The Night Strangler is a made for television movie which first aired on ABC on January 16, 1973 as a sequel to The Night Stalker. 'The Night Strangler' proved almost as popular as its predecessor garnering strong ratings and eventually prompting ABC to order a TV series . In the United States the TV movie ran approximately 74 minutes. ABC planned to release the film overseas as a theatrical release and had additional footage shot rounding out the movie to 90 minutes. Reporter Carl Kolchak, now in Seattle, Washington is assigned to the story of a series of killings, in which the victims, all... exotic dancers, are strangled, their necks crushed, then drained of a few ounces of blood. He discovers that there was a similar rash of killings twenty-one years prior. Then he learns of another twenty-one years before that. It turns out that they have been occurring every twenty-one years for about a century.
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| Release date: | 1973 |
| Directed by: | Dan Curtis |
| Runtime: | 74 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dan Curtis |
| Music by: | Robert Cobert |