Unsolved Mysteries (1988)
Synopsis
Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with tips to help solve the cases.
First Air Date: 1988-10-05
Last Air Date: 2010-04-27
Number of Seasons: 14
Number of Episodes: 736
Created By: John Cosgrove, Terry Dunn Meurer
Networks: Spike, NBC, CBS, Lifetime
Top Cast
- Robert Stack as Host
- Dennis Farina as Host
- Tammy Lynn Leppert as archive footage
- Joe Rodriguez as FBI Agent
- Stephnie Weir as N/A
- Michael Rosen as Neil Markowitz
- John E. Mack as Self - Psychiatrist; Author, Abduction
- Bob Lazar as Self
- Cynthia Windham as Female Bank Robber
- Holly Lorge as Dorothy Johnson's Sister
Seasons
Season 1 (1988)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Episode #1
• Wanted: Dave Davis • Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh" • Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway • Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde • Missing Persons: Dottie Caylor
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Ep. 2: Episode #2
• Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday • Final Appeal: Michael Martin • Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall • Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII Letters
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Ep. 3: Episode #3
• Amnesia: Doreen Picard • Fraud: Louis Carlucci • Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount • Treasure: Beale's Treasure
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Ep. 4: Episode #4
• The Unexplained: The Queen Mary • Wanted: Joe Shepherd • Missing Persons: Gail DeLano
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Ep. 5: Episode 5
• Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper • Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount" • Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives • Fraud: Dennis Walker
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Ep. 6: Episode #6
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Lost Heirs: Walter Green • Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain • Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"
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Ep. 7: Episode #7
• The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn • Murder: Gretchen Burford • Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Missing Persons: Annie Hearin
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Ep. 8: Episode #8
• Missing Persons: Christi Nichols • Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano" • Wanted: Mark Adams • Fraud: Steven Cox • Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn
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Ep. 9: Episode #9
• Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova • Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis • Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan • The Unexplained: Mystery Rock
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Ep. 10: Episode #10
• Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff • Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives" • The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence • Missing Persons: Rogest Cain
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Ep. 11: Episode #11
• Amnesia: Jenny Pratt • Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd" • Fraud: Jack Quinn • Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts • Wanted: Fumbles
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Ep. 12: Episode #12
• Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier • Missing Persons: Matthew Chase • Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri • Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez
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Ep. 13: Episode #13
• Murder: Lee Selwyn • Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox" • Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum • Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain" • Fraud: Arthur Frankford
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Ep. 14: Episode #14
• Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright • Unexplained Death: John Martin • Lost Heirs: Dan Willans • Wanted: Leo Koury • Wanted: Michaela Garecht • The Unexplained: Tatum House
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Ep. 15: Episode #15
• Wanted: Micki Jo West • Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis" • Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy • The Unexplained: Dorothy Allison
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Ep. 16: Episode #16
• Unexplained Death: Lester Garnier • Updates: "Fraud: Arthur Frankford" • Unexplained Death: Kathy Hobbs • Solved: "Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier" • Lost Loves: Jackie Purintan • Missing Persons: Angelo Desideri
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Ep. 17: Episode #17
• Special: Alcatraz Escape
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Ep. 18: Episode #18
• Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson • Wanted: Michael Mohon • Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado • Lost Heirs: George J. Stein • Unexplained Death: Joyce McLain
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Ep. 19: Episode #19
• Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits • The Unexplained: Near Death Experiences (Kristle Merzlock & Thomas "Tom" Sawyer) • Updates: "Lost Heirs: Dan Willans" • Unexplained Death: Permon Gilbert
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Ep. 20: Episode #20
• Wanted: Donald Smith • Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts • Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri" • Wanted: Charles Mule
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Ep. 21: Episode #21
• Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell • Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine • Missing Persons: Audrey Moate
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Ep. 22: Episode #22
• Wanted: John Mooney • Fraud: Liz Carmichael • Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin" • Unexplained Death: Terri McClure
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Ep. 23: Episode #23
• Unexplained Death: Gus Hoffman • Updates: "Missing Persons: Matthew Chase" • Mysterious Legends: Charles Nungesser & Francois Coli • Unexplained Death: Patsy Wright • Lost Loves: The Families of the S.S. Muskogee Crew
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Ep. 24: Episode #24
• Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure • Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon • Unexplained Death: Dexter Stefonek
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Ep. 25: Episode #25
Reports on the 50-year search for a Native American gold mine in New Mexico; the hunt for a missing South Carolina teenager; and the search for a North Carolina doctor embroiled in a custody battle with his wife.
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Ep. 26: Episode #26
A new segment focuses on a New York family that, according to this report, bilked Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Also: an update on a Tennessee fugitive apprehended in Canada; and repeat segments including UFO sightings.
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Ep. 27: Episode #27
A report on the capture and arrest of an alleged swindler. Also: repeat stories on the search for a missing Nebraska mother; the dragnet for the killers of a Philidelphia child.
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Ep. 28: Episode #28
Included: updates on a Michigan man recently arrested in connection with the murder of his wife; and the apprehension of a California extortion-letter writer. Also: repeat segments on the search for the killers of an Ohio teenager; and puzzling tragedies involving two priests.
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Ep. 29: Episode #29
A report on the reunion of an American World War II veteran and a European refugee which resulted from a viewers tip. Also repeat segments on the slaughter of wild horses in Nevada; markings on the surface of Mars; and the search for the killers of a California teenager.
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Ep. 30: Episode #30
Included: a new report on the capture of an alleged Florida flimflam man. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 15, 1989.
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Ep. 31: Episode #31
Segments include a new report on the capture of an Iowa man charged with stealing from a credit union. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 22, 1989.
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Ep. 32: Episode #32
(repeat of March 1, 1989)
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Ep. 33: Episode #33
A segment on a New York man who, according to this report, escaped after being arrested for bigamy. Also, repeat segments on the search for a missing Wyoming woman; a reportedly haunted gold mine, and a Dutch miner who may have left behind an unclaimed fortune when he died.
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Ep. 34: Episode #34
New reports on the alleged abduction of a Mississippi millionaire and the capture of a Los Angeles man charged with art fraud. Also: repeat segments on a Georgia restaurant owner; the search for the kidnappers of a California girl; works of art stolen from museums.
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Ep. 35: Episode #35
A report on the Pennsylvania search for a child killer; an update on an April report about an Los Angeles man who reportedly swindled investors in a scheme to develop his futuristic Dale car; and a segment on homeless children in the early part of this century.
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Ep. 36: Episode #36
A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.
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Ep. 37: Episode #37
Reports on the reunion of two abducted New Jersey children with their maternal mother; and the search for the strangler of a Washington mother and daughter.
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Ep. 38: Episode #38
A new report on the capture of two suspected fugitives. Also repeat segments on the 1930's New Mexico gold miner and his search for lost treasure; the 1987 murder of a Florida gun collector; one man's search for crewman of a U.S. Merchant Marine vessel believed to have been destroyed by the Germans in World War II.
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