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RECEIVED THIS VIDEO PACK, ALL 20 MOVIES, SEASON 1 AND ONLY FOR THE PRICE OF 1 KOLCHAK MOVIE FROM COLUMBIA HOUSE. LOVE MY KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER.
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I just found some interesting trivia about KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER that I never knew (and I see some other reviewers have mentioned it too).
David Chase, who would go on to create one of the greatest shows on TV, THE SOPRANOS, got his first Hollywood job as a story editor for THE NIGHT STALKER! Not only that, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (USED CARS, BACK TO THE FUTURE) wrote one of THE NIGHT STALKER's wildest episodes, "Chopper," a modern-day update of the headless horseman legend (only now he rides a motorcycle).
This was my favorite show as a kid. The TV movies were written by Richard Matheson, who wrote I AM LEGEND, HELL HOUSE, and my favortie TWILIGHT ZONE episode, "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet."
Although this series would lapse into a "Monster of the Week" formula that exhausted its concept (something THE X-FILES learned to avoid), the show itself did a great job of developing the office and its quirky reporters around the supernatural goings-on. Vincenzo the screaming boss with an ulcer, "Uptight" the snooty rival, Miss Emily the doting grandmotherly presence. And Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, a wise-guy reporter who believes more in the paranormal than the business-as-usual beauracrats he's forced to deal with.
Too bad the show didn't last more than one season, but everyone remembers that one season!
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It's nice that they FINALLY release this DVD. The down side being it states that it has been digitally enhanced, but my VHS tapes have a better picture quality. Still, it's Kolchak on DVD.
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I remember when this show used to come on... when I was a kid our local channel would put it on after midnight on a Friday. Now, today this show may seem a little hokey but back then it was really creepy.
I was very pleased by the DVD set. The episodes are intact and I got to watch several that I've never seen before. It was also interesting to see how reporting used to be done... you had to get out from behind your big steel desk and go to the library or go to the morgue or find a subject matter expert. You had to develop photos and print them. You put stories "on the wire" so it could be picked up by news services via teletype. I don't think you could do the Night Stalker today. In this way it's as if it's preserved in amber.
Sure, some of the special effects were hokey back then (I recall how incredibly unconvincing the headless biker was) but the stories made up for them. Of course, you had to wonder why these things always happened to Kolchak and how he managed not to end up in jail for destruction of public property, slander, misuse of a body, public nuisance, impersonating a doctor, etc. etc.
Definitely worth watching!
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Thank you for the speedy delivary.
It made an awesome and easy birthday gift for my Dad1
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