Kolchak: The Night Stalker on DVD

Kolchak: The Night Stalker was premiered on the 13th of September 1974 and ended on the 1st of August 1975 It tackles the exploits of a newspaper reporter who investigates crimes with unlikely causes and that authorities would not waste time to pursue and accept that it had happened.

The Night Stalker is definitely dated. The stories seem so innocent compared to today’s primetime scripts. The special effects, though wisely minimal, are cheesy at best. The leading man doesn’t look like he just came off a GQ photo shoot. Yes, it’s admittedly a dated relic — but charmingly so. Like a pair of old, soft slippers the Kolchak DVD is a welcome friend on a cold September day.

Carl Kolchak played by Darren McGavin who was described by his editor Tony Vincenzo played by Simon Oakland as a 'has-been big-city reporter'. He does have a girlfriend named Gail Foster played by Carol Lynley which recounts the number of times that Kolchak has been fired, twice in Washington, three times in New York, twice in Chicago, and three times in Boston. He has been blackmailed by the Las Vegas police and never to return to Las Vegas again and that causes for him to be out of job once again and her girlfriend has also been asked to leave town and expend his savings in an attempt to find her, unfortunately he is unsuccessful.

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Red Dwarf on DVD

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise, the primary form of which comprises eight series of a post-watershed television sitcom that ran on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999, It tackles the misadventures of the crew of the deep-mining ship known as the Red Dwarf.

It was created and originally written by Grant Naylor (a so-called 'gestalt entity', in reality a collective pseudonym for the writing duo Rob Grant and Doug Naylor). The show had its origins in a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, in the mid-1980s BBC Radio 4 comedy show Son Of Cliché, also scripted by Grant and Naylor. In addition to the Red Dwarf television series, there have also been four bestselling novels, a pilot episode for an American version of the show, and a significant number of tie-in books, magazines and other merchandise.

The story is about three million years ago, a massive radiation leak killed the crew of the Red Dwarf. The only survivor was Dave Lister who was sentenced to 6-months suspended animation as he smuggled his pet cat named Frankenstine on board. In the year 2077 Lister awoke only to find out the crew has been wiped out and that the ship was lost in the middle of deep space. Dave Lister was the only human being alive on-board Red Dwarf. He is not alone, accompanying him are Holly, the ship's computer that intelligence is rapidly decreasing, a hologram of his bunkmate Arnold Rimmer, a cat that is a humanoid which evolved from Lister's cat Frankenstine and Kryten, a robot rescued from the American space cruised known as the Nova.

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