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Post by naterdawg on Mar 13, 2017 1:28:42 GMT
Great show, I loved it. I hear there were moves to get the actor to reprise his role in a couple of appearances on the X Files, but it never panned out. Shame, that would have been awesome. Darren McGavin was elderly by then. Cripes, he looked old in A Christmas Story, and that was 13 years before X-Files.
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Post by poelzig on Mar 13, 2017 5:29:03 GMT
The one with the swamp creature that could look like the person you trusted most was one that stuck in my head. The scene that gave me sleepless nights as a small tyke was when Kolchak had to stay in a church so a demon(?) couldn't kill him. The scene where the creature is peering through a window at Kolchak gave me bad dreams when I finally fell asleep. You got it right--you had to be a "small tyke" in order to find any of this even remotely frightening. To an adult, it was watered down horror, with lame monsters and predictable plots. Each one was the same: Kolchak tracks down a monster, it attacks him, it disappears, and he can't prove it even existed. The end. I'm sorry I'm nostalgic and was easily scared as a kid. You love Archie's Madhouse with the cool monster cover so you should be able to relate.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 13, 2017 5:56:07 GMT
You got it right--you had to be a "small tyke" in order to find any of this even remotely frightening. To an adult, it was watered down horror, with lame monsters and predictable plots. Each one was the same: Kolchak tracks down a monster, it attacks him, it disappears, and he can't prove it even existed. The end. I'm sorry I'm nostalgic and was easily scared as a kid. You love Archie's Madhouse with the cool monster cover so you should be able to relate. I love it...but I'm not scared by it and never was.
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Post by Vegas on Mar 13, 2017 13:21:29 GMT
Any other fans of this 1970s series? Towards the end it started to lose some steam, but it still should have had a longer run than it did. When it was good, it was *really* good. Darren McGavin is great fun in the title role, and he had excellent chemistry with Simon Oakland as the long-suffering Tony Vincenzo. The series is overdue for a Blu release from Universal. Loved that show.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 17, 2017 12:17:40 GMT
The one with the swamp creature that could look like the person you trusted most was one that stuck in my head. The scene that gave me sleepless nights as a small tyke was when Kolchak had to stay in a church so a demon(?) couldn't kill him. The scene where the creature is peering through a window at Kolchak gave me bad dreams when I finally fell asleep. You got it right--you had to be a "small tyke" in order to find any of this even remotely frightening. To an adult, it was watered down horror, with lame monsters and predictable plots. Each one was the same: Kolchak tracks down a monster, it attacks him, it disappears, and he can't prove it even existed. The end. That voodoo zombie breaking the guy's neck was freaky, kid or not.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Aug 14, 2017 19:48:20 GMT
The one with the swamp creature that could look like the person you trusted most was one that stuck in my head. The scene that gave me sleepless nights as a small tyke was when Kolchak had to stay in a church so a demon(?) couldn't kill him. The scene where the creature is peering through a window at Kolchak gave me bad dreams when I finally fell asleep. You got it right--you had to be a "small tyke" in order to find any of this even remotely frightening. To an adult, it was watered down horror, with lame monsters and predictable plots. Each one was the same: Kolchak tracks down a monster, it attacks him, it disappears, and he can't prove it even existed. The end. The fact that it's an old- fashioned monster show is the charm of it for me.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 16, 2017 2:18:35 GMT
Mobster: I remember you-Victor this is the guy that crashed my daughter Barbara's wedding.
Kolchak: No its a horrible mistake. You are thinking of my brother Sydney Kolchak, he writes the society column.
Mobster: I remember the two dollar hat Kolchak.
Kolchak: I saw Victor Friese get his back snapped. I heard it crunch! And the man who did it was dead. Dead! And had been dead for over two weeks!
Vincenzo: Well I envy him! At least he's getting some sleep!
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Post by spooner5020 on Sept 5, 2017 0:55:30 GMT
I loved it. Does anyone remember the remake with Stuart Townsend that lasted maybe only a few episodes?
