https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4FrgGILM8


it sounds like you can hear a hint of the original theme. Hope they play the full version on the show


Doesn't look too bad. At least they are doing new stories. Doubt it will have the atmosphere and mood of the original series though

Looks like pretty standard Netflix true crime fare. Nothing will ever capture the atmosphere or mood of the original series for 2 reasons: it's no longer "modern", and the people who enjoyed the original are older now and pine for any and every thing nostalgic. Everything will fall short in comparison when viewed through this lens.

Actually, I think it looks very well made and much better, from visual looks, than anything ID has pumped out. It looks like they actually used film and put some effort into any of the reenactments. Excited about it. The only thing I don't dig is the logo.

Actually, I think it looks very well made and much better, from visual looks, than anything ID has pumped out. It looks like they actually used film and put some effort into any of the reenactments. Excited about it. The only thing I don't dig is the logo.

...it’s the classic logo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4FrgGILM8


it sounds like you can hear a hint of the original theme. Hope they play the full version on the show


Doesn't look too bad. At least they are doing new stories. Doubt it will have the atmosphere and mood of the original series though

The theme appears to be played on piano rather than synth, which is a bummer.

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It's not too bad although it's really really making me miss Robert Stack welcoming us to Unsolved Mysteries.

Theme remake is nice, it's not synth but lets see what it's like in the actual episode.

Actually, I think it looks very well made and much better, from visual looks, than anything ID has pumped out. It looks like they actually used film and put some effort into any of the reenactments. Excited about it. The only thing I don't dig is the logo.

I agree. From that snippet, it looks like a decent watch. I think people will enjoy this much more if they stop expecting it to be an exact clone of seasons 1-5.

And it sounds like a piano is playing the actual theme song and not that travesty of a theme that introduced the show in season 8. That's pretty cool.

trailer makes it look like a movie

meh

I think it looks pretty cool. It is definitely more of the modern day true crime show style to not have a host and I will miss that from classic UM. But the cinematography and music seem pretty good and I am excited for it.

I agree. From that snippet, it looks like a decent watch. I think people will enjoy this much more if they stop expecting it to be an exact clone of seasons 1-5.

And it sounds like a piano is playing the actual theme song and not that travesty of a theme that introduced the show in season 8. That's pretty cool.

Bingo and bingo. You hit the nail right on the head twice. I couldn't agree more!

Love the piano score.

I agree. From that snippet, it looks like a decent watch. I think people will enjoy this much more if they stop expecting it to be an exact clone of seasons 1-5.

And it sounds like a piano is playing the actual theme song and not that travesty of a theme that introduced the show in season 8. That's pretty cool.

A thousand times this. It's not the 80s and those technological limitations are gone. They don't need to make it look like public access television and that would hinder its modern ability to succeed if they did.

The "theme", if that's actually what this is rather than just promo/background music, is well done. Way more than a "hint" of the old theme, it is the old theme. It's the entire update segment of the intro.

Actually, I think it looks very well made and much better, from visual looks, than anything ID has pumped out. It looks like they actually used film and put some effort into any of the reenactments. Excited about it. The only thing I don't dig is the logo.

The framing of the french lady felt identical to the old interview shots, compared the couple others we got in the trailer.

I thought it looked really impressive actually - unsettling and intriguing. Annoyed about the mere six episodes/one case per episode format though and the lack of a host - Christopher Walken wasn't available?

They’re saving a second batch of six episodes for later. With the pandemic production shutdowns, Netflix is stretching out their original content.

I'm impressed and hopefully it will turn out in the same way.

They’ve just posted another video called “Shedding the Logo” which is a dissolve of the 1987 theme into the current one. It’s a little different than the bit of it we got in the trailer but still piano based and mostly the same as the original.

So I am the only one disappointed? The essence of UM is not there at all. The reason fans went so hard for the show was because they liked it in its original form. A host and 4 segments is too much to ask for? An hour episode is over doing it. UM segments were great because they were usually short and right to the point. Some of the more interesting segments ran for about two segments worth. Why announce a revival if you are going to remove everything that the original show was? I'm not sure I will be watching this.

