Darren McGavin played investigative journalist Carl Kolchack, who found himself pursuing various supernatural menaces across the 20-episode run. Simon Oakland played his long-suffering editor who puts up with Kolchack to an astonishing degree; how Carl didn't get fired from his job was a mystery in itself! Kolchack infuriated everyone in his pursuit of the truth, and was absolutely fearless in how he would go anywhere, defy any authority to defeat the various vampires, werewolves, ghosts, reptile-men, witches(etc.) Carl was a true hero in this regard, but received no respect or recognition at all, not that it seemed to bother him all that much(you just know it had to!) A sequel series to the two previous TV films "The Night Stalker" & "The Night Strangler", it is unfortunate that McGavin never played the part again after its cancellation, since I would loved to know whatever happened to him; he was that great a character!
Review of Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
(1974–1975)
Darren McGavin & Simon Oakland Were A Great Team.
17 August 2013