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| | '''Unsolved Mysteries''' was a television program which ran on NBC from 1988-1997, then on CBS from 1997-1999. It revived for a brief time (mainly from repackaged segments of older episodes) on Lifetime Channel from 2001-2002, after which it has appeared as reruns on various cable networks. The movie streaming service [[Netflix]] produced six new episodes beginning in July 2020. | | '''Unsolved Mysteries''' was a television program which ran on NBC from 1988-1997, then on CBS from 1997-1999. It revived for a brief time (mainly from repackaged segments of older episodes) on Lifetime Channel from 2001-2002, after which it has appeared as reruns on various cable networks. The movie streaming service [[Netflix]] produced six new episodes beginning in July 2020. |
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| − | The show featured a documentary format of unsolved criminal cases, missing persons, mysterious phenomena, and alternative history/conspiracy theories. Each segment would fall generally into one of four categories: | + | The show featured a documentary format with four segments at around ten minutes each, along with smaller segments featuring updates from prior episodes. Each segment would fall generally into one of four categories: |
| | *'''Wanted''' - missing persons, unsolved crimes, criminals being sought (either the identity is unknown, or is known but the whereabouts are unknown) | | *'''Wanted''' - missing persons, unsolved crimes, criminals being sought (either the identity is unknown, or is known but the whereabouts are unknown) |
| | *'''Lost Loves''' - a person seeking another person who had importance in his/her life (such as an adopted person seeking birth parents, or a person helped by a "Good Samaritan" seeking that person) | | *'''Lost Loves''' - a person seeking another person who had importance in his/her life (such as an adopted person seeking birth parents, or a person helped by a "Good Samaritan" seeking that person) |
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| | *'''Paranormal''' - stories such as miracles, UFO sightings, and other unexplained phenomena | | *'''Paranormal''' - stories such as miracles, UFO sightings, and other unexplained phenomena |
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| − | In the Wanted and Lost Loves categories, later episodes would feature the capture of a criminal, or the person being sought having been found and reunited. | + | In the Wanted and Lost Loves categories, later episodes would feature updates (such as the capture of a wanted person, or a person seeking the whereabouts of another is reunited with that person). |
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| | The producers continue to maintain a website and accept leads on Wanted or Lost Loves segments (and update them as applicable). | | The producers continue to maintain a website and accept leads on Wanted or Lost Loves segments (and update them as applicable). |