2929 From: actingman@... Date: Mon Jan 3, 2005 4:53am Subject: Fwd: SEARCH and his pilot movie in France actingman_jc Someone sent this to me privately...from the website. If anyone has any thoughts for him, please write to him directly, and feel free to cc the list. >From: "Thierry Attard" >To: >Subject: SEARCH and his pilot movie in France >Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:19:25 +0100 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >X-ELNK-AV: 0 > > >Dear Sir, > > >My name is Thierry Attard and I work for Objectif Cinéma, an important >French cinema website (285 000 visitors by month) and for its sister site >La Gazette du doublage, where I'm deputy chief editor and editor for >dubbing from Quebec. > >I remember quite well watching the pilot from SEARCH as a kid. >Unfortunately we didn't have the opportunity to see the rest. As a >specialist about TV-series I've often spoken about this show and the >reaction is always enthousiastic. So I'm asking myself if we could see >with Mr Hugh O'Brian or the co-owners of the international distribution >rights if we could find some way to manage a release on DVD in France. > >Of course there would be, among the mountain of problems to solve, the >facts to discover if the series was ever dubbed in French (I wonder if the >show could have been dubbed in Quebec, I'll ask). An other problem would >be to consider if the sound is suitable for DVD standards. Should the show >be dubbed or re-dubbed I would be happy and proud to act as a supervisor. > >As an humble journalist I cannot of course buy the rights of the show for >a DVD release but I know that the series would be deeply appreciated in >France. If the distributor is reluctant maybe a test with a release of the >pilot would convince the execs that there's a market. As a specialist of >the media industry and an economist I'm convinced that It would sell quite >well, as here old TV shows or animated series are hits on DVD sold in >newspaper shops. > > Not to mention the fact that it was a very, very good show. > > >By the way, allow me to wish you a happy new year. > > >Sincerely, > > >Thierry Attard (Objectif Cinéma) 2930 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Mon Jan 3, 2005 5:16am Subject: Re: Fwd: SEARCH & pilot movie in France dghprobe3 Hi: I enjoyed reading the post, and it sounds like a great idea. The PROBE pilot movie was shown in France back in the 1970's (but not the series), and a link to a French fan site was reprinted on this list some time back. However, I think he would have better luck contacting Unicorn or Warner Home Video and see if he could somehow get the rights to distribute a French version of the PROBE pilot movie first. Then use that as a starting point toward the 23-episode series. Open question: Do rights generally differ regarding VHS as opposed to DVD? Since DVD came later, I would imagine there would be some differences. Or are VHS and DVD rights regarded as the same? Either way, I wish our friend in France much luck. :-) --Don ---------------------------- --- In probe_control, actingman@m... wrote: > Someone sent this to me privately...from the website. > > If anyone has any thoughts for him, please write to him directly, and feel free to cc the list. 2931 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Mon Jan 3, 2005 5:43am Subject: 2005 to bring 111 shows to DVD dghprobe3 http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2657 An update on the TVshowsonDVD site says 111 shows are scheduled to be released on DVD in 2005. A couple of the series have Search connections. As we discussed before, "It Takes a Thief" and "McCloud" each had Leslie Stevens as one of the producers, along with various Search guest stars, writers, and directors working in different episodes. Malachi Throne appeared in the first season of "Thief" as Robert Wagner's boss. And Terry Carter was a regular throughout the run of "McCloud." John Strong recently mentioned he helped Leslie Stevens with "McCloud," but I don't think he's mentioned "Thief" so far. 2932 From: "Morningstar" Date: Tue Jan 4, 2005 8:21am Subject: Re: Fwd: SEARCH and his pilot movie in France am2star I would suggest a multi-pronged attack. Contacting Warner Home Video is the first contact. Then, some regional distributor, such as France TF1 and see if they would be interested. They worked with Carlton on "UFO" that was released in the United States through A&E. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, actingman@m... wrote: > Someone sent this to me privately...from the website. > > If anyone has any thoughts for him, please write to him directly, and feel > free to cc the list. > > > > >From: "Thierry Attard" > >To: > >Subject: SEARCH and his pilot movie in France > >Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:19:25 +0100 > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 > >X-ELNK-AV: 0 > > > > > >Dear Sir, > > > > > >My name is Thierry Attard and I work for Objectif Cinéma, an important > >French cinema website (285 000 visitors by month) and for its sister site > >La Gazette du doublage, where I'm deputy chief editor and editor for > >dubbing from Quebec. > > > >I remember quite well watching the pilot from SEARCH as a kid. > >Unfortunately we didn't have the opportunity to see the rest. As a > >specialist about TV-series I've often spoken about this show and the > >reaction is always enthousiastic. So I'm asking myself if we could see > >with Mr Hugh O'Brian or the co-owners of the international distribution > >rights if we could find some way to manage a release on DVD in