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 5, 2017 4:36:34 GMT
I loved it. Does anyone remember the remake with Stuart Townsend that lasted maybe only a few episodes? Yea.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Sept 5, 2017 22:13:42 GMT
The one with the swamp creature that could look like the person you trusted most was one that stuck in my head. The scene that gave me sleepless nights as a small tyke was when Kolchak had to stay in a church so a demon(?) couldn't kill him. The scene where the creature is peering through a window at Kolchak gave me bad dreams when I finally fell asleep. That's the one Kolchak crossbows Miss Emily. I freaked out, and I was like 24. They fooled me good
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Post by tresix on Sept 6, 2017 23:27:15 GMT
I love Kolchak and I agree it should've gone on longer. Now what would've been a great TV crossover would be Kolchak covering a murder in Los Angeles that Columbo is investigating and Quincy is doing the autopsy on, and all three agree there's something very strange going on. Except "Quincy, M.E." premiered a whole year after "Kolchak" went off the air.
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Post by tresix on Sept 6, 2017 23:33:24 GMT
I loved it. Does anyone remember the remake with Stuart Townsend that lasted maybe only a few episodes? I remember it too and think there's a good reason why it didn't last: Townsend, at the time, was much too young to be playing Kolchak. Kolchak should be at least in his late forties, especially for the very cynical way he was portrayed in the remake.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 7, 2017 5:39:29 GMT
Townsend was totally wrong. No one can replace McGavin anyway--and the show as meant to be in the 70s.
The music for the series was very good (there's even a prelude of the Jaws theme in the Werewolf episode). But they also did a brilliant job with most monsters--emphasizing the creepy by clever gimmicks like showing the Rakshasa from the back approaching victims or not having the vampire speak.
And good humor too.
"Must have been a gang attacked this kid, you should have seen what they done to him, the whole world's gone crazy! Then they dragged in some kind of vegetables, threw dirty water all over the floor...." "
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 7, 2017 6:36:38 GMT
And can we have a moment of appreciation for all the stuntmen on that show? Take The Ripper for example, got bodies flying all over the place.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 7, 2017 6:58:11 GMT
Lots of stunt work in the two tv movies. Cops thrown around.
"All right, all right. I'm willing to buy the idea that these two series of murders might somehow be connected. I'm even willing to buy that they might have been committed by the same man.But a man, Kolchak, a man. Not some sort of a SUPER DEAD MAN!"
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 7, 2017 16:44:42 GMT
Townsend was totally wrong. No one can replace McGavin anyway--and the show as meant to be in the 70s. The music for the series was very good (there's even a prelude of the Jaws theme in the Werewolf episode). But they also did a brilliant job with most monsters--emphasizing the creepy by clever gimmicks like showing the Rakshasa from the back approaching victims or not having the vampire speak. And good humor too. "Must have been a gang attacked this kid, you should have seen what they done to him, the whole world's gone crazy! Then they dragged in some kind of vegetables, threw dirty water all over the floor...." " The show was just loaded with memorably humorous lines. Here are some others. "You should meet my boss, he'd turn Buddha into a chainsmoker." "My brother-in-law has a 14 year old kid he's always bailing out of juvenile hall, but I've got you Kolchak and you are worse!" "You stop a bullet with that cabbage blossom of what you call your head, don't expect to ride in any of our ambulances!" "How do you spot a witch? Aside from the pointed hat and cackle."
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 7, 2017 16:48:47 GMT
"You have a brother in the Venetian blind business? (in mafioso voice) Hey that's a terrific cover Tony."
"Don't restrict yourself to talking, why don't you bang some pots and pans around? Why don't you play a trombone solo?"
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 7, 2017 19:05:24 GMT
"Maybe it wasn't a knight in amour you saw, Carl. Maybe it was the Tin Woodsman. Did it sing and dance? Did Jack Haley's voice come out?"
"What I saw wasn't kung fu and it wasn't chow mein! It was a female vampire!"
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 7, 2017 19:19:22 GMT
This makes me want to watch these episodes on DVD tonight . Definitely some humorous memorable show quotes there too . Thanks for the reminders primemover , Dramatic Look Gopher , and novastar6 .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 19:57:23 GMT
(Vincenzo is referring to the ape like appearance of a sketch of a monster)
"It's bedtime for Bonzo!"
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