Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Thriller Series



Casts:

  • Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak
  • Simon Oakland as Tony Vincenzo
  • Jack Grinnage as Ron Updyke
  • Ruth McDevitt as Emily Cowles
  • Paul Baxley as Cop in Alley
  • Craig R. Baxley as Mr. R.I.N.G.
  • John Fiedler as Gordy Spangler
  • Carol Ann Susi as Monique Marmelstein
  • Dennis McCarthy as Ballistics Man

Kolchak: The Night Stalker sci-fi horror tv series created by Jeffrey Grant Rice about a news reporter who happened have the skills to investigate mysterious crimes unlikely caused by supernatural legendary creatures like aliens, vampires, zombies, etc., but he often failed to convince the authorities and pursue in solving crimes. Popular crime mystery series The X-Files was well known as predecessor of the show.


Carl Kolchak was a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, reporting to his long-suffering Managing Editor, Tony Vincenzo. But Carl was unexplained encountering the unnatural, dealing with mystical threat and grisly related murders like blood draining, marrow loss, old age, spine snapping or victims died in medieval weaponry, often turn his investigation to suspect supernatural beings like vampires, werewolves, aliens, zombies, underworld creatures, Aztec sacrificial cults, etc. His work was being wasted as his skeptical editor Tony and proper authorities didn't believe in his explanations and were considered as overworked imaginations.


The series completed 20 60-minute episodes plus 2 pilot movies lasted in one season ran from September 1974 to March 1975 on ABC.

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