• Air date: 25 Sep '94 40 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 (40)
    • 1. Episode #308

      25 Sep '94
      A seventh season opens with reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man creature, once exhibited at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; coincidences linking adoptees with their birth families; the probe into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953.
    • 2. Episode #309

      02 Oct '94
      Segments include a real-life team of ghostbusters who track paranormal evidence in top-secret cases of hauntings; information suggesting that an alleged international drug kingpin may have faked his own death; treasure hunters who claim that a Southern California park may be a burial ground for treasures.
    • 3. Episode #310

      09 Oct '94
      Reports include efforts calling for the beatification of an ordained priest (born in 1904) who, some say, performed miraculous cures prior to his death in 1957. Also: evidence suggesting that Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was not shot by Union soldiers, but instead lived under aliases until 1903.
    • 4. Episode #311

      14 Oct '94
      Reports on a man's search for his son, who disappeared in 1991 from an adult-care facility; the arrest of a fugitive outside of a Boise truck stop; studies of twins separated at birth; and a family's search for a wife and mother who disappeared some 14 years ago.
    • 5. Episode #312

      21 Oct '94
      ""Mysteries of the Afterlife"" are explored in reports on a man who was struck by lightning and recovered with new-found psychic powers; a woman who, according to loved ones, ""came back"" to them after her death; and members of a family who claim that their neighborhood is haunted.
    • 6. Episode #313

      28 Oct '94
      Reports include video footage of alleged UFO sightings that occured over Mexico City in 1991 during a solar eclipse; a fugitive's arrest in Cobb County, Ga.; the 1992 murder of a man who was asleep in his vehicle; and the search for a missing Rhode Island couple.
    • 7. Episode #314

      11 Nov '94
      This expanded edition celebrates the reunion of a GI and the comrade who saved his life in Vietnam. Other segments include anonymous letters threatening residents of central Ohio; the brief 1926 disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie; a 1988 prison escape.
    • 8. Episode #315

      02 Dec '94
      The disappearance of an American sea captain and his crew from a Europe-bound ship found abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic; a viewer tip leading to the reunion of a woman and her birth mother; a woman's career as a police psychic.
    • 9. Episode #316

      09 Dec '94
      Reports include evidence that a U.S. soldier, missing in action in Vietnam, may still be alive and in hiding. Also: a viewer tip that helps a woman search for the family that found her as an infant; a woman's claim that she was visited by her late father.
    • 10. Episode #317

      16 Dec '94
      Segments include the 1991 murder of a teenage girl in Ramsey, Ill.; a private investigator's tip leading to the reunion of two sisters; a so-called ""walking apparition"" reportedly seen in southwest Arkansas.
    • 11. Episode #318

      23 Dec '94
      Holiday segments include a Christmas Eve miracle for a couple and their gravely ill baby. Also: repeat segments on efforts calling for the beatification of a priest who some say performed miraculous cures; the search by a Hungarian refugee family for the U.S. serviceman who aided them after World War II; and a family's reunion with missing siblings.
    • 12. Episode #319

      06 Jan '95
      Included: new evidence uncovered by a forensic pathologist in the death of a college student; the search for a suspect accused of bilking senior citizens; a man's search for his younger brother.
    • 13. Episode #320

      13 Jan '95
      Reports include a planned salvaging expedition in the San Francisco Bay area to find a World War II enemy submarine; a woman's search for the family who found her as an infant; a man's search for justice in the 1991 murder of his daughter and son-in-law; the work of forensic scientists and police psychics.
    • 14. Episode #321

      20 Jan '95
      An Italian priest thought to have supernatural powers; the 1988 death of a Cook County sheriff's captain whose family and co-workers believe he was targeted for murder.
    • 15. Episode #322

      03 Feb '95
      An episode about the paranormal includes a story about a woman's electrical psychokinetic powers; a ""psychic vision"" surrounding the 1980 disappearance and murder of a young nurse in Pacoima (Cal.); and a man who claims proof of life after death.
    • 16. Episode #323

      10 Feb '95
      Reports include the search for suspects in a 1988 Kansas City, Mo., construction-site fire that killed six firefighters; the manhunt for a fugitive who may be hiding out in Florida or the Caribbean; an Army lieutenant's search for his double, whom he first encountered in 1994.
    • 17. Episode #324

      17 Feb '95
      Reports include a woman's search for information about the 15 American flyers she aided in Czechoslovakia during World War II; the search for a missing Ft. Bragg, Cal., woman; the police manhunt surrounding a nurse's 1993 murder; an Arizona woman's reunion with her birth mother.
    • 18. Episode #325

      24 Feb '95
      Segments include a profile of a self-proclaimed ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who attempts to spread the message of life after death in his paintings. Also: a man's war experience as a youngster in 1944; a hospital escape.
    • 19. Episode #326

      03 Mar '95
      Reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man exhibit at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; the investigation into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953. (Repeat)
    • 20. Episode #327

      17 Mar '95
      A new report on a 1994 prison escape and the same-day disappearance of a warden's wife; and repeat segments on three inmates who escaped from Alcatraz 33 years ago and may still be alive.
    • 21. Episode #328

      24 Mar '95
      Reports include a self-proclaimed ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who spreads the message of life-after-death in his paintings; the 1994 apprehension of a fugitive in Cobb County, Ga.; a boy's experiences during World War II; the 1992 disappearance of a waitress.
    • 22. Episode #329

      31 Mar '95
      ""Mysteries of Alien Beings"" reports on four men who say they were abducted by aliens while on a fishing trip in Maine, and includes research by psychiatrist John Mack. Also: a physicist's claim that he worked on a captured extraterrestrial spacecraft at a top-secret U.S. Air Force testing center. (Repeat)
    • 23. Episode #330

      07 Apr '95
      A new report details the FBI's search for suspected arsonists. Also: repeat segments on the search for a Redwood City, Cal., woman whose husband was poisoned; a fraud scam on a retired judge.
    • 24. Episode #331

      14 Apr '95
      A new report examines puzzling circumstances surrounding a couple's death. Also: repeat segments include video footage of reported UFO sightings over Mexico City in 1991.
    • 25. Episode #332

      21 Apr '95
      Mysteries of the afterlife are explored in reports on a man who was struck by lightning and recovered with new-found psychic powers; a woman who, according to loved ones, ""came back"" to them after her death. (Repeat)