Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

Primal Scream (1975)

Darren McGavin: Carl Kolchak

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Quotes 

• The Secretary : I already told you, Mr. Kolchak, you can not see Mr. Kitzmiller without an appointment.

  Carl Kolchak : Yeah, well, I called to make an appointment and you put me on hold. By the time you came back on to tell me to call back, my hair had grown down over the receiver.

• Carl Kolchak : Well, it looks like a freezer, but it's so hot and damp and humid in here, you could steam littleneck clams.

  Captain Maurice Molnar : Well, it's out of order.

  Carl Kolchak : Yeah, it stinks, too. It smells of mildew. Phew!

  Captain Maurice Molnar : Maybe it's your undershirt.

  Carl Kolchak : Could be your jokes.

• Tony Vincenzo : *Now* where are you going, Carl?

  Carl Kolchak : Springfield.

  Tony Vincenzo : To cover some hot news like the Lincoln-Douglas debate?

• [first lines] 

  Carl Kolchak : During World War Two, close to this very spot, science bore a child that changed the course of human relations and, to this day, threatens to end human history. It was called, innocuously enough, The Manhatten Project, and it grew into the terror we all have come to know as the hydrogen bomb. But this year, only a stone's throw from here, science delivered a new child.

• Carl Kolchak : Let them have the cabbage. We here at I.N.S. will feast on journalistic filet mignon.

• Carl Kolchak : You see, some of our biggest headaches have come from vice-presidents.

• Carl Kolchak : Have you addled your brains completely? I'm not in televi... We're not at a television station here.

• Carl Kolchak : Duh... somebody told me that it was kind of a messy death, right?

  Captain Maurice Molnar : Ever see one that wasn't?

• Carl Kolchak : Why are you on the case?

  Captain Maurice Molnar : [He looks directly at Kolchak as he escorts him from the scene of the crime]  I've got the experience. I've had a lot of experience dealing with baboons.

  Carl Kolchak : What baboon?

• Tony Vincenzo : Voila! Nice story, Carl. It's old cabbage. It's already been chewed up by all the other News Services.

  Carl Kolchak : Let them have the cabbage. We here at I.N.S. will feast on journalistic Filet Mignon. Where's Ron?

  Tony Vincenzo : Out to lunch.

• Jack Burton : Alright. This is Homo Erectus. And, his colleague, here, is Australopithecus.

  Carl Kolchak : ah..

  Jack Burton : You-see. Early Man. Both of them. Neither has sixteen, double-E Feet.

  Carl Kolchak : [laughs Pointing at Advance Australopithecus on The Evolution of Homo Sapiens Chart]  I know that one. I work for him.