Short and missed many points is more like it, as 30 years of context has come to show.

So I am the only one disappointed? The essence of UM is not there at all. The reason fans went so hard for the show was because they liked it in its original form. A host and 4 segments is too much to ask for? An hour episode is over doing it. UM segments were great because they were usually short and right to the point. Some of the more interesting segments ran for about two segments worth. Why announce a revival if you are going to remove everything that the original show was? I'm not sure I will be watching this.

Nope, I didn't like it either. I understand the people who are saying "to remove the nostalgia glasses and stop comparing it to the older show" but that's hard to do. When you use the name "Unsolved Mysteries" of course you're going to compare it to the older show and draw similarities.

This just seems like another true crime show just using the UM name for ratings. Honestly, they could've just called it something else and made another show.

UM is highly nostalgic and you can't blame people for comparing the new to the old.

So I am the only one disappointed? The essence of UM is not there at all. The reason fans went so hard for the show was because they liked it in its original form. A host and 4 segments is too much to ask for? An hour episode is over doing it. UM segments were great because they were usually short and right to the point. Some of the more interesting segments ran for about two segments worth. Why announce a revival if you are going to remove everything that the original show was? I'm not sure I will be watching this.

Some cases from the Original UM have been covered by Dateline and 48 Hours in recent years, with those shows going into more detail than the original UM ever could. On UM, the segment on missing journalist Jodie Huseintrut was 5 minutes. On 48 Hours, there was a whole episode on her case and they even delved into the potential suspects, something that the original UM never did due to time constraints. Dateline last year had a full episode on Bonnie Haim and earlier this year had one on Lisa Ziegert.

As for the reboot itself, I suspect it will end up like most other crime related docuseries on Netflix: too long and meandering and at times boring. Making a Murderer was such a boring docuseries. The only one remotely entertaining was Tiger King and that's namely because the people interviewed on that series were all crazy.

Is Friday the 13th better than Friday the 13th Part 6?

Trick Question. They're tonally different approaches to the same concept.

They’ve just posted another video called “Shedding the Logo” which is a dissolve of the 1987 theme into the current one. It’s a little different than the bit of it we got in the trailer but still piano based and mostly the same as the original.

Where are you seeing this? I don't see it on the official Youtube page.

Good grief. C/M can’t win with you people. Stick with the repeats. It’s the only thing that’ll make you happy (although I’m sure you’ll find fault with those too).

Some cases from the Original UM have been covered by Dateline and 48 Hours in recent years, with those shows going into more detail than the original UM ever could. On UM, the segment on missing journalist Jodie Huseintrut was 5 minutes. On 48 Hours, there was a whole episode on her case and they even delved into the potential suspects, something that the original UM never did due to time constraints. Dateline last year had a full episode on Bonnie Haim and earlier this year had one on Lisa Ziegert.

To piggyback off the specials, just look at the slew of books that have been written about specific cases. In regards to Cindy James, UM only covered about 50% of her issues the last six years of her life.

The Franklin Floyd segment barely scratched the surface of how crazy and evil that man really was and all the insane directions his life went into.

The Tammy Leppert segment was one of the longer ones, nearly 15 minutes in length. But Tammy's mother was quoted in a Florida newspaper before it originally aired saying that "it's impossible to tell the full story of Tammy in just 15 minutes."

More information is definitely a plus. I'm not exactly crazy about there being no host but I look forward to new material to discuss.

1) 4-5 Segments per show on the original series.

This definitely helped make the shows fun to watch. Each segment didn't outstay their welcome, and left you wanting more.

However, a lot of new technology has developed since the series started in the 80's. Internet, cell phones, webcam allow information to travel a lot faster. Shows have access to more info to put into their shows. An 8 minute UM segment from the late 80's probably took a lot of effort having to track people down with no answering machines, digging up newspaper articles, and then editing the video. So they probably exhausted their time and money budgets just to get that 8 minute segment. Having said that, I do find the 2 hour Dateline shows to be too long sometimes. A lot of the 1 hour shows can drag on too long. I felt John Walsh's The Hunt to drag on too long sometimes too, even though it often had 2 different stories per hour. But like it or not, longer segments are here to stay.

