Unsolved Mysteries
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Logo from 2008 revival
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| Created by | John Cosgrove Terry Dunn Meurer |
| Starring |
Robert Stack (1987–2002) Virginia Madsen (co-host, 1999) Dennis Farina (2008–2010) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 14 |
| No. of episodes | 572 (plus 7 specials)(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John Cosgrove Terry Dunn Meurer |
| Producer(s) | Raymond Bridgers Stuart Schwartz (1991–present) Jim Lindsay (1997–1999 and 2001–2002) |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Cosgrove-Meurer Productions |
| Distributor |
Buena Vista Television (1987–2002) HBO Distribution (2008–present) FilmRise (2016–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NBC (1987–1997) CBS (1997–1999) Lifetime (2001–2002) Spike (2008–2010) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release |
NBC: January 20, 1987 – September 5, 1997 CBS: November 13, 1997 – June 11, 1999 Lifetime: July 2, 2001 – September 20, 2002 Spike: October 13, 2008 – April 27, 2010 |
| Website | |
Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack from 1987 to 2002 and later by Dennis Farina starting in 2008. The show was broadcast first as specials in 1987, then as a regular series on NBC (1988–1997), CBS (1997–1999), Lifetime (2001–2002), and Spike (2008–2010). Lifetime once again airs the revived version of the series, but only in reruns.
Although the show is not in production, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions maintains a website for the show, featuring popular accounts and ongoing cold cases (murder or missing persons), with a link to an online form should a viewer have information on an unsolved crime.
As of 2017, the show maintains a YouTube page where viewers can submit their own mysteries. If accepted, Unsolved Mysteries posts a video of the viewer describing the mystery.
FilmRise acquired worldwide digital distribution rights to the series and announced its intent to release updated versions of its episodes in 2017. As of March 2017, the Spike TV revival episodes are currently streaming on Amazon Prime as well as the first three seasons of the original Robert Stack incarnation. Further seasons are expected to be added at a later date.
Unsolved Mysteries used a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries and featured re-enactments of unsolved crimes, missing persons cases, conspiracy theories and unexplained paranormal phenomena (alien abductions, ghosts, UFOs, and "secret history" theories).
The concept was created in a series of three specials produced by John Cosgrove and Terry-Dunn Meurer, which were pitched to NBC in 1985 and shown in 1986 with the title, "Missing... Have You Seen This Person?" The success of the specials led Cosgrove and Meurer to broaden the program to include mysteries of all kinds.
The pilot of what eventually became Unsolved Mysteries was a special that aired on NBC on January 20, 1987 with Raymond Burr as host/narrator. Throughout the 1987-1988 television season, six more specials aired, the first two hosted by Karl Malden and the final four by Robert Stack.
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