I know a lot of people don't like the Spike TV version of the show, but it appears as if they're giving it another go as my DVR has started recording the show again, and the description for the show says 2010. It's airing here on the west coast from 9am - 12pm. Are they serious about giving the show a solid time slot now (before I could only catch periodically around 3am)?

At this point, I wouldn't be too sure of that. Trusting Spike to air UM consistently is like trusting a five-year-old kid to hold a machine gun without firing it. I have a feeling that Spike's programming department is being run by the boy who cried wolf.

I was checking through the DVR for last week's recordings and looked at the description for Wednesday...the first line read "a woman is abducted while talking on her cell phone". I tuned in to see what was up as that didn't sound like a case I had heard of. I knew it was unlikely Spike had produced a new episode, but one can hope? Anyway...it was the case of Angela Hammond. I have to wonder if it was perhaps a twenty-something typing in the information for the DVR description ...being unfamiliar with the concept of a "pay phone" they just assumed it was a typo... :)

Has anyone contacted Spike TV and asked? Anyone know how to get a hold of them? I have looked on Spike TV's website and cannot find a contact link for contact info. New episodes would be awesome.

Has anyone contacted Spike TV and asked? Anyone know how to get a hold of them? I have looked on Spike TV's website and cannot find a contact link for contact info. New episodes would be awesome.

There is NO WAY to contact SpikeTV! And even if, they would ignore. And Unsolved Mysteries - all they care about is the millions of dollars they got when they sold it to Spike.

Originally posted by Kane Trusting Spike to air UM consistently is like trusting a five-year-old kid to hold a machine gun without firing it. I have a feeling that Spike's programming department is being run by the boy who cried wolf.

More like "The boy who smoked crack"!


Originally posted by everyonelovers There is NO WAY to contact SpikeTV! And even if, they would ignore. And Unsolved Mysteries - all they care about is the millions of dollars they got when they sold it to Spike.

Yeah, at first I was really excited that UM was coming back, because I figured they'd just pick up where they left off. Unfortunately, it seems like Spike just picked it up to cash in on the '80's nostalgia. (I know, I know - UM was in the '90's and early 2000's but y'know what I mean)

It's really sad and unfortunate, as there are still a lot of grieving families and people who just want some answers. :(

More like "The boy who smoked crack"!

Good one. In any case, Spike can't air UM consistently any more than OJ Simpson could find the "real killers"!

Originally posted by Kane Spike can't air UM consistently any more than OJ Simpson could find the "real killers"!


:lol:

Yeah really!! Him and Leonard Rizzo

I know a lot of people don't like the Spike TV version of the show, but it appears as if they're giving it another go as my DVR has started recording the show again, and the description for the show says 2010. It's airing here on the west coast from 9am - 12pm. Are they serious about giving the show a solid time slot now (before I could only catch periodically around 3am)?

What they did is they remixed the episodes, so to speak. The took several different segments and showed them all together as a new episode even though each one had been in other episodes several times before. That is why it is shown as "new". I have Dish Network and mine has been saying the same thing on the description.

Would it be terribly un-cool to ask the tip line? I mean I know they get like 100 million BS calls/emails a day but I don't know, maybe it would help? probably not but you never know. At the very least they may have an email contact for Spike or could direct you to somewhere else. has anyone tried that?

Would it be terribly un-cool to ask the tip line? I mean I know they get like 100 million BS calls/emails a day but I don't know, maybe it would help? probably not but you never know. At the very least they may have an email contact for Spike or could direct you to somewhere else. has anyone tried that?

Unsolved got rid of the tip line. Call it and you will get a roofing company. Again, proving they don't give a ****.

Why anybody thought doing this would be a good idea escapes me. First off, they took away the theme song (which makes no sense....remember how everyone complained when NBC changed the theme in the mid 90's? and that theme song was creepy/tolerable. This one is just bad.) Then they put this guy as the host. Obviously, they can't bring back Robert Stack (if only the dead could talk...), but they could have done alot better. Dennis Farina seems like a talented actor but he doesn't have the aura for this show, IMO.

But what really angers me are the shots of the telecenter and Farinas use of the word 'we' when he describes work that the show has done. Whenever I hear that, I always feel like the 'New' UM is taking credit for the work done. All that this version of the show has done is repackaged old stories (dont get me wrong, its great that theyre getting exposure). But dont take credit for something you havent done.

I cant believe that Spike didn't just rebroadcast the episodes like Lifetime did. They should have just re-formatted the episodes like Lifetime did and left it at that (BTW, I wonder what Spikes ratings for the show are....they should take those numbers and compare it to Lifetimes ratings for the show...I guarantee that there is a HUGE difference). I just think its really disrespectful to Robert Stack and all of the people that worked on the show originally and who put all that hard work into the show. Maybe Spike will get a wake up call and do that (although i doubt it). In the meantime, we have all the wonderful old segments that have been preserved by the viewers. Thanks guys!

Unsolved got rid of the tip line. Call it and you will get a roofing company. Again, proving they don't give a ****.

There's a joke in there somewhere...:p

Originally posted by everybodylovesrs Unsolved got rid of the tip line. Call it and you will get a roofing company. Again, proving they don't give a ****.