2) The production values.

Part of the appeal of the original series was that low budget appearance it had. It gave it a warm feeling, especially when it was showing interviews of people. Older cameras would obviously have lower resolution and that would leave more to the imagination. When the camera would look into the darkness, out a window, or in the forest, you couldn't see that much and you would think something was about to jump out at you. But we now have high-def, 4K, super crisp video and nothing is left to the imagination. Again, like it or not, there is no going back.

3) Host, or lack of.

No one will be able to live up to Robert Stack. He was the right person for this show. I don't think Farina was bad, but he wasn't Stack, and no one will ever be.

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I know it won't recapture the feeling I had watching the original, but I like True Crime shows, so I'll definitely watch.

1) 4-5 Segments per show on the original series.

This definitely helped make the shows fun to watch. Each segment didn't outstay their welcome, and left you wanting more.

However, a lot of new technology has developed since the series started in the 80's. Internet, cell phones, webcam allow information to travel a lot faster. Shows have access to more info to put into their shows. An 8 minute UM segment from the late 80's probably took a lot of effort having to track people down with no answering machines, digging up newspaper articles, and then editing the video. So they probably exhausted their time and money budgets just to get that 8 minute segment. Having said that, I do find the 2 hour Dateline shows to be too long sometimes. A lot of the 1 hour shows can drag on too long. I felt John Walsh's The Hunt to drag on too long sometimes too, even though it often had 2 different stories per hour. But like it or not, longer segments are here to stay.

2) The production values.

Part of the appeal of the original series was that low budget appearance it had. It gave it a warm feeling, especially when it was showing interviews of people. Older cameras would obviously have lower resolution and that would leave more to the imagination. When the camera would look into the darkness, out a window, or in the forest, you couldn't see that much and you would think something was about to jump out at you. But we now have high-def, 4K, super crisp video and nothing is left to the imagination. Again, like it or not, there is no going back.

3) Host, or lack of.

No one will be able to live up to Robert Stack. He was the right person for this show. I don't think Farina was bad, but he wasn't Stack, and no one will ever be.

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I know it won't recapture the feeling I had watching the original, but I like True Crime shows, so I'll definitely watch.

1) At first, I was kinda bummed at the one case per episode format. I've been taking a break from Dateline and 48 Hours lately for the very reason you mentioned — they seem long and drawn-out. Not to mention, many of the stories are so similar they seem almost interchangeable. Usually after the first few minutes, you know who did it (often the husband) and there are seldom any real unexpected "twists". The two-hour ones in particular seem tedious and unnecessary.

I've often wondered if part of my problem with these shows lately is that they feature the word "mystery" in their titles, but there's never really anything mysterious about the cases and all are solved. I often wish Dateline and 48 Hours would profile some actual unsolved cases where the viewers could help a la UM. This new Netflix format, however, might be a solution. I'm willing to give it a chance.

Internet in particular is a huge factor. Even on this board, people's opinions on many well-known segments have changed drastically over the years due in large part to more articles and information being found online. Back in the early 2000s when this forum first started, the internet was far more limited in its capabilities. The only information most of us had was what was presented in the segment. In the early 2000s, there was still something of a "it's on TV, so it must be true" attitude. It likely didn't occur to most of us (particularly the younger viewers at the time) that the show could be withholding anything and we kind of had to take the segments at face value. As such, most people never thought to research the cases outside of viewing the show and even if they did, they probably would have found little online.

2) Another concern I had/have. Obviously, we can't go back to the late 80s camera technology any more than we would go back to black and white TV with only three channels. But I'm more concerned with there being a lot of CSI-esque special effects and music cues. The original UM to me is sort of an example to all shows of how to properly utilize background music and camera cuts so as not to be distracting. From what I've seen in the Netflix trailer, they seem to be keeping more in line with the original format with a few modern tweaks. I don't think we're going to be subjected to the Spike treatment. Does anyone know if "the actual family members and police officials" will play themselves in the reenactments?

