8.5/10 13 votes#1 - Episode #68
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1990
Segments: the murder of a North Carolina woman who was shot in her car while returning home from a holiday party; fortunetelling scam artists working in the Midwest. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10 18 votes
#2 - Episode #113
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1991
Segments: evidence said to refute historical theories on the deaths of Old West outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; the death of a pediatric nurse who had been harassed and terrorized for seven years; a woman's search for her siblings.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10 17 votes
#3 - Episode #285
Season 6 Episode 30 - Aired 4/6/1994
Reports include the 1986 disappearance of a Morro Bay, Cal., man, whose wife was murdered in 1982. Also: repeat segments on the hunt for a fugitive health-care worker; an update on a German Air Force officer's search for his biological father.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10 23 votes
#4 - Episode #27
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/24/1989
A report on the capture and arrest of an alleged swindler. Also: repeat stories on the search for a missing Nebraska mother; the dragnet for the killers of a Philidelphia child.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10 23 votes
#5 - Episode #53
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1990
Reports on the disappearance of a young Ohio woman more than eight years ago; the search for a Florida woman wanted for questioning in a 2 million theft from her ailing husband; the manhunt for an alleged armed robber and killer on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10 38 votes
#6 - Episode #91
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1990
The series' third season opens with a report on sightings of a bright orange fireball that crashed in Pennsylvania and was reportedly removed under military supervision; a woman's first meeting with her biological father; an arsonist's home movies.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 14 votes
#7 - Episode #65
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1990
A 45-year-old kidnapping case examines a Chicago man's search for his brother, who was abducted from their parents' home. Also: a profile of a Missouri man who preyed on women's hearts and pocketbooks.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 20 votes
#8 - Episode #287
Season 6 Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1994
Segments include a $7 million hidden treasure, reportedly buried in New York in 1933 by gangster Dutch Schultz; a couple who in 1993 became victims of a gunman in a Marietta, GA., hotel room; a 1988 child abduction; the Texas murder of a woman and her 5-year-old.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 25 votes
#9 - Episode #52
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1989
Repeat segments on a New Jersey woman whose psychic powers are tested; and 19th century miner credited with hiding 21 million in gold and silver. Also: an update on the capture of an Iowan wanted for embezzlement.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 18 votes
#10 - Episode #55
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1990
Segments on an Oklahoma boy's search for his grandfather, who has been missing for more than 40 years; a near-fatal attack on a Connecticut woman; a hearing-impaired Ohio woman's quest to locate her biological father; and the murder of a Nashville man, which is reportedly linked to the music charts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 15 votes
#11 - Episode #61
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1990
Reports on the murders of two Washington teens; nocturnal sightings in the skies above Texas; the vanishing of a Pennsylvania security guard and a fortune in platinum. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 14 votes
#12 - Episode #63
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1990
Segments on the reunion of lost members of an Oklahoma family; the search for an Arizona couple who posed as doctors reportedly to defraud unsuspecting patients. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 14 votes
#13 - Episode #64
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1990
Segments on a ""Southern belle"" who, according to this report, bilked investors out of millions in a pyramid scheme; a Colorado Vietnam veteran's search for a fellow soldier.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 13 votes
#14 - Episode #67
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/11/1990
From November: Reports on the shooting of a former San Diego cop, who resigned from the force after testifying against fellow cops; the capture of a scam artist who preyed upon a Florida nudist camp. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 12 votes
#15 - Episode #117
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 3/8/1991
From 1988: Segments examine the claim that the Queen Mary luxury liner is haunted by a sailor's ghost; rumors of a haunted 18th-century Merion (Pa.) inn; and apparitions that torment a Georgia couple. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 27 votes
#16 - Episode #147
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1991
Beginning a fourth season: U.S. military officers discuss a 1980 sighting of an unidentified flying craft near a U.S. air base in England. Also: the murders of two Texas teens reportedly involved with a cult; a Nashville, Tenn., woman's discovery about her parentage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 21 votes
#17 - Episode #152
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1991
Reports on suspicions surrounding the disappearance of an Oregon police officer's son; an Indiana man's search for a friend and father figure of 20 years ago; the hunt for a man who reportedly murdered his estranged wife and her co-worker in front of witnesses; the recovery of a Maryland amnesia victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 27 votes
#18 - Episode #161
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/11/1991
Reports: a con game using state lottery tickets that took in millions of dollars in New York state alone; the search for a homeless person who may stand to inherit $100,000; a former runaway's search for three of her nine estranged siblings.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 21 votes
#19 - Episode #164
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/8/1992
Repeat segments on new theories in the death of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; and the disappearance of a 65-year-old man with no past. Also: viewer tips leading to the arrest of a fugitive child molester.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 23 votes
#20 - Episode #166
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/22/1992
Repeat reports on the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the controversy surrounding the Shroud of Turin; and the search for the husband of a murdered Rochester, N.Y., woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 17 votes
#21 - Episode #172
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/4/1992
New reports on a rash of Northern California pizza-restaurant robberies; the reunion of a millionaire and his daughter; and a fugitive's arrest in Colorado for kidnapping and murder. Repeat segments include U.S. intelligence reports suggesting there were survivors of a spy plane shot down over Laos in 1973; and the search for a fugitive con artist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 27 votes
#22 - Episode #308
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1994
A seventh season opens with reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man creature, once exhibited at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; coincidences linking adoptees with their birth families; the probe into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 23 votes
#23 - Episode #313
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1994
Reports include video footage of alleged UFO sightings that occured over Mexico City in 1991 during a solar eclipse; a fugitive's arrest in Cobb County, Ga.; the 1992 murder of a man who was asleep in his vehicle; and the search for a missing Rhode Island couple.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 19 votes
#24 - Episode #28
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/31/1989
Included: updates on a Michigan man recently arrested in connection with the murder of his wife; and the apprehension of a California extortion-letter writer. Also: repeat segments on the search for the killers of an Ohio teenager; and puzzling tragedies involving two priests.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 39 votes
#25 - Episode #39
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1989
A report on the alleged cover-up of a reported UFO crash landing opens the second season. Also: the story of a Vietnam veteran's 20-year search for a nurse who helped him rebuild his body and mind; and the hunt for the kidnappers of a boy and girl in New Mexico.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Unsolved Mysteries
Every episode of Unsolved Mysteries ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Unsolved Mysteries!
Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with tips to help solve the cases.
Genres:MysteryDramaCrime
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" is "Episode #68", rated 8.5/10 from 13 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Episode #68" aired on 4/18/1990 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Episode #113".