Originally posted by Mastermind There's a joke in there somewhere...

:lol:

Originally posted by tiddlywinks950 But what really angers me are the shots of the telecenter and Farinas use of the word 'we' when he describes work that the show has done. Whenever I hear that, I always feel like the 'New' UM is taking credit for the work done. All that this version of the show has done is repackaged old stories (dont get me wrong, its great that theyre getting exposure). But dont take credit for something you havent done.


I KNOW!!! Holy crap, what is the deal with that fake telecentre anyway?

I also agree with the fact that Spike really should just rebroadcast the original show and spare us that idiotic google maps insert and "cutting edge special effects". Ridiculous.

ok, so the tip phone line is now a roofing company. how about emailing the tip email address? has anyone tried? I am tempted to...

"I also agree with the fact that Spike really should just rebroadcast the original show and spare us that idiotic google maps insert and "cutting edge special effects"."

Hey, I actually like the google Earth/map thing at the beginning of segments to show where the cases occurred. :-) However, that's about the only thing I like about Spike TV's broadcasting of "Unsolved Mysteries". Everything else about the show was done better on the original NBC "UM" and also the re-airings on Lifetime.

The setting and feeling of the new UM is just bad. Stack was brillant, he had an authortative voice, the music was fantastic, the settings were brillant when Stack went on site. Now we have a poor choice of host, Farina doesn't go anywhere apart from the Star Trek room and the music sucks.

Farina was a poor choice of host there are so many other people who could have done a much better job. Some of the TV afflilates that featured on the old UM were very good, the guy who interviewed Fraklin Lloyd Delano was great for instance. Just because he is an actor doesn't mean he is going to be any good. Morgan Freeman would have been a good choice but i'm sure he has his hands in too many other baskets at the moment.

Anyone else fed up with CSI on Spike TV ???

ENOUGH ALREADY !!!!

I wish that they would show more UM episodes.

I agree.. I never realized CSI was that great of a show.. certainly not so that it needs to be shown that many times a day.

Morgan Freeman would have been a good choice but i'm sure he has his hands in too many other baskets at the moment.

Those "other baskets" include his step-granddaughter, with whom he's been having an affair! :barf:

Re STUART HEATON. Court TV coverage clearly shows this man to be innocent of murdering 16-year-old girl and Ron Harres to be the guilty party. I am shocked and distressed Stuart Heaton has been in prison for ten years with, apparently, close to, if not all, avenues of appeal exhausted!

Mechele Linehan conspired with John Carlin in 1996 to kill Kent Leppink for a million dollar life insurance policy she was unaware Kent had altered to remove her as beneficiary. She is currently (July 2010) out on bail on appeal, while awaiting murder retrial estimated to take place some months following September 2010. Her appellate attorneys Susan Orlansky and Jeff Feldman refused to represent her in her second trial, because her case is too problematic to risk involvement of their stellar reputations. She is being represented by public defenders, because her husband Colin declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which allows him to avoid paying Mechele's attorneys fees for her first trial, which found her guilty, all the while allowing him to continue to bank all his physician income earnings. Because John Carlin, also convicted of Kent Leppink's murder, was killed in 2008 while serving time in jail awaiting appeal, causing his conviction to be automatically overturned, Mechele Linehan is now desperately trying to convince the public that she does not have the remotest idea of who could have possibly killed Kent Leppink (!), as though the public were dumb enough to forget the original trial proceedings and the endless, compelling evidentiary facts indicative of her guilt in the murder of Mr. Leppink, eg, emails proving her conspiring with Mr. Carlin against Mr. Leppink and showing her inordinate hatred of Mr. Leppink, whom she continued emailing marriage plans to him right up until his murder; expensive gifts and favors she conned out of Leppink, Carlin, and other extremely unattractive, vulnerable, loser men, exhibiting greed far beyond 'goals' of her co-stripper associates; persuading Mr. Leppink to list her as business partner and in his will; deceiving Alaska state troopers in interviews by, eg, deflecting any guilt away from Mr. Carlin in murder of Mr. Leppink; engaging in disturbing levels of purely self-interested-only manipulation, deception, and fakery characteristic of a practiced psychopath . . . That her websites continue to be beset and mocked by countless supporters of her guiltiness demonstrates how abysmally unsuccessful her 'I'm-totally-incapable-and-entirely-innocent-of-this-crime' strategy is.

STUART HEATON IS INNOCENT ACCORDING TO COURT TV JULY 2010 SHOWING ON PROGRAM 'THE INVESTIGATORS.'

That might be the longest run-on sentence in this board's history.

How come whenever the crazies come out to post they seem to hate things like punctuation & paragraph breaks so much? They also always seem to mis-use (and abuse) things like "eg"? Not to be the grammar police but I think there's a direct correlation between horrible bad grammar & kooky whackadoo ramblings.

Hey, I actually like the google Earth/map thing at the beginning of segments to show where the cases occurred. :-) However, that's about the only thing I like about Spike TV's broadcasting of "Unsolved Mysteries". Everything else about the show was done better on the original NBC "UM" and also the re-airings on Lifetime.

I also like the google maps thing. Gives more perspective as to where the case took place. But thats the only thing I like about the new UM.