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  • The Night Strangler is definitely my favorite "episode" (although it's actually the pilot movie) from Kolchak. I haven't seen this in awhile, but I used to watch it quite often when I was pretty young. My dad, who grew up with this series as a kid, let me watch Kolchak pretty much every Friday night when I was little. There's something about The Night Strangler that really intrigues me. It never gets old and it really scares me! Definitely a classic.

  • YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER

  • Pmsl! Just watched film I'm a dinlo!

  • I haven't seen this since it first came out. Thanks for putting it up

  • "Wilma" looks like Kolchak's boss. :-P

  • THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

  • @tegrimm

    I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

  • simon oakland = otis sistrunk

  • The timing of Carl's last question with the captain's reaction - Hollywood is so dumbed down today that it wouldn't be able to be repeated. R.I.P. D.M. & S.B.. See Hollywood, there are two ACTORS!

  • Joanne Pflug was such a cutie back then :)

  • I hate to sound naive, but I'm guessing those two women are...together?

  • @Irishflyboy255

    Yea they are a couple.

  • 3:30 "There's nothing wrong with me!" Kolchak the original hero who wore tennie shoes every week LOL!!

  • Daran McGavin played the television version of "Casey, Crime Photographer." A show taken from radio. A character very much like Kolchak,

  • love love LOVE THE DIALOGUE!!!!!!

  • @cutandpaste1 YouTube has blocked my initial comment that started this avalanche because it talks about knowingly allowing illegally downloaded, property rights protected material. They aid and abett a crime and try to silence the opposition. Communal living doesn't work in the real world...it leaves everyone poor. As for sharing women...some of us have trouble making one at a time work. But hats off if you're a multi-tasker.

  • This is, without a doubt, the BEST thriller ever made!

  • Has anybody noticed how the X Files episode SQUEEZE is an almost exact remake of the Night Strangler. try watching them back to back and you'll notice all the similarities, sometimes down to almost exact copies of whole scenes. this might seem farfetched, but not if you remember that chris carter has openly stated that the Night Stalker was a hugh influence on the X Files and and that Darren McGavin was even given a guest role in an episode as a tribute.

  • Seattle! Just about an hour from where I live! :D

    Those must have been some pretty incredible murderers, we've got some sick fucks around here. WA has the highest number of serial killers in the country. Ah, makes me proud to be Washingtonian.

  • so, from entire scene at beginning, the scared girl, alone, in the dark, in an alley, and she "actually see's" the dark figure behind the boxes...

    bolts up the alley, Cabby roars off, she's .."Still Alone, in the dark, nothings changed from a moment ago, but decides to just stop right there, in the street, take it easy, get out a smoke and light it ( as if..."whew! he's gone. i'm safe.) are you fucking kidding me? Lol! i know, i know, just a movie, but.it wouldn't happen this way

  • Can reporters go into a police station and ask the cops questions?

  • Darren McGavin made the show for me and before the days of home VCR I used to catch flack from my parents for sneaking downstairs to watch them late at night. Even today I almost instinctively go to turn the volume down when watching them.

  • Thanks everyone for the nice comments, sorry I've been away for so long!

  • If only they'd done the remake of "Kolchak" w/ the same caliber of actors & great writing/directing as the original, instead of trying to re-hash "X-Files".Unfortunately it was a waste of money & time. Thank you so very much for posting the ORIGINAL "Kolchak-Night Stalker".

    Darren McGavin rocked!!!!

  • @tsrla

    Your point is well taken and noted, but I am a believer in file sharing. Sorry.

  • @naysgrace I know you are sharing out of goodwill and that's cool. If you were sharing favorite clips, promos/trailers/show openings only, that would be sharing items that are not sold in those formats. That would not be theft. I'm not saying you're the only one who does this, I'm just saying you are justifying sharing "whole product" as "sharing". Stealing and sharing with others is still stealing. Google/YouTube could do a much better job of policing all this. Anyway, be well.

