It feels like the proper answer is “to have YOU join the Men’s Hair Club”. I mean, he looks like he’s not just the president, he’s also a member.

“Asteroids of this size typically break up in the atmosphere before hitting the surface. Our solar system is littered with objects around this size.”

By Planet Nine, you mean PLUTO.
So they are actually referring to Planet Ten aka Nibiru.

I must say, the Office of Planetary Defense is the coolest name of any government agency I can imagine. Of course, until NASA establishes the Bureau of Warp Engine Design.

A communications disruption can mean only one thing

“The exact cause of the failure is still unknown.”
Maybe the aliens decided they were done being eavesdropped on by earthlings?

“KOLCHAK! That’s not Italian!”

Yes. McGavin even guest-stared in an ep. I think he was an FBI agent prior to Mulder that investigated one of the first X-Files.

And have all the possible victims bodies cremated.

I think you’re underestimating how many of the comments will be grumbling about the slideshow format.

“THE NIGHT STALKER” was based on an unsold manuscript by Jeff Rice that was adapted into a TV movie format by the esteemed horror writer, Richard Matheson (“DUEL”, “I Am Legend” and “Hell House”). I’ve read both the book and the script and Matheson certainly gave us the best part of the story. Note the film was…

Kolchak is one of my all-time favorite characters, along with Thomas Veil of Nowhere Man. They should have more genre shows with reporters or photojournalists as protagonists.

If anyone is interested the third or fourth episode of the series, simply called “Vampire” (if I am remembering the title correctly), is a sequel to the movie.

Of potential interest to Kolchak fans is The Norliss Tapes (1973), another made for TV movie directed by Dan Curtis, from a script by Logan’s Run creator William F. Nolan. It’s essentially a third Kolchak movie, except in place of Kolchak it has Roy Thinnes as San Francisco novelist David Norliss, investgating rumors…

Thanks for this Charles. I was almost three when I was in the TV room with my parents watching this. I REMEMBER the vampire when the camera zooms in on his face! It etched into my brain and thus began my love of vampires. A year or two later, Dracula the play was playing in Lafayette, Indiana and had tiki torches and…

Any list of classic black-and-white films that does not include at least one of Duck Soup (1932), A Night at the Opera (1935), or A Day at the Races (1938) is a list that is a criminal exclusion of the greatest stars of the black-and-white era (that first is my favorite film of all time.)

The Night Stalker has arguably the most realistic ending for this kind of story.

Unlike the genre’s more famous vampire hunters, Kolchak has little in the way of any training or innate superpowers that make him a formidable foe to demons. The Night Stalker presents its hero as a put-upon man wholly out of his depth in terms of the actual threat at hand, but his unfailing ability to use his eyes…

Um... “Rear Window” was shot in color. Eastmancolor to be exact and one of the 50's Hitchcock movies to famously suffer from “yellow layer failure.” I have no clue where the idea that it was shot B/W and colorized came from. It was also shot 4/3 but with an intended 1.66/1 performance ratio.

Surprised to not see “The Third Man”, but this entire comments section is going to people people grumbling about their expectations not being included in a list of 10 films.