• Air date: 18 Sep '91 54 episodes
      Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack from 1987 until 2002 and later by Dennis Farina starting in 2008. In addition, TV presenter Keely Shaye Smith and actress Virginia Madsen contributed greatly to its success. Keely Shaye played the role of a reporter from the confines of an office interacting with Stack and responding to questions for further information. In this capacity, she was a welcomed addition to the cast and revered tremendously by Stack, who would "cut to" her for more detailed information. Academy-award-winning actress Virginia Madsen's contribution to the show included performing in Stack's role as announcer for several years. It was broadcast first as specials in 1987, then as a regular series on NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Spike. Lifetime once again airs the revived version of the series, but only in reruns. Although the show is not in current production, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions maintains a website for the show, featuring popular accounts...
  • List of Episodes (54)
    • 1. Episode #147

      18 Sep '91
      Beginning a fourth season: U.S. military officers discuss a 1980 sighting of an unidentified flying craft near a U.S. air base in England. Also: the murders of two Texas teens reportedly involved with a cult; a Nashville, Tenn., woman's discovery about her parentage.
    • 2. Episode #148

      25 Sep '91
      New theories in the death of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; the disappearance of a 65-year-old man with no past; and the search for a convicted child abuser.
    • 3. Episode #149

      02 Oct '91
      Reports: an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; the controversy surrounding the Shroud Of Turin.
    • 4. Episode #150

      09 Oct '91
      The hunt for a suspected serial killer who's been stalking women in Connecticut since 1981; the search of Florida siblings for their twin brother and sister, who were adopted as infants; the first-time meeting of a father and his 32-year-old daughter.
    • 5. Episode #151

      16 Oct '91
      U.S. intelligence reports suggesting that there were survivors of a spy plane shot down over Laos in 1973; the search for a fugitive con artist who defrauded the elderly out of millions; a West Virginia woman's reunion with her twin sister's four sons.
    • 6. Episode #152

      23 Oct '91
      Reports on suspicions surrounding the disappearance of an Oregon police officer's son; an Indiana man's search for a friend and father figure of 20 years ago; the hunt for a man who reportedly murdered his estranged wife and her co-worker in front of witnesses; the recovery of a Maryland amnesia victim.
    • 7. Episode #153

      30 Oct '91
      Segments include reports of ghostly goings-on at a New Mexico hotel, and hauntings experienced by a couple who moved to a 109 year old Florida mansion last year. Also: the search for a con man who poses as a doctor to steal jewelry, coins and computers.
    • 8. Episode #154

      03 Nov '91
      This special edition focuses on what producers call ""the diabolical mind."" Included: profiles of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein; an interview with a convicted murderer.
    • 9. Episode #155

      06 Nov '91
      Reports on a case of past-life regression; the search for a couple reportedly involved in a Christmastime fraud escapade; a 1985 murder-extortion plot in Denver; the disappearances of Florida convenience-store workers.
    • 10. Episode #156

      10 Nov '91
      A repeat report on crime fighter Eliot Ness's efforts to solve the case of a 1930s Cleveland serial killer. Also: new reports on law enforecement's use of psychics to solve cases; an investigation into the death of a North Dakota woman; and a Maryland amnesia victim.
    • 11. Episode #157

      13 Nov '91
      Included: a woman's search for the police officer who risked his job to free her from an unjust sentence; new evidence in the case of a mother jailed for the death of her son; the hunt for a Fort Pierce, Fla., con-artist team who reportedly committed murder.
    • 12. Episode #158

      20 Nov '91
      UFO sightings over Belgium are discussed by reported witnesses, the police and military personnel. Also: the disappearance of a Michigan company president, charged with embezzlement; questions surrounding a police chief's death.
    • 13. Episode #159

      27 Nov '91
      Reports on the FBI arrest of a fugitive in Commerce City, Colo.; a possible military coverup in the 1989 death of a Marine Corps captain; the search for a Florida church arsonist; the discovery by two women that they are sisters and a report on an impostor.
    • 14. Episode #160

      04 Dec '91
      Reports on the murderous aftermath of Durant, Okla., jail escape by two killers; the suspicious death of a man who squandered an elderly widow's money; two brothers' search for the mother they haven't seen in 42 years; the abduction of a 6-year-old boy.
    • 15. Episode #161

      11 Dec '91
      Reports: a con game using state lottery tickets that took in millions of dollars in New York state alone; the search for a homeless person who may stand to inherit $100,000; a former runaway's search for three of her nine estranged siblings.
    • 16. Episode #162

      18 Dec '91
      Segments on an abusive grandmother who reportedly kidnapped her 2-year old grandson; a convicted murderer who claims he's innocent in his wife's 1983 murder; a fugitive's capture outside Birmingham, Ala; and two Ojibwa sisters from Manitoba who are searching for their estraged sister.
    • 17. Episode #163

      25 Dec '91
      U.S. military officers discuss a 1980 UFO sighting near a U.S. air base in England. Other segments include the murders of two Texas teens reportedly involved with a cult. (Repeat)
    • 18. Episode #164

      08 Jan '92
      Repeat segments on new theories in the death of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; and the disappearance of a 65-year-old man with no past. Also: viewer tips leading to the arrest of a fugitive child molester.
    • 19. Episode #165

      16 Jan '92
      Reports on the 1988 disappearance of a Washington State student who picked up a hitchhiker and was never seen again; a Georgia man's search for his brother, who he suspects is still alive following a 1990 boating accident; the search for a ""love child"" who stands to inherit $24 million.
    • 20. Episode #166

      22 Jan '92
      Repeat reports on the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the controversy surrounding the Shroud of Turin; and the search for the husband of a murdered Rochester, N.Y., woman.
    • 21. Episode #167

      29 Jan '92
      Reports on a Tennessee man's search for a family to whom he gave refuge during the Depression; the homicide death of a North Dakota woman previously thought to have died in a car fire; and the search for a fugitive who escaped from a hospital prison ward.
    • 22. Episode #168

      05 Feb '92
      Reports on the disappearance of a Scottsdale, Ariz., bank-fraud investigator who had probed money laundering; a mother-daughter financial scheme; the FBI search for a mother who reportedly kidnapped her son to raise him in a fundamentalist sect.
    • 23. Episode #169

      12 Feb '92
      A report (postponed from last week) on a clever mother-daughter financial scheme; evidence that some claim substantiates the existence of the elusive Big Foot; the hunt for a Florida man wanted in connection with hit-and-run homicides.
    • 24. Episode #170

      19 Feb '92
      Reports in this expanded edition include a Virginia man whose investigation of UFO sightings threatened his credibility; a Columbus, Ohio, reporter who went undercover in a search of a trucker responsible for murdering prostitutes; a repeat segment detailing new evidence in the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Also: an Oregon bank teller who helped identify a career bank robber; a haunted New Jersey mansion; and viewer tips leading to the apprehension of three fugitives.
    • 25. Episode #171

      26 Feb '92
      The hunt for suspects in a slick Henderson, Nev., bank robbery; the search for a woman who murdered her aunt and uncle near Chattanooga, Tenn., and stole their savings; an Abilene, Texas, children's aid center whose adoption records were lost.