The Ghosts and Ghouls are Coming Out of Your TV!

There was a TV series based on the 1972 Movie "The Night Stalker" that started around 1973 or 74. It starred Darren McGavin who played a reporter investigating a serial killer who later we realize is a Vampire. Sounds tired doesn't it?????? it's not.......there is a scene in the first episode where Kolchak spots the suspect in a parking lot, and you don't really think it's a vampire until two Dobermans charge the figure and then the next thing you hear is two "Yikes" as he kills the dogs in mid-air. It scared the bejesus out of me, and I don't scare easily.

I don't know if it still holds up to scrutiny, but it was satisfying every week when you see Kolchak tackle another strange mystery that always involves a dreadful supernatural figure or a 'haint' as some folks call them. I'm pretty sure it was in B&W, but back then I only had a B&W TV......who knows.

There’s a box set available. I got it a while ago, only seen a few though. Very enjoyable nonsense, great protagonist.

It’s in colour.

The one that always gets a mention is the one off BBC drama The Stone Tape which centres around the idea that ghost sightings are some sort of recording being played back by the stones that witnessed the original event.

I remember it was very scary, but I was just a wee lad at the time.

I'll have to look for it, is it the series that aired in the mid 1970's? I know they slicked it up and reintroduced it in 2004 or 5, but it only lasted a year, the vibe was too earnest.

I believe it is, I first came across it at the end of the eighties and it’s the same one.

Since I got the box set I’ve only seen the first one about the vampire, but I will watch the others, there’s a problem with the dvd player not hooked up to the telly.

Can't remember the name of the movie, but it had Tony Curtis delivering a line like, "My fadda, da King, tole my mudda, da Queen, dat my brudda, da odda prince, was da problem."

It was a real horror show.

Can anyone help me with da name?

There was a gothic series on the BBC called Supernatural. It was about a club of the Damned where all prospective entrants have to tell a tale of blood chilling terror or be killed. That was back in the 1970s as well.

That sounds more like a Danny Kaye film than a horror movie.

Possibly The Prince who was a thief.