  • @tsrla

    shut up and spare us ur point...don't u know that all of thoses actors and producers are very rich...it won't change anything they get richer day after day...

  • @dereq2212 Hey genius, when producers and studios can't profit via ancillary means like dvd aftermarket sales, they cease making new product which puts a lot of technicians and low-pay industry professionals out of future work opportunities.  And clearly if you think all producers are very rich, you don't have a clue. The best attack you have is to tell me to "shut up". Is that your personal guilt talking? You are a thief; you just don't want anyone calling you out on it.

  • @tsrla

    They should run them on tv which would bring them money though sponsorship but evidently they don't. I am also a believer in file sharing.

  • @Strikesis File sharing prevents that. It devalues the product. You can't find local, basic and pay cable channels who will invest in fun old movies like this because people illegally and immorally post them on YouTube all day long. A station or a station-owned entity has to make money on what they air. If an old music video is posted, or a scene from a movie, or a trailer, etc. those aren't sold as units...they're great for sharing and promoting. "File sharing" whole movies is stealing.

  • @tsrla Sadly they mostly don't show stuff at night anyway just filler with infomercials back to back or online gambling shows. The future of television seems to be ten times as many channels showing half the actual content. Clip shows running under the lame heading of 'best of' or 'top 100' that fill up enough space to show two whole films. They gave the whole drivel so many times about home taping, VCR's and DVD burners and yet sales were never really effected. No offence but you are wrong.

  • @Silkie341 VCR taping meant commercials would be included with a lot of what was taped. The image was also second generation. DVDs were superior in every way. DVD copying definitely had a negative effect on sales. Still does. The reason infomercials and other lame programming is common is because cool content like The Night Strangler has been devalued by file sharers who think they have a birth right to steal. Stealing is wrong, and respectfully, it can't be rationalized.

  • @tsrla

    They should run them on tv which would bring them money though sponsorship but evidently they don't. I am also a believer in file sharing.

  • @tsrla Copyrights for film and television (especially from this era) run out and they go into the public domain. If they did not, then they could not be shown anywhere without fines and/or prosecution as a consequence. This also applies to published written works, although the copyright is longer (copyrights vary between mediums, although should not). This obviously didn't occur to you. Know what you're talking about when you post a comment, or you only serve to illustrate your ignorance.

  • @DoctorLawyerWhatever MGM owns the rights. They are in a consortium status trying to work out their future. Neither The Night Stalker, nor The Night Strangler is public domain. Copyrights are renewed, or handed over as assets (library sales in some instances). Only LAPSED copyrights become public domain. The fact that you didn't know this and referred to my post as ignorant underscores your own ignorance. Stop trying to defend theft. Just honor intellectual property you thief!

  • @tsrla Actually, I do. I arrange late-night raids of local supermarkets with a stealthy crew of seasoned professionals. We are slick, efficient, and invisible. And if this ceases to be effective, then it's an alteration to jewelry heists and farmland animal abduction for sale via the farmland animal abduction black market. And I do happen to buy clips and trailers. Clips I collect; trailers I rent out to ignorant, intrusive, misguided loudmouths. Would you be looking to rent a trailer?

  • @DoctorLawyerWhatever Ignorant, intrusive, misguided...wow, I'm really going for the gold here, huh? Through all of your subterfuge you could have just admitted you were mistaken about the copyright matter. Okay. Well, you get on back to stealing people's intellectual property. It's your birthright. Someone else's hard work that should create revenue and jobs for years to come...well, to hell with them! DoctorLawyerWhatever is above paying for that stuff. Paying is for chumps, right?

  • @tsrla You are boring and useless. Find a new cause.

  • @DoctorLawyerWhatever And you think it's okay to steal. No matter how much you deflect from that fact, it is still a fact...it is theft...and it puts people out of work. Selfish clods like you just don't give a damn...unless of course someone is trying to get around paying you. That's when you care. Talk about useless.