France. > > > >Of course there would be, among the mountain of problems to solve, the > >facts to discover if the series was ever dubbed in French (I wonder if the > >show could have been dubbed in Quebec, I'll ask). An other problem would > >be to consider if the sound is suitable for DVD standards. Should the show > >be dubbed or re-dubbed I would be happy and proud to act as a supervisor. > > > >As an humble journalist I cannot of course buy the rights of the show for > >a DVD release but I know that the series would be deeply appreciated in > >France. If the distributor is reluctant maybe a test with a release of the > >pilot would convince the execs that there's a market. As a specialist of > >the media industry and an economist I'm convinced that It would sell quite > >well, as here old TV shows or animated series are hits on DVD sold in > >newspaper shops. > > > > Not to mention the fact that it was a very, very good show. > > > > > >By the way, allow me to wish you a happy new year. > > > > > >Sincerely, > > > > > >Thierry Attard (Objectif Cinéma) 2933 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Wed Jan 5, 2005 9:43pm Subject: Help! dmanmetz@... Happy new year gang! Well, after having a great Christmas and a wonderful new year, I finally got off of my butt and bought a new scanner! No not the a Probe agent type scanner but Hewlett-Packard type from Best Buy. Anyway, cutting to the chase, I have number unique Probe articles/ promotion photos, and what I believe may be the press release, or at least some of it. The biggest is a three page local TV guide interview with Hugh O'Brian when the show was still called Probe. My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail channel. I have the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two days trying to figure how to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it to everyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Remember, KISS ( keep it short and simple ) with any directions. The sooner someone comes to my aid, the sooner I can publish the material. Thanks. Chris PS Obviously I was cut out to be a Probe agent and not a Probe Tech. :) 2934 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 2:49am Subject: RE: Help! martadawes What version of Photoshop is it? Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of the Graveyards of Omaha and the New Twilight Zone Featuring the 2004 Twilight Zone Convention page! -----Original Message----- From: dmanmetz@... [mailto:dmanmetz@...] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:43 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] Help! Happy new year gang! Well, after having a great Christmas and a wonderful new year, I finally got off of my butt and bought a new scanner! No not the a Probe agent type scanner but Hewlett-Packard type from Best Buy. Anyway, cutting to the chase, I have number unique Probe articles/ promotion photos, and what I believe may be the press release, or at least some of it. The biggest is a three page local TV guide interview with Hugh O'Brian when the show was still called Probe. My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail channel. I have the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two days trying to figure how to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it to everyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Remember, KISS ( keep it short and simple ) with any directions. The sooner someone comes to my aid, the sooner I can publish the material. Thanks. Chris PS Obviously I was cut out to be a Probe agent and not a Probe Tech. :) 2935 From: Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 5:24am Subject: Re: Help! actingman_jc Here is a good sight to read up on http://www.scantips.com/ > >Subject: [probe_control] Help! > From: dmanmetz@... > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:43:13 EST > To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com > > >Happy new year gang! Well, after having a great Christmas and a wonderful >new year, I finally got off of my butt and bought a new scanner! No not the a >Probe agent type scanner but Hewlett-Packard type from Best Buy. Anyway, >cutting to the chase, I have number unique Probe articles/ promotion photos, and >what I believe may be the press release, or at least some of it. The biggest >is a three page local TV guide interview with Hugh O'Brian when the show was >still called Probe. My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one >page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail channel. I have >the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two days trying to figure how >to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it to everyone. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. Remember, KISS ( keep it short and simple ) with any >directions. The sooner someone comes to my aid, the sooner I can publish the material. >Thanks. > >Chris 2936 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 9:39pm Subject: Re: Help! dghprobe3 Hi Chris: Good to hear from you again. Actingman's link to the scan tips is excellent and should answer most of the basic questions. As Marta mentioned, knowing the version number of the Adobe PhotoShop you have would be a big help too. You might want to have your Search/Probe items appear on the www.probecontrol.com website, as we are running out of space in the Files section on the list. Plus the items would show up more clearly since Yahoo breaks JPGs down into smaller files which look fuzzy after all is said and done. My scans are at this link: http://www.probecontrol.com/clips.html What I do is make 400 dpi scans of my articles and publicity photos and burn them all onto a CD-R and mail them to Actingman so he can convert them down to JPGs for posting on the website. He can make a special section called "Search articles from Chris" or similar. Email Actingman for the details. I think that would work better than posting to the list, and give us better quality. Good luck with the scanning! ---------------------------- --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one > page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail > channel. I have the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two > days trying to figure how to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it > to everyone. 