not so much a film...
but more of a series - Kolchak: The Night Stalker - about a two-bit reporter for a crappy paper who goes off to investigate random things like, say, shoes being stolen or the theft of ham sandwiches from a late night delicatessen and inevitably ends up tracking down a pre-incan demon, or some weird monster. All the production values of Quincy ME, but with the occassional nudey 70s lady and some bad fake blood. Genius. Also, try Q: The Winged Serpent, as I believer this was the "big budget" outing for him...

Actually, now I think about it, BBC2 used to be awesome - you'd get the Videodrome series showing some great films and then they'd follow it with a Kolchak film. Everything from the eponymous Cronenberg movie, to American Werewolf in London (look for a young Rik Mayall in the pub scene, playing chess with Brian Clough of Tetley Tea fame...), to the spaghetti western Django, to..well, anything, really - sci-fi, avant garde, slighlty dodgy not-quite-porn, horror.. that was back when TV was worth watching. Now all we get is Help, I'm a Big Celebrity Brother in the Jungle Kitchen Hell.
(Chad, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 16:47, 2 replies)

You mean Brian Glover
also of Hovis fame.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 17:47, closed)

Kolchak WAS ace :D
*click*
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 2:11, closed)