  • @tsrla yup. in a parallel universe, pal. sorry. actors, performers, entertainment folk, all lost their ability to

    "Collect" everytime a piece of their work get's played, the second something called, "The World Wide Interweb" was invented. get over it! lots of 'em make plenty anyway. it's really unbecoming for some of them to be 'cryin' over not getting paid" cause some flick they were in, 40 years ago, is playing in Syndication somewhere. Oh Please.......

  • @drumdude46 They never got to "collect" everytime their work got played! You're ill informed. They got to make a modest negotiated rate off of ancillary sales. But when people stop buying what they're supposed to buy and they "share" other people's property instead, no one makes anything! Who are you to decide what people can make? Do they go around deciding what you can make? By the way, it's the little guy who gets hurt the worst...crew people, p.a.'s, etc. have less work. Nice of you.

  • @tsrla didn't say "i decide what people make". just said, it's painfully obvious that

    when the Internet came along, it changed the game entirely. sorry your having trouble

    with that. File sharing is a reality, because, it's possible. those that wish to collect

    their earnings for a performance, shall have to do so, using another

    platform. hell, we still "buy" stuff off the internet, right? it's just that, i'm not going to go'

    "buy" the night stalker, when it's right here. for free.

  • @drumdude46 You ID'd the real problem at the end of your post... Free rules! The thing is, posting copyrighted and protected materials is illegal. It's not enforced, but it's illegal. A music video that inspires a sale, a movie trailer (old or new) that inspires a theater visit, or DVD sale is promo material still doing what it always did...encouraging commerce and work. They have legitimacy and no retail value on their own. Whole movie content has $value. Sometimes free is bad.

  • @tsrla I disagree. I have bought many, many DVDs and CDs which I first watched/heard on YouTube, and which I never would have bought if someone HADN'T first posted. So in your own words, if something posted on YT inspires a sale, that is a legitimate post. Why can't that extend to whole movies?

    I'm really liking Kolchak so far, and my local Borders has the entire collection. I might just go down and buy the DVDs, which I wouldn't have done without first watching these posts.

  • @WolfQueene I'm glad to hear that you are one of the statistical exceptions...and very glad you buy product. Stores that carry dvds, cds are failing. Some might say "they charge too much". I agree. But the "I can get it for free" crowd on YouTube/elsewhere is a major cause too. The industry knows it's a problem, but no one is fixing it.  If people could honorably buy affordable product they would...if the product wasn't illegally available on YouTube. Illegally "Free" = more unemployed.

  • @tsrla . stealing intellectual property , thats rich , let me quess , 2nd year law student ? what drivel . cmon people ......................get lost dude

  • @cowboy68 No second year law school. I work in the entertainment industry and I see first hand what cavalier jackasses like you do to the industry employment numbers every day. Do you steal steaks at the grocery market? If the market can't buy them from a rancher source and make a profit, the market goes away...and so does the rancher. A movie is a property item - same as a steak. It's a pity a dumbass generation thinks they're entitled to the property of others for free.

  • @tsrla insult me and call me a jackass , cause i dont buy what your selling , GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU PI.ECE OF MAGGOTT SHIT , FUCKING SHIT EATING MOTHER FUCKER , DIE JUST DIE . YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKER

  • @cowboy68 That finishing school really paid dividends. You're a very elegant, well-spoken guy with a thoughtful point of view.

  • @tsrla just go away . your the worst kind of person , leave me alone , your less than nothing , a lousy fucking sack of shit . die , go away , leave me alone , do not reply . you do not matter you are the ZERO . waiting for your next usless reply ZERO

  • @cowboy68 You win. You've outwitted me.

  • @tsrla The day that I start getting paid everytime a truck that I repaired gets used, as apposed to simply getting paid for the services I provided, will be the day that I will not watch files posted on YouTube.

  • @rrip1 If you mean watching public domain files, I agree. News is fair use. Personal videos and promo content...all good. If you mean full movies & tv shows, that's stealing. It's protected by intellectual property laws. It's not enforced, but it's stealing. If you did not get paid for repairing a truck that would be actionable. You have the right to get paid for that. Someone who buys a movie and uploads it means many others won't buy it. The law says it's not theirs to share.

