Moonstone Books continues to produce Kolchak comic books. The second television film, The Night Strangler, was also turned into a novel (written by Jeff Rice but based on a script by Richard Matheson), published in 1974 by Pocket Books.īoth novels were republished in 2007 by Moonstone in an omnibus edition called The Kolchak Papers. After the success of the TV film and its sequel, the novel was published in 1973 by Pocket Books as a mass-market paperback original, titled The Night Stalker, with a photo of Darren McGavin on the cover to tie it to the film. The novel reveals that his birth name is "Karel", though he uses the anglicized version "Carl". In it, a Las Vegas newspaper reporter named Carl Kolchak tracks down and defeats a serial killer who turns out to be a vampire named Janos Skorzeny. The main character originated in an unpublished novel, The Kolchak Papers, written by Jeff Rice. ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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The new series was a ratings bomb and was quietly cancelled after only six of the ten episodes produced were aired. Following that success in 2005, The X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz resurrected the series with a new cast and characters, as well as subsequent novels and comic books. Although the series lasted only a single season, it rapidly achieved cult status and has remained very popular in syndication.Ĭhris Carter cited Kolchak as a "tremendous influence" in creating his franchise The X-Files. The series was preceded by the two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). The series followed wire service reporter Carl Kolchak ( Darren McGavin) who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those involving the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. About … icon-addNote android4 Answer apple4 icon-appStoreEN icon-appStoreES icon-appStorePT icon-appStoreRU Imported Layers Copy 7 icon-arrow-spined icon-ask icon-attention icon-bubble-blue icon-bubble-red ButtonError ButtonLoader ButtonOk icon-cake icon-camera icon-card-add icon-card-calendar icon-card-remove icon-card-sort chrome-extension-ru chrome-extension-es-mx chrome-extension-pt-br chrome-extension-ru comment comment icon-cop-cut icon-cop-star Cross Dislike icon-editPen icon-entrance icon-errorBig facebook facebook-logo flag flag_vector icon-globe google-logo icon-googlePlayEN icon-googlePlayRU icon-greyLoader icon-cake Heart 4EB021E9-B441-4209-A542-9E882D3252DE Created with sketchtool.Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season.
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