The Night Stalker (1972)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A has-been rock star hosts horror films in his haunted mansion. Guest: Former Creature Features host John Stanley. Movie: The Night Stalker from 1972.
Episode 06-259 Airdate: 12-04-2021
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Night Stalker is high quality entertainment, I love Darren McGavin & Simon Oakland ! They made the show great :)
An awesome contentious duo
Loved Darren in this and of course "A Christmas Story". Screenplay written by Richard Matheson, a total legend in the world of sci-fi (and other genres).
They started the whole interplay of guy doing his job who had the angry uptight superior, most used in cop shows and movies.
Wait, you left out Ron!?
Agree so much about McGavin. Brilliant actor with a voice like a jazz saxophone. Calm, pretty, ominous and then he swings into those high notes. Doesn’t even bleed! Just a wonderful actor
Karl is a national treasure!!!! Thanks to all involved who brought him to Creature Features!!!! I never miss the Kolchak series on MeTV Saturdays at midnite.
Us either when we lived in Missouri but now in Texas & no tv. ☹️
Watching on my iphone tonight. Lol!🤷🏻♀️ Better than nothing! 😉
every Saturday. peace ✌️
I watch the old shows on METV too
Kids of the 70’s loved this series. I never missed it 🙂
Same
Ikr!!!!
Nor I. Rakshasa ep was my favourite.
I used to record the audio from the television then listen to it at bedtime, after having watched the show. Loved it!
I was an only child latch key kid. I'd come home from school and for the most part TV was my sitter. I watched this Tuesday Night Mystery movie Rotation which included Colombo as well a Darin McGavin as Kolschak. Man I was jumping outta my skin. I loved Kolschak's girlfriend
The movie that launched a genre. X Files owes a deep gratitude to this series.
Amen!
That they do
As does Supernatural to some degree!.. Director Robert Singer wrote an episode or 2 of Night Stalker as a younger lad!
So true.
One other thing is that during the theme song, he whistles during it, and in the X-Files theme song it also has whistling in it except it's a keyboard.
I was 8 years old when this fine movie came out. Was scared to sleep for weeks! One of the best tv movies ever. Thanks for showing it.
And the next day in school - it was the talk of the playground!
I was about the same age . I remember a year or so after ,The Six Million Dollar Man came out . Two of my 4th grade classmates loved Steve Austin. One day I said that the Night Stalker could beat up Austin . A huge argument followed.lol😅
Same here. I remember the promos on ABC were scary and captivated everyone to watch.
@@LannieLord It was cool that hey used the swimming pool across the street from The Bewitched House .
Darren McGavin was such an underrated actor! I guess I’ve watched both the night stalker and the night strangler about ten times and I never get tired of them. They drag me in every time. I also never fail to get angry at the cops for lying. Sadly they still lie!
I too love Darrin mcgavin. He was THE perfect Dad in "Christmas Story " never forget his pride about the leg lamp. I think he was underrated because he was edgy and quirky and he always enfused everything with his sly wit and charm.
Underrated? By WHOM?
Darren McGavin was a true American GIFT. EVERYONE who ever worked with him or watched any of his work has fully appreciated him. NOBODY in the world "underrated" him.
I don't think anyone knows what that means.
This movie garnered a 33.9 percent rating when first aired in 1972. One of the highest rated made for television movies in history.
Back when this movie and series came out they went by the age group for 40-up. Now they go by the younger gen. 20-40. They don’t care about the older generations now…..lol
Oh my stars. You must show the sequel! This brought back wonderful childhood memories. I loved watching The Night Stalker! And I love watching it every chance I get. ❤️ Thank you so much! ~Sharon
A great series! Kolchak with his crazy sense of humor thrown in. Never missed an episode when it was on TV.
As I recall, the sequel followed the exact same formula and was a disappointment. I don’t think Matheson wrote it and the monster was uninteresting.
Always looked forward every week to this show as a kid. It's great to see them again .
Mom used to do her shopping for our large family (with not enough money... I still get ptsd at cash registers... as kids we were the ones tasked with returning stuff to the shelves that we could not afford); but, that big cylindrical box of Humpty Dumpty chips was not often sacrificed. My older brother would dole out shares for the family and then me, my brother, and my younger sister would always watch Kolchak.... best times ... thanks for putting it up again.
