They just don’t compose TV show themes like they used to... with catchy hooks, amazing orchestrations, and that undefinable “something” which made them so memorable. Really feeling the nostalgia. 🙂
I actually have the original 1972 95 minute pilot on VHS with Hugh 'O' Brien. This was one of the best series ever on television. My daughter and I were watching it so much we had to convert it to DVD. It still rocks after all these years.
An amazing score - so 70s with the unison flutes and trumpets with horn flairs with just a hint of violins - and the touch of secret agent riffs the trombones -- just perfect.
Thank you for posting this. After all these years, I still remembered Frontiere's vivid theme music for this pilot, as well as the rotating diamond motif. And HERE IT IS! Even better than I remember it!
WOW! Brings back the memories! I loved this show, whether it was called "Probe" and/or "Search". I had no idea Leslie Stevens was behind It (The Outer Limits), nor that Domonic Frontiere had done the fantastic theme song (also from the Outer Limits). I loved this show when it was on NBC and watched it, as well as "Night Gallery" religiously. Not to mention the NBC Mystery Movies. This was a great time for television!!!
@methu124 I agree. Absolutely beautiful. Dominic Frontiere, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams, and Jerry Goldsmith composed some of the most awesome television theme music. They'll never be equaled much less surpassed. Now we don't even get television themes, just credits rolling during a show's dialogue. The end credits are even worse with a diminished screen within a screen so small that it's impossible to read the credits and you can't hear any music because of the load voiceover. Crazy!
About a year ago, I discovered this movie in my dad's bin. He recorded it in 1982 off of Superstation WTBS. Tape also includes "I Go Pogo" (recorded off of The Movie Channel) and Blake Edwards' "The Party" (recorded off of Cinemax). Great tape! And this movie is awesome. The music is kickass, and Lockwood is one of the coolest spies I have ever seen!
Wow!! I remember this show so well. I use to love the way his command center could communicate with the agents... That was so called... A ring and or neckless and the earphone.....
Here in the UK Probe was transmitted under the name of Search Control. I remember the catch phrase "Lock in, Lockwood" Uttered by Burgess Meredith when contacting Agent Hugh O'Brien through the receiver secreted in his teeth. 2 other agents featured were Tony Franciosa & Doug McClure. Happy times.
Intros such as this make me sad for today's programs; no theme music, only a few seconds of a title, and closing credits are pushed aside by ads for other programs.
@@Setebos Music is a lost art. Who knows how to arrange an orchestra today? That stuff is slated for the big budget film productions. It is about making $$$ and not creativity (unless that can make money too!) Why pay an orchestra when a few folks can crank out something cheaply?
I loved, loved, loved this show! And Longstreet. Two well-written and acted detective programs with actors I loved. I became a fan of Burgess Meredith with Batman, and this introduced me to computers and electronics.
I am so thrilled to see this post. This was my favorite TV theme in the summer of 1973 (as the title theme for Search) and this extended version is a dream come true.
On the back of the box for the 'Complete Series ', it says, "The Coolest Spy-Fi Show You've Never Seen!" Which was true, except that I DID see it. When it originally broadcast. I thought it was cool then. And given some of the shows that HAVE been brought back for another go, well, just imagine what they could do with this concept and our current technology. Are you listening at The CW?
First time I heard the full version of the elegant but strong theme music by Dominic Frontiere. The title is also beautiful. This is great, thank you for posting!
When, and most importantly, WHERE did Warner Brothers, release the full compilation of the "Probe"/"Search" TV series? I would CHEERFULLY fork over MAJOR MOOLAH, to watch every episode of this great series!
Hey mhinrichs, My brother and I were reminiscing tonight and came across a number of PROBE/SEARCH themes and we just wanted to both thank you SO VERY MUCH for providing us such a wonderfully special moment! This was our favorite show back then. All the love to you buddy! Thanks from 2 total fans in San Diego! :-)
After all of this time- this music still holds up. I can't believe it has been 35 years. Most of these people are either dead or on social security. Hugh O' Brian must be about 85 years old now
Just ordered the Pilot DVD. Love the title music, great theme! Just like as already been mentioned, Frontiere could sure write music and Stevens had a great eye for the engaging sci-fi futuristic material!
