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The Night Strangler proved almost as popular as its predecessor, garnering strong ratings and eventually prompting ABC to order a TV series. Neither writer Richard Matheson nor producer/director Dan Curtis was involved in the TV series.
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Jan 16, 1973 · The Night Strangler: Directed by Dan Curtis. With Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady. A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Dan Curtis
- 1973-01-16
“The Night Strangler” inspired a TV series called Kolchak: The Night Stalker. The success of the movie led to a popular television show that expanded on Kolchak’s supernatural investigations. The Night Strangler is renowned for its atmospheric cinematography.
Jan 3, 2013 · The Night Strangler was a sequel to the hit tv movie The Night Stalker (1972), which featured Darren McGavin as a reporter trying to deal with a vampire in modern-day Las Vegas.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. 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.
Synopsis. In this sequel to 'The Night Stalker', reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin), now living in Seattle, Washington (having been run out of Las Vegas at the end of the previous film), is hired by his former editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all exotic dancers, are strangled, have ...
"The Night Strangler" proved almost as popular as its predecessor garnering strong ratings and eventually prompting ABC to order a TV series (though neither writer Richard Matheson nor producer/director Dan Curtis was involved in the TV series).