What an absolute classic TV show. I loved it as a kid when it was new. It was the stuff if nightmares!
kolchak is on every saturday night 11pm on METV.
One of the most underrated shows of ALL time. Darren McGavin was made for this part. ✌️😎
also the main man in the series riverboat.
This and the next tv movie Night Strangler were at the time highly successful earning the highest ratings for a tv movie
@The Great Gazoo It's something the younger people like to say. An actors underrated or a show. They don't even know what there talking about. They weren't even here then. I think its offensive and these younger people should quit saying it!!!
@@Ripley841 There are plenty of idiots on some of the rock music documentary shows that feel obligated to say some one is underrated - when
nothing could be further from the truth. The youngsters that are just now starting to learn about movies and music from the '70s.
This series was decades ahead of it's time. So many series like The X-Files, Millennium, Twin Peaks and Lost. Have taken inspiration from shows like this. Series that dealt with dark, macabre, bizarre and supernatural events. The things that have captured the imagination of legions of people over the years.
Man everything stopped when it was time for a new episode. Darren McGavin ROCKED Kolchak. The entire ensemble cast was terrific too. It was also a series where I actually noticed the accompanying music (which I don't normally do much. Just a fantastic series!
@@kirnpu It is sad but true nowadays. The time of movies and TV series entertaining us is mostly gone. Now Hollywood is way too concerned with realism, politically correctness and hypersensitivity. I personally miss the hell out of the entertainment factor. The edgy, rowdy and creative worlds that various movies and TV series transported you to. Nostalgia is something so many of us have to experience everyday of our lives. Our only saving grace is God willing the wheel will come around and there will other writers and directors that are gutsy enough and creative enough to bring back the entertainment factor in spades.
@@vincecommando7575 You're right. It all died with the writer's strike and the advent of Reality TV. Ugh.
@@kirnpu We are living more and more in a police state. That even our own homes will no longer be our own. The Nazi Fascist government is unfortunately what is coming at us fast and furious. No government really believes that humanity came trusted with their own freedom. Cause the people in power view us as retarded children that are extremely ignorant and dangerous.
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Excellent movie- has an interesting, compelling and exciting story set in an unlikely kind of place 1970s Vegas. With a villain who is absolutely diabolical, scary and unlikely. Great cast and especially Darren Mcgavin. I could analyze this film for a long time but I'll just cut to the chase- it is a timeless classic period.
I'm homesick for the night stalker. When I just can't tolerate how ugly everyone is today, I can tune in to Mr. Mcgavin and remember how he never gave up, never gave in when no one cared and was able to prove the truth to himself, which is all that really matters. All my love kolchack!!!!!!!
Sure does make me sad and anxious at the same time the way I see so many people behaving today. With a side of disgusted. So I do the same and escape to a better time.
@@RemoWilliams1227 😒😦❣🙏🇺🇸
As great as Carl Kolchak was, it's because, in part, he had "Miss Emily" for back-up!
I agree with you. 🥺
Rember, humans are the real monsters.
Night Stalker was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was 10 when this aired.
Well its nice to see Frank Burns landed a good job after the Korean war . But I am not so sure about Carls girlfriend taking that job as a lounge singer on the SS Poseidon .
Dan Curtis was responsible for 3 of the best vampire films of the 70s. House of dark Shadows (the feature film cased on the soap), The Night Stalker and his version of Dracula starring Jack Palance.
Agreed...👍👍....also loved his movie Curse of the Black Widow...
Love his Norliss Tapes too 👻
NOOOO WAAAAY!Toooio coool!cool!
I hope I have a lot of fellow Kolchak The Night Stalker fans here! Maybe they'll do the night Strangler as well? And maybe the norliss files
The boy coroner. Love it. Night Stalker scared the heck out of me when I was a kid.
Not me, my home life was much worse.
This Night Stalker is responsible for many of my childhood memories/nightmares. Been looking for this for many years.
I loved this series! I bought the DVD series. Wish it had been on longer. It was my introduction to appreciating this genre like Buffy the Vampire Slayer etc.