Thank God that TV series were comprised of between 24-30 episodes per season back then, instead of the 10-12 we get today. (That would be classified as a TV miniseries back then.) Otherwise, we would have been deprived of the cleverness of this series and it's hi- tech concept, since it only lasted 1 season, and was cancelled by the "forward thinking" network executives.
So glad you posted this. The audio and video are fantastic, and it brings back such great memories for me. I was 18 when this show came out and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Until I watched the clip tonight, the last time I had seen anything relating to this show was when it went off the air in August 1973. With nearly 50,000 hits, maybe your post will convince some of the "powers that be" that it may be a good time to release a DVD of this show.
Obviously, this tv theme music reflects the influence of the music from the 60's [i.e. rock, pop] on the writing of Frontiere, but I would not be surprised if he was not given total musical freedom by Hollywood execs...although I do notice that this show was produced by Leslie Stevens, who Frontiere worked closely with on "the Outer Limits"...
@SolarisBreeze57 Frontiere was a master! His Outer Limits theme will always stay with me (referring to the first season - not the second, which was scored by someone else using a theremin. His themes, or rather, parts of them were played throughout the first season. ABC always used parts of "The Galaxy Being" and the second episode aired, which I think was called "100 Days of the Dragon." Parts of both of these scores were used to fill out 1st season episodes. Stunning music!!
GREAT to the 12th power! Man, I also recall being glued to the TV (late hour or not) every week for this show. Kind of a blend of James Bond with Star Trek (at least the hi-techiness of Trek). I won't belabor NBC's stupidity in canceling the show as everyone else has already done it. With the fewness of episodes, I seriously doubt we fans will ever see a DVD release - but never say never, ya know? Thanks to you, mhenrichs for the memories!
A superb theme. I *think* the pilot film was "Probe" which then became "Search" for the series? In my experience, people usually refer to it as "Search Probe" which makes it slightly clearer the series you're talking about! Either way, the nebulous/non-descriptive title is really the only poor aspect of this pioneering, fun idea of a series about agents in constant touch with a base of operations who can support and update them in real time. Being the 1970s, I think it was three male agents that the show cycled round, and no females. The comms ideas have since been adopted by virtually all espionage-based TV shows, such as Alias, Chuck, and Agents of SHIELD. :-)
I was living in Germany when this show debut.....I was visiting family and I thought this was sooo cool!! It was a hip show for a 10 year old kid.....we use to play this outside.....I always wanted to be Lockwood......=) I'm ordering the movie on Amazon
Thank you for posting this. I got to watch this show when I was a kid and thought it was very cool them. I have had the theme song in my head for years and hummed it on those days when I was sad. Now as i hear it and see the video for it. All I can do is think happy thoughts of cool pieces of music where people really played music and my world was a much bigger place. Thank again for the posting. you are the best. !!!!!
I watched the PROBE/SEARCH series back in the day and it was great! Thanks, mhinrichs, for uploading the video; I've watched it numerous times and am listening to the great theme music now. I also wound up ordering the DVD from Warner Brothers WBshop online today - $14.95 and free shipping!
This is one great theme. It's always stayed with me since childhood, I'd say the best ever. The theme to another one of his is Vegas with Robert Urich which is great .
Absolutely LOVED this series. Having 3 lead actors rotate kept it fresh. Was really sad that it was cancelled. Had hoped they'd eventually do episodes with 2 or even all 3 heroes. ne could have been in jeopardy while the other(s) worked to rescue. IF it were to be redone I'd like to see 3 KNOWN leads - have 1 a woman - instead of 3 unknowns. Just like the original show used well-known tv actors.
Thanks a bunch. Great stuff. I'm not famiilar with this series, but will look into it. Leslie Stevens was half of Outer Limits creative team if memory serves.
And subsequently, the movie/pilot's title was changed to match the TV series, "Search" - it was under this revised title that it was shown as a film on New York station WNBC-TV's "Movie 4" on May 11, 1973, a year after its original airing - and a year before "Movie 4" was cancelled to make room for a two-hour newscast, "NewsCenter4," whose set was designed by the same person (Fred Harpman) who'd designed the "Probe/Search Control" set out of which Burgess Meredith's character worked.
