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(10/20/09 2:59 PM) |
Tumak ~ Are you referring to the TV-movie theme (1972's The Night Stalker) or the theme from the TV-series (1974/75's Kolchak: The Night Stalker)?
I was talking about the series theme (being on the TV Themes CD) as well as the bootleg CD I own. |
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(10/20/09 3:00 PM) |
I'm talking about the tv series.
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(10/20/09 3:05 PM) |
**EDIT ~
I just looked it up in the NIGHT STALKER COMPANION book and YES (!), the theme to Kolchak was recycled from a secondary theme Gil Melle' had composed for the THE QUESTOR TAPES, a 1974 Gene Roddenbery TV pilot!
Last Edited By: Rakshasa
10/20/09 3:10 PM.
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amarok |
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(10/20/09 9:50 PM) |
I've been watching a few of the Universal DVDs of K:TNS, and, as I was warned, the night shots are so dark you can hardly see any action. I'm keeping
the Columbia House videos I sent off for in '98!
I just watched "The Werewolf." I used to think of this as one of the poorer episodes, due to the silly werewolf make-up, but it's so well written! We see quite a bit of the INS "family" before anything odd happens. Even without the supernatural element, the show could have been a "Mary Tylor Moore" sort of sit-com! Vincenzo's vacation being yanked away from him, Updyke getting sick from everything, Carl stuck on the inane Love Boat from Hell -- a story in itself! |
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Rakshasa |
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(10/21/09 11:47 AM) |
The Region 2 DVD set is a bit better than the Region 1 set as far as the dark night scenes go. In THE RIPPER, you can actually see the killer step into the
frame just as Jane says "Jack, is that you?".
I had the Columbia House VHS tapes and held onto them for a long time, until I scored the Region 2 DVD set, upon which time I finally tossed out the VHS tapes (I couldn't get rid of them on e-Bay, even a a ridiculously low price). I LOVE "The Werewolf" episode. Mel Tartar and Paula Griffin were, to me, the best guest characters ever on the show. |
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(10/21/09 9:53 PM) |
Rakshasa wrote:Yes --as I remember, in The Questor Tapes part of the tune, the repeated rythmic section (as opposed to the melody that Kolchak whistles) is used for scenes of scientific work being done, the android being built, etc. The melody may be in there, too but not as prominently. |
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Rakshasa |
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(10/21/09 10:19 PM) |
Cool, Tom. Thanks for the info. I never saw THE QUESTOR TAPES pilot. I'm surprised you guys remember it ( it was a one-off 1974 pilot, correct?). Is this pilot on DVD anywhere (gray market or elsewhere)? |
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(10/21/09 11:02 PM) |
THE QUESTOR TAPES? Sounds like something worth looking at.
Luis
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(10/22/09 7:27 AM) |
luisj40 wrote:What a cast! Mike Farrel, Robert Foxworth, John Vernon, Dana Wynter (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers), Walter Koenig, etc.. Amazon says there WAS a DVD but it was discontinued by the manufacturer (no idea if this was a legit release as there's no artwork). e-Bay has a bootleg-looking VHS (see photo below) but the guy wants $30 for it. I also see that DC Fontana wrote the novel. There MUST be a DVD-r of this floating around.... 
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(10/22/09 12:05 PM) |
Rakshasa wrote: Thanks for the info, BTW I took at look at www.ioffer.com and found three people selling DVD-Rs of this TV movie from $9.99 to $18.00 before shipping I just might bite because it seems no official release exists.
Luis
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(10/22/09 12:17 PM) |
Nice work, Luis!
If you get it before I do, make sure to post your thoughts. This sounds pretty cool... |
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amarok |
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(10/22/09 10:54 PM) |
All I recall of this movie after 30+ years is the scene where the android, alone in the lab at night, finishes creating itself. I especially liked his jerky
movements, and this staple-gun looking contraption that fused artificial hair to his head, one lock at a time. Maybe he was Mr. RING, Mark II.
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(10/23/09 8:47 AM) |
amarok wrote: Or vice versa, as Mr. RING aired a year after The Questor Tapes. RING could have been his bastard child! Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia; god I love saying that! |
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(10/23/09 11:30 AM) |
Rakshasa wrote: I haven't made up mind to buy it yet but if I do I'll post the results here.
Luis
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(10/23/09 8:31 PM) |
Actually, there is a CD of music from Robert Cobert that has some of the spooky music from the two Night Stalker tv movies. I want to say it's called
"The Night Stalker and other TV Themes", and aside from the two Night Stalker suites, it has the music for most of the Dan Curtis horror tv movies
like Trilogy of Terror.
The Darren McGavin and Kathy Brown site is well worth checking out if you are a fan, lots of great Night Stalker info (and I bet somebody, probably me, linked it earlier somewhere in this thread, but it can always use a little more press: http://www.darrenmcgavin.net/ |
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(10/27/09 3:29 PM) |
Wich2 wrote:Got my used VHS tape and watched this today. The Hudson Brothers pulling down Darren McGavin's pants (complete with a shot of Darren's bare ass which I didn't need to see) , a 16 year-old girl named "Larry", Dick Martin, lots and lots of screaming, car chases, and a REPO-MAN meets HAROLD & MAUDE plot. Weird doesn't even begin to cover it! |
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(10/27/09 3:35 PM) |
Rakshasa wrote:Thankfully I saw this over the air broadcast so I didn't see his bare ass. 
Luis
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(10/27/09 4:27 PM) |
luisj40 wrote:Pale white Kolchak butt. Not good. 
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amarok |
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(10/30/09 9:29 PM) |
Too much in-for-MAAA-shun!
Just watched "Fire-Fall" in my personal Kolchak marathon. A lot of episode guides miss the fact that Monique Marmelstein appears in this episode. I liked the part where the sleep-deprived Carl says, "Oh, you want to help me Ron?" with apparently genuine joy, as if deep down he doesn't hate "Uptight" as much as he wants us to think. Wish we could have seen more of Kolchak's informants, like "The Monk" in "The Zombie" and the Gypsy girl in "Fire-Fall". The Gypsy makes a sort of sense, the way Carl's life runs. Also saw "They Have Been . . ." a few weeks back. Vincenzo asks Carl at one point if he remembers what happened last time they printed "one of these scare stories" -- the phone lines tied up, the cops calling, the head office coming down -- on Vincenzo. It does seem that some of Kolchak's wild stories get out, somehow! |
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(10/31/09 3:57 PM) |
Just watched the original movie with my gf as part of our Halloween viewing. She had never seen it before and really liked it.
"The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
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