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Looking back on Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50 years later [1]

['Gareth Branwyn']

Date: 2023-01-02

As a teen keenly interested in the weird and the occult and driven by fantasies of becoming an investigative reporter, the 1972 made-for-TV movie, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (and the series that followed) scratched all kinds of itches. Carl Kolchak, the determined, hard-scrabble Vegas reporter, would become something of an inspiration for my career as a writer.

In this JoBlo Horror Originals, they celebrate this landmark TV horror film, the weekly show that it inspired, and its wider influence on television and film horror.

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