Actually this clip inspired me. I found the movie on mininova and now having seen it in its entirety for the 1st time in 36 years, I remember why I chose a technology career! This show was ahead of its time; no wonder it was cancelled eventually by NBC.
Can't believe you even have this. How did you get it? One of the great underrated shows of the 70s. Certainly on par with The Man From Uncle. Have to say, though, Burn Notice is pretty good for the modern era.
I got it from a Search tribute website. No, it's not on DVD. Tell Warner Bros.! I've never seen Probe/Search but based on the opening it looked like a groovy show.
and he also composed one of TV's all-time scariest closing logo jingles from 1969-70 in the Paramount Television closing logo jingle called to some as the "Closet Killer." You can hear his "Closet Killer" jingle logo at the end of shows produced by Paramount-TV between 1969 and Oct./Nov. 1970 such as "The Brady Bunch," "Mission: Impossible," "The Odd Couple" among those shows in that time period.
That was nice...This was a great show... I remember when the theme song was updated... But this was a great show in general.... Wow!!!! Thanks...Yeah, Probe became Seach! Thanks...
They just don’t compose TV show themes like they used to... with catchy hooks, amazing orchestrations, and that undefinable “something” which made them so memorable. Really feeling the nostalgia. 🙂
Classic 70’s high end TV ! All you guys RIP & thank you for all you gave us !
Used to watch this show every week ..I was about 11 / 12 but the theme got me involved straight away !
Suddenly I'm 9years old again. I loved this Show it went out on Wednesday Nights
I have to listen to this theme at least once a month...
Loved the theme as a 12 year old kid when this first came out and still do. One of the best TV themes ever.
I actually have the original 1972 95 minute pilot on VHS with Hugh 'O' Brien. This was one of the best series ever on television. My daughter and I were watching it so much we had to convert it to DVD. It still rocks after all these years.
An amazing score - so 70s with the unison flutes and trumpets with horn flairs with just a hint of violins - and the touch of secret agent riffs the trombones -- just perfect.
I was 7 in 1972 and this theme has stuck in my head since then.
Ever since then, I have had this music stuck in my head. TY for sharing.
懐かしいです。昔、よく見たテレビドラマで素晴らしい作品であると今でも思っています！！
A very smooth, elegant piece of music. You never hear this kind of class on television. Only music stolen from rock bands just synthesized garbage.
I remember the show and liked it a lot, I was13 or 14 y/o. Had a book based on the TV show.
Decades of having to play this in my head because it didn't exist anywhere else. Yay, RUclips.
I've never heard of this show, but thanks to RUclips's algorithms, now I do. The music is divine!
Thank you for posting this. After all these years, I still remembered Frontiere's vivid theme music for this pilot, as well as the rotating diamond motif. And HERE IT IS! Even better than I remember it!
WOW! Brings back the memories! I loved this show, whether it was called "Probe" and/or "Search". I had no idea Leslie Stevens was behind It (The Outer Limits), nor that Domonic Frontiere had done the fantastic theme song (also from the Outer Limits). I loved this show when it was on NBC and watched it, as well as "Night Gallery" religiously. Not to mention the NBC Mystery Movies. This was a great time for television!!!
As well as Robert Justman.
@methu124 I agree. Absolutely beautiful. Dominic Frontiere, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams, and Jerry Goldsmith composed some of the most awesome television theme music. They'll never be equaled much less surpassed. Now we don't even get television themes, just credits rolling during a show's dialogue. The end credits are even worse with a diminished screen within a screen so small that it's impossible to read the credits and you can't hear any music because of the load voiceover. Crazy!
Why did you leave out Elmer Bernstein
Thjis show really takes me back.. Hugh Obrian was about the handsomest man i had ever seen and he will be 90 years old this year
About a year ago, I discovered this movie in my dad's bin. He recorded it in 1982 off of Superstation WTBS. Tape also includes "I Go Pogo" (recorded off of The Movie Channel) and Blake Edwards' "The Party" (recorded off of Cinemax). Great tape! And this movie is awesome. The music is kickass, and Lockwood is one of the coolest spies I have ever seen!
Wow!! I remember this show so well. I use to love the way his command center could communicate with the agents... That was so called... A ring and or neckless and the earphone.....