2938 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Fri Jan 7, 2005 0:54am Subject: RE: Re: Help! martadawes Is there any kind of "save optimized as" menu choice? If there is, select that and go to the "save as type" dropdown box and see what choices it gives you. According to the features on the Adobe website it will put the images right in an email, not as an attachment. If this is true, I'm going to hazard a guess that the program may not be able to save in different formats and uses a program-specific function to save graphics, but I can't say for sure. Does anyone else on the list use Adobe Elements? Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of the Graveyards of Omaha and the New Twilight Zone Featuring the 2004 Twilight Zone Convention page! -----Original Message----- From: dghprobe3 [mailto:dghprobe3@...] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:40 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] Re: Help! Hi Chris: Good to hear from you again. Actingman's link to the scan tips is excellent and should answer most of the basic questions. As Marta mentioned, knowing the version number of the Adobe PhotoShop you have would be a big help too. You might want to have your Search/Probe items appear on the www.probecontrol.com website, as we are running out of space in the Files section on the list. Plus the items would show up more clearly since Yahoo breaks JPGs down into smaller files which look fuzzy after all is said and done. My scans are at this link: http://www.probecontrol.com/clips.html What I do is make 400 dpi scans of my articles and publicity photos and burn them all onto a CD-R and mail them to Actingman so he can convert them down to JPGs for posting on the website. He can make a special section called "Search articles from Chris" or similar. Email Actingman for the details. I think that would work better than posting to the list, and give us better quality. Good luck with the scanning! ---------------------------- --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one > page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail > channel. I have the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two > days trying to figure how to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it > to everyone. 2939 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 10:49pm Subject: Hugh O'Brian interview (Part 1) dmanmetz@... Marta, John, and Don, thanks so much for your help. I finally figured out how to convert it to JPEGS. Cameron would have fired me a long time ago. :) Anyway this a June 11-17 1972 interview with Hugh O'Brian talking about his new NBC action series.......Probe! Hugh makes some intresting comments on how the show will perform. They all knew they were going into a tough time slot, but in typical tough guy Lockwood fashion, I mean O'brain fashion, he doesn't make any excuses for the show not to perform because of it's time slot. Seems as tough they tought the Julie Andrews show was more of a threat than Cannon! WOW! We should been so lucky if that's all Search had to worry about. Also, Hugh hints that he has a piece of the action in the series (ownership?) hmmmmmmm. You be the judge. Anyway, read it for your self and enjoy. Chris 2940 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 10:53pm Subject: Hugh O'Brian Interview (Last page) dmanmetz@... 2941 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Thu Jan 6, 2005 10:56pm Subject: Don't know what happened dmanmetz@... Guys, I apologize. I don't know what happened. It sent it attached. I will try again tomorrow. Sorry. Chris 2942 From: actingman@... Date: Fri Jan 7, 2005 2:16pm Subject: Re: Don't know what happened actingman_jc Send IM Send Email I had to set the group to reject attachments, because if anyone is infected, the virus could send itself to the list and possibly infect others. One virus did come through in the past. Depending on the size of scans, and how much room is left, you could put it into the files section of this email group. Or send it to me privately, and I will put it on the web site...long overdue for me to update. -----Original Message----- From: dmanmetz@... Sent: Jan 6, 2005 10:56 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] Don't know what happened Guys, I apologize. I don't know what happened. It sent it attached. I will try again tomorrow. Sorry. Chris 2943 From: "David Paleg" Date: Fri Jan 7, 2005 5:36am Subject: Re: Help with JPGs dpaleg dmanmetz@a... wrote: > I finally figured out how to convert it to JPEGS. If you have anymore trouble converting between graphic file formats, there are a couple of shareware programs I have used. Graphic Workshop converts between over 30 types, crops, resizes, and renames pictures, and Orien's Enhancer does about 15 types, crops, resizes, renames, and has many different filtering effects. You should be able to find them on several shareware sites, and use them for free during a test trial. 