Distributor:
First Look Media Certificate: Not Rated |
Region 1 | NTSC Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Robert
Stack
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Running
for 14 years (from 1988 to 2002)
Unsolved Mysteries helped try
and shed light on all manner of
strange and bizarre mysteries
and hosted by Robert “Maybe
You Can Solve A Mystery” Stack
for most of it’s run. First
Look media have decided to
release a whole raft of box sets
featuring classic episodes from
the series. Cleverly they have
decided to theme the releases
and the first two off the blocks
are UFO’s and Ghosts.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
The
UFO’S 26 episode collection spread over four discs covers such
stalwarts of the UFO scene as Roswell and Area 51, The Face on Mars, Crop Circles, Alien
Abductions and the Nazca Lines. All manner of theories are proposed and
there are interviews with straight faced witnesses galore and they are
all firmly convinced that aliens are amongst us.
GHOSTS offers up another four discs of prime
episodes and again the delights are pretty much the same, famous cases
such as the Mary Celeste, The Queen Mary Ghosts, Lizzie Borden’s House
are given a thorough going over with interviews with ghost experts and
the like.
Now depending on
your mind set you will either believe that every story on these discs
are true or that a certain amount of dramatic licence has been used to
focus on peoples need for rational explanations for the unexplainable,
we are firmly in the latter camp but these are still more than nicely
entertaining releases and well worth checking out.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Each box set has
an okay set of extras and featured on both is a 15 minute tribute to
Robert Stack who unfortunately died in 2003, other bonus features
include a short segment with producers John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn
Meurer; stacks of commentaries and behind the scenes footage of a couple
of “solves”.
