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1972

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Released: 13 September 1972 Ended
Producted By: Warner Bros. Television
Country: United States of America
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Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens, and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman, John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows.

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
John Green I vividly remember watching this show every week. For the time the technology was pretty amazing. We were still using a good old rotary dial phone back then and no one even heard of a personal computer or miniature wireless surveillance cameras. That was even more technology than they used on Star Trek! Burgess Merideth was wonderful working in "Cameron Probe Control" and Doug McClure was probably my favorite agent. Today, technology has exceeded the tools used in this program but it would be great to see it brought back in a present day form using the technology we have now. If this program ever re-appears in some media format, I would love to see it again.
Falkenberg2006 As I recall, this show wasn't given a chance. I know that in the San Francisco Bay Area it was preempted 5 times ( ! ) in it's original run, including for 2 shows on the energy crisis !!I loved the show, but the best episodes were the one's with Hugh O'Brien and I can still hear Burgess Meredith going practically insane and yelling " Lockwood ! Do you copy ! " and Lockwood ignoring him.The episodes with Doug McClure, and Franciosa weren't as good.I had a terrible crush on Angel Tompkins, too.A guy in Palos Verdes Peninsula was selling copies of the Probe scanner. Wish I still had one but I lost it.George Senda Martinez, Ca
short_blondie50 "Search" changed my life. How? you ask? I thought it was so cool and gave me an interest in computers. Back in the 1970's middle class families had never even heard of computers, at least mine hadn't. At that point in my life, I was in need of a job and chose to try out the field of computers. Of course, back then, it was the BIG main frames. Now just about everyone has a laptop or PC. The actors were the greatest and I, like most of you, liked Burgess, Hugh, Doug and Tony. I always wondered why it was taken off the air. It was so interesting to me to watch Burgess sitting in front of his computer monitor, directing the agent that was in the field for that episode. Watching the tapes whirling around and the lights flashing and then all the amazing things that the agent could do with the touch of a button. It has been so long ago that I really am foggy as to what really happened in most of the shows but it changed my life forever. Didn't Hugh wear a necklace around his neck that he could talk to Burgess through? I really wish that they would re-run all the episodes so that I could tape them all.
JamesL-4 "Search" is a series that failed to find its audience mainly because most of that audience was already in bed (time slot 9 or 10 PM on a school night; it was the first series I got to stay up late for!). It's also a series that could not have existed before the world watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, since the concept of a room full of specialists monitoring and assisting the agent is, of course, based on the room full of specialists in Houston who monitor and assist our astronauts.Note that Bob Justman (of Star Trek fame) was involved; undoubtedly it was because of Star Trek's influence that the aforementioned room full of specialists included African-Americans, Asian-Americans and women.All in all, it's a shame it didn't catch on, but then again, most of the audience had to be in bed early on school nights. Incidentally, the pilot film used to show up on local stations every year or so, though not for quite a few years.

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