Here in the UK Probe was transmitted under the name of Search Control. I remember the catch phrase "Lock in, Lockwood" Uttered by Burgess Meredith when contacting Agent Hugh O'Brien through the receiver secreted in his teeth. 2 other agents featured were Tony Franciosa & Doug McClure. Happy times.
Intros such as this make me sad for today's programs; no theme music, only a few seconds of a title, and closing credits are pushed aside by ads for other programs.
Agreed. Imaginative opening credits are becoming a lost art.
Setebos so true.....
Maurice BInder, the man who designed the James Bond credits, would have been proud.
@@Setebos Music is a lost art. Who knows how to arrange an orchestra today? That stuff is slated for the big budget film productions. It is about making $$$ and not creativity (unless that can make money too!) Why pay an orchestra when a few folks can crank out something cheaply?
Burgess Meredith played Cameron, the chief scientist/controller at the Probe control room
I loved, loved, loved this show! And Longstreet. Two well-written and acted detective programs with actors I loved. I became a fan of Burgess Meredith with Batman, and this introduced me to computers and electronics.
NBC biew it
I am so thrilled to see this post. This was my favorite TV theme in the summer of 1973 (as the title theme for Search) and this extended version is a dream come true.
I rember this fondly as well as the follow up TV Series "Search" both shown here in the UK. Fantastic opening title sequence.
This is one series that deserves a 21st century update either as a series or movie..enjoyed this when I was in Jr. High..
YES!! FULLY AGREE!!!
On the back of the box for the 'Complete Series ', it says, "The Coolest Spy-Fi Show You've Never Seen!"
Which was true, except that I DID see it. When it originally broadcast. I thought it was cool then. And given some of the shows that HAVE been brought back for another go, well, just imagine what they could do with this concept and our current technology. Are you listening at The CW?
First time I heard the full version of the elegant but strong theme music by Dominic Frontiere. The title is also beautiful. This is great, thank you for posting!
That is fantastic. Thank you!!!
I rember watching this TV show when I as a kid growing up in the '70s.
I'm going through a period where I am positively hooked on this ... clearly the all-time greatest theme/titles for a series that didn't make it!
I've been going thru that same period for the last 50years!
RIP Mr. O'Brian, you were great as Hugh Lockwood in Probe and in Search. Miss you!
Yeah, well, he wasn't bad as Wyatt Earp, either
This used to be a really good show on NBC on Saturdays. And that theme kicked ass.
Wens 9:00pm central. 1972-73 season. At least in the USA. :)
Same show - the pilot TV movie was called "Probe"; when it was picked up as a series the title was changed to "Search".
Thank you for clearing that up for me
I'm so glad this is available on DVD -- as is the entire series.
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@@carloschacon4189 What's your problem -- or what's that language, lol?
Just picked up my copy and finished watching episode #1. Well ahead of its time...JUST LIKE STAR TREK!
By-the-way, a great big THANK YOU to Warner Brothers for releasing the full compilation of the series.
When, and most importantly, WHERE did Warner Brothers, release the full compilation of the "Probe"/"Search" TV series?
I would CHEERFULLY fork over MAJOR MOOLAH, to watch every episode of this great series!
@@WalterDWormack214 They did about 8 years ago You can check Amazon to see if it's still available.
Hey mhinrichs,
My brother and I were reminiscing tonight and came across a number of PROBE/SEARCH themes and we just wanted to both thank you SO VERY MUCH for providing us such a wonderfully special moment! This was our favorite show back then. All the love to you buddy! Thanks from 2 total fans in San Diego! :-)
After all of this time- this music still holds up. I can't believe it has been 35 years. Most of these people are either dead or on social security. Hugh O' Brian must be about 85 years old now
RIP Hugh O'Brian. You gave us some good acting in this series.
Absolutely love this ...
I love watching this intro to PROBE (SEARCH) and listening to Dominic Frontiere main title.
What a catchy theme..really classy....
Oh jolly well said, Dennis old stick!
Agreed
Dominic Frontiere composed a great score for this as well as Leslie Steven's other classic series, 'The Outer Limits'.
His music is CRYING to be re-discovered!!!!!!
