Earlier this year, Unsolved Mysteries returned in a radically different form. Despite the show’s inherent kitsch value (and the presence of Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy, who certainly knows the value of 80s nostalgia), this new iteration of the classic series (which ran, on various networks, from 1988 to 2002) shed many of its trappings. Gone was a garrulous host (although the legendary Robert Stack does make a ghostly appearance at the end of each episode’s title sequence), multiple mysteries per episode (the original series had at least four) and the rather impressionistic approach to dramatic reenactments. Instead, …