That hipster ring special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. The ring and more electronic devices - some embedded - keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. Hugh O'Brian portrays Lockwood and Burgess Meredith is his mission director in Probe, a telefilm that has Lockwood on a quest to recover priceless diamonds lost since World War II. O'Brian and Meredith reprised their roles in Search, the 1972-73 TV series inspired by the film.
Before
Search became a regular NBC series in the fall of 1972, the network aired a 2-hour (counting time for commercials) pilot telefilm in February 1972 under the name "
Probe" (the name had to be changed for the weekly program, as PBS already had a series by the name of the telefilm!). The original TV-movie included Hugh O'Brian, Burgess Meredith, Elke Sommer, Angel Tompkins, A. Martinez and Sir John Gielgud. Now the Warner Archive Collection's MOD (manufacture on demand) program is releasing a single-disc, 95-minute DVD of
Probe, shipping starting on
May 3rd. You can pre-order it from the studio's online store, WBshop, right away at a cost of $19.95 SRP. The link to do that is just below, followed by a peek at the packaging. Check it out:
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