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Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: SunKing on January 20, 2005, 02:40:12 PM
As a kid this was one of the greatest late night series on TV.

SciFi is running a mini marathon right now!
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Finrod on January 20, 2005, 02:47:04 PM
I used to love that show. When I was a kid I wanted one of his hats LOL.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2005, 02:49:56 PM
I used to love that show.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Finrod on January 20, 2005, 02:52:26 PM
I saw the theme music the other day and downloaded it. Not as spooky as it was  when I was a kid but cool nonetheless.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 20, 2005, 02:58:10 PM
Bummer, and I am stuck at work, and cannot get to my PVR!!!!  ARRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

One of my favorites as well. Dang it!
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2005, 03:01:07 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Bummer, and I am stuck at work, and cannot get to my PVR!!!!  ARRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

One of my favorites as well. Dang it!


Ya know... they have this thing called BiTorrent... :D
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 20, 2005, 03:08:40 PM
The part of me who refuses to be a hypocrite keeps me from it.

When I ran an ISP service, I hated all that stuff.  It was so costly to my business.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Finrod on January 20, 2005, 03:14:06 PM
Did ya'll know that until the movie Roots was aired, the original Night Stalker movie was the most  watched movie in TV history. Always found that odd when weighed against the fact that the series really didn't last that long.

Ah Skuzzy, live alittle man. This sort of thing doesn't happen every day.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2005, 03:16:32 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
The part of me who refuses to be a hypocrite keeps me from it.

When I ran an ISP service, I hated all that stuff.  It was so costly to my business.



A man of principle. No fault in that. :aok
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: vorticon on January 20, 2005, 03:20:40 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Bummer, and I am stuck at work, and cannot get to my PVR!!!!  ARRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

One of my favorites as well. Dang it!


this is where you use your evil magic powers to figure out some way to make it possible to program your PVR from your work computer...


either that or get one for the office...
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 20, 2005, 03:39:05 PM
Hmmm,..that gives me an idea.  Thanks vort!
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: vorticon on January 20, 2005, 03:55:47 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Hmmm,..that gives me an idea.  Thanks vort!



if its the first idea, i want 5% of the profits and a free copy.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: airbumba on January 20, 2005, 03:56:18 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
Ya know... they have this thing called BiTorrent... :D


Ya where?


BTW love that show as well.
Remember the x-rays from the hospital one....hehehe.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: GtoRA2 on January 20, 2005, 03:57:38 PM
What was this show about?


This wasnt about the late night radio DJ that was an xCop was it?
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 20, 2005, 04:11:10 PM
Gto, it was a about a reporter who was always trying to convince people there were evil things afoot and almost always ending up looking stupid, even though he was telling the truth.
He would battle it out with the evil stuff, win, and then not be left with any proof they existed.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2005, 04:16:56 PM
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Originally posted by airbumba
Ya where?


Google is your friend (http://google.com). Skuzzy prefers that I do not provide links to such things.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: airbumba on January 20, 2005, 04:20:24 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
Google is your friend (http://google.com). Skuzzy prefers that I do not provide links to such things.


Last I seen they were all closed.


never mind, upon further research....;)
Title: Re: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: WilldCrd on January 20, 2005, 04:21:49 PM
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Originally posted by SunKing
As a kid this was one of the greatest late night series on TV.

SciFi is running a mini marathon right now!


it is? i just awitched on the sci-fi channel and its in the middle of an andromeda episode Then its x files the its 3 b rated spider movies.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: rpm on January 20, 2005, 04:22:47 PM
It was the most gruesome sci-fi show on TV since Twilight Zone. If you consider that it was the same main character in every show, it's writing was inspired. Darren McGavin did a great job with Kolchak.

I still remember coming very close to hurling while watching an episode when he was sewing together the lips of the mummy, vampire or whatever it was. Eeeeeeewwwww!
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2005, 04:24:11 PM
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Originally posted by airbumba
Last I seen they all closed.


There are at least three directories up and running that I know of.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: WilldCrd on January 20, 2005, 04:24:53 PM
just checked sci-fi.com. Marathon was over at 3pm Cdt. It started at 8am...oh well
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: WilldCrd on January 20, 2005, 04:28:29 PM
upon further searching i found that the next night stalker marathon is going to be feb, 10th starting at 8am
Happy recording....

