Hey guys,

Just looked down at my phone and saw it was 7:57. I felt a slight jolt of excitement, as if something great were happening at 8:00. Nothing is planned, however.

Then I reflected for a moment, and remembered that that 7:57 feeling was from my grade school and teen years, M-F nights.

NBC. Lifetime.


You ever get excited for a sec right before 8:00?

:talk:

Hey guys,

Just looked down at my phone and saw it was 7:57. I felt a slight jolt of excitement, as if something great were happening at 8:00. Nothing is planned, however.

Then I reflected for a moment, and remembered that that 7:57 feeling was from my grade school and teen years, M-F nights.

NBC. Lifetime.


You ever get excited for a sec right before 8:00?

:talk:


Only on Wednesdays.... ;)

Only on Wednesdays.... ;)

Ahhh yes, I remember those wonderful Wednesday nights at 8.

no,i havent watched any decent tv in so long i'd forgotten what it was like.thx for mentioning the good ole' days. now I even recall friday night's tgif :)

I didn't watch Unsolved Mysteries full-time until they reached their last original season in 2001. I remember watching the new episodes late at night, 8 to 9 I believe. Good times. I haven't seen some of those 2001-2002 episodes since then because they are very hard to come across these days.

I most clearly remember the mid-90s seasons, right before it moved from NBC to CBS, and then the CBS and Lifetime years. I picked up watching reruns on Lifetime in the fall of 2004 during my freshman year of college in the afternoons between classes.

I do recall those extremely memorable nights I did tune in to NBC at 8, however. ALL of those segments are actually what got me watching in college--I wanted to catch all those stories that terrified me as a child again!

Yep, I still remember that 7:57 feeling while I was a child during the late eighties: I'd be asking myself if I really wanted to tune in tonight and risk giving myself nightmares again.

But of course, I always did ;) .

Wednesday nights in the late 80's/early 90's. Good times. I was always ready to go at 8:00.

By the end of UM, I'd be so scared, I had to turn over to Doogie Howser to try and get my mind off it.

I remember in the late 90's (before the revamped 2001-2002 season) Lifetime would show UM at 8 every night, M-F. My grandmother and I would watch it religiously.

I loved UM from the time I was a kid - I remember watching at 8 and going to bed immediately thereafter with the creepy theme music in my head - to this day, that coupled with Robert Stack's voice still has the power to send shivers up my spine.

By the end of UM, I'd be so scared, I had to turn over to Doogie Howser to try and get my mind off it.

Doogie certainly would have provided a wholesome contrast to the Dr. Swango segment. Too bad they never had a crossover episode, perhaps featuring Vinnie kidnapped by a biker gang or something...

It was every Wednesday night at 8 on NBC for me.
I'd really get the feeling when the disclaimer came on...'This program is about Unsolved Mysteries...'

Nowadays I still sometimes watch at 8, even if it's on DVD to get that nostalgia feeling.

my son was lttle then,and he used to run screaming out of the room whenever Stack's voice would come on.I had to wait till they came on lifetime to see most of them. :/