Is a love story always necessary? Sometimes a good love story really makes a film and television show, and sometimes it just hinders the experience. Was Cheers a better series because of Sam and Diane's will-they-or-won't-they dynamic, or would the show have been just as memorable without any romance?

For Darren McGavin, on-screen romances often got in the way of what was truly important: Hunting monsters.

McGavin spoke about his show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, during an interview with The Cincinnati Enquirer. In the interview, McGavin called Kolchak "terrific." "He really is a man out of his time," said McGavin.

It makes sense for a man out of his time to have no time for any sort of silly romance throughout the series.

It's important to understand that Kolchak hasn't always been happily single; in one of the films that preceded the series, The Night Stalker, for a time, the reporter did have a girlfriend.

However, by the time the series rolled around, McGavin had changed his tune about the character's love life. "We're not doing any more warm and human shows," the actor said. "I'm so bored with private eyes being attracted by females! I have no love interest in this!"

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With less time focused on love, McGavin felt it was his duty to focus on the more spooky, supernatural elements of the show. "Hopefully, we'll attack those primeval fears within all of us," he said. "I'm sitting at the top of it to make sure it works. Nobody knows as much about this as I do."

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