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- John Cosgrove John Cosgrove is the co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries. He directed the landmark documentary "Five American Guns" for HBO as well as "Missing: Have You Seen This Person?" for NBC, the forerunner to Unsolved Mysteries.
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Unsolved Mysteries is an American mystery documentary television series, created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. Documenting cold cases and paranormal phenomena, it began as a series of seven specials, presented by Raymond Burr , Karl Malden , and Robert Stack , beginning on NBC on January 20, 1987, becoming a full-fledged series on ...
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Jan 28, 2019 · I spoke to John Cosgrove, a creator of the show, about his work, and how the Netflix episodes will focus on one “mystery” per show and not rely on any narration. Channel Nonfiction : Congratulations on the Netflix deal!
Unsolved Mysteries: Created by John Cosgrove, Terry Dunn Meurer. With Robert Stack, Dennis Farina, Keely Shaye Brosnan, William Roll. Combines dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates, to tell stories of real mysteries, from human to the supernatural.
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- 1987-01-20
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- Primetime Crime
- The Untouchable Robert Stack
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- Acting Suspicious
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- The Case Files
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In the mid-1980s, primetime television didn’t leave a lot of room for reality programming. Aside from some Geraldo specials, shows about real people involved in crimes just weren’t common. In fact, the closest thing viewers had ever seen to a reality-based crime show was a series called Wanted that aired on CBS for one season in 1955. Wantedfeature...
Obviously, they chose Robert Stack. But not at first. Or second. When Unsolved Mysteriespremiered as a special on January 20, 1987, actor Raymond Burr was hosting. Burr is probably best known for playing Perry Mason, the dogged criminal defense lawyer who rarely lost a case over nine seasons (the guy was good). Burr had an authoritative presence th...
NBC was very happy with the specials, and ordered a weekly series to debut in the fall of 1988. But there were still some growing pains to work through. By the producers’ own admission, the earliest reenactments on the show were rough. Cosgrove and Meurer used the actual people involved in a case whenever possible. While that gave the segments an a...
With multiple reenactments per episode, Unsolved Mysteriesprovided plenty of opportunities for actors looking to get their big break. If you watch classic episodes, you’ll probably be able to spot a few performers who went on to greater success. Matthew McConaughey played a murder victim in a 1992 episode. He later told IMDb that he was “the guy th...
In many of the episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, Stack is seen in a trench coat standing in front of some appropriately spooky location. Sometimes he appeared in front of a Masonic temple that gave the show a gothic atmosphere. Other times, Stack would stand in front of a phone bankof telephone operators. This wasn’t just for show. During and after a...
Throughout its run, Unsolved Mysteriesprofiled well over 1000 cases, and had a high degree of success: Over 340 cases were solved. At one point, the producers estimated that they could solve 60 percent of lost love cases, help locate around 18 percent of the missing heirs they profiled, and even helped capture over half of the fugitives featured. M...
Unsolved Mysterieskept the spooky music humming for nine seasons before being canceled by NBC in 1997. But Stack didn’t hang up his trench coat for long. The show was picked up by CBS, where it aired for two more seasons. When CBS declined to renew it, it found yet another home on Lifetime, where it aired through 2002. When Robert Stack passed away...
Unsolved Mysteries, produced by Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, was created by Executive Producers John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. It aired for nine seasons on NBC and two seasons on CBS.
John Cosgrove is the co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries. He directed the landmark documentary "Five American Guns" for HBO as well as "Missing: Have You Seen This Person?" for NBC, the forerunner to Unsolved Mysteries.
John Cosgrove is known for Unsolved Mysteries (1987), Missing... Have You Seen This Person? (1985) and Relative Evil (2001).