2944 From: "bryankd97053" Date: Fri Jan 7, 2005 5:48pm Subject: Angel Tompkins Pressbook available on eBay bryankd97053 The original pressbook for Angel Tompkins 1973 movie "Little Cigars" is available for sale on ebay, item #3864331831 2945 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Fri Jan 7, 2005 11:42pm Subject: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information dmanmetz@... Hi gang. Happy New Year again. Just had a few things on my mind to share. Search/ Man From Uncle Connection: Did you know that Mary Ann Mobley , Lilia Moen in episode 3 (Short Circuit) played the original character of April Dancer on The Man From Uncle during it’s second season on Feb 25, 1966. When the series was spun off the next year, Stefanie Powers, Jill Davenport in episode 2 (One of our Probes is Missing) took over as April Dancer. You can read all about it at _http://www.tvobscurities.com/shows/gfu.php_ (http://www.tvobscurities.com/shows/gfu.php) Did you know that episode 13 (A Honeymoon to Kill) was reunion for Doug McClure and Gary Clark (Julian Whitfield). Clark starred with McClure on the first two seasons of the Virginian as ranch hand Steve Hill. I guess the friendship with McClure may have played a part in him getting the role. Did you know that Luciana Plauzzi, (Carla Lucchese Whitefield) in episode 13 (A Honeymoon to Kill) was a “Bond” girl. She played Fiona Volpe in 1965’s Thunderball. Good Life Network: Don’t know how many of your cable companies carry this channel, but every night, they show old classic TV shows from a 9PM to 11PM block. On Mondays they show detective shows. I have discovered a Gem of a show called Harry O (1974-1976), starring the late great David Janssen. I always heard good things about this show, but never saw it. This show is often considered the runner up to Rockford Files as the best TV detective show. I heard it was a modest hit, but it was cancelled because ABC changed heads and decided do away with anything that was not a big hit. To bad. Also, did you know: Aaron Spelling was going to call his new TV show Harry’s Angels , but changed it to Charlie’s Angels because he didn’t want the public to get it mixed up with Harry O. Meaningless trivia.:) The other shows for Monday night are 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye. Wednesday is Spy Night. I Spy is on at 9PM followed by the first season of Man From Uncle and The Girl from Uncle at 11PM. Thursday is western night with Kung Fu, Maverick and Cheyenne. Friday is The FBI for three straight hours. Forget lazy TV land, these is are the real shows that Rock! Hallmark network shows the Virginian with Doug McClure every Saturday at 1PM and at 12 am. The Westeren channel started showing uncut/ clear episodes of Alias Smith and Jones Mon thru Fri at 5PM. I discovered Ben Murphy from NBC’s Gemini Man (1976) which was produced by our guy Leslie Stevens SEARCH related: IMDB has all of the episodes and guest stars listed now. For those of you who have not read it yet, TV Party is running Don Harden’s well written article about Search for this month. _http://www.tvparty.com/_ (http://www.tvparty.com/) After having a bear of a time converting my Search articles to JPEGS, I have sent them to John and Don and they should be posted soon for all to enjoy. Well, I think I’ve said enough. Hope you guys get something out of this. Talk to you later. Chris 2946 From: yorktowncmdr@... Date: Sun Jan 9, 2005 3:05pm Subject: Re: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information worldsecanalyst I don't know this network. I have missed "Harry O" since its untimely cancellation in 1976. Personally, I've suspected the cancellation has been attributed to series production problems. Lately, it's been coming out about David Janssen drinking. > Good Life Network: Don’t know how many of your cable companies carry this > channel, but every night, they show old classic TV shows from a 9PM to 11PM > block. On Mondays they show detective shows. I have discovered a Gem of a > show > called Harry O (1974-1976), starring the late great David Janssen. I always > > heard good things about this show, but never saw it. This show is often > considered the runner up to Rockford Files as the best TV detective show. I > heard it > was a modest hit, but it was cancelled because ABC changed heads and > decided > do away with anything that was not a big hit. 2947 From: yorktowncmdr@... Date: Sun Jan 9, 2005 3:44pm Subject: Re: Hugh O'Brian interview (Part 1) worldsecanalyst I think there was a hope for SEARCH to ride on the coattails of "Mystery Movie" scheduled for that Wednesday evening. David 2948 From: "Skip Brown" Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:33am Subject: RE: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information skipster61 -----Original Message----- From: yorktowncmdr@... [mailto:yorktowncmdr@...] * I don't know this network. I have missed "Harry O" since its untimely cancellation in 1976. Personally, I've suspected the cancellation has been attributed to series production problems. Lately, it's been coming out about David Janssen drinking. I remember his other series (not that OTHER other one), but "O'Hara United States Treasury" a short-lived Jack Webb production. It played for one season in 1971. There is some SEARCH tie-in with the show, but I don't remember what it was. Anyone remember? Skip 2949 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Sun Jan 9, 2005 10:18pm Subject: Search