Wow! Haven't seen this in YEARS! A really great off-beat tv-movie and later series. Thanks for posting!
62 yeats old. Still one of my favorite shows and yes, awesome muaic.
Probe became Search...This was Dominic's Second TV Production for Leslie Stevens.Doing the Intro for Name of the Game from 1968-71..
Just ordered the Pilot DVD. Love the title music, great theme! Just like as already been mentioned, Frontiere could sure write music and Stevens had a great eye for the engaging sci-fi futuristic material!
Agreed the theme was/is awesome. Great series so glad to have seen it's first showing. I'd forgotten that Sir John Gielgud was part of the series.
I like this theme song, too. I'm thinking of buying the whole tv series from the Archive Network.
I agree! Need to wait for extra funds, though;-)
Me too. If I get it before you do, I'll upload the episodes for everyone to watch.
Now this is a series that should be brought back. Another series I enjoyed was It Takes A Thief.
I so LOVED this show...greatest theme song ever.
Thank God that TV series were comprised of between 24-30 episodes per season back then, instead of the 10-12 we get today. (That would be classified as a TV miniseries back then.) Otherwise, we would have been deprived of the cleverness of this series and it's hi- tech concept, since it only lasted 1 season, and was cancelled by the "forward thinking" network executives.
Thanks for posting the link about the dvd being available. I've been looking for this for years and no luck.
@us71 Great news! I have the link to go buy it in this video's description now.
What happened to the old television shoes like Search and Checkmate .
A remake of this would be a lot better than most of the shows and movies that are out there now to see!
YES!!!
So glad you posted this. The audio and video are fantastic, and it brings back such great memories for me. I was 18 when this show came out and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Until I watched the clip tonight, the last time I had seen anything relating to this show was when it went off the air in August 1973.
With nearly 50,000 hits, maybe your post will convince some of the "powers that be" that it may be a good time to release a DVD of this show.
Obviously, this tv theme music reflects the
influence of the music from the 60's [i.e. rock, pop] on the writing of Frontiere, but I
would not be surprised if he was not given total musical freedom by Hollywood execs...although I do notice that this show
was produced by Leslie Stevens, who Frontiere worked closely with on "the Outer Limits"...
Superb tv series.Great theme tune and colourfull graphics.
This is early 70s futurism!! Love it!
@SolarisBreeze57 Frontiere was a master! His Outer Limits theme will always stay with me (referring to the first season - not the second, which was scored by someone else using a theremin. His themes, or rather, parts of them were played throughout the first season. ABC always used parts of "The Galaxy Being" and the second episode aired, which I think was called "100 Days of the Dragon." Parts of both of these scores were used to fill out 1st season episodes. Stunning music!!
I could imagine a rework of this series and a crossover between this one and Agents of SHIELD
This was a great show wow!!! I remember this from the 70's.. Just great!!!
We need "Probe" to be released as a Soundtrack!
Copy that!!
This was a great show... I love that music.
GREAT to the 12th power! Man, I also recall being glued to the TV (late hour or not) every week for this show. Kind of a blend of James Bond with Star Trek (at least the hi-techiness of Trek). I won't belabor NBC's stupidity in canceling the show as everyone else has already done it. With the fewness of episodes, I seriously doubt we fans will ever see a DVD release - but never say never, ya know? Thanks to you, mhenrichs for the memories!
A superb theme. I *think* the pilot film was "Probe" which then became "Search" for the series? In my experience, people usually refer to it as "Search Probe" which makes it slightly clearer the series you're talking about! Either way, the nebulous/non-descriptive title is really the only poor aspect of this pioneering, fun idea of a series about agents in constant touch with a base of operations who can support and update them in real time. Being the 1970s, I think it was three male agents that the show cycled round, and no females. The comms ideas have since been adopted by virtually all espionage-based TV shows, such as Alias, Chuck, and Agents of SHIELD. :-)
Great theme! I bought the pilot movie and the series from WB Archives!
Creator Leslie Stevens also wrote, Return To the Blue Lagoon. Which starred Milla Jovovich.
I like how the gemstone appears to morph shape...
Wow, I'd forgotten this show. Thanks!