  • @tsrla I spend lots of money on dvd's, over $100.00 per month for cable and internet, yet still have to endure endless ads. Why am I paying for cable & internet if SPAM is still crammed down my throat? Because big businesses are greedy and are the 1st ones to cry "poor me" when their product is watched for free. If it's on YouTube I'm watching it without ads for free, much like any movie studio would try their hardest to avoid paying me for fixing their equipment. Besides, I own this dvd anyway

  • @rrip1 You know I really do appreciate some of your points (especially the big cable bill). The problem though is when a studio (or distributor) stops making money on revenue streams like DVD BluRay. It means less product gets made. The little guy (crews, craft services, staff, techs, small part actors, etc.) are the ones who get hurt. Less production means less work for them and less product for the audience. Besides, intellectual property is law...not on YouTube...but it's law. Be well.

  • @tsrla There is no doubt that you are right. My best friend since childhood in the 60's & 70's makes films for the Discovery channel, some of which you may be familiar, and he told me that he loves to find his films on YouTube because it makes them more popular.

  • @tsrla Yeah, okay. And let me guess. I bet you voted for Obama, too.

  • @John22133 How people vote has nothing to do with condoning a crime. No one enforces it, but stealing intellectual property is a crime and it's punishable with fines (not that YouTube gives a damn). If you pay for a loaf of bread, you should pay for your entertainment...or one day there won't be any new entertainment for people to steal...eh "share". Not that it should matter, but for the record, I campaigned for McCain. He's a law and order kind of guy too.

  • @tsrla Another loser that crowbars obama into every topic. ASSHOLE!!!

  • @ShaguarbabyGrrr I didn't crowbar Obama into anything. I was replying to someone's post above that which said, "...I bet you voted for Obama, too". If you bothered to look first maybe you wouldn't have gotten your briefs in a bunch. I don't care who people vote for...that's their right. It's my right to reply if the subject comes up. None of this was ever about politics, it's about illegal posting of intellectual property...aka stealing. Studios are finally going to put an end to it!

  • @tsrla Well mr. company man. I thought you were the other Asshole but I see you are a different Asshole!!! Studios know all about stealing ask Rod Serling's estate. Studio greed has destroyed Hollywood!!! You DICK!!! No one is working and it isn't because of downloads on you tube You Tool!!! I'm a writer with a movie at Fox right now. They want double the work at a fourth of the money. You get back on your knees and service the corporate fucks that have destroyed this business.

  • @ShaguarbabyGrrr Not a company man either genius. When you steal intellectual property it means less capital to pay for productions. When there are fewer productions, there are fewer crews, fewer equipment rentals, fewer craft services. It hurts the working man most you dumbass. The "corporate fucks" as you put it, have hurt the business, but asshole whiners like you who sanction intellectual property theft do the most damage and you hurt everyone in the end, yourself included. Poser.

  • @tsrla That is why a worthless wannabe nothing is on you tube commenting on a 40 year old show being uploaded is the end of the world. Everyone associated with this show is dead or has been compensated many times over. You get zero sympathy from me when it comes to your corporate ass kissing righteousness. ABC is Disney and are the most notorious of all studio corporate thieves. They employ every trick in the book. When the Suite Lifes of Zack in Cody was about to go over 150 episodes.

  • @ShaguarbabyGrrr Been working in the business my whole life. Was a development exec and I'm a working writer now. I am commenting on YouTube because the intellectual theft devalues all ancillary product. The age of a title doesn't matter. What matters is a studio paid for distribution rights and collective profits from their titles can go back into making more entertainment. If profits dry up, so does producing new entertainment...and all the jobs. Do you finally get it?!!

  • @tsrla Development exec explains a lot. The reason the business is in the toilet!!!  EXECS!!! I'll name names. You still don't get it. Instead of complaining on you tube write something!!! Let's compare credits!!! You are a person that is a wannabe fake writer that is admonishing innocent uploaders when this business went to shit because talentless fucks like you got jobs.

