I just found you. Still learning my way around.

It's pretty good I think. You get a few actions available if you started the discussion like make private, close or unsubscribe which I don't remember IMDB having. It's quite a clean layout as well which helps.

Seems to work. I am going to paste an old review here to see if there is a character limit. Just old stuff don't bother reading. Tonight’s episode of Kolchak is the age old story of a werewolf looking for love. Where better then booking himself on a cruise ship. Too bad he didn’t think it through that he had a limited amount of escape routes. Maybe he thought the ship would dock he would walk off as the lone survivor. Alas, no love for werewolf (or Kolchak for that matter).

When we started this show I thought Kolchak was supposed to be the crusty old guy hiding an inner softness. But I am beginning to think that is the character Vincenzo is playing. Kolchak is emerging as a character that is single minded and void of an ability for personal interaction. If he was tweaked just a bit more I would say he could be portraying a high functioning person on the spectrum. Instead of an obsession with train schedules or solving crimes, his is reporting. It also would explain why the character Vincenzo, warm heart, lets him get away with this stuff. He is protective of Kolchak and the way Kolchak is a man/child whose obsession is ‘the story’. Another example of this is how Kolchak has no interest in any of the other characters, including Paula, unless it further helps with his story/adventure.

Kolchak is a man who tries to be the clever character but it seems he is not very good at it. We see him have these aha moments, saying he served with the captain and later that the captain is his father, but instead of us being privy to seeing a smooth and intelligent character, we see that it never works for him. This makes me wonder what other shows were popular at the time. Were there a lot of TV and movies then where the characters were fast witted and smooth and he is kind of the anti of this.

I enjoyed the portrayal of the cruise officers. They were taking none of it much like the police in the previous episodes but there was something more. Verbally and intellectually Kolchak was not a match for them.

Some were commenting on how ‘unrealistic’ it is that all these monsters were showing up in Chicago. I guess they heard you because the last two episodes have been elsewhere. This is one thing that has never bothered me in my TV viewing because it is just the nature of any show. Murder mystery: they have more murders in a season then the town has had in decade Doctor show: more outbreaks in one hospital than the whole U.S. has in a decade. That being said I understand how it can be a pet peeve because this week episode has one of my pet peeves in it about wolves not attacking humans. One person came up with a theory that all wolf attacks must have been due to rabies and another person quoted it and off they go and everyone started stating it as a fact.

Kolchak is not a super hero who with derring-do goes blindly running in where sensible men dare not tread. No he is a man who is afraid and yet rises to the situation, puts himself out there, risks his life to stop his monster of the week. Darren McGavin certainly plays fear well.

I give this one an 8 out of 10

Seems to appear ok. I tried to read the formatting help but it's very long. The old ones don't work like bold or quote, but hopefully that will come with time

I, too, am a refugee from IMDB and a huge Kolchak fan - hopefully this will do; it's the closest thing to what IMDB had, at any rate. There also exists a SubReddit on Kolchak - https://www.reddit.com/r/kolchak/ - please feel free to join Reddit and add content there!

Looks workable. I'll try out a review somewhere and see how it goes. (Hmm, not posting as "Simian Jack". Will have to edit profile later.)

Yes, and I'm not posting as "mad-pac" as I had planned.* (My full name is such a mouthful.) That has something to do with the account configuration. Well, at least I figured how to change the avatar.

What do you guys think of reddit? Should we expand there as well?

• OK, that was fixed, though it's a little confusing.

OK, I'm just gonna say it. I have no idea how to write bold or Italic letters, or embed a picture in my message. I guess I have to learn HTML. Been trying. Does anybody have some simple answers for that?

Cheers jpowell180. I'm watching Kolchak for the first time and enjoying it so far. We are working our way through the series each week as a group. Please add your thoughts about the episodes if you feel like it.

mad-pac - how did you change things. This is gonna sound like such a small thing but when I signed up my phone lower cased my name, I want it to be Cloister56 but it won't let me change my username. I've emailed the organiser but he hasn't responded yet. If I ever disappear briefly that is why.

mad, I saw someone else discussing formatting. We'll have to learn either HTML or Markdown. These links were offered:

Markdown - Wikipedia

Fireball: Markdown

Now, if those show up as links then I might be able to bet the hang of this. I followed the Markdown example for links in the Wikipedia page. The second gives me a headache just looking at it.

At least we can edit our posts, but I hope they upgrade to let us preview. Oh, spellcheck , that's helpful!

Cheers for that Jeff, the markdown one seems to work for bold bit strange though

@Simian Jack - Thanks. I only asked after trying a few times. I've managed to place links for pictures, but not embed the picture in the message. When the picture appears in an html text, the picture is saved in the same folder as html file. Which is not the case here, as we have to link it to some place else. I'm starting to think posting a link to the picture is all we can do.

Hey guys. Mind if I lurk here through this series and join back in on your next one here?

@BobPeters61 - Sure, by all means. Feel at home and get comfortable.

No need to wait. Jump right in. We are still over at IMDB for the Firefall episode. There is no problem with jumping in the middle of a show. The more the merrier.

BobP, please do join in any time! Are you bob-402-252005 from the original Sages?