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TV Review: Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

Rate This MovieCarl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) was the best investigative reporter you’ve never heard of. The reason for his anonymity? His exclusive accounts of mass murders and serial killings always wound up being suppressed by the authorities or shelved by his disbelieving editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). He had the scoops, they just never made it to print. Kolchak was …

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TV Review: Captain Nice (1967)

Rate This Movie The 1909 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gave the first definition of ‘camp’ humour as, “Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual.” This interpretation was probably derived from the French term ‘se camper’ meaning ‘to pose in an exaggerated fashion’. The term became commonly used after Susan Sontag published a landmark 1964 essay on the subject …

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975) – TV Show Episodes List

Rate This Movie A newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago. CAST: Darren McGavin ………. Carl Kolchak Simon Oakland ……….. Tony Vincenzo Jack Grinnage ……….. Ron Updyke Ruth McDevitt ……….. Emily Cowles Jimmy Hawkins ……….. Father James EPISODES: Pilot TV Movies: The Night Stalker (1/11/1972) The Night Strangler (1/16/1973)

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