Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

The Trevi Collection (1975)

Darren McGavin: Carl Kolchak

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Quotes 

• Carl Kolchak : Okay, how much is it?

  The Figure : There is no charge. A nominal contribution will be appreciated.

  [One bill is put into urn] 

  The Figure : Not that nominal.

• Carl Kolchak : Did you know Mickey Patchek?

  Madame Trevi : I never met him. I wish I could say the same about you.

  Carl Kolchak : [chuckling]  That's very good.

• Ron Updyke : I wonder who'd take control of the bureau.

  Carl Kolchak : Be my guest, Ron. Just remember, I like my underwear in the top drawer.

• Madelaine : Who are you, a policeman?

  Carl Kolchak : Do I look like a policeman. I'm a reporter.

• Madelaine : [about a crime scene]  Why do you want to go up there?

  Carl Kolchak : Why do I want to go up there? Because it's there.

• Carl Kolchak : Those hoods have spooked my stringers. They act like I have leprosy.

  Tony Vincenzo : You'd be better off. You'd be safer in a leper colony.

• Tony Vincenzo : 'Cause you are suicidal! You are self-destructive!

  Carl Kolchak : I can't talk to you when you get emotional like this.

  Tony Vincenzo : I'm not emotional! Who's emotional!

• Carl Kolchak : Dying and maiming were coming into vogue in the fashion business.

• Griselda : Unfortunately, for those of us who are genuinely interested in the occult, witchcraft's big business.

  Carl Kolchak : Ah.

  Griselda : Big business and free speech is what this country's all about, right?

  Carl Kolchak : Well, I'll agree about free speech.

• Tony Vincenzo : Carl... you know, every year my brother-in-law asks me to come into the Venetian blind business with him. He's got a $50,000 home over in Evanston. He's got a company car. And I always say, "No, Rocco, I love the news business. It's in my blood."

  Carl Kolchak : Uh-huh.

  Tony Vincenzo : I tell you something, Carl. This is the year I'm gonna become a Venetian blind executive.

  Carl Kolchak : Tony, you got a brother-in-law named Rocco in the Venetian blind business? Hey, that's a terrific cover, Tony.

• Carl Kolchak : I've got my bell, the bear claws and the buttons. Wire! Copper wire. That's right. Witches hate copper.

  Emily Cowles : Oh. Carl.

  Carl Kolchak : Yes?

  Emily Cowles : [pointing out the office teletype machine]  I merely point it out to you. I don't say "yea" or "nay."

• Madelaine : I mean, uh, oh, I could make you so important.

  Carl Kolchak : You could make me important? How? By killing off all my enemies? We'd have to buy out a controlling interest in a doll factory for that one.