• Air date: 22 Sep '93 52 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 (52)
    • 26. Episode #281

      16 Mar '94
      Reports on near-death experiences include widows ""visited"" by their late husbands; tips that ended the search for missing siblings; the hunt for a gunman who killed a Jewish community leader in 1990; a Los Angeles collector's search for an heirloom bible's owners.
    • 27. Episode #282

      23 Mar '94
      The search for a suspected murderer who reportedly harassed the victim's family and friends; a Los Angeles collector's search for owners of an heirloom Bible; the manhunt for the murderer of a computer salesman's fiancee in Marietta, Ga.
    • 28. Episode #283

      30 Mar '94
      Segments include reports on a 1917 solar phenomenon known as the ""Fatima Miracle,"" supposedly witnessed by crowds in Portugal; a Nebraska choir miraculously spared in a church explosion; the 1992 disappearance of three persons from a store. (Repeat)
    • 29. Episode #284

      03 Apr '94
      Reports include the healing powers of water in Lourdes, France; viewer tips leading to an Idaho man's reunion with his family; the hunt for the killer of a San Jose man murdered on the highway in front of his date in 1991; and the search for paintings by American artist Ben Stahl. (Repeat)
    • 30. Episode #285

      06 Apr '94
      Reports include the 1986 disappearance of a Morro Bay, Cal., man, whose wife was murdered in 1982. Also: repeat segments on the hunt for a fugitive health-care worker; an update on a German Air Force officer's search for his biological father.
    • 31. Episode #286

      13 Apr '94
      Segments include instances of cures reportedly achieved by the laying on of hands; and a Vietnam veteran's search for the Army comrade who saved his life on the battlefield.
    • 32. Episode #287

      27 Apr '94
      Segments include a $7 million hidden treasure, reportedly buried in New York in 1933 by gangster Dutch Schultz; a couple who in 1993 became victims of a gunman in a Marietta, GA., hotel room; a 1988 child abduction; the Texas murder of a woman and her 5-year-old.
    • 33. Episode #288

      04 May '94
      Reports on near-death experiences include a Seattle doctor's studies of widows who have reportedly been ""visited"" by their late husbands, and the case of a mother's after-death ""visit"" with her deceased 18-year-old daughter. Also: a man's reunion with a childhood friend; a woman's search for her birth father.
    • 34. Episode #289

      11 May '94
      A report on the 1973 murder of a Massachusetts prison inmate, believed by some to have been the Boston Strangler (suspected of the murders of 13 women in the 1960s). Also: a man's search for a half-sister he only recently discovered he had.
    • 35. Episode #290

      25 May '94
      Segments on this expanded edition include high-tech investigations into reported Bigfoot sightings in the Pacific Northwest; so-called ""angelic"" encounters; viewer tips leading to the arrest of a murder suspect.
    • 36. Episode #291

      31 May '94
      Reports include the search in Canada and the U.S for a child killer and molester; Florida authorities' search for a woman who disappeared after the 1992 murder or her boyfriend; the hunt for a suspect in the 1990 kidnapping of a bank executive. (Repeat)
    • 37. Episode #292

      08 Jun '94
      The 1984 murder of a policeman's 7-year-old son; the search for the heir to a $150,000 estate; the search for a man believed to have survived a 1991 boat wreck in Mexico; and a woman's meeting with the good Samaritan who pulled her from a burning car. (Repeat)
    • 38. Episode #293

      15 Jun '94
      An update on an adoptee's search for her identity and for the family who found her as an infant; a report on the 1932 discovery in Wyoming of a small mummified human; a series of Mississippi jail deaths being probed by the U.S. Attorney General's Office. (Repeat)
    • 39. Episode #294

      22 Jun '94
      Reports include a mysterious letter writer who seems to be guiding a woman's search to find her missing son; efforts to find a man who disappeared in 1986, four years after his wife was murdered; and viewer tips leading to arrests. (Repeat)
    • 40. Episode #295

      29 Jun '94
      Reports on pets being reunited with their owners; a man who tracks top-secret military aircraft; the disappearance of a scuba diver near the Mississippi River gulf outlet; and the suspected murder of a man. (Repeat)
    • 41. Episode #296

      06 Jul '94
      A viewer tip leading to the identification of a comatose man, injured in 1992; a man's reunion with a childhood friend he meat at an orphanage in 1956; a woman on an international search for her only daughter; and the hunt for killers of a woman and her 5-year-old son near Dallas. (Repeat)
    • 42. Episode #297

      13 Jul '94
      Segments include South Chicago residents' reported sightings of the ghost of a woman killed in 1934; an update on a former South Vietnam Air Force officer's search for his American daughter; the hunt for a robbery duo who target grocery stores. (Repeat)
    • 43. Episode #298

      20 Jul '94
      Segments include a Florida mother's search for her daughter; a high-school senior who disappeared in 1974; and Coloradans who were bilked out of some $1 million. (Repeat)
    • 44. Episode #299

      27 Jul '94
      Reports of mothers' psychic links to their children; the harassment of a murdered Jewish community leader's family and friends; the investigation into an alleged auto insurance-fraud ring; a Los Angeles collector's search for owners of an heirloom Bible. (Repeat)
    • 45. Episode #300

      31 Jul '94
      Reports on this expanded edition include eerie phenomena witnessed by Stroudsburg, Pa., residents and prison guards at the Monroe County correctional facility; threats against an elderly Ohio couple; the reunion of two childhood friends; the disappearance 50 years ago of a Navy blimp's crew in the San Francisco Bay Area; the 1988 abduction and murder of a 7-year-old Midlothian, Ill., girl.
    • 46. Episode #301

      03 Aug '94
      Reports on therapeutic healing; the search for bank robbers; the 1993 arrest of a burglary suspect in Santa Fe, N.M.; the search for a Memphis-based real-estate executive who disappeared in 1993. (Repeat)
    • 47. Episode #302

      10 Aug '94
      Segments include a $7 million hidden treasure, reportedly buried in New York in the 1930s by gangster Dutch Schultz; an update on a brother and sister's search for their father; the search for a gunman who held a couple at gunpoint in a hotel room. (Repeat)
    • 48. Episode #303

      17 Aug '94
      Reports on two cousins who disappeared three years apart--one in Arizona and the other in Arkansas; viewer tips leading to the 1993 arrest of a fugitive in Carlsbad, Cal.; the 1990 disappearance and suspected murder of a Rhode Island woman. (Repeat)
    • 49. Episode #304

      24 Aug '94
      A report on the 1973 murder of a Massachusetts inmate believed to have been the Boston Strangler, a man suspected of 13 women in the 1960s. Also: a man's search for the half-sister he only recently discovered he had. (Repeat)
    • 50. Episode #305

      31 Aug '94
      Reports include unexplained encounters with angels; a woman's quest to find her missing husband. Also: a man who disappeared in 1993 while scuba diving near the entrance to the Mississippi River gulf outlet. (Repeat)