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The Night Stalker (1972 film)

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lore. The evidence persuades Kolchak that Skorzeny is a real vampire. Following another failed attempt to capture Skorzeny, the authorities strike a deal with Kolchak to eschew traditional investigative methods for his vampire-centric approach in exchange for giving him exclusive rights to the story.
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Following the series' cancellation, the franchise was still highly regarded enough to prompt two more TV films, which were created by editing together material from four previous episodes of the series, with some additional narration provided by McGavin as Kolchak to help connect the plot lines. No
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Kolchak, sitting in a hotel room, listens to a replay of his dictation of the Skorzeny case. He explains that if anyone tries to verify the events, they will find that all witnesses have either left town, are not talking, or are dead. Skorzeny and all his victims have been cremated, destroying any
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When a man attempts to rob a hospital of its blood supply, the police are called in. The thief is shot multiple times without effect, and escapes, outrunning a police car and motorcycle. From eyewitness testimony, the police positively identify the thief as 70-year-old Janos Skorzeny, who is the
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and pursues the story on his own, wanting unhindered access to the evidence. He photographs stolen blood packets in the refrigerator, a coffin with native soil inside, a victim bound and gagged to a bed with an intravenous line drawing blood, and other incriminating evidence. Compromised when
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Kolchak writes the story for the newspaper and proposes to Gail, telling her that they will move to New York City. The authorities, however, unwilling to publicly admit that Skorzeny was a vampire, print a false version of the newspaper story with his byline and threaten to charge him with
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Skorzeny returns, Kolchak is wrestled to the floor. His friend, FBI Agent Bernie Jenks, arrives and joins the fight. Realizing that dawn has broken, Kolchak and Jenks pull back the shades and stake Skorzeny, just as authorities burst through the front door.
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first-degree murder unless he quietly leaves Las Vegas. Gail has already been forced to leave the city for being "an undesirable element." Kolchak exhausts his savings placing personal advertisements across the country in a futile attempt to find her.
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became the highest-rated original television film on US television, earning a 33.2 rating and 48 share. The television film did so well that it was released overseas as a theatrical film. It inspired a sequel television film titled
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Rice had difficulty finding a publisher willing to buy the manuscript until agent Rick Ray read it and realized the novel would make a good movie. The renamed novel
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Actor Darren McGavin recalled how his involvement began: "My representatives called to say that ABC had purchased the rights to a book called
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garnered the highest ratings of any TV film at that time (33.2 rating - 48 share). That resulted in a 1973 follow-up TV film called
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further ability to investigate the matter and eliminating the possibility that those killed by Skorzeny would rise as vampires.
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The popular television film, along with its sequel and the TV series, provided the inspiration for Chris Carter's
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prime suspect in multiple homicides extending back years, all involving massive loss of blood.
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that ran on ABC between September 1974 and May 1975, and a short lived 2005 TV series called
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Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture
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Kolchak's girlfriend, Gail Foster, a casino "change girl," urges him to explore
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Satian, Al; Johnson, Heather (June 1974). "The Night Stalker Papers".
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The film was based on the then-unpublished novel by Jeff Rice titled
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1972 television horror film by John Llewellyn Moxey
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