It will be great to see John Stanley & “The Night Stalker” on Creature Features. Absolute classics. Can’t wait! Hopefully to be followed up with “The Night Strangler” @ some point, along with the TV episodes.
Saw this on UA-cam a while back but can’t wait to watch it again with all of you!! Love this episode
This is gonna be a good one folks!!!!! I can watch Kochek,the movies and series, all day long!!!!!!
Love how they cast Frank burns (Larry Linville) as the surgeon….. too funny😂
Love him ❤
This is going to be a classic episode...one of the best made-for-TV movies of the 70s (and later a classic TV series) and John Stanley...Really looking forward to Saturday night.
Both this and the follow up tv movie Night Strangler(,my favorite) were highly successful in their day earning very high ratings!
Wild to see Barry Atwater go from this awesome vampire to Surak - the most important Vulcan philosopher on the original Star Trek.
I see in the background of the photo-poster, "Prime Rib Steak."
I like this movie already.
Like #21 for me :)
Bon appétit #21
@@seacampeon8729 Thank you sea campeon :) Come and join our table.
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺, thanku guy's so very much for playing all my favourite movies, I'm a baby boomer and used to watch creature features back in the 70s. If u can find anymore night stalker series I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks again 😊🎉
No way am I missing this... one of my favorite tv movies of all time as well as john stanley...
This was scary and creepy without being disturbing. Dan Curtis does it again. I would love to see a remake but current Hollywood would just mess it up with WOKE DEI nonsense.
IMHO, one of the best vampire movies - period!
It's this movie's 50th anniversary year... 1972 - 2022.
I'm a journalist in Australia and although I never based my career on that of Carl Kolchak, I've done stories in Las Vegas and I hope to go back one day.
In the UK this show was hardly heard of.I recently bought the whole series on DVD and it was great!No X-Files without this groundbreaker i think.
I love both this, and "THE NIGHT STRANGLER"!! Some of Darrin McGavins', best roles!!! Just like when he plays the dad, in "A CHRISTMAS STORY"!! Look @51:39 when she drops a book, on his 'delicate spot'. Remember in 'A Christmas Story' when Melinda Dillon drops a bowling ball, there also 😏?? Poor Darrins', job danger's!! We'll, well, look at who we have here @1:06:54. No other than Elisha Cook Jr. Another horror, lothario great 😉!!!
Fantastic choice! This 1972 t.v. movie later became the great Night Stalker t.v. series. In this movie the iconic reporter Kolchak is on the trail of a Vampire! By the way, Bodega Bay always seemed to me a place one might find a Vampire. Perhaps a retired musician with an accent, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, always dressed in black and apparently never aging. I do remember a medieval book which does mention a certain Count Vincenzo Vandahlini. Oh well just a coincidence I guess. Saturday night don't miss....THE...NIGHT...STALKER!
I enjoy visiting Bodega bay mostly except for all the damn vampires!
This will be a great episode 💞
The so called “B movies” of the early seventies had better scripts and dialogue than the blockbusters of today.
I loved Darren McGavin and the Night Stalker show. A lot of great characters in this.
"She's an Undesirable Element, Kolchak, and we don't want undesirable elements in Las Vegas..." LMAO
The Night Stalker had a huge influence on Cris Carter who created The X-Files. Darren McGavin also made a couple of cameos on that show.
I remember watching this with my mother back in the seventies, we both loved it and followed the tv series until they took it off the air. Love it still, long live the Baby Boomers. God, Family and Country. God Bless. 1776
This was a really good movie. It holds up over 50 years later. And these cheesy local horror film presentations from yesteryear are fab. I grew up in Minneapolis. Our version was a show called “Horror Incorporated”. During opening of show and after commercial breaks a sound effect of a horrified woman screaming was played. Around 1970 on a hot summer night, before most had A/C many windows were opened. A woman in our neighborhood heard the screaming from the TV and she called the police. There was an uproar, especially after they heard the screams following a commercial break. The knocked on doors at 2:00 am and finally someone figured it out. LMAO
This is going to be epic... John Stanley & The Night Stalker" on Creature Feature.
Can't wait!! Pure Classic.
Always prefer old movies!
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Kolcak was the best made for TV movie in history. Thank you Livingston for getting it.
