Trio, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker

[servermonkey]

Trio was running Kolchak: The Night Stalker last night.

It was a good thing.

I remember references to it by X-Files creator Chris Carter, and my previous employer had the pilot episode on VHS for rent. In all the years that I worked at that store, I never took it home for the night, despite thinking about it a lot.

Unfortunately, watching the whole show wasn't possible last night, but whomever played Kolchak bugged me--you know, like hearing a song you are absolutely sure you know, but can't place? I recognized the voice, the face, but couldn't remember from where. The laptop had been put away for about an hour when I clicked on Kolchak, and I really didn't want to dig it up and reconnect and all that jazz. Then it hit me, he was the dad in A Christmas Story, and I kept thinking of lines like, "Frah Gee Lay, it must be Italian" and "Not a finga!"

I was a year old when Kolchak originally ran. Weird.

Bravo (I know, I was talking about Trio a minute ago), why can't you bring back Twin Peaks?

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[nebsllim.livejournal.com]

"It's smiling at us"
-at the chinese restraunt

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Dang. . .

Wait, is it still alive and smiling at us?

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

I used to play "Caption This" on the Sci-Fi channel website back in college, and I distinctly remember captioning several hours of Kolchak reruns without any idea of what the show was about. And I can't believe I didn't make the A Christmas Story connection!

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Caption This? Sounds cool. I wonder if those are out there somewhere?

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[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

It's still up as far as I know, though now that they don't show MST3K anymore it may have been taken down. Basically, it was a feed of whatever was on the channel, and it refreshed every 30 seconds and you had to write captions for the images that came up. Fun stuff.

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

[syreene.livejournal.com]

Darren McGavin - Carl Kolchak

I watched that show when they were playing it on Sci-Fi...he's one of those actors who seems like he's been in everything...

Twin Peaks was a fabulous show that I watched in college...I still have the 1st and the last episodes on tape. ;)

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Twin Peaks!

[monkeygirldiva.livejournal.com]

i use to LOVE that show!

i think the night stalker guy also played frank black's father in millenium... was that another chris carter thing?

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Yup, that was Chris Carter show, I believe. I'd forgotten about Millenium, yet another reason to try and search for that one.

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[monkeygirldiva.livejournal.com]

i use to love it... and had the entire last season on video :)