Unsolved Mysteries - WHY DID ROBERT STACK HAVE TO DIE

TrippinKahlua said:
After that segment? Guess what! Blair Adams! I knew the instant it said Knoxville, Tennessee. However, shit audio!
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If you like that case, be sure to download and save the video. This channel has been up for a year thanks to using generic titles that can't be easily found using the search system, but there's always a chance it'll get pulled; UM's copyright holders are fucking relentless. A couple of days ago I downloaded all the videos on that channel and stored them on my external hard drive just to be safe.
 
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TrippinKahlua said:
After that segment? Guess what! Blair Adams! I knew the instant it said Knoxville, Tennessee. However, shit audio!
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We can't have nice things, still it's glad we have anything at all, despite the audio/video quality (I'm not a fan of that stretched-out look either).
 
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The first three seasons of the Robert Stack edition are available! There are 65 episodes in all.

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This is super late, btw; it looked like the episodes dropped late January, about a month after the initial announcement.

Anyway, I know what I'm doing with all my spare time for the next few weeks.
 
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SPARKLETWAT said:
There was a house that blasted the intro theme on repeat every Halloween and I was too scared as a kid to go up to the door because I did not want to turn into a show segment myself.

I still can't stand the intro. Makes my heart race.
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Interesting they did that, I was never scared by the intro theme personally, but I can see how it could impact young kids like that.
 
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TrippinKahlua said:
There was a similar show in the early 90s called "Rescue 911" which seemed to copy the style of Unsolved Mysteries, right down to having a veteran actor (this time being William Shatner) as the host.


Badass theme, but this show is the reason I became afraid of cooking food, what with seeing this image of a mom accidently pouring burning oil onto her 4 year old daughter, seeing a girl get stuck under a car and a guy getting his tongue stuck in a freezer.
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Perhaps because I was just wanting more content from the 80s/early 90s, I've went binging on Rescue 911 Segments. Here are a couple memorable ones from childhood.


I was like six when I saw all these for the first time. I remember the people being a lot older, but thats just because I was way younger.


This was a pretty extreme one. As a small kid, I had trouble figuring out how she couldn't just crawl out of it.
 
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I've been watching them recently and it's really true, they just don't make shows like this anymore.

There are recent examples of similar shows, they just don't have the heart Unsolved Mysteries had at the time. There is a certain magic to it. The creepy theme, Robert Stack's narration and intros, the very amateur actors at times, all of this and more made for a very special tv show.

They would hit you with everything as well. Ghosts, Bigfoot, killers, people searching for their families, and somehow made it all fit together.

I guess a recent show similar to Unsolved Mysteries would be Paranormal Witness. While it can be entertaining, all the stories are very outrageous and over the top. Its not that they aren't true, the way they are presented is just a bit ridiculous however.

Unsolved Mysteries gave you the story in a very grounded way. You could see this happening to you personally, which makes it much scarier than shots of eyes darting around and cgi chasing the people around a room.

The Amazon releases are really well done. I love that they took the time to update the cases. It gives the superfan a reason to watch the show again but also brings it up to date for new watchers.

Just like the OP I enjoyed what I could get on a few DVDs and from YouTube. I'm glad I can sit back and watch in this enhanced format atm.
 
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Orth said:
If it has't been said before, there are seasons on Hulu and Netflix - I don't think as many as are on Prime though.
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Meanwhile, Filmrise has the entire original run on several free platforms (PlutoTV, Roku Channel, Tubi, Stirr and Xumo).
Come to think of it, Filmrise's content tends to be really easy to come across (especially episodes of "America's Dumbest Criminals").
However, they've been hitting it out of the ballpark lately with this recent series of acquisitions, as it seems to mostly be 80s-00s content that isn't that obscure. Robotech (including subbed Macross and Mospaeda), Greatest American Hero and Wiseguy were recently part of the last content batch, along with Dennis Farina's run of "Unsolved Mysteries".
 
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The official holder of the franchise actually put the Stack era on Youtube.

I really need to fix the algorithm on my mom's TV to have Rescue 911 and Unsolved Mysteries on it.
 
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TrippinKahlua said:
Perhaps because I was just wanting more content from the 80s/early 90s, I've went binging on Rescue 911 Segments. Here are a couple memorable ones from childhood.


I was like six when I saw all these for the first time. I remember the people being a lot older, but thats just because I was way younger.


This was a pretty extreme one. As a small kid, I had trouble figuring out how she couldn't just crawl out of it.
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Oh God, between watching Unsolved Mysteries and Rescue911, its a miracle I got any sleep at all when I was young.
 
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I remember the episode where an unknown arson burned down some poor lady's dog farm gave me massive feels for a month as a child.

also thread theme (and possible theme for the Netflix version if Jordan Peele is producing):
 
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When I was a kid, the UFO abduction shit would scare the fuck out of me.

The sad thing is, there's nothing like this anymore as people have said. There's no weird, late-night shows with unexplained phenomenon or urban legends or strange murders. Like Art Bell who would talk all this crazy shit. Its all boring 'reality' shit.

Also the theme made me laugh because I thought of 'Unsolved Mysteries: Ghetto Edition', which I imagine going something like this:

 
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