Kolchak The Night Stalker : Synopsis, Pictures, Photos, Trivia, Filming Locations

Journalist Carl Kolchak tracks down the supernatural phenomena and confronts monstrous creatures in the night.

Burning files (in English Kolchak: The Night Stalker) is an American television series in 20 45 -minute episodes, created by Jeffrey Grant Rice and broadcast between September 13, 1974 and April 18, 1975 on the ABC channel. The series features Darren McGavin in the role of Carl Kolchak, an investigation journalist obsessed with the paranormal. While investigating strange and mysterious crimes in Chicago, Kolchak finds himself confronted with a series of supernatural creatures, such as vampires, werewolves, zombies and ghosts.

Following the success of the two pilots broadcast in 1972 and 1973, Darren McGavin had the idea of ​​proposed in 1973 to the creator Jeff Rice to make a series on the character of Carl Kolchak. The series, which terrorizes American viewers eager for sensations and dread every week, is experiencing a huge success, making ABC's "beautiful evenings". However, despite the success of the Darren McGavin series does not wish to make a second season and the series stops in full glory.

Fan of the series when he was a child, Chris Carter will later create the X-Files cult series, at the borders of reality.

Over the episodes of the actors known in other series will appear among which: Antonio Fargas (Huggy "The good pipes" of Starsky and Hutch), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman in the man who was worth three billion and Super Jaimie) , Eric Braeden (Victor Newman of the Fires of Love), David Doyle (funny ladies), Tom Skerritt (New York Special Unit, Richard Kiel (the spy who loved me and Moonraker), Tom Bosley (happy days And arabesque), Erik Estrada (Francis Poncherello of Chips), Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg of Sheriff, Fact me!) ...

There were 2 pilots in 1971 and 1972, unpublished in France:

(1) The Night Stalker (75mn) - The Night Strangler (90mn)

and between 1974-75 the series: Kolchak the Night Stalker (burning files)

Filming locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• Creation date: 2007/12/10 by franckenstein