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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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| Title: | Primal Scream |
| Episode Number: | 13 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 13 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday January 17th, 1975 |
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Carl stumbles into an oil company cover-up involving a murdered research scientist and what may be a creature revived from the ice age.
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| Carl: (opening narration) During World War II, close to this very spot, science bore a child that changed the course of human relations and, to this day threatens to end human history. It was called, innocuously enough, the Manhattan Project and it grew into the terror we all have come to know as the hydrogen bomb. But this year, only a stone's throw from here, science delivered a new child.
| Carl: (to a cop who's also seen the monster) Now you saw that thing and I saw it, and it was not just any ape. I mean, that wasn't just J. Fred Muggs out there, dressed in a tutu and drooling for the public and playing on a unicycle, That was some creature!
| Carl: If it's really an ape, why are you investigating it? Why are you on the case?
Capt. Molnar: (looks pointedly at Kolchak) I have the experience. I've had a lot of dealings with baboons.
Carl: (catching on after a beat) Whattya mean baboons?!?
| Carl: Hey, Tony! What's new?
Tony: That's why I've got reporters...to tell me what's new!
| Tony: Now where are you going, Carl?
Carl: Springfield.
Tony: To cover some hot news like the Lincoln/Douglas debate?
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| This episode has a couple clever references to Universal Horror films. One victim of the Humanoid is seen watching one of Universal's Mummy films, while another victim is named William Pratt, Boris Karloff's real name.
| Jack Burton:
Jamie Farr had already made a name for himself playing "Max Klinger" on M*A*S*H, when he played the role of "Jack Burton" in this episode.
| Thomas J. Kitzmiller:
Shortly before "Primal Scream" aired, Pat Harrington began his most memorable role as "Schneider" on One Day At A Time.
| Tony: ...Abbott and Costello, 1942!
Tony's sarcastic rejoinder to a bad Ron Updyke joke suggests Updyke pilfered the jape from the famous comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. This two-man comedy team started in radio and graduated to movies. Among their most well known routines is "Who's On First?"
| Landlady: I've seen apes on the Marlin Perkins show...
The landlady is doubtless referring to Wild Kingdom, a long-running show hosted by Marlin Perkins that weekly brought stories of animals and their behavior into homes for nearly a decade.
| Carl: ...that wasn't just J. Fred Muggs out there...
Carl is referring to a chimpanzee who appeared on NBC's The Today Show for several years starting in 1953. Muggs' popularity is credited with saving the show in its early years.
| Carl: Science bore a child that changed the course of human relations...
Carl is referring to the Manhattan Project, the research that led to the first thermonuclear weapons. This research took place all over the country, but a significant effort took place at the University of Chicago, where the focus was on producing weapons grade fuel, purifying it, and bomb design.
| Tony: To cover some hot news like the Lincoln/Douglas debate?
Tony, irked that Carl has been scooped by other papers suggests his next assignment may be equally old. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates took place in 1858; they were a series of arguments between Abraham Lincoln and his opponent Steven Douglas who were contending to represent Illinois in the Senate.
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