Old Episodes Are Back -- Finally!

[Thiussat]

LRW seems to now be airing the old episodes with the old music and old graphics. Ah, the glory days. One of the episodes I saw a day or two ago was one of the best I have ever seen (as a whole show). The boys on the train track case and D.B Cooper all in one episode. Good stuff.

[PrettyinPink55]

Originally Posted by Thiussat

LRW seems to now be airing the old episodes with the old music and old graphics. Ah, the glory days. One of the episodes I saw a day or two ago was one of the best I have ever seen (as a whole show). The boys on the train track case and D.B Cooper all in one episode. Good stuff.

OOh! I have those DVRed! I'll have to check them out!!!!!

The older cases are the better ones!

[crystaldawn]

Yes I was glad to see the old ones were back as well.

[dynoguy88]

Thanks for the heads up!

[hostedbyrobertstack]

I love the way they made shows in the 80s, so simple, I feel so safe and enclosed, unsolved did a great job w/ those older shows, i could watch them over infinitely.

[PrettyinPink55]

Originally Posted by hostedbyrobertstack

I love the way they made shows in the 80s, so simple, I feel so safe and enclosed, unsolved did a great job w/ those older shows, i could watch them over infinitely.

I agree!!!

The later episodes are too over the top, like they were trying too hard to be spooky or something. I love the black and white bars anyday!

[boechsner]

Expect older episodes this upcoming week. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict the following episodes will air:

November 2, 1988
November 9, 1988
November 30, 1988
December 14, 1988
January 11, 1989

Then they will most likely move off into the 1994-1995 season.

[SP4CE INV4DERZ]

You guys should be so lucky, one thing I know is that Ci Foxtel will only play older episodes the day after I die.

[Corky Kneivel]

Originally Posted by Space Invaderz

You guys should be so lucky, one thing I know is that Ci Foxtel will only play older episodes the day after I die.

"All too often our innocuous statements, casually dropped on an internet message board in a spasmodic moment of homespun whimsy and rhapsodical lackadaisicallity, may ironically come back to haunt us. SPACE INVADERZ may have been only joking when he made the statement above. In fact. experts familiar with the case are in almost unanimous agreement that the statement was made solely with the intent of jokingly illustrating the reluctance of a television channel, devoted to women, to air older, and in SPACE INVADERZ opinion, superior material. His true intent, however, we will never know. For this much is clear...older episodes aired not even a full 24 hours after he suddenly and inexplicably died."

**RE-ENACTMENT**: We see a kid in his late teens/early twenties is at a computer in his bedroom typing feverishly on a keyboard. He is happy and his laughing vivaciously at the conversation he is reading on the screen. There is a framed 8.5x11 photo of a young Robert Stack on the desk next to his computer. The Unsolved Mysteries bumper music sounds in the background and we see the kid turn his head to look over his shoulder at the television on his dresser. The screen is clearly showing Keely Shaye Smith in the UM call center shouting, "Thanks, BOB!". The ever present Lifetime logo is in the bottom corner of the TV screen. We see the kid shake his head and smirk disapprovingly, obviously displeased that this is an Unsolved Mysteries episode of the later variety. He then turns back towards his computer and resumes typing.


“Many, many questions arose from this confusing sequence of events. Questions including, but not limited to: If the playing of older episodes by Lifetime wasn't the reason for this baffling loss of life, then what was? And whyyyyy? And how come? And also, what caused it to happen? And who? I don't know is on third. "

**RE-ENACTMENT**
We see the same computer at the same desk in the same room, with the same photo of Bob Stack next to it, but now the computer is turned off. The camera pans slowly down to show the same kid we saw before, lying spread eagle on his messy bed, while two paramedics with curly mullets bound into the room and begin to check for vital signs. These two paramedics are your typical Unsolved Mysteries “local casting call terrible OVERactors” and they begin pantomiming checking the dead kid’s pulse, first at the wrist then at the neck then back at the wrist again. One starts whalloping on his chest with clenched fists while the other just starts open-hand slapping the kid across his face.

“Emergency Medical Technicians, highly skilled and expertly trained for these types of situations, tried everything they could…but it was too late…”

cut to: The same mulleted EMTs wheeling a body bag into the back of an AMC Eagle thats been modified to look like an ambulance.


cut to: Robert J. Stack, the Stackmeister hisself, wearing a tan trenchcoat cinched tight, strolling towards the camera as he speaks:

“Could the airing of episodes from the first and second season of this very show be the cause of a death occuring the day before? Did SPACE INVADERZ have any advanced warning? Did he sell his soul to ATARI for the rights to his screen name? Did Lifetime, the only basic cable channel scientifically proven to suffer from PMS, get fed up with snarkiness on the internet and in some unknown way orchestarte his death? Did I take this job for a quick buck?”

Join me next time as we try to anser this unsolved mystery, as well as taking a look at the even more baffling cases of: trying to locate any discernable amount of talent anywhere on or in Keeley Shaye-Smith; is Karl Malden hiding the legendary Lost Dutchmen's Mines somewhere in the vast recessess if his nostrils?; did Perry Mason eat Det. Lt. Berger??; and finally, just how did Virginia Madsen NOT win the Best Supporting Oscar for "Sideways" but Thomas Haden Church did?! Perhaps YOU, may be able to help solve a mystery."

[marahnna]

[SP4CE INV4DERZ]

...well I just can't believe Corky typed all that up that would of taken hours!

[GoldenGirlsFan92]

Originally Posted by boechsner

Expect older episodes this upcoming week. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict the following episodes will air:

November 2, 1988
November 9, 1988
November 30, 1988
December 14, 1988
January 11, 1989

Then they will most likely move off into the 1994-1995 season.

Now I really wish I got Lifetime Real Women. I miss UM.

[Corky Kneivel]

Originally Posted by Space Invaderz

...well I just can't believe Corky typed all that up that would of taken hours!

LOL, just under one actually (work kept interrupting). Glad you have a sense of humor.

[iliekcheezomg]

Morbid curiosity, does anybody know how often LRW rotates the seasons? They were showing the 80s eps during the crappy weekend 4-5 AM slots back in January, but when I was home in March they were showing newer episodes all week long.

One thing I've noticed about the newer episodes: there's way too much emphasis on the supernatural-type cases. In the week that I was home for spring break, I think there was a ghost story in every episode I saw. And Keely Shaye just seemed like a lame attempt to sex the show up more than anything.

[boechsner]

Originally Posted by iliekcheezomg

Morbid curiosity, does anybody know how often LRW rotates the seasons? They were showing the 80s eps during the crappy weekend 4-5 AM slots back in January, but when I was home in March they were showing newer episodes all week long.

One thing I've noticed about the newer episodes: there's way too much emphasis on the supernatural-type cases. In the week that I was home for spring break, I think there was a ghost story in every episode I saw. And Keely Shaye just seemed like a lame attempt to sex the show up more than anything.

Lifetime airs the episodes in an order that is not logical. Generally, though the episodes are aired in blocks. Within those blocks they are generally in airdate order. The block you saw back in January was as follows

These are sometimes flipped around:

The end of the Jan-May 1989 Block
2001-2003 Block
September-December 1989 Block

Most recently:

October 1995-May 1996
February 1997-May 1997

Currently:

October 1988-January 11, 1989

Keep in mind there are some random episodes that often act to divide the blocks for instance: December 9, 1994 episode and December 23, 1992 episodes which recently aired. See the LRW episode post.

Look ahead for a block from the 1994-1995 season and later a September-November 1990 block.