Press Kit dmanmetz@... Hi, guys. Getting better at this scanning and uploading files on the web page. I have just added what I think may have been part of the press kit for Search. It is located under the Files section of the web page, titled Press Kit JPEG. I don't why it came out so large, but if anyone knows how to adjust it to make it smaller, please let me know. Thanks. Chris 2950 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:33am Subject: Re: Search Press Kit dghprobe3 Hi Chris: I downloaded and tried opening Chris' presskit.jpg in two of my image programs and it would not recognize it as a valid file. Unfortunately, the same thing happened to most of the files you emailed directly to me the other day. I have access to Corel in another computer, but haven't been able to get to that other computer in the past few days. I tried opening the jpg in ACDSee95, which is only a viewer. And it did finally open, but slowly. But I could only view the image, I couldn't get any properties or save in a different format. The presskit page looks GREAT, by the way, I just wish it could be posted to the website so everyone can see it. Has anyone else been able to open the presskit.jpg, and if so, which image program did you use? Chris, jpg files you send to the list only need to be around 72 to 100 dpi (dots per inch). Also it would be very helpful if you could optimize the files before posting. You may have to hunt through your manual or the help file that came with the software for your scanner. The more you work with the scanner, though, the more you will get the hang of things. :-) The 300 to 400 dpi scans I suggested recently are for high quality TIF files you want to put on a CD and mail to Actingman for placement on the probecontrol.com website. That way he can work with the images and decide on the best dots-per-inch resolution to display them. By the way, we have just about run out of space in Files. Any way we can transfer some of the photos and printed articles to the website so as to free up more space for new uploads? Please? :-) --Don ----------------------------- --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > ...Getting better at this scanning and uploading files on the web > page. I have just added what I think may have been part of the > press kit for Search. It is located under the Files section of the > web page, titled Press Kit JPEG. I don't why it came out so large, > but if anyone knows how to adjust it to make it smaller, please let > me know. Thanks. 2951 From: Martin Parrott Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:48am Subject: Re: Re: Search Press Kit parrott76262 I was able to download and view it with no problem. I viewed it in Paint Shop Pro and Irfanview. I want to make sure we are talking about the same file: Press Kit JPEG.jpg with a size of 762035 bytes? Martin dghprobe3 wrote: > > Hi Chris: I downloaded and tried opening Chris' presskit.jpg in two > of my image programs and it would not recognize it as a valid file. > Unfortunately, the same thing happened to most of the files you > emailed directly to me the other day. I have access to Corel in > another computer, but haven't been able to get to that other computer > in the past few days. > > I tried opening the jpg in ACDSee95, which is only a viewer. And it > did finally open, but slowly. But I could only view the image, I > couldn't get any properties or save in a different format. The > presskit page looks GREAT, by the way, I just wish it could be posted > to the website so everyone can see it. > > Has anyone else been able to open the presskit.jpg, and if so, which > image program did you use? Chris, jpg files you send to the list > only need to be around 72 to 100 dpi (dots per inch). Also it would > be very helpful if you could optimize the files before posting. You > may have to hunt through your manual or the help file that came with > the software for your scanner. The more you work with the scanner, > though, the more you will get the hang of things. :-) > > The 300 to 400 dpi scans I suggested recently are for high quality > TIF files you want to put on a CD and mail to Actingman for placement > on the probecontrol.com website. That way he can work with the > images and decide on the best dots-per-inch resolution to display > them. > > By the way, we have just about run out of space in Files. Any way we > can transfer some of the photos and printed articles to the website > so as to free up more space for new uploads? Please? :-) > > --Don > > ----------------------------- > --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > >>...Getting better at this scanning and uploading files on the web >>page. I have just added what I think may have been part of the >>press kit for Search. It is located under the Files section of the >>web page, titled Press Kit JPEG. I don't why it came out so large, >>but if anyone knows how to adjust it to make it smaller, please let >>me know. Thanks. 