  • @ShaguarbabyGrrr I know by everything you have said and your total lack of a clue about how the business works (creatively and otherwise) that you are an uptight, angry person who explodes with a stream of obscenity because you have nothing else. I've seen the business from all sides and worked my ass off in every capacity because I am passionate about movies and tv. You're willing to sell it out and refer to "uploaders" as innocent. You're a common thief and a poser. Hit the road, Jack.

  • Respond to this video... Name one single time a studio gave an accurate accounting of a movie or television program Coming to America, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Farenheit 911, Fresh Prince of Bel Air. There are no examples you can give because there aren't any. Studios are nobody's friends even the person that made them the money in the first place. FUCK THEM!!! Ask James Cameron or J.K. Rowland. They cheat the biggest and the best they shit on everyone. Do you finally get it?

  • Respond to this video... Where they would have to pay bonuses, they canceled it and made The Suite Life on Deck. When Home Improvement was going to syndication they wanted a piece of it, which they were not entitled to. They went about getting all the shows off the air which they did not own and made duplicate shows that they did.

  • @tsrla Point taken... But this DVD is out of print and going for a mint on ebay. Is it all right for ebay hoarders to fleece us?

  • @aaronpolson Hi Aaron. No, it is not alright for ebay hoarders to fleece anyone and you are absolutely right to point to that problem too. MGM/UA was distributing The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler as a double feature. If it is out of print now it's because demand was quashed by illegal uploads to YouTube, etc. Then the ebay hoarders step in, buy up what's left of the title and rip collectors/fans off. The solution for all is no illegal uploads and affordable common sense retail prices.

  • Carl Kolchak is 1/3 the inspiration for karl Vincent in "Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis"

  • This was a great show. Thanks for putting it on.

  • @Cthulu54

    I am glad you enjoyed the episode!!

  • Dan Curtis directed this?? Seen.. I am from England & in my mid 30s & ALWAYS enjoyed a bit of the darkly funny macrbe. This show gave it all...

  • Love JoAnn Pflug. Ex-wife of Chuck Woolery. She was great on Match Game and The $20,000 Pyramid and other 70's game shows !

  • I LOVED this show....back in the day i heard they took it off the air because it was too scary....ha! they had no idea what was to come...thanks for sharing

  • @suzofgillead The movies, Night Stalker and this one here, were huge ratings hits when they aired in the early 1970s. I watched them both when they first aired, and the Night Stalker was a sensation, one of the highest rated TV films ever up to that time. Then, it was made into a series, which lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Darrin McGavin, Kolchak, also wanted out of his contract because he didn't like the way the series was going. I used to watch the series, too.

  • I loved "The Night Stalker" Series. The good old days!! I was so scared when i was younger. I would watch it over my aunts house. She lived next door to me. After the show was over i would run from her house to my house..lol. I lived in Brooklyn in 70's.

  • Thanks naysgrace. The enthusiasm for these great shows will never wane. Excelsior! Keep up the GREAT uploads. You are starting a Night Stalker fan club.

  • @robertquentincobb

    Honestly I had no idea so many people loved Kolchak as much as I do! I think its awesome to find so many people that also enjoy Kolchak!

  • Darren McGavin what a great actor, and much missed. The remake was shocking, but then Stuart Townsend can't act his way out of a paper bag.

  • Mr. Klassbinder, or whatever his name is -- definitely one of those bosses who takes all the joy out of doing a job ... *bleah*!!

    Thanks so much for uploading these; Kolchak is definitely a great character!

  • naysgrace, I am truly pleased to see you have posted these great episodes. Can I make a suggestion- PLEASE POST MORE!!!! Especially the Swamp Moss Creature episode and the Trevi collection one. The past few days have been fabulous seeing probably my favorite show of my early adolescent years! I remember going to bed scared as hell, yet excited beyond belief after watching this great series. Whatever you can do will be most appreciated! Thank you so much!!

  • I really like fish and chips

  • I love this show, one of my all time favorites!!

