Crackle of Death


Crackle of Death is a 1976 film, the fourth produced in the ' film series.
It combined the ' episodes "" and "" with additional narration by Darren McGavin as Kolchak. It also contains new dialogue by McGavin, Oakland and Grinnage, as well as new "scenes", such as a newspaper on a desk and the image of the Doppelganger being inserted into old footage. The new material was put together in late March 1976.
Before Crackle of Death was a third movie entitled The Demon and The Mummy that combined two more episodes in a similar manner; namely, "" and "".
All four episodes comprising these films were subsequently withdrawn from the original television syndication package. They were not made available in their entirety again until a Columbia House VHS video release in the 1990s. The TV-edited films have never been released on home video.