2952 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:03pm Subject: Re: Re: Search Press Kit dmanmetz@... Send Email That's the one. Chris 2953 From: "actingman_jc" Date: Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:43am Subject: Chris' Articles actingman_jc Public thanks go out to Chris for finding and scanning those articles...and public apologies from me that I haven't posted them yet. I am having some log-in problems with the web site so it may be a couple of days before I can get them posted. And since it has been some time since I have added anything to the web site...I am basically relearning everything...talk about use it or lose it. 2954 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:05am Subject: NBC & Sci-Fi Channel dghprobe3 http://www.exisle.net/mb/lofiversion/index.php/t21629.html A series of forum posts on exisle.net mentions that NBC is the parent company of Sci-Fi Channel. As Johnny Carson would say, I did not know that. Maybe that's why they are always showing classic Star Trek, Buck Rogers, SeaQuest, and other old NBC sci-fi shows. Can anyone confirm that NBC is the parent company of Sci-Fi Channel? Or will this turn out to be another urban myth? 2955 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:19am Subject: Re: NBC & Sci-Fi Channel dghprobe3 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue391/news.html From scifi.com's website: Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM. ----------------------------- --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "dghprobe3" wrote: > > http://www.exisle.net/mb/lofiversion/index.php/t21629.html > > ...forum posts on exisle.net mentions that NBC is the parent > company of Sci-Fi Channel. As Johnny Carson would say, I did not > know that. Maybe that's why they are always showing classic Star > Trek, Buck Rogers, SeaQuest, and other old NBC sci-fi shows... 2956 From: "Morningstar" Date: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:08am Subject: Re: Help! am2star While Adobe PhotoShop is the premier program for working with graphics, unless you are a professional there is little need to pay the expense of that fine product. While I have only used it a little, you might investigate The Gimp. It is an open-source program that should handle most of the tasks that the average user might need. http://www.gimp.org/ There are also some tutorials for using The Gimp. Check them out. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "dghprobe3" wrote: > > Hi Chris: Good to hear from you again. Actingman's link to the scan > tips is excellent and should answer most of the basic questions. As > Marta mentioned, knowing the version number of the Adobe PhotoShop > you have would be a big help too. > > You might want to have your Search/Probe items appear on the > www.probecontrol.com website, as we are running out of space in the > Files section on the list. Plus the items would show up more clearly > since Yahoo breaks JPGs down into smaller files which look fuzzy > after all is said and done. My scans are at this link: > > http://www.probecontrol.com/clips.html > > What I do is make 400 dpi scans of my articles and publicity photos > and burn them all onto a CD-R and mail them to Actingman so he can > convert them down to JPGs for posting on the website. He can make a > special section called "Search articles from Chris" or similar. > Email Actingman for the details. I think that would work better than > posting to the list, and give us better quality. Good luck with the > scanning! > > ---------------------------- > --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > > My problem is that after I completed the scannning, one > > page is like 45MB, which is to big to send throught the e-mail > > channel. I have the Adobe photo shop and have spent the last two > > days trying to figure how to convert MB to JPEGS so I can send it > > to everyone. 2957 From: "Morningstar" Date: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:33am Subject: Re: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information am2star I remember both series. As I recall "O'Hara" was a traditional police investigation drama, not unlike "The FBI." However, your comment about "Harry O" does ring true. It was along the lines of the new "anti-cop" type show. I think that it followed "Get Christy Love" on Saturdays. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Brown" wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: yorktowncmdr@a... [mailto:yorktowncmdr@a...] > > > * I don't know this network. I have missed "Harry O" since its > untimely > cancellation in 1976. Personally, I've suspected the cancellation has > been > attributed to series production problems. Lately, it's been coming out > about David > Janssen drinking. > > > > > I remember his other series (not that OTHER other one), but "O'Hara > United States Treasury" a short-lived Jack Webb production. It played > for one season in 1971. There is some SEARCH tie-in with the show, but I > don't remember what it was. Anyone remember? > > Skip 2958 From: "Morningstar" Date: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:12am Subject: Re: Search Press Kit am2star FireFox opens the files just fine from Yahoo! I haven't tried actually downloading the files separately. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "dghprobe3" wrote: > > Hi Chris: I downloaded and tried opening Chris' presskit.jpg in two > of my image programs and it would not recognize it as a valid file. > Unfortunately, the same thing happened to most of the files you > emailed directly to me the other day. I have access to Corel in > another computer, but haven't been able to get to that other computer > in the past few days. > > I tried opening the jpg in ACDSee95, which is only a viewer. And it > did finally open, but slowly. But I could only view the image, I > couldn't get any properties or save in a different format. The > presskit page looks GREAT, by the way, I just wish it could be posted > to the website so everyone can see it. > > Has anyone else been able to open the presskit.jpg, and if so, which > image program did you use? Chris, jpg files you send to the list > only need to be around 72 to 100 dpi (dots per