Damn, i miss this show! Grew up watching it faithfully!
i would've been 3 1/2 when this was first run but i most definitely remember it in reruns it was always on after midnite all thru the decades here and there. above all else when i watch stuff like this now i can't believe people really did dress like that in the 70's.
That has to be one of the greatest openings on UA-cam.😃⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This bring back so many pleasant memories , being a kid in the 70s the best , watching this show at night with my cousins at their home then thinking about the walk home , in the dark very little night and scary kid imagination mentality, 😢😮what I would give for one of those magical 70s night
I love the night stalker awesome kolcheck 👍🏿👍🏿
Loved the Kolchak as a kid. But Would cover my eyes or change channel when the really scary parts came on hahaha
Thank you Creature Features for playing it and bringing John Stanley for an interview.
This should be great. I've seen the series, but it will finally be nice to see the origin of the character. Combined with the participants in the chat room, Saturday will not fail to entertain!
This is gonna be a blast from the past!! Can't wait!
ABC needs to bring this show back. One season wasn't enough. I have every episode and the 2 movies and watch em over and over. They could use the new monsters like mothman, the rake, the Beast of Bray Road and others. BRING BACK KARL!
Carl was brought back in 2005. They already tried reviving this series in a modern revamp, albeit briefly, on ABC network. It failed. I think only six shows aired. I didn't tune in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Stalker_(TV_series)#Cancellation
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Somehow I doubt if it's remade _again_ they could do justice to the original show; plus, I'd wager that the fantastic and prickly dynamic between Vincenzo and Carl could not be done as well as it was in the '70s. Just my opinion.
The night stalker is the best vampire movie I've ever seen
They really made them the right way back then, I became a Darren McGavin fan and went out of my way to watch him.
From a time when Hollywood actually was creative and produced a product worth watching. Now its seldom they produce anything but crap.
Lolz. Off you go now codger.
@@seymourskinner2533 - So, name one Hollywood movie from the last two years that will be considered a Classic in fifty years???? Its all CGI woke action crap.
@@tominva4121 why should I? No matter what you’ll just say it’s rubbish. Go back to shaking your fist at clouds. The world has left you behind and rightly so.
My favorite and one of the best Made For TV movies. Plus John Stanley!
An appropriate pick for John to participate in. This should be fun.
I just can not understand why vampires would like to hang around the west. It must be the dust.
Vampires typically like Vegas because "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas".
@@seacampeon8729 I'm sure Donald is lurking around somewhere.
Oh. Yeah.
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Just stumbled across this channel and man oh man the nostalgic feelings.
Seriously good memories of watching movies like this with a host during breaks.
I would pay good money to cuddle with Tangella!!! Yes Vince I'm a HUGE fan of the show U.F.O absolutely 💯 % love. Their theme song was a absolute classic!!!
You can't have Tangella.
She is mine ♥ (well in my dreams anyways).
@@roger.e.lareau4556 That makes 2 of us!!! Rofdlmao
Still a great movie.
When Dr. Makurji (Larry Linville) says that in Germany in the 1920s there was a fellow that used his teeth to rip out his victims throats (25:50) he is referring to the real-life serial killer Fritz Haarmann. Haarmann aka as the Hanover Butcher and Hanover Vampire, was found guilty of 24 murders and executed by guillotine in 1925.
Even us who are currently in Law Enforcement love watching movies like this
When I was a kid watching these I thought he was just a rumpled old guy. Now I look at Kolchak and realize what a snappy, dapper dresser he was, indeed! Not many men can wear a seersucker suit and make it look good. Kolchak sure did! And his cotton, poplin suits. He looks like a million bucks! I'm wearing worn-[out tac pants and a dirty hoodie. He was a model for men!
This is the OG right here. Back in the day when this was on network TV.. the whole house shut down & sat around tv to watch.
The night stalker was one of the coolest shows in the provable era of TV
It’s very early 1970’s.
This and Colombo were my favorites in that 1973-74 time.
Like #8...and i must say this one is by far the best pick in a very long time. Kolchak is a priceless treasure and I hope you have sense enough to play the second pilot as a follow up.