  • actually Tony Vincenzo is cantankerous

  • Charisma Beauty ( Gladys Weems).

    :)

  • @TROUSERFLAP don't forget her "husband".....

  • Seen practically all of Dan Curtis' work and all of the Night Stalker. Quite entertaining stuff, RIP Darren McGavin

  • D'oh! You have it...

  • Yeeees! Kolchak! Anyone know if the original is posted anywhere? Cheers naysgrace

  • Oh thanks for this! I have the flu, it's passed midnight and I can't sleep, the cable is out from a storm...What to do? This is a job for DARREN McGAVIN aka CARL KOLCHAK. No one knows better how to take care of a night gone bad...I feel better now.  I owe you one, Naysgrace!

  • The entire scene from 2:05 - 4:00 is classic Kolchak. Funny as Hell! "There's nothing wrong with me!"

  • WoW Now this looks GREAT to watch....Thanx for the upload...

  • I've been looking for this for years. THANKS FOR POSTING!!!

  • Was first air in 1972 and is available in dvd just look at ebay with the title

  • When did this first air on tv and is it available on DVD ?

  • It aired back in 1973 on television. One year before the Night Stalker series became a reality. On DVD? Check your local library or any lesser known video store in your city that rents/sales on lesser known films or television classics like this sequel. Ask any retailer if they have it or/and make a request to buy a copy when it comes around.

  • Thanx for posting!

  • Thanx for posting!

  • Great writing--just picked up on the fact Richard Matheson (a Twilight Zone writer) wrote this one. The TZ writers were the best.

  • "She left the mainstream of life without making a ripple." Another great line

  • "Bilious grouch by disposition"-what a line!!

  • This is Kolchak The Night Stalker. I wonder why Leo The Lion was at the beginning? I read that two movies were from Twentyeth Century Fox. The tv series was from Universal and they did not get permssion from Fox to produce it. It was changed to a comedy show.

  • nice legs

  • Simply put.Carl Kolchak is one of the greatest TV characters of all time.Kudos to Darren McGavin for a great performance.R.I.P.

  • New Kolchak!

  • Thx great video !!

  • do u guyys remember abc movie scream pretty peggy?

  • Used to love this show & Rod Sterling's other show ( not the Twilight Zone ) that dealt with the macabre.

  • Yes Night Gallery had some awesome Episodes!

  • Thanks, could not recall what it was called for the life of me when I posted that, lol

  • X-Files of the 70s, lol

  • Chris Carter has said that he based his entire idea for The X Files on Kolchak. In fact The X Files Companion book's forward was written by Jeff Rice, who wrote the original novel The Kolchak Papers.

  • I like the music.

  • People, don't mark comments as spam just because you disagree with them. Freedom of speech, remember? Diversity, remember?

  • I have to comment my thanks as well. I was 8 when this aired; Every Monday morning at school my friends and I would talk about the previous Friday night's Night Stalker. I don't remember on which night of the week this 2nd movie aired; ...Probably a Friday. I even remember the teaser for this one: It starts out with Carl yelling to Louise, "You know there's been a murder don't you...?" etc etc Thanks again.

  • love kolchak- thanks for uploading.

  • This is great! I"ve been looking for this!

    One thing that kind of disappoints me is that the third Kolchak TV movie, The Night Killers, was never made!

  • Why wasn't it?

  • I found this because I was watching a GOLDEN GIRLS episode (posted by THELANAI) and I'M THRILLED because I LOVE this show! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

  • Last summer my daughter told me "YouTube has EVERYTHING, mom" and I thought when we get a computer I'd check it out. I did and they do!

  • Thanks a lot for posting this. It was a great show in its day.

  • saw a video at a used book store and shows the "Space Needle" as the Seattle background.

  • Hell yeah Homie!

    The dude with the sneakers chasing

    monsters every week!

    "A real Gangsta"

    Thanks G

  • Thank-you very much. I forgot how great this show was.

  • I love this show so much My videos next week Im going to put up Zombie!

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