'Unsolved Mysteries' Reboot to Debut on Netflix in July

Streaming network Netflix is scheduled to reboot the classic television mystery series Unsolved Mysteries on July 1st.

Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, the original production company run by Unsolved Mysteries creators John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer are helping to oversee production.

The first season will feature 12 episodes in a format that should be familiar to longtime fans of the show, which used a mixture of interviews and reenactments to explore mysteries centered around missing persons, unsolved crimes, the paranormal, and other unexplained phenomena.

"Unsolved Mysteries was first broadcast in January of 1987, and is one of the longest running programs in the history of television. Each episode features four to five segments profiling real-life mysteries and an update of a case which has been solved. Segment categories include: murder, missing persons, wanted fugitives, UFOs, ghosts, paranormal, missing heirs, amnesia, fraud, among others," a statement published to the show's website read. "Unsolved Mysteries was the first television series to introduce an audience interactive call-to-action requesting viewer tips to help solve real cases. Out of more than 1000 cases profiled in 230 episodes, over half the cases featuring wanted fugitives have been solved, most as a result of viewer tips. More than one hundred families have been reunited with lost loved ones and several cases involving missing heirs, murder, fraud and amnesia have also been solved. In seven cases, individuals wrongly convicted of crimes have been released following UM broadcasts."

The original Unsolved Mysteries series aired almost 600 episodes between 1987 and 2010, and was hosted by Robert Stack through 2002, with Dennis Farina hosting the final 175 episodes from 2008 to 2010.

This time around, however, the show will be presented in “pure documentary style” with “no host and no narrator," according to Cosgrove.

In addition, each of the first season’s 12 episodes will focus on a single mystery, rather than several per episode.

The show’s iconic reenactments and interviews with eyewitnesses and family members will remain.

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