Dark Intruder: One of the Most Influential Unsold Pilots Universal Ever Made

TVC 529.1: A return visit by sci-fi screenwriter and sci-fi and fantasy film historian Gary Gerani. Gary provides commentary for the Blu-ray release of Dark Intruder, a horror/thriller/fantastical type movie starring Leslie Nielsen and Peter Mark Richman. Released in theaters in 1965, Dark Intruder was actually conceived by Universal as a pilot for The Black Cloak, a prospective TV series about an intrepid investigator who specializes in crimes involving the occult. While Dark Intruder never materialized as a series, it paved the way for other Universal TV explorations of the occult and the supernatural, including Fear No Evil, Ritual of Evil, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, The Sixth Sense, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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