FOUND! An episode with Virginia Madsen

[omegadoom]

I've come across an original CBS recording for season 11, episode 1.

[freakbook]

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[TheCars1986]

Pretty underwhelming, IMO. I know an episode featuring Madsen was seen as a holy grail of sorts for UM fans, but after seeing it...it's literally Virginia Madsen's voice reading what should have been Stack's.

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

Pretty underwhelming, IMO. I know an episode featuring Madsen was seen as a holy grail of sorts for UM fans, but after seeing it...it's literally Virginia Madsen's voice reading what should have been Stack's.

Agreed. It's more of a mild curiosity than much else.

[drew790]

Feels like they were going for a Mulder and Scully thing with her. This was about a year after the movie. I couldn't get into her segments.

The other interesting thing is finally getting to see the full CBS narration and intro. Even though that theme came first it feels like it was made to fit the Lifetime one so much more than the CBS one.

[omegadoom]

I got that Mulder and Scully vibe too.

[Chichester Crowe]

Originally Posted by omegadoom

I've come across an original CBS recording for season 11, episode 1.

I'm amazed! You are the Indiana Jones of Unsolved Mysteries.

[Chichester Crowe]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

Pretty underwhelming, IMO. I know an episode featuring Madsen was seen as a holy grail of sorts for UM fans, but after seeing it...it's literally Virginia Madsen's voice reading what should have been Stack's.

I thought the holy grail was good-quality Final Appeal episodes?

[TheCars1986]

Originally Posted by Chichester Crowe

I thought the holy grail was good-quality Final Appeal episodes?

All of those were repackaged for the Farina reboot, and all of them (except maybe Jeffrey MacDonald, I can't remember) are available on Youtube. I've seen a fairly good quality of the Paul Ferrell episode, and when they were repackaged for the Farina show, they did not cut a ton of information out. There really isn't much missing.

[drew4824]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

All of those were repackaged for the Farina reboot, and all of them (except maybe Jeffrey MacDonald, I can't remember) are available on Youtube. I've seen a fairly good quality of the Paul Ferrell episode, and when they were repackaged for the Farina show, they did not cut a ton of information out. There really isn't much missing.

Just FYI, I traded the original NBC MacDonald broadcast to a few people on here last year. It has a few mins in the beginning missing and didn't have the Chicago Port segment (edited that segment in from LifeTime airing). I found it from an estate sale so that was quite an insane find.

[xxxxmattxxxx69]

The ratings were awful the last year on NBC and they were worse on CBS so Virginia Madsen was UM jumping the shark

[Nats2019Champs]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

Pretty underwhelming, IMO. I know an episode featuring Madsen was seen as a holy grail of sorts for UM fans, but after seeing it...it's literally Virginia Madsen's voice reading what should have been Stack's.

I remember watching a few of the Madsen-era episodes as a kid, her segments just didn't give me that "creepy" vibe that Bob's always did.

[James T]

Together in unsolved dreams.

[Hot Jock]

I definitely appreciated seeing this. I had completely forgotten about the wacky CBS era UM intro music too!

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Need to watch, need to watch, need to watch....

For me, it's the same thing-- I don't expect the Madsen episodes to be good. I just want to see them because I've never seen them before. UM is like pizza-- even when it's terrible, it's still pizza.