Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: Some advice for pedestrians: when you're run over by a strange dog, if you can't get his number, at least get his license tag.

Palmer: (to Kolchak) You're a good reporter. Not a great one. You have personality flaws that are going to keep total success from your grasp. But you are, nonetheless, a very good reporter. You would like, more than anything, to have the Pulitzer Prize. Though publicly you scorn the very concept of awards. You'd like more than anything else to get to New York and work on a major daily paper. You'd even like a suede-back chair at your desk. Not leather - suede. Such small ambitions, really. Your editor is Anthony Vincenzo. He frustrates you terribly. You blame him for your problems, but you know that you yourself are responsible for most of them.

Vincenzo: Why do I eat at Manny's? What are the first symptoms of botulism - anyone know?

Kolchak: Political campaigns are generally littered with posters and rhetoric - this one was littered with corpses.

Kolchak: I thought mongrels were even-tempered - this one tried to kill me. Updyke: Well, dogs are instinctive judges of character.

Kolchak: Can I get a voucher for this (torn pocket)? Vincenzo: Maybe it'll heal itself. Are you trying to tell me you're concerned about the way you look?

Vincenzo: I don't mind political exposes, if the facts are there. But Kolchak, why does our political expose have to have a dog in it?

Kolchak: Sometimes if you want a job done right, you just have to foul it up yourself.

Kolchak: The people's candidate: fearless, energetic and independent...why can't the people's candidate be like the rest of us: timid, insecure, and lazy?

Kolchak: Exactly what don't you like about this hat? Tony Vincenzo: What's under it.

Vincenzo: You know, I once thought about entering the priesthood--- Kolchak: Then the Inquisition ended, and all of the fun went out of it for you.

(interviewing a politician's wife) Kolchak: What does the candidate like? Lorraine Palmer: Privacy. Kolchak: What's it like living with Bob? Lorraine Palmer: He's perfect. Kolchak: I wish I were. Lorraine Palmer: So do I.

Kolchak: I was a young man when I started waiting for the elevator, but there's two things that just can't be rushed - anyone who is paid by the hour, and an office-building elevator.