• 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)
    • 26. Episode #172

      04 Mar '92
      New reports on a rash of Northern California pizza-restaurant robberies; the reunion of a millionaire and his daughter; and a fugitive's arrest in Colorado for kidnapping and murder. Repeat segments include U.S. intelligence reports suggesting there were survivors of a spy plane shot down over Laos in 1973; and the search for a fugitive con artist.
    • 27. Episode #173

      11 Mar '92
      Segments include ghostly goings-on at a New Mexico hotel, and hauntings experienced by a couple who moved to a 109-year old Florida mansion. Also: an update on the arrest in Roanoke, Va., of a man who posed as a doctor to steal from patients. (Repeat)
    • 28. Episode #174

      18 Mar '92
      Reports on the search for a Houston millionaire suspected of hiring two men to have his former lover killed; the mystery of a seemingly destitute Oregon woman, who left a $100,000 estate when she died in 1991; the reunion of a British Columbia man with his family.
    • 29. Episode #175

      25 Mar '92
      ""The Diabolical Mind"" includes profiles of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein; an interview with a convicted killer; and an examination of two chilling murder cases. (Repeat)
    • 30. Episode #176

      01 Apr '92
      A new segment reports on a mysterious malady that has claimed the lives of six members of a Northern California family. Updates include the Alabama apprehension of a fugitive who reportedly murdered his estranged wife and her co-worker in 1988.
    • 31. Episode #177

      08 Apr '92
      IRS and FBI efforts to stop a medical-investment scam operated by a team of con artists; the murders of two Swedish women vacationers, discovered in 1983 by deer hunters near Santa Barbara; a 17-year-old disappearance case, stumbled upon by a rock climber.
    • 32. Episode #178

      15 Apr '92
      A report on a wealthy Phoenix woman who was found shot to death in her home in 1988. Also: repeat segments on law enforcement's case of psychics to solve cases, the search for a New Hampshire lawyer who embezzled from his clients and an amnesia victim who lost 16 years of her life because of a stroke.
    • 33. Episode #179

      22 Apr '92
      Reports on a $1 million armored-car robbery in Vallejo, Cal., that left three employees dead; and a tip from an Oregon cop leading to the arrest of a Las Vegas woman wanted for forgery. Repeat segments include an unsolved 1985 murder-extortion plot in Denver.
    • 34. Episode #180

      29 Apr '92
      Reports on the 1989 assault and murder in Louisiana of a 26-year-old Milwaukee woman; the 1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas, woman at a car wash; an adventurer's discovery of a formation on Turkey's Mount Ararat believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark.
    • 35. Episode #181

      06 May '92
      A report on a case of mistaken identity that claimed a Phoenix man's life includes talks with experts who think the intended target was a reporter probing a murder case. Also: the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old boy at his Long Beach, N.Y., school dormitory; an $11 million armored-car heist; an adopted woman's search for her twin brother.
    • 36. Episode #182

      13 May '92
      Reports on a man's seven-year attempt to regain custody of his son; and the Texas arrest of a Tennessee woman who allegedly murdered her aunt and uncle. Also: repeat segments on the search for perpetrators of evangelist mail bombings; the hunt for a Fort Pierce, Fla., con-artist team.
    • 37. Episode #183

      17 May '92
      Reports in this expanded edition include the search for the killer of an elderly Washburn, Texas, man. Also: repeat segments on a Virginia man whose investigation into UFO sightings threatened his credibility; an Oregon bank teller who helped identify a career bank robber; new evidence in the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
    • 38. Episode #184

      20 May '92
      New segments on claims of a murder coverup in two boys' deaths in a blazing shack; and a woman's reunion with her surrogate family with whom she lived during the Depression. Repeat segments: UFO sightings over Belgium, discussed by reported witnesses, the police and military personnel.
    • 39. Episode #185

      27 May '92
      A report on the capture of a fugitive after his escape from a prison ward at a Chicago hospital. Also: repeat segment on the search for a reported homeless woman who may stand to inherit $100,000; the disappearance and subsequent death of a Madison, Wis., man.
    • 40. Episode #186

      03 Jun '92
      An update on a Tennessee man's reunion with members of a family to whom he gave refuge during the Depression. Also: repeat reports on a Georgia man's search for his brother following a 1990 boating accident; the mystery of a caretaker who squandered the riches of an elderly widow.
    • 41. Episode #187

      10 Jun '92
      Segments on an abusive grandmother who reportedly kidnapped her 2-year-old grandson; a man's search for his missing brother, who he suspects is a POW in Vietnam; two women in Manitoba who are searching for their estranged sister. (Repeat)
    • 42. Episode #188

      17 Jun '92
      Reports on the arrest of a woman charged with kidnapping her 9-year-old son; the murderous aftermath of a Durant, Okla., jail escape by two killers; the murder of a Phoenix millionairess. (Repeat)
    • 43. Episode #189

      24 Jun '92
      A new segment reports on a man's reunion with his daughter, ending a 43-year search for his only living relative, to whom he plans to bequeath an estate worth more than $1 million. Repeat segments include the disappearance of a Scottsdale, Ariz., bank-fraud investigator.
    • 44. Episode #190

      01 Jul '92
      A report on the arrest in Vermont of a Florida man wanted for a deadly hit-and-run. Repeat segments include a New York con game using state-lottery tickets; and the efforts of a Minnesota man, convicted of murdering his wife, to prove his innocence.
    • 45. Episode #191

      08 Jul '92
      This expanded edition reports on the FBI arrest of a fugitive in Commerce City, Colo.; the search for 17 tons of gold bullion buried since the 1930s atop a mesa in New Mexico; a suspected military coverup in the 1989 death of a Marine Corps captain; a reporter's undercover search for an Ohio serial killer.
    • 46. Episode #192

      15 Jul '92
      Segments on the search for a Houston millionaire who reportedly hired two men to kill his former lover; a seemingly destitute Oregon woman who died and left a $100,000 estate; a series of late-night disappearances of women at Florida-area convenience stores. (Repeat)
    • 47. Episode #193

      22 Jul '92
      Reports on IRS and FBI efforts to stop a medical-investment scheme; the murders of two vacationing Swedish women, discovered in 1983 by deer hunters near Santa Barbara; a woman's claims that her son's death in a blazing shack was a murder coverup. (Repeat)
    • 48. Episode #194

      12 Aug '92
      Reports on a botched armored-car heist in Vallejo, Cal., that left three guards dead; a woman's search for the baby she was forced to give up for adoption 27 years ago; a rock climber's grisly discovery that reopened a 17-year-old murder case. (Repeat)
    • 49. Episode #195

      19 Aug '92
      Among the segments is an update on two hitchhikers who may have information on a suspect in an unsolved Texas murder. Also: repeat reports, including the case of mistaken identity that claimed the life of a Phoenix computer draftsman in May 1990.
    • 50. Episode #196

      26 Aug '92
      Updates include the reunion of a family of Ojibwa sisters from Manitoba, Canada; the 1991 prison release of a Hillsboro, Mo., woman. Also: repeat reports on the search for a truck driver who kidnapped a woman in Clinton, Mo.; and a mysterious medical condition that claimed the lives of six family members.