This is actually reflective of the proposed pilot episode of the original show. The Netflix revival of the show has no host and depends solely on interviews to tell the story.Other celebrities, including Jon Bon Jovi and Reggie White, were interviewed on the show regarding cases that were close to them.Matthew McConaughey, Taran Killam, David Ramsey, Hill Harper, and Daniel Dae Kim are just a few of the names that have shown up in the credits of the show. Several actors got their start by playing characters in the show’s reenactments of the crimes/cases portrayed.It has a website that is still live and used for tips today. As technology moved forward, so did the show. Even in the first season, tips called in from around the country helped locate suspects and solve cases. When the show began, the internet wasn’t yet prevalent, so they set up a caller hotline so people who saw the show could leave tips if they had information to share.

It is the same music that plays during the intro of the Netflix revival of the show. The song has had different arrangements throughout the show’s history, but has never been replaced.

Its theme song was the soundtrack to my nightmares and was composed by Michael Boyd and Gary Remal Malkin.

Today you can even find original episodes through YouTube, FilmRise, Pluto TV, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

In addition to the four main host networks, several other networks paid for syndication of the show. Two years and 175 episodes later, Spike gave it up too. Six years later, a fourth network laid claim to the concept and Spike TV revived the show with a new host.When he eventually passed away, the network didn’t try to replace him, they simply cancelled the show. Lifetime picked up the show’s last season, ending when Robert Stack fell ill and could no longer host. The series was dropped by NBC, but picked up by CBS in 1997 where it ran for two seasons before being dropped.It is his voice most of us remember creeping us out as youngsters. By the fall of 1988, the show was green-lit at a full fledged series with Robert Stack at the full-time host.The specials were split between three different hosts, including Robert Stack. It actually started as a series of seven specials that premiered on NBC beginning in January of 1987.So here are 10 Things About Unsolved Mysteries: Partly because I thought it would be fun for those of us who watched it way back in the day, and partly because it’s time for me to write this month’s post and other than this I got nothin’. Now that it’s being revived on Netflix, I thought I’d share some info about the show in general. And this is from a kid who was of the generation where Tales from the Crypt was considered a perfectly normal and acceptable kids’ show. And also the creepiest television show in the history of ever. Any interesting cold case the show could get its hands on. It doesn’t sound like much, but it was a show about missing persons cases, unsolved homicides, even paranormal stuff. But at night when the soap operas were done for the day and my grandmother didn’t much care for most of the contemporary sitcoms, I remember getting to watch Unsolved Mysteries. She and her maid loved to watch their stories, and heaven help the person who interrupted All My Children. My grandmother had a small television set up in her family room, so she could see it while she cleaned or worked in the kitchen. But for us, it was all there was unless we went to our grandparents’ house “in town”. This was in the late 1980s and very early 1990s, so it was not the norm for people who didn’t live out in the boondocks. When I was a very young child, my family lived out on a farm.

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