3) I think it's precisely because no one could ever replace Stack that they decided not to have a host. I don't think Dennis Farina was a bad host/narrator. It was the format that sucked. If they'd kept it truer to the original (but with actual new cases!) and just added a modern touch here and there to bring things into the 21st century, our opinions may have been far different.

Personally, I think if the Netflix series is successful, they should feature a few old cases from years ago. In other words, cases from the 1980s-90s that could easily have been featured on the original Stack version when it was on. More and more decades-old cases are being solved nowadays thanks to improved technology and investigative techniques, so it may not be a bad idea to give these old cases some air time. I think that would also be a nice homage to the original show we all grew up with.

To piggyback off the specials, just look at the slew of books that have been written about specific cases. In regards to Cindy James, UM only covered about 50% of her issues the last six years of her life.

The Franklin Floyd segment barely scratched the surface of how crazy and evil that man really was and all the insane directions his life went into.

The Tammy Leppert segment was one of the longer ones, nearly 15 minutes in length. But Tammy's mother was quoted in a Florida newspaper before it originally aired saying that "it's impossible to tell the full story of Tammy in just 15 minutes."

More information is definitely a plus. I'm not exactly crazy about there being no host but I look forward to new material to discuss.

The Tammy Leppert case is a case I would like to see Dateline or 48 Hours dive into. Both shows did interview the folks featured on Unsolved Mysteries, although I did not see the Lisa Ziegert Dateline episode, so I don't know who got interviewed that was in Unsolved Mysteries. When Dateline did the Bonnie Haim case, Dateline interviewed the lead detective Robert Hinson and Michael's Aunt, Eveann, both of whom were interviewed by Unsolved Mysteries back when the case was first mentioned.

If you want Netflix to produce more seasons you MUST:

1) Watch all episodes

and

2) Watch within the first month

Netflix makes its renewal/cancellation decisions based on the all-important first month of streaming. They also look at whether or not every episode has been watched. So if you want to help encourage a renewal, please watch every episode (including the UFO one) by August 1.

Now that doesn’t mean they will announce a renewal as soon as August. It just means they’ll have all their data by then.

1)I've been taking a break from Dateline and 48 Hours lately for the very reason you mentioned — they seem long and drawn-out. Not to mention, many of the stories are so similar they seem almost interchangeable. Usually after the first few minutes, you know who did it (often the husband) and there are seldom any real unexpected "twists". The two-hour ones in particular seem tedious and unnecessary.


I haven't been watching them lately either, for the same reasons. Sometimes if I catch the beginning, or if I happen to check the description and it looks interesting, I'll DVR it and then watch it later. Then I can have it playing in the background while I'm doing something else. And it does often end up being the spouse, which is getting predictable.

They should have just created a different show and not tarnished the UM name. This looks like every other true crime show on ID these days. Yawn. Why do these shows have to follow the same formula? The lack of originality is getting so tiresome. Cookie cutter true crime programming no longer holds any interest to me.

A lot of people have pre-judged the show before it’s even been released. Can’t wait for these people to be proven wrong on Wednesday. ☺️

I think we should hold off on judgements until we get a chance to view the series itself.

I also have my worries regarding one segment per episode and no host but I will give the benefit of the doubt until I see it. In my opinion, the biggest test will be to see if they take viewer feedback seriously and tweak things moving forward if there's something that viewers are being very vocal about not liking. That was where they failed with the Farina reboot; the seeming ignorance of feedback and/or unwillingness to make changes.

Love the piano score.

I think the piano score makes it extra creepy. Always a good thing.

I think this partnership between the original creators and the Stranger Things people is going to be a good one.

Where are you seeing this? I don't see it on the official Youtube page.

Look up Unsolved Mysteries on Twitter. I'm following them now. They're doing tweets of old cases.

Good grief. C/M can’t win with you people. Stick with the repeats. It’s the only thing that’ll make you happy (although I’m sure you’ll find fault with those too).

Thank you. I think from what I've seen, the update is a lot better than that **** on Spike years earlier and we're getting new cases.

