Netflix wants to give us nightmares again. It has been announced that the streamer is set to reboot Unsolved Mysteries.
The series, which was hosted by Robert Stack and ran for over 500 episodes between 1987 and 2010, is being refreshed by Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his company 21 Laps Entertainment and Netflix. The 12-part show will use re-enactments in a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries and unsolved crimes, lost love, cases involving missing persons and unexplained paranormal events. Each episode will focus on one mystery. In the original series, actors played the victims, criminals, and witnesses but family members and police were regularly interviewed.
Unsolved Mysteries ran on NBC between 1987 and 1997 and CBS picked it up for two years after it was canceled. Lifetime aired a number of new episodes in 2001/2002 and Spike also picked it up between 2008 and 2010 with Dennis Farina replacing Stack.
