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“Unsolved Mysteries” Just Hit Amazon Streaming; Robert Stack Episodes Coming Soon
Here’s everything you need to know about the digital roll-out.
We were super excited just last week to let you know that FilmRise had acquired worldwide distribution rights to chilling series “Unsolved Mysteries,“ which they promised would be hitting digital streaming platforms as early as this year. And indeed they just delivered on that promise, as “Unsolved Mysteries” can now be streamed over on Amazon, free for Prime members!
That’s the good news. The bad news, you ask? At least for the time being, what’s currently available for streaming isn’t the original “Unsolved Mysteries” series but rather the Dennis Farina-hosted run of the show that aired on Spike TV from 2008 to 2010. That incarnation of the show featured footage of past cases with new introductions, new music, and a new host in the form of Farina, and you can currently stream 66 episodes of that particular series through Amazon.
But even the bad news isn’t all that bad.
Those who were hoping FilmRise would be digitally presenting the original, Robert Stack-hosted run of “Unsolved Mysteries” will be happy to hear that yes, those episodes will be hitting Amazon and other streaming outlets in winter/spring 2017. Why the wait? Those original episodes are currently being revised with brand new updated information that has never before been seen.
They also plan on putting the remainder of the Farina episodes up in 2017.
So be patient. It’s all coming very very soon.
“Unsolved Mysteries” premiered as an NBC special in 1987. The series examined cold cases including bizarre crimes, missing persons’ reports, historical events and paranormal activity.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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