John Cosgrove
Director
Unsolved Mysteries (1988)
Season 1
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.
Released Oct. 5, 1988
Episode 46 min
13+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Mystery
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Production Companies: Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, Lifetime
Network: Spike
Country: United States
Languages:
English
4.0
S1E1 - Episode #1
• Wanted: Dave Davis
• Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh"
• Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway
• Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde
• Missing Persons: Dottie Caylor
Oct. 5, 1988, midnight
9.0
S1E2 - Episode #2
• Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday
• Final Appeal: Michael Martin
• Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall
• Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII Letters
Oct. 12, 1988, midnight
5.0
S1E3 - Episode #3
• Amnesia: Doreen Picard
• Fraud: Louis Carlucci
• Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount
• Treasure: Beale's Treasure
Oct. 26, 1988, midnight
S1E4 - Episode #4
• The Unexplained: The Queen Mary
• Wanted: Joe Shepherd
• Missing Persons: Gail DeLano
Nov. 2, 1988, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
• Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper
• Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount"
• Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives
• Fraud: Dennis Walker
Nov. 9, 1988, midnight
S1E6 - Episode #6
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Lost Heirs: Walter Green
• Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain
• Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"
Nov. 16, 1988, midnight
S1E7 - Episode #7
• The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn
• Murder: Gretchen Burford
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Missing Persons: Annie Hearin
Nov. 23, 1988, midnight
S1E8 - Episode #8
• Missing Persons: Christi Nichols
• Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano"
• Wanted: Mark Adams
• Fraud: Steven Cox
• Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn
Nov. 30, 1988, midnight
S1E9 - Episode #9
• Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova
• Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis
• Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan
• The Unexplained: Mystery Rock
Dec. 14, 1988, midnight
S1E10 - Episode #10
• Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff
• Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives"
• The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence
• Missing Persons: Rogest Cain
Dec. 21, 1988, midnight
S1E11 - Episode #11
• Amnesia: Jenny Pratt
• Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd"
• Fraud: Jack Quinn
• Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts
• Wanted: Fumbles
Jan. 11, 1989, midnight
S1E12 - Episode #12
• Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier
• Missing Persons: Matthew Chase
• Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri
• Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez
Jan. 18, 1989, midnight
S1E13 - Episode #13
• Murder: Lee Selwyn
• Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox"
• Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain"
• Fraud: Arthur Frankford
Jan. 25, 1989, midnight
S1E14 - Episode #14
• Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright
• Unexplained Death: John Martin
• Lost Heirs: Dan Willans
• Wanted: Leo Koury
• Wanted: Michaela Garecht
• The Unexplained: Tatum House
Feb. 1, 1989, midnight
S1E15 - Episode #15
• Wanted: Micki Jo West
• Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis"
• Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy
• The Unexplained: Dorothy Allison
Feb. 8, 1989, midnight
S1E16 - 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
Feb. 15, 1989, midnight
S1E17 - Episode #17
• Special: Alcatraz Escape
Feb. 22, 1989, midnight
S1E18 - Episode #18
• Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson
• Wanted: Michael Mohon
• Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado
• Lost Heirs: George J. Stein
• Unexplained Death: Joyce McLain
March 1, 1989, midnight
S1E19 - 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
March 1, 1989, midnight
S1E20 - Episode #20
• Wanted: Donald Smith
• Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts
• Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri"
• Wanted: Charles Mule
April 5, 1989, midnight
S1E21 - Episode #21
• Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell
• Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine
• Missing Persons: Audrey Moate
April 12, 1989, midnight
S1E22 - Episode #22
• Wanted: John Mooney
• Fraud: Liz Carmichael
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin"
• Unexplained Death: Terri McClure
April 26, 1989, midnight
S1E23 - 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
May 3, 1989, midnight
S1E24 - Episode #24
• Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure
• Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon
• Unexplained Death: Dexter Stefonek
May 10, 1989, midnight
S1E25 - 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.
May 10, 1989, midnight
S1E26 - 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.
May 17, 1989, midnight
S1E27 - 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.
May 24, 1989, midnight
S1E28 - 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.
May 31, 1989, midnight
S1E29 - 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.
June 21, 1989, midnight
S1E30 - 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.
June 28, 1989, midnight
S1E31 - 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.
July 5, 1989, midnight
S1E32 - Episode #32
(repeat of March 1, 1989)
July 12, 1989, midnight
S1E33 - 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.
July 19, 1989, midnight
S1E34 - 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.
July 26, 1989, midnight
S1E35 - 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.
Aug. 16, 1989, midnight
S1E36 - Episode #36
A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.
Aug. 23, 1989, midnight
S1E37 - 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.
Sept. 6, 1989, midnight
S1E38 - 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.
Sept. 13, 1989, midnight
Network: Spike
Episode Runtime: 46 min.
Season Runtime: 33856 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 1988
Last Air Date: April 27, 2010, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 13+
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