Glad your happy #8
I am so glad that you mentioned Bob Wilkins. I grew up in the San Francisco bay area - I must’ve watched night of the living dead on his show I don’t know how many times. Please find out his birthday and play that around that time. Thank you for bringing this back to Yes😊😊😊😊
My 2 childhood favorites- Creature Features and The Nightstalker in one place!!! Heaven on Earth😺😺😺😻😻😻
Night Stalker and Rod Sterling’s Night Gallery!
Barry Atwater still creeps the heck out of me. 🧛🏻♂️ Great character actor.
SNL sucks now that they are just political lacky bias dogs and NOT funny at all. I miss the SNL that was fun and had fun with both political parties, not making fun of just one party is skits that display a total lack of talent. I will stick with your show here.
At the (53:48-54:01) time stamps, Dracula beats up a male orderly played by future Flash Gordon star Sam Jones, who also was in The Highwayman TV series (1987-88) amongst other series and films later!
Ooh, I installed heard you guys talking about the series, UFO! I loved that series! I have the theme song on my phone!
Love the show!! You should screen how to make a monster or the incredible . Melting man for one of your shows...
I'm 11 years old again, in middle school chess club where every other sentence quoted this television series!
It was a crime to cancel Kolchak The Night Stalker after 1 season. Seriously think about the garbage they pump out on the airwaves, yet they cancel this instant classic. Makes you wonder who’s the knuckleheads making the calls behind the scenes? 🙄
This was one of our favorite episodes yet! The movie was fantastic, John was a lovely guest, and the present-ors were firing on all cylinders. i hope you show the sequel!
Truly, just watched it and this is my favorite episode so far.
When this show was new, I was a young teenager and thought Carol Lynley was beautiful.
Yes great fans here in Columbia SC of both shows X files and Night stalker
Kolchak was awesome.
I don’t know if it could have went longer.
I remember seeing this film when I was a kid Saturday night 11:30 scared the crap out of me
Let's just take a moment - acknowledge the late great Bob Wilkins, yes!? Growing up w/in viewing radius of all Wilkins shows - he was legendary for the very reason some kids are bullied - he was UNIQUE, and 'made it' BECAUSE he was unique.
And as Bob Wilkins has brought up memories - his doing nightly news was very confusing for the younger fans who knew him as Creature Feature guy lol. For the rest of us (high school], the joke was 9n the news station not the monster movie program ...many 70's late night dates spent cuddled under a blanket watching Creature Feature :)
Yes! So good! Even Livingston has gotta love this one! 👍🍿🎞
Lol I like your name, I own my nerd card with pride too 🤓
NONE OF THIS AS SCARY AS OUR SO-CALLED "PRESIDENT"!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am ashamed to say this, but growing up in the 80s, I was a big fan of Elvira! After I started my "grown up" life, I totally lost track of these programs. When I saw this channel, it brought many memories! Thank you! New subscriber!!
Wow I forgot how beautiful Carrol Lindley was😎
Did Bryan Cranston imitate Darren McGavin for Breaking Bad?
The only ''BELIEVEABLE'' vampire movie ever made.....
My sister and brother and I have started watching your shows since the later part of last year. We find it outstanding; everyone is such a blast to watch. All of you are so iconic. Keep up the good work!
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Fun fact. At about the 30 minute mark the crime scene involving an older woman and her deceased daughter is the exact same set as that used in the film 'Encounter With the Unknown'. Same house, same actress, police everywhere, but entirely different scenario.
Nobody can deny the quality of the series and movies.
What a wonderful entertainment experience, I watched this in 1972🎉
Thanks for making this available! Great movie!
Wow!!! I remember this lol my mom would get so upset my dad let us watch it
"Creature Features" was a TV show or sorts in the 1970's in the SanFrancisco Area it was broad cast on Chanell 2 , it had a host Bob Wilkens who was also the creator of the showand every week it showed a diffrent movie , the host was campy and fabulous 😁😁😁 i was a young girl when it first started airing in 1971 my mom allowed me to stay up late on friday and saturdays so i could watch this show and The Midnight Special music show
Same here. Do you remember Pat McCormick with the Charlie and Humphrey show as well?
Me to I grew up in Berkeley Night of the living dead too scary
I loved the movie series since I was kid in the 1970s....The Night Stalker (1972) The Night Strangler (1973) Kolchak the night stalker TV series (1974 - 75).