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He's a terrible choice, completely changing the tone of the show. Now it's going to be Buffy-type fantasy crap, instead of a weird mix of horror and newspaper-detective noir.

Your recommendations are good ones. I recently watched the two TV movies on DVD and they hold up well, very entertaining, especially if you like the quaint 70's setting. Interesting, too, how the series messes with the backstory set up in these two films, if I recall correctly.

The screenwriter of these was Richard Matheson, one of the great American fantasy/horror writers--he wrote, among MANY others, Duel, Trilogy of Terror, the Twilight Zone episodes "Little Girl Lost," "Third from the Sun," the one with William Shatner seeing the gremlin on the wing of the plane, as well as Incredible Shrinking Man, I Am Legend (Omega Man), etc. etc .etc.

I am a fan of the two tv movies and went to great lengths to assemble the tv series from Columbia House releases several years ago. The TV show was a huge letdown, ranging from ok episodes (rare) to flat out bad episodes (much more common).

The Night Stalker and the Night Strangler tv movies are great and very good, respectively. The TV show suffered almost from the get-go. It was nowhere near as good as I remembered it.

Part of the appeal of Kolchack, aside from McGavin's personal style as an actor, was his go it alone, me against the world outcast kind of thing, which it seems will be tossed aside for, as you say, the Buffy treatment. I can think of a good actor for the role, but of course way out of the league, and that's Johnny Depp.