Talk:The Night Stalker (1972 film)

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U.F.O.'s? Paranormal?

I have rewritten the description of Kolchak as "a reporter who has a penchant for dealing with the bizarre, supernatural, U.F.O.'s, and the paranormal." As it was it aptly described him as he appears in Kolchak: The Night Stalker, but not as he appears in this telemovie. At the start of the film he is a hard-headed reporter who, fascinated by the unusual facts of this case, comes to suspect that the killer believes himself to be a vampire. It is only at the urging of his girfriend that Kolchak even looks into the mythology of vampires; even then he is skeptical. By the end of the film it is fair to say that he believes in at least one vampire, but even then there is no suggestionthat he beieves in other supernatural beings, let alone U.F.O.'s.Floggolozzo (talk) 17:40, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Kolchak Papers? The Kolchak Tapes?

There seems to be some disagreement as to the original title of the novel. I don't have a difinitive answer, and other editors have not provided sources. This is what I have found: The first two novels (both by Jeff Rice) have been published (by Moonstone) as The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels (I found this book for sale on Amazon.com). Also The Kolchak Papers has been used as a series title for these novels, so that the first novel has been published as The Kolchak Papers #1: The Night Stalker, and there are numerous sequals in this series, not all written by Jeff Rice (Amazon again). Also The Kolchak Tapes seems to have been a working title for the telemovie The Night Stalker, as evidenced by teleplay drafts for the telemovie under that title for sale on eBay, and listed (but currently unavailable) on Amazon. It may be that the novel bore the title The Kolchak Papers before it was published, and this was changed to The Kolchak Tapes for the telemovie because of the cassette recorder into which Kolchak repeatedly dictates. Then again, maybe the novel was originally The Kolchak Tapes, and the publisher changed it to The Kolchak Papers. Until someone can find a source for this, perhaps it is best to leave the article silent on the original unpublished title.Floggolozzo (talk) 19:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]