I was living in Germany when this show debut.....I was visiting family and I thought this was sooo cool!! It was a hip show for a 10 year old kid.....we use to play this outside.....I always wanted to be Lockwood......=) I'm ordering the movie on Amazon
Thank you for posting this. I got to watch this show when I was a kid and thought it was very cool them. I have had the theme song in my head for years and hummed it on those days when I was sad. Now as i hear it and see the video for it. All I can do is think happy thoughts of cool pieces of music where people really played music and my world was a much bigger place. Thank again for the posting. you are the best. !!!!!
I watched the PROBE/SEARCH series back in the day and it was great! Thanks, mhinrichs, for uploading the video; I've watched it numerous times and am listening to the great theme music now. I also wound up ordering the DVD from Warner Brothers WBshop online today - $14.95 and free shipping!
Part of the series' is trying to guess which of the three heroes, Hugh, Doug or Tony will star in the chosen episode.
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This is the cool music!
That makes me feel nostalgic.
This is one great theme. It's always stayed with me since childhood, I'd say the best ever. The theme to another one of his is Vegas with Robert Urich which is great .
Remember, it was Leslie Stevens who was the creative force behind the ORIGINAL Outer Limits.
No wonder this show was so good.
That was a good show....Very nice...I remember watching it all the time...
Wow! I loved this show as a kid. It was so cool.
Absolutely LOVED this series. Having 3 lead actors rotate kept it fresh. Was really sad that it was cancelled. Had hoped they'd eventually do episodes with 2 or even all 3 heroes. ne could have been in jeopardy while the other(s) worked to rescue.
IF it were to be redone I'd like to see 3 KNOWN leads - have 1 a woman - instead of 3 unknowns. Just like the original show used well-known tv actors.
These actors were far from unknown at that time.
which actors are you referring to?
Yes, they were known. Other shows did the wheel thing too. Ex: Name of the Game.
Thanks a bunch. Great stuff. I'm not famiilar with this series, but will look into it. Leslie Stevens was half of Outer Limits creative team if memory serves.
And subsequently, the movie/pilot's title was changed to match the TV series, "Search" - it was under this revised title that it was shown as a film on New York station WNBC-TV's "Movie 4" on May 11, 1973, a year after its original airing - and a year before "Movie 4" was cancelled to make room for a two-hour newscast, "NewsCenter4," whose set was designed by the same person (Fred Harpman) who'd designed the "Probe/Search Control" set out of which Burgess Meredith's character worked.
Actually this clip inspired me. I found the movie on mininova and now having seen it in its entirety for the 1st time in 36 years, I remember why I chose a technology career! This show was ahead of its time; no wonder it was cancelled eventually by NBC.
Fantastic! This was one of my Favourite Shows!!!!
EAT IT, 2K T.V.!
I get a kick out of a Dominic Frontiere tune!
This is a series that could be revitalized.
Colin Johnson it sure could.but the estate keeps it from happening.
Hugh O'Brian Wyatt Earp,Jim Sinclair,Hugh Lockwood RIP.
Can't believe you even have this. How did you get it?
One of the great underrated shows of the 70s. Certainly on par with The Man From Uncle.
Have to say, though, Burn Notice is pretty good for the modern era.
Very cool -- I remember when it was called SEARCH but I guess this was the pilot.
I got it from a Search tribute website. No, it's not on DVD. Tell Warner Bros.! I've never seen Probe/Search but based on the opening it looked like a groovy show.
friend...thanks a lot .....amazing intro......amazing time !
Thanks a lot for posting !
Hugh O'Brian with titles by John Christopher Strong like Game Of Death
An incredible series and wonderful theme
The works of Dominic Frontiere is crying to be re-discovered!!!!
and he also composed one of TV's all-time scariest closing logo jingles from 1969-70 in the Paramount Television closing logo jingle called to some as the "Closet Killer."
You can hear his "Closet Killer" jingle logo at the end of shows produced by Paramount-TV between 1969 and Oct./Nov. 1970 such as "The Brady Bunch," "Mission: Impossible," "The Odd Couple" among those shows in that time period.
I watched this as an adolescent and loved it!
Angel Tompkins Forever!
That was nice...This was a great show... I remember when the theme song was updated... But this was a great show in general.... Wow!!!! Thanks...Yeah, Probe became Seach! Thanks...
i liked this