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Crackle of Death Directed by Alexander Grasshoff
Don WeisStarring Darren McGavin
Simon Oakland
Jack Grinnage
Carol Ann SusiDistributed by ABC Release date(s) 1974 Running time 94 min. Country United States Language English Crackle of Death is a 1976 film, the third produced in the Night Stalker film series. It combined the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes "Firefall" and "The Energy Eater" with additional narration by Darren McGavin as Kolchak.
Crackle of Death was followed by a fourth movie entitled The Demon and The Mummy that combined two more episodes in a similar manner; namely, "Demon In Lace" and "Legacy of Terror".
All four episodes comprising these films were subsequently withdrawn from the original television syndication package. They were not made available in their entirety again until a Columbia House VHS video release in the 1990s.
See also
- List of Kolchak: The Night Stalker Episodes
- The Night Stalker (1st movie) The original vampire story.
- The Night Strangler (2nd movie) A mad scientist achieves immortality through murderous means.
- The Night Killers (3rd unproduced movie) Aliens replace prominent citizens with androids in Hawaii.
External links
- Crackle of Death at the Internet Movie Database
- Crackle of Death at AllRovi
Night Stalker Media The Kolchak Papers • The Night Stalker (film) • The Night Strangler (film) • Kolchak: The Night Stalker (episodes) • Night Stalker (TV series) (episodes) • The Demon and the Mummy • Crackle of DeathCharacters Carl Kolchak • Tony VincenzoCast and writers Categories:- 1970s horror films
- 1976 television films
- American television films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Alex Grasshoff
- 1970s horror film stubs
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