Touches You

Strong and Moving!

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I agree with the poster James-L. This was an awesome show, some great actors. Burgess Meredith as B. C. Cameron was awesome. I think he was a great actor and was so impressive in this show. There were some very fine actors in this show Hugh O'brian as Hugh Lockwood was the best in this show (aka "Wyatt Earp" another of my fave shows). Doug McClure and Tony Franciosa were awesome as well. This was truly a great great show. And I am so sorry it didn't last. Yes us old timers have seen a lot of TV and movies this show was so great I was so wanting it to make it at the time. The Man From UNCLE, I Spy, The Avengers, THE Cat, were all great TV spy and action shows. Search was so great with all the "cool tools" and great spy stuff.Maybe someday someone will create a new revised "Probe". But alas it was one of many fine shows that didn't last because of network popularity. There were many great lineups on all the 3 major networks then NBC, CBS, and ABC. This show is in my top ten list and besides "Star Trek" is my very all time favorite.

As the superspy genre on TV degenerated into cartoony comedy as the later episodes of Man from Uncle did, this series' updated spook gadgetry such as the use of remote viewing with telemetry analysis and diagnosis via rings and tie clips worn by the Probe agents. The whole premise however became prosaic and cheesy with the arrival shows like the Bionic Man/Woman with over the top gadgetry that practically turned the characters into robots.Probe was the title of the pilot episode which starred Hugh O'Brian as the field agent. Retitled as Search for the series, each episode had him, Doug McClure and Tony Franciosca on a round robin basis reminiscent of The Four Just Men of '50s vintage.O'Brian plays the cool, handsome ladykiller and perfect secret agent to the hilt while Doug Mclure portrays the vulnerable and consequently more sympathetic spook complete with various gaffes and goofs. Tony Franciosca channels it like a Mickey Spillane school of hard knocks private eye with a liberal sprinkling of the inimitable Franciosca humor.But the absolutely coolest thing on this show for me is the theme music. Couldn't find a track of it so I would actually turn off the radio when driving to play it in my head ---- tuhtuhrahrahrahrah - tararah- rah-rah. Great! Caught the theme recently on You Tube and there are two very similar versions, one for Probe and the more refined one for Search.

"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.

I seem to recall that there were THREE agents of Probe in "Search, or "Search Control", (as it was called here in the UK) and not just the two mentioned here already?Hugh O'Brien and Anthony Franciosa have both been included in several previous comments, but wasn't there a third agent who was played by Doug McLure, (the name of whom escapes me.) Am I correct in this, or is it just a warped memory and I'm confusing the actors concerned with another programme completely? I was about twelve years old at the time "Search Control" was first broadcast and I remember being totally enthralled by the sophistication and creative ingenuity of the technology involved.For me, Burgess Meredith stole the show completely each week, but it was Hugh O'Brien who was the most interesting of the three agents, and three actors who played them.The show was absolutely fantastic and well ahead of it's time!!!