Linkage (http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=10-FEB-2005&feed_req)
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Finrod on January 20, 2005, 04:42:20 PM
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Originally posted by rpm
It was the most gruesome sci-fi show on TV since Twilight Zone. If you consider that it was the same main character in every show, it's writing was inspired. Darren McGavin did a great job with Kolchak.

I still remember coming very close to hurling while watching an episode when he was sewing together the lips of the mummy, vampire or whatever it was. Eeeeeeewwwww!


Zombie I think it was.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: airbumba on January 21, 2005, 12:09:59 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
There are at least three directories up and running that I know of.


Think you could send me that Sandman...

airbumba@yahoo.ca


Thanks in advance, .
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Dux on January 21, 2005, 12:53:47 PM
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Originally posted by rpm
I still remember coming very close to hurling while watching an episode when he was sewing together the lips of the mummy, vampire or whatever it was. Eeeeeeewwwww!


Oh man, I used to have nightmares about that scene. The zombies slept in the trunks of old cars in a junk yard, and he had to (pour salt in first?) and sew their mouths shut and.... bad memories coming back... it's only make-believe... it's only make-believe...
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: SunKing on January 21, 2005, 01:55:10 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
There are at least three directories up and running that I know of.


Try about 30+ ..

Linky if needed.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Charon on January 21, 2005, 02:15:50 PM
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Did ya'll know that until the movie Roots was aired, the original Night Stalker movie was the most watched movie in TV history. Always found that odd when weighed against the fact that the series really didn't last that long.


That was an intense pilot and a pretty solid series. Maybe they just ran out of good situations? I haven't seen it in years though. How does it hold up today? I had forgotten about the zombies, but remembered it immediately when reminded. Remember the guy who took the money in agreement to be an Aztec sacrifice a year later. Or the Werewolf on the Love boat :)

Charon
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Charon on January 21, 2005, 02:18:34 PM
Not to hijack too much... but speaking of scary 1970s TV how about Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror? We all know the segment that pushed it over the top :)

Charon
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: SunKing on January 21, 2005, 02:35:07 PM
(http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/39997a.jpg)
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Charon on January 21, 2005, 03:10:56 PM
Sends a chill down my spine. That scared the hell out of me.

Charon
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 21, 2005, 03:44:43 PM
Bandwidth costs money GS.  An ISP lives or dies by managing the average bandwidth per customer.  If the average gets too high, the ISP makes less, or loses money.

ISP bandwidth is very expensive.  Figure about $3,000 a month for 3Mb/s of bandwidth on average.  If the same number of clients all of a sudden use up 6Mb/s of bandwidth, the ISP pays more and so on.

Commercial accounts (like HTC's) work the same way.  The more bandwidth you use, the more you pay.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: wombatt on January 21, 2005, 03:49:32 PM
Well Skuzzy that must be the reason why the brainiac's at comedy cast cable farmed out there newsgroups to giganews.

yeppers what used to be free unlimited new groups now will cost you for any usage over 2 gig per month.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: Skuzzy on January 21, 2005, 04:06:13 PM
Consumers in the U.S. are spoiled rotten GS.  There is no way they will pay for bandwidth used.

One day the infrastructure of the Internet here in the U.S. is going to collapse due to lack of money to continue to maintain/grow it.  Apathy will insure everyone will continue to ignore the problem, until it is too late.
I hope that prediction is wrong, but we are already a good ways down that path.
Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: rpm on January 21, 2005, 05:09:27 PM
Skuzzy, I think bandwith is the new long distance for telecoms. Remember when it cost you $3 a minute to call Dallas from Ft. Worth? In reality it was $2.99 a minute profit for Ma Bell.
Title: Re: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Post by: genozaur on January 21, 2005, 10:50:25 PM
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Originally posted by SunKing
As a kid this was one of the greatest late night series on TV.

SciFi is running a mini marathon right now!


Was the guy related to Admiral Kolchak, The Supreme Ruler of Russia ? :confused: