 In a newsroom scene in the pilot, the image of Darren McGavin (the  original Kolchak from the 1970s movies and TV series) can be seen  standing at one of the desks, dressed as the 1970s Kolchak, chatting  with one of the reporters. This image was digitally sampled from an  episode of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (1974) (qv) and placed into  the scene.