Well, this has always been true of horror on series TV (at least, since the advent of color- there are some EXTRAORDINARY-looking episodes of the original OUTER LIMITS).

The most recognisible PART of Orson Welles.

On the other hand, this cries out for YES PRIME MINISTER.

Are there no more petting zoos?

ENGLAND PREVAILS.

Or possibly the 1970s spin-off films.

For a new Kolchak? William H. Macy, Bryan Cranston, maybe Dennis Leary.

Well, they kind of HAD to retcon it, given that Welles had passed away by then (and recasting him would be very difficult, what with him being, y'know, one of the most famous people in the world)

Got his foot in that door, though.

KOLCHAK had a secret weapon- the show's head writer was a young David Chase (yes, THAT one).

Specifically, watch the two Stuart Gordon did, and then watch the episode he did of the spin-off show FEAR ITSELF.

But clips of the nastiest part show up in the later episode SCREWFLY SOLUTION- as part of a film that makes men turn violent!
ah, Joe Dante, poking fun at BOTH sides at once.

DEMONS kills off it's leading lady about one minute into the closing credits.

it's a total mess storywise, but at least Ronny Yu directs it well.
(Yu did MUCH better with BRIDE OF CHUCKY, of course… not to mention THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR)

The years have been very kind to it.
(specifically, an ending that COULD have been a cheap set-up for a sequel now works a lot better because there WASN'T a sequel- it's just one last hint of madness)

THE HOWLING nods it's head in agreement.

Neither; it's a pretty imaginative micro-budget film that uses a tongue-in-cheek attitude to glide over it's flaws.

Actually, it could be argued that Bob Kane shouldn't recieve ANY credit on GOTHAM, because the one part of the Batman mythos he DID create… the NAME "Bat-Man"- isn't part of the show.
But a good chunk of the characters who DO appear on that show are acknowledged to have been created or co-created by Bill Finger.

And, as usual, everyone jumps right to making jokes about the botched 1990s movie, and just ignore the fact that, y'know, there IS a really, REALLY good version:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
That said: CBS?…. yeah, this probably won't work.

I love the "high-functioning alcoholic" theory, because it makes sense of that, too: Riker feeling that, away from the team on the Enterprise, all of his weaknesses would become apparent to everyone.