Am I the only one happy that there's only going to be one segment per episode? This gives them more room to include more information, and not condense everything down to 12 minutes. UM had a penchant for leaving pertinent information out of many of their segments...hopefully the longer format can help alleviate this.

Am I the only one happy that there's only going to be one segment per episode? This gives them more room to include more information, and not condense everything down to 12 minutes. UM had a penchant for leaving pertinent information out of many of their segments...hopefully the longer format can help alleviate this.

I’m happy with it too. All of the changes seem like good decisions to me.

Am I the only one happy that there's only going to be one segment per episode? This gives them more room to include more information, and not condense everything down to 12 minutes. UM had a penchant for leaving pertinent information out of many of their segments...hopefully the longer format can help alleviate this.

Totally fine with it.

The multi-segment format existed to facilitate commercials. No need for that with streaming.

I would have preferred 2-3 segments per episode, and a host. I'm not judging the show yet, though. I want to watch it before making a decision.

Is there a reason they're only releasing 6 segments on 7/1? Have the other segments been filmed? If not, is it because of Covid-19? If not because of Covid-19, is it possible that they rework some of the structure in the next 6 segments?

I would have preferred 2-3 segments per episode, and a host. I'm not judging the show yet, though. I want to watch it before making a decision.

Is there a reason they're only releasing 6 segments on 7/1? Have the other segments been filmed? If not, is it because of Covid-19? If not because of Covid-19, is it possible that they rework some of the structure in the next 6 segments?

Nothing's been confirmed but the easy speculation is that they're spreading out the new episodes so they can have some original content later in the year.

It could just as easily have been the plan all along. A number of Netflix shows have been getting released as "volumes" lately rather than seasons. I recall reading they do the same thing with Nailed It where they film a bunch of them and the holiday specials in one block and spread the release out.

Until someone says something we're left guessing. But they definitely did film all 12.

They released a "teaser" of one of the segments, which happened in Baltimore, MD (where I'm from). One of the interviewees is a local investigative reporter, and as I had feared, it seems like the new UM is going to distort reality. In the teaser, which is the segment about Rey Rivera, they say that the cameras didn't record Rivera entering the hotel where he was found dead...yet 13 years ago, the same local investigative reporter, wrote an article (https://www.wbaltv.com/article/jennifer-hudson-is-aretha-franklin-in-new-trailer-for-respect-biopic-1593458741/33002366) which says that an error with the camera system caused the police to not be able to recover the footage from the date in question. Just a nitpick, but I hope there aren't glaring omissions like there were in the original series.

Hmm, interesting. I'll check it out after. I've been avoiding reading up on any of the cases since they were announced so as to experience them first through the show.

If you want Netflix to produce more seasons you MUST:

1) Watch all episodes

and

2) Watch within the first month

Netflix makes its renewal/cancellation decisions based on the all-important first month of streaming. They also look at whether or not every episode has been watched. So if you want to help encourage a renewal, please watch every episode (including the UFO one) by August 1.

Now that doesn’t mean they will announce a renewal as soon as August. It just means they’ll have all their data by then.

Another strong indicator of a second season is how long it will be in the top 10.

I, for one, am excited.

Good grief. C/M can’t win with you people. Stick with the repeats. It’s the only thing that’ll make you happy (although I’m sure you’ll find fault with those too).

These “people” are what I call professional malcontents. The internet is replete with them.

My philosophy is “the more things change, the more they suck” but, no. Even I’m not that bad. Also, I thought the trailer was fine. Got me excited and it was meant to “hook” the viewer. The actual episodes are better than any trailer could allude to

I watched the first one so far. It was good. See my review in another thread on the forum. I will be watching the other episodes as well of course. This new version is different. I will admit I was hoping for a closer style to the old version, but although many won’t consider it “Unsolved Mysteries”, we are still being given a show about unsolved mysteries. New cases. This is what we have been wanting for years. While it isn’t Robert Stack hosting, so don’t go in expecting that because while it isn’t the same as the old, this new series is good in its right. So far, I am impressed.

My mom saw the original show when it aired and she got an email from Netflix about the new version, but me and my mom are not interested in seeing it.