritable boss at the Independant News Service. He is also the best which isn't saying much at all really. This is proven by the fact that he gets all the good stories, although he frequently shuns these good stories to go search for some random monster, much to the chagrin of his boss Tony Soprano, who fires him often. Strangely enough though, he always comes in whistling at 4:00 in the morning, throws his hat at nothing in particular and types up the same damn story every day, perhaps because his adventures are just that monotonous, perhaps because he's just a senile old man, or perhaps because the noise of him chewing his Kellogs Raisin Bran Crunch blocked out the insane yelling of his boss firi
- The series was preceded by two television movies, The Night Stalker (1971) and The Night Strangler (1973). While the series only lasted for one season, it remained popular in syndication, and is often credited as the inspiration for the popular television series The X-Files. Following The X-Files' success, the franchise was resurrected in 2005 in the form of a second television series with a new cast and characters, as well as subsequent novels and comic books.
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| - The series was preceded by two television movies, The Night Stalker (1971) and The Night Strangler (1973). While the series only lasted for one season, it remained popular in syndication, and is often credited as the inspiration for the popular television series The X-Files. Following The X-Files' success, the franchise was resurrected in 2005 in the form of a second television series with a new cast and characters, as well as subsequent novels and comic books. The entire series is available in syndication and is occasionally rerun on the Sci-Fi Channel under its original expanded title, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In 2008, it began running on Chiller. It is also available on DVD and streaming from Netflix.
- The series lasted for one season, airing from September 13, 1974 to March 28, 1975 after only 20 episodes. It was preceded by two TV movies: "The Night Stalker" in 1972 and "The Night Strangler" in 1973.
- Kolchak is one of the few reporters, along with The gay guy, the fat old lady, and the huge, irritable boss at the Independant News Service. He is also the best which isn't saying much at all really. This is proven by the fact that he gets all the good stories, although he frequently shuns these good stories to go search for some random monster, much to the chagrin of his boss Tony Soprano, who fires him often. Strangely enough though, he always comes in whistling at 4:00 in the morning, throws his hat at nothing in particular and types up the same damn story every day, perhaps because his adventures are just that monotonous, perhaps because he's just a senile old man, or perhaps because the noise of him chewing his Kellogs Raisin Bran Crunch blocked out the insane yelling of his boss firing him. Whatever the reason, about one minute after he begins typing, things just seem to freeze up around him, maybe to create dramatic effect, maybe because he's on too much medication. Upon starting the day like this, Kolchak would proceed to receive his assignment from Tony, only to shirk it later for some story about voodoo or something. Kolchak would end the day on a relative high note, facing down the said monster and killing it in a suspenseful span of about 4 minutes. Later depressedly talking of this and how the monster melted or something before returning to INS and keeping the non-report to himself. Every night Kolchak would face off with a monster, usually coming home unharmed but covered in some dirt or sticky substance. The monster would at most times would totally melt or disintegrate, providing a credible alibi as to why Kolchak never has evidence of any conflict after the fact, and why Kolchak never mentions weekly "encounters" again (They all become a repetitive blur after a while, once you've done one, you've done 'em all... monsters of the week that is). This is, confidentially due to "The Division" controls installed for instant cover-up purposes. Kolchak currently has an "encounter" at least once every week. Now at age 86, it's a wonder how Kolchak still survives! As stated before, Kolchak's main weapon of information, like others use blackmail or sneaky tricks, is annoyance. Kolchak, upon being refused frequently asks again in an increasingly whiny manner, until finally walking away and doing whatever he wants to do anyway. Transcribed here is a common discussion between Kolchak and his boss Tony somebody;
* Kolchak: Hello Tony!
* Tony: Kolchak! I'm very busy, what did you want to see me about?
* Kolchak: Oh, Tony I was just wondering if you knew anything about basilisks?
* Tony: Karol, what do Basilisks have to do with that produce article I had you write?
* Kolchak: Well Tony, you see a basilisk is-
* Tony: Never mind, I don't wanna-
* Kolchak: Now-now-now Tony, I think you might want to hear about this, you see it is said that basilisks-
* Tony:KOLCHAK! You are a good reporter, I don't know why you insist on taking these dumb cases?
* Kolchak: Hold that thought Tony, I just remembered something (Kolchak turns to leave)
* Tony: Kolchak, where are you going?
* Kolchak: I'm going to get a garbage bag and about 200 plastic toothpicks!
* Tony: BWhat??
* Kolchak: Nevermind Tony, you wouldn't understand.
* Tony: Kolchak! You're fired!
* Kolchak: (walks out the door pretending he doesn't hear this) (Kolchak would, following this dismissal would again come in whistling at 4:00 in the morning, throw his hat at nothing in particular and type up some damn story that won't get printed because it's about monsters)
- Before the television series began, Jeff Rice had written a novel called "the Kolchak Papers" about a reporter who battled a vampire serial killer in Las Vegas. ABC contacted Rice about turning this unpublished novel into a television movie. This became the 1972 movie, The Night Stalker. It was so successful in the ratings that a second TV movie was made in 1973, The Night Strangler. Rather than make a third movie, the network pushed for a television series. The result was the brief lived Kolchak: The Night Stalker that ran from 1974 to 1975 for 20 episodes.
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