The Night Stalker (1972) The Night Strangler (1973) Double Feature

One of the best slices of television terror of the 70s if you ask me, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). They all star Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, as the first two movies explicitly made reference to, a character straight out of The Front Page. Hes a disheveled newspaperman who will do anything to get his story. It just so happens that the stories he follows have an odd tendency to be supernatural. Supporting Kolchak in the films and series is Simon Oakland as Tony Vincenzo, a hot tempered editor who clearly has stomach ulcers. Kolchak makes his life much harder because even though the stories are right, Vincenzo cant publish them. Thats especially true in the movies, where Vincenzo wants to publish Kolchaks stories but is prevented from doing so. In the series, it is usually the case that evidence is destroyed or withheld, not allowing Kolchak to file a story. The Night Stalker The first movie wasThe Night Stalker, produced forABCand released as part of itsMovie of the We