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I used to love Unsolved Mysteries (and its fantastic “reenactments”) and only just got cable. Overall, would you say it’s worth tuning in for?
OMG, I LOVE Unsolved Mysteries!!!
If I got Spike, I’d watch this new version, just for the updates of the old cases.
I wouldn’t set the DVR for it, but if you’re home in the early evening and want something on while you putter, it’s good.
I may have romanticized the old version, which despite my loving it was really pretty damn bad, but this one is just not as gripping.
Massive fan of the original, for most of the reasons you name. Occasionally I tuned into the Lifetime reruns, but their Hallmark-ification of the graphics and the storylines – suddenly everyone is meeting angels, instead of disappearing or getting killed – sucked the joy out of it.
Too bad. But I have seen some of the DVD sets, and they’re gloriously faithful to the original. I particularly recommend the Ghosts boxed set, in which an evil spirit sets a family’s garage alight in a blaze that looks like screen-printed Spaghetti-Os.
!! I used to love Unsolved Mysteries. The haunted homes and possessions were almost my favorite; that honor is held by the “I lost all my limbs and an eye during The War, and the only thing that kept me from chewing through my I.V. line and ending it all was the kindness of Mysterious Angel Nurse” followed by Stack’s intonation: “Are you the kind nurse who saved this man? If so, please call.” The reunion UPDATE!s were always great, lots of awkward hugs and crying. Awesome!
It seems likely that I’ll be snorfling “… the gusto of a marionette who has just snorted a line of bees” to myself for quite some time. Excellent work!
I loved Unsolved Mysteries too. I was just a young lass of 8 or so when it was in its prime and it would scare the bejesus out of me! My mom’s best friend’s sister was featured on there as a missing person…..she was in a car wreck and witnesses saw her wander off into a cornfield never to be seen again! Her poor family still doesnt know if she is an amnesiac living a new life or what.
Count me among the US faithful – I got hooked on it when I worked from home as a software consultant and Robert Stack was my pretend TV officemate.
Aw, Unsolved Mysteries! I *loved* that show. When I was little my mom and I watched it religiously. The phone number (“…dial 1-800-876-5353”) is permanently burned into my brain in Robert Stack’s voice – those however-many brain cells are doggedly dedicated to remembering that number, and nothing else, forever.
How the hell did I miss that Robert Stack died in 2003, though? Sad! In my mind I still had him in the Still Kickin’ It Club, not on the Sadly No Longer With Us Memorial Wall.
Man, I don’t know, UM used to scare the crap out of me….that music….Robert Stack’s voice………..Rescue 911, now there was a kick-ass-lame-reentactment show! SHATNER!