First Don Knotts, now Darren McGavin has died.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11570390/
Grumpiness will never be the same.
What the?! #&$&#@!! Bumpasses!!!
Damn, I was just watching him in an X Files episode, and thinking he was still pretty fun to watch.
RIP, Kolchak.
When I was a kid I had a hammock strung between two posts of the patio. I’d take my little 9" B&W TV I got as a birthday present and put it on the little raised area between the sliding glass doors and the rest of the patio. There, in my sleeping bag (which I still have) I would lie in my hammock and watch Kolchak: The Night Stalker in the dark. Being outside, in the dark, with only the feeble light from the TV, and watching Kolchak battle mysterious monsters scared the hell out of me. I did it every week. (The scariest one for me was the one with the swamp monster.)
I watched a few episodes a couple of years ago. In retrospect, they were often laughable. But they were great when I was a kid. If I’d ever paid attention to the schedule, I would have watched all of them again. And would there have been a Mulder, if not for Kolchak?