I've seen Night Strangler many times since 1973 (on TV, VHS, and DVD) and have never seen the Tobias scene. If it does exist, thought . . . McGavin often called The X-Files a rip-off of Night Stalker, and I didn't agree, because there have been other vampire-ghost-monster hunters before XF. If you see the XF episodes "Stretch" and "Toombs" you'll understand McGavin better, however. Cannibalistic mutant Eugene Toombs emerges every thirty years to kill five victims -- certainly like "Strangler". But Mulder and Scully locate an old, retired detective who worked on the murder set of 30 years earlier and interview him in a retirement facility.
A couple of years after seeing that XF, I heard of the "Strangler" missing scene. "Holy Crap! That really was a rip-off!" I cried. If it exists . . .
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