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• Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Complete Series

  BJ Mclean 13 May 2008

  

  The Kolchak series was commissioned after the popularity of the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, and the 1973 sequel, The Night Strangler. The series ran for 20 episodes from September 1974 to August 1975.
  Each episode shows our weatherbeaten hero, Carl Kolchak (a reporter for the Chicago Independent News Service), encountering some supernatural goings-on. The weird occurrences or other-worldly beings usually have left behind a trail of bodies, hence the reporter's interest.
  Not just any bodies mind you - people drained of blood, prematurely aged, robbed of bone marrow, spines snapped, or killed with medieval weaponry.
  Kolchack has to get to the bottom of these mysteries, despite local authorities' ignorance or denial of the true cause of the murders, while Kolchak's boss Tony Vincenzo finds his stories a bit hard to swallow.
  The series deservedly has a huge cult following, and X-Files creator Chris Carter has acknowledged it as the inspiration for Mulder & Scully; not to mention other similar shows like Eerie Indiana or Friday the 13th The Series. A vintage classic!

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Carl Kolchak (McGavin) is a reporter for Chicago&39;s Independent News Service; a magnet for situations involving the supernatural Kolchak turned his investigative skills to vampires werewolves zombies and all manner of legendary creatures Episodes Comprise1 The Ripper2 The Zombie3 They Have Been They Are They Will Be 4 The Vampire5 The Werewolf6 Firefall7 The Devil&39;s Platform8 Bad Medicine9 The Spanish Moss Murders10 The Energy Eater11 Horror In The Heights12 Mr RING 13 Primal Scream14 The Trevi Collection15 Chopper16 Demon In Lace17 Legacy Of Terror18 The Knightly Murders19 The Youth Killer20 The SentryActors Darren McGavin Simon Oakland Jack Grinnage Ruth McDevitt John Fiedler Carol Ann Susi Richard Kiel Scatman Crothers William Daniels Tom Skerritt Naomi Stevens Erik Estrada Sorrel Booke Tom Bosley Dick Van Patten & John MitchumDirector Allen Baron Alexander Grasshoff Don Weis Gene Levitt Don McDougall Vincent McEveety Robert Scheerer & Seymour RobbieCertificate 12 years and overYear 1974 - 1975Screen Fullscreen 43Languages English - Dolby Digital (20) Mono

All 20 episodes from the 1970s cult horror series, a huge influence on later series such as 'The X Files'. Darren McGavin plays affable and obsessive reporter Carl Kolchak, who uses his investigative skills to hunt down urban legends and supernatural creatures in Chicago's seedy underbelly, to the consternation of his sceptical editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). In these episodes, Kolchak hunts down a serial killer he believes is Jack the Ripper, a mysterious force tears through Chicago with the power to rip the bone marrow out of people and animals, and Kolchak finds himself trapped on a cruise liner with a werewolf. Episodes are: 'The Ripper'; 'The Zombie'; 'They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...'; 'The Vampire'; 'The Werewolf'; 'Firefall'; 'The Devil's Platform'; 'Bad Medicine'; 'The Spanish Moss Murders'; 'The Energy Eater'; 'Horror in the Heights'; 'Mr R.I.N.G.'; 'Primal Scream'; 'The Trevi Collection'; 'Chopper'; 'Demon in Lace'; 'Legacy of Terror'; 'The Knightly Murders'; 'The Youth Killer'; and 'The Sentry'.