A long-term member of the Screen Rant family, Michael looks forward to continuing on creating new content for the site for many more years to come. The show never had great effects but got a lot accomplished with a ton of nearly pitch-black scenes and screaming.

The Night Stalker: A brilliant serial killer thriller The Night Stalker: A brilliant serial killer thriller

Best and the Worst:To my way of thinking, the Matheson TV movie is better than any particular episode of the show it spawned. Before it was a TV show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a made-for-TV movie with a Richard Matheson script. Sharing the top place is “The Knightly Murders,” a tale of a suit of armor that kills everyone who wants to turn a museum into a disco. A supermodel dabbling in dark magic curses her competition, plucking them off one at a time, only to be foiled and locked away.He worked as a criminal psychologist for several years before moving to Los Angeles, where he swapped the suits and briefcases for ripped jeans, bandanas and an electric guitar.

The Night Stalker: A brilliant serial killer thriller

Refresher Course:Carl Kolchak, (Darren McGavin) investigative journalist for the Chicago (originally Las Vegas) arm of the Independent News Service tends to get mediocre assignments and turn them into investigations of supernatural phenomena.

He was the lone true believer in a world of skeptics, clearly an inspiration for the character of Fox Mulder. Interestingly, many X-Files crew members attempted to launch a Night Stalker revival in 2005, but it proved even shorter-lived than the original. In this episode, John Dehner plays Vernon Rausch, an “almost” legendary detective given to long-winded monologues that cover for his lack of integrity. One for “Vampire,” the 4th episode, which functioned as a full story almost entirely independent of Kolchak’s previous TV movie encounter with bloodsuckers.