I Want To Rewatch

Part 2 (of 2) of our Season 3 wrap-up… (Originally recorded: 12 February 2022) (Originally released: 04 March 2022) As mentioned: I Want To Rewatch | Patreon The UFO Incident (1975-TV) | YouTube Strange Arrivals | iHeart (Season 1) Opening The X-Files: A Critical History of the Original Series by Darren Mooney Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agraria...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 19: “The Youth Killer” Young single men and women are being found old and dead. Kolchak makes a connection between the rapidly aged corpses and a dating service. Is someone, or something, preying on the service’s clients and draining them of their youth and vitality? Kolchak just might need to brush up on his Homer if he plans to find out and survive. O...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 18: “The Knightly Murders” When the decision is made to turn a failing museum into a disco and restaurant, the haunted armour of a very unsociable knight who dabbled in black magic begins killing people to assure his resting place remains undisturbed. As it turns out, only two things can stop the ambulatory and murderous armour: a battle axe blessed by...

Part 1 of our Season 3 wrap-up… (Originally recorded: 12 February 2022) (Originally released: 25 February 2022) As mentioned: Opening The X-Files: A Critical History of the Original Series by Darren Mooney “ The New Scooby Doo Movies: The Night Stalker ” by ChroniclesofTimeLord Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians You can find links to all our...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 17: “Legacy of Terror” A series of brutal murders all share a particularly grisly characteristic: each victim has had their heart cut out. Kolchak discovers that the murders are all connected to a modern-day Aztec cult that has been preparing for the apocalypse for centuries, and now Kolchak has to stop the final sacrifice before the cult revives the an...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 16: “Demon in Lace” Men are dying around a college campus. Beautiful women might be involved. They might also possibly stink real bad, at least at first, which you might think would be a turn off. They might actually be a succubus that’s related to an ancient clay tablet some overwrought guy is trying to decipher. Guess who believes this story. Kolchak....

Season Finale! You know what that means... A man heals several victims of a shooting at a fast food restaurant, including the shooter, before disappearing. Mulder wants to find this man with mysterious healing powers, but he gets sidetracked when he learns his mother is in the hospital. With intel from X, Mulder learns his mother met with the Cigarette Smoking Man shortly before her stroke. Scully...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 15: “Chopper” There’s no sense in burying the lede, because Kolchak wouldn’t. A headless motorcyclist is driving around Chicago decapitating people with a sword, and Kolchak needs to figure out what’s going on without losing his head. Originally recorded on 11 September 2021. Subscription-exclusive release on 16 February 2022. Music: “Dark Science”...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 14: “The Trevi Collection” Kolchak gets a tip about a corruption story in the garment industry, but when mysterious deaths begin happening things take a turn and Kolchak finds himself battling an evil force hell-bent on taking over the world of high fashion. Originally recorded on 20 June 2021. Subscription-exclusive release on 14 February 2022. Music:...

In this episode: Mulder is told about a case where a man murdered five people believing them all to be the same man, a war criminal featured on the news. As Mulder and Scully investigate, they discover his rampage may have been inspired by taped news broadcasts. As more people commit inexplicable murders, seemingly connected to the televsion, Mulder tries to determine the cause. Meanwhile, Scully...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 13: “Primal Scream” When a biologist working for an oil company drilling in the Arctic is killed, Kolchak thinks more is going on than everyone is saying. When more brutal deaths occur, sources are silenced, and a report that the killer is a gorilla becomes the official story, Kolchak wonders if the killer is neither ape nor man, but something in-betwee...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 12: “Mr. R.I.N.G.” When a Nobel-prize winning scientist dies, Kolchak is tasked with writing his obituary, as a punishment. But while trying to find out what the scientist was working on before he died, Kolchak uncovers a classified government project that may be killing people in order to remain a secret. Originally recorded on 12 June 2021. Subscripti...

