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Kolchak: The Night Stalker :: Chopper (01x15)
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| Title: | Chopper |
| Episode #: | 01x15 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday January 31st, 1975 |
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A headless biker from the 50's returns from the grave to exact his revenge on those responsible for his grisly death.
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Capt. Jonas:
With this appearance, Larry Linville is now the second actor from the original TV movie to make a guest appearance on the series. In the Night Stalker film he played "Medical Examiner Robert Mokurji".
| Neil, The Morgue Attendant:
Steve Franken was brought in as "Neil, The Morgue Attendant" when John "Gordy 'The Ghoul' Spangler" Fiedler was unavailable for shooting.
| Co-writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, went on to successful Hollywood careers as writers and directors. The duo worked on hits like the Back To The Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the HBO series Tales From The Crypt. Zemeckis, who has been quoted as saying of this episode, "It was my first professional sale. So I guess you could say it all started with Kolchak.", even picked up an Oscar for Forrest Gump.
| David Chase, the story editor, must have really liked the name of the character "Electric Larry." It will show up again in a 1977 episode of The Rockford Files, "Dirty Money, Black Light." Chase produced The Rockford Files.
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Carl: (opening narration) The teenage years: sixteen candles, fervent passions, aimless joyrides and the forbidden taste of beer. A time the world allows for sowing one's wild oats. But for some individuals I came to know in this summer of their discontent, it had been a time when they had sown the seeds of their own destruction.
| Carl: In one case the oversight was very small. But it blossomed into a flower of evil.
| Carl: (to Norman Cahill) If you saw what you say you saw, you won’t find anybody more interested in it than I am.
| Capt. Jonas: And you’re telling me that I should go into a barn of bones…and…and…and…find someone’s skull and then play pin the head on the stump?!?
Carl: Right, right.
Capt. Jonas: Is that what you think police do?
Carl: I’ve given up figuring out what police do. All I know is what has to be done!
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Swordman Baker's coffin
Baker's coffin appears to have been made of unbraced quarter inch or so thick plywood. Such a flimsy box would have collapsed rather quickly under the weight of seventy or so cubic feet of earth, and yet the box was relatively intact when Carl found it!
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Herb Bresson:
Jim Backus is best known as "Thurston Howell III" on Gilligan's Island and also provided the voice of the animated character "Mr. Magoo."
| Capt. Jonas:
Larry Linville is probably best remembered for his role of "Major Frank Burns" on the TV series M*A*S*H.
| Watchman:
Jesse White is a familiar face to TV viewers. He was the first actor to play "The Maytag Repairman" in the long running commercials.
| The summer of their discontent...
This line from Carl's opening narration plays on Shakespeare's Richard III. In the opening lines of that play Richard's dialogue shows the audience how his unwholesome appearance has warped his mind.
| Hills of Lethe Cemetary
The cemetery is named after the river Lethe from Greek myth. A single drink of its waters destroyed a man's memory for all time; this forgetfulness was part of the shade's passage to the afterlife.
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