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In 1972 Kolchak: The Night Stalker transfixed audiences. The movie became the highest-rated TV movie in U.S. history and spawned the cult TV series starring Darren McGavin. The TV movie’s iconic ...

In January of 1972, ABC first aired the made for television movie The Night Stalker. It was based on Jeff Rice’s unpublished novel The Kolchak Papers, which was adapted for tv by Richard Matheson. In ...

Since The X-Files became peak television in the '90s, the show launched the "paranormal procedural" into the spotlight, as plenty of dramas have tried to piggyback off its success. But for all the ...

Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson; May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker ...

Perhaps I’ve been watching too much 70s TV lately. But I couldn’t help but think of gumshoe reporter Carl Kolchak, played with classical Hollywood panache by Darren McGavin (Mickey Spillane’s Mike ...

LOS ANGELES - Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder and returned through Columbia's front gates to land the ...