The Night Stalker (1972)

Reporter Carl Kolchak's first reported encounter with the supernatural, The Night Stalker, was broadcast on January 11, 1972 to jaw-dropping ratings.

Chris Stachiw and Mike White discuss The Night Stalker and the character of Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin). Based on a book by Jeff Rice and adapted by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), the made-for-TV movie was produced by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows) and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.

Special Guest: Professor Mark Dawidziak, author of The Night Stalker: A 25th Anniversary Tribute.


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Music by John Walker, Robert Cobert, Gil Milles

you weren't there

in 1972 was terrifying movie made for television came High called The Night Stalker. it's about this reporter he stumbled on the story of the century and stumbled into a remarkable realization, monsters are real.

TV series was phenomenal and I feel like Jeff Rice and the other guy really nailed it and in the books recently published based on the on the series. to the reviewers I feel like you guys are enjoying maybe from the books forward or as I'm enjoying from the TV show forward. it's kind of the difference between having read the book and then seeing the movie except in this case is having seen the series and then reading the books. I'm looking for elements of that delicious macabre Halloween is every week on call check night feeling that we got his kids snuggling down really close in front of the TV set to have our minds blown and our hearts jumping from a little terrifying thrill that's called cold Shack crept up on a sleeping vampire, ran from Jack the Ripper. or watching some hapless victim taking their less shortcut through an alley. oh remembering the vision still reflecting on the back of our eyeballs and echoing through our brains of the giant zombie man breaking some poor mob dude in half over his head and as Carl Cole Shack is sneaking up on this guy standing candles around his head and trying to sew a mouthful of rock salt shut before the zombie waits to kill him. if you didn't live something like that before you were 15 years old and you really missed out in some magic LOL but I was there