Night Stalker (TV series)

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Night Stalker
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Based onCharacters
by Jeff Rice
Developed by Frank Spotnitz
Starring Stuart Townsend
Gabrielle Union
Eric Jungmann
Cotter Smith
Theme music composer Philip Glass
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10 [1]
Production
Running time42 minutes
Production companiesBig Light Productions
ABC Signature
Original release
Network ABC
iTunes (episodes 6–12)
ReleaseSeptember 29, 2005 (2005-09-29) 
March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17)
Related
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in 2005 on ABC in the United States. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his wife's murder. He is helped along the way by a fellow crime reporter Perri Reed (Gabrielle Union), photographer Jain McManus (Eric Jungmann) and editor Anthony Vincenzo (Cotter Smith).

Contents

Night Stalker was a remake of the 1974 series Kolchak: The Night Stalker . ABC owned the rights to the original television movies, but not the Universal television series, and was limited to using only characters that had appeared in those movies.

Characters

Main

Recurring

Guest

Episodes

No.TitleOriginal release dateUS viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"September 29, 2005 (2005-09-29)7.10 [3]
Kolchak suspects a series of coyote-like attacks may be connected to his wife's murder.
2"The Five People You Meet in Hell"October 6, 2005 (2005-10-06)5.90 [3]
An imprisoned cult leader forces the people who got him convicted to kill their families. Kolchak investigates, and discovers Perri testified at his trial, and is going to be his next victim. Guest stars: Tony Curran, Art LaFleur, Alex Carter.
3"Three"October 13, 2005 (2005-10-13)5.10 [3]
A university club's secret initiation ritual may be the cause behind deaths which are somehow caused by fear.
4"Burning Man"October 20, 2005 (2005-10-20)4.50 [3]
A copycat killer of a deceased serial killer known as "The Burning Man" emerges, but Kolchak suspects that the copycat and the original killer are one and the same. Guest star: William Lucking.
5"Malum"October 27, 2005 (2005-10-27)5.00 [3]
Bizarre deaths are occurring around a school attended by a possibly abused child, who may have a connection to the deaths. Guest stars: Tony Todd, Fredric Lehne, Paul Dillon.
6"The Source"November 10, 2005 (2005-11-10)3.90 [3]
Kolchak is being forced by the FBI to give up his unknown informant
7"The Sea"November 17, 2005 (2005-11-17) (on iTunes)N/A
8"Into Night"March 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)(on iTunes)N/A
9"Timeless"March 10, 2006 (2006-03-10)(on iTunes)N/A
A woman's death may be connected to old cases occurring every 35 years. Guest stars: Mira Furlan, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Fairman, Kevin Rahm.
10"What's the Frequency, Kolchak"March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17)(on iTunes)N/A
Kolchak is kidnapped by a disturbed man who believes Kolchak has been communicating with him through his articles and that a mysterious entity is responsible for his actions. However, this man may hold the key to the murder of Kolchak's wife. Guest stars: Pat Healy, Reggie Lee.

Cancellation

On November 13, 2005, Frank Spotnitz announced on his blog that Night Stalker had been canceled. ABC announced the official cancellation of the series that following Monday. Night Stalker was canceled after six episodes. [4] All ten episodes were aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the summer of 2006. [5]

Broadcast and release

Its first episode was broadcast on Thursday, September 29, at 9 p.m. against CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, The Apprentice on NBC and the 2005 MLB playoffs on Fox.

The last episode to be broadcast was the first of a multi-part episode, so viewers never saw the end of the sixth story. However, some time after the cancellation, the seventh episode appeared on Apple's iTunes Music Store for download. On February 7, 2006, the final three episodes were released on iTunes.

The Sci-Fi Channel, which frequently shows canceled network genre shows, showed all ten filmed episodes during summer 2006, starting on July 28, 2006. The ratings were poor on Sci-Fi Channel as well. In 2007, the show continued in rotation on the network's weekday series marathons.

Night Stalker has been re-run on the Chiller channel, beginning on November 3, 2007. In the UK the series aired in December 2007 and January 2008 on Bravo.

In Australia, the Seven Network free-to-air station and Prime in regional areas screened the series between early June and September 2007.

DVD release

Night Stalker: The Complete Series was released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on May 30, 2006. [6]

The set includes all ten episodes; commentary on the episodes "Pilot" and "The Source, Part Two"; deleted scenes; a featurette entitled "A Conversation with Frank Spotnitz"; and unproduced scripts in the DVD-ROM format.

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