Based on the then unpublished novel by Jeff Rice to be titled The Kolchak Chronicles, Rice wrote the novel because "I'd always wanted to write a vampire story, but more because I wanted to write something that involved Las Vegas." Rice had difficulty finding any publisher willing to buy the manuscript until agent Rick Ray read the manuscript and realized the novel would make a good movie. The novel wasn't published until after the TV movie had already aired and delayed according to Rice because the publisher wanted both Rice's original novel and the sequel (written by Rice but based on the screenplay by author Richard Matheson) so "they could be placed on the top of the publisher's list in the 1 and 2 positions for 1974." .
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| - Based on the then unpublished novel by Jeff Rice to be titled The Kolchak Chronicles, Rice wrote the novel because "I'd always wanted to write a vampire story, but more because I wanted to write something that involved Las Vegas." Rice had difficulty finding any publisher willing to buy the manuscript until agent Rick Ray read the manuscript and realized the novel would make a good movie. The novel wasn't published until after the TV movie had already aired and delayed according to Rice because the publisher wanted both Rice's original novel and the sequel (written by Rice but based on the screenplay by author Richard Matheson) so "they could be placed on the top of the publisher's list in the 1 and 2 positions for 1974." . Directed by John Llewllyn Moxey a veteran of theatrical and TV movies, adapted by Richard Matheson and produced by Dan Curtis best known at the time for Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker became ABC's highest rated original TV movie with a At the time of its original airing a 33.2 rating and a 54 share which was unheard of for an original TV movie at the time. . The TV movie did so well it was released overseas as a theatrical movie and inspired a sequel TV movie entitled The Night Strangler, which aired in 1974, a short lived TV series entitled Kolchak: The Night Stalker which ran in 1976 and a short lived 2005 TV series called Night Stalker. Actor Darren McGavin recalled his involvement began when "My representatives called to say that ABC had purchased the right to a book called The Kolchak Papers. They were into a kind of first draft of a script by Richard Matheson, and they called the agency to ask them if I’d be interested in doing it. My representative read it and called me." The popular TV movie along with its sequel and the TV series provided inspiration for Chris Carter's The X-Files and Carter featured actor Darren McGavin in two episodes of the TV series as a tribute to the actor and the project that inspired his popular series. Originally Carter had wanted McGavin to play Kolchak but the actor elected not to so the role was rewritten making McGavin's character Arthur Dales the "father of the X-files".
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