Old school lake monster action, baby! Mulder is drawn to Heuvelmans Lake due to a couple of disappearances that are linked to the legend of Big Blue, the lake monster. He drags Scully along to investigate the missing persons’ cases and see if he can find any proof of a prehistoric creature residing in the lake. But as more people go missing, Mulder and Scully urge the sheriff to close the lake unt...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 11: “Horror in the Heights” It would appear that elderly people in a Jewish neighbourhood are dying of natural causes and then being eaten by rats before being discovered. Kolchak wants to write a feature series on the plight of the elderly and the failure of the city’s institutions to protect them, but then things don’t seem to add up and Kolchak think...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 10: “The Energy Eater” A newly-built hospital is accumulating structural damage and electricity-related deaths, and both may be related to where it was built: land occupied for millenia by an ancient deity that feeds on energy. Originally recorded on 06 June 2021. Subscription-exclusive release on 31 January 2022. Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz...

No airbending. No blue people. But (according to Nic) definitely a succubus! Depressed about his impending divorce, Skinner hooks up with a woman at a hotel, only to wake up and find her murdered. Skinner doesn't remember anything, but Mulder is convinced he didn’t kill the woman and is determined to prove it, even as Skinner tells Mulder and Scully to leave it alone. Originally recorded on 09 Jan...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 9: “The Spanish Moss Murders” Stories of a bayou bogeyman, like many such stories, were meant to frighten children into behaving. Everyone has stories from their childhood, and they travel along with the people who heard them as children, but what if something else is brought along with those stories? Something deadly. Originally recorded on 23 May 2021...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 8: “Bad Medicine” Chicago’s elite are being killed for their diamonds, emeralds, and pearls, oh my! Kolchak has witnessed the perpetrator disappear from a scene and transform into an animal, but of course no one believes him. Is the killer just someone dressed like an ancient Native American shaman or is it something far more malevolent and terrifying?...

The truth is out there... maybe. Author Jose Chung wants to write a book about a supposed alien abduction in a small town, so he’s interviewing everyone involved, including Agent Scully. Unfortunately, no one’s version of events seems to totally line up so he left to piece together the story from various accounts. Was it really aliens or just a series of unfortunate events that have been largely m...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 7: “The Devil’s Platform” After being attacked by a large black dog while investigating a series of mysterious “accidental” deaths, Kolchak comes to believe a Senatorial candidate is in league with Satan as a means of securing political success. Originally recorded on 15 May 2021. Subscription-exclusive release on 19 January 2022. Music: “Dark Science”...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 6: “Firefall” Strange deaths appear to match the descriptions of spontaneous human combustion, but all the victims are associates of a famous conductor who has been seen at all the crimes BUT has eyewitnesses, including Kolchak, that put him elsewhere during the mysterious fires! After a close call of his own, Kolchak comes to believe that a murderous d...

When another Scooby Doo episode goes dark... Mulder and Scully are called in after the third murder of a man in a cremation chamber. A Chinese symbol that means “Ghost” is found written inside of the chamber and a scrap of “hell money”, which local detective Glen Chao tells them is part of the Festival of Hungry Ghosts, is found amongst the ashes in the chamber. Are unhappy ghosts committing these...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 5: “The Werewolf” After Vincenzo is forced to abandon his first vacation in five years, Kolchak is sent to do a story about the singles’ cruise Vincenzo had planned to take. However, once on board it seems that one of the passengers is there for more than just a hook-up on the deep blue sea... and under the full moon. Originally recorded on 08 May 2021....

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Season 1, Episode 4: “The Vampire” After hearing about a trail of murders that seems to be heading towards Los Angeles, Kolchak manages to trick his way into an interview with a new age guru who just happens to be in Los Angeles. Once there, the murders continue and Kolchak realises he’s dealing with some leftover business from his time in Las Vegas — business he thought...

When a Scooby Doo episode goes dark... Despite the protests of an Ecuadorian tribe, an Amaru, an urn that contains the remains of a female shaman, is unearthed and brought to a museum in Boston. After one of the museum workers is violently murdered, Mulder and Scully arrive to try and figure out if the curse of the Amaru killed him or if it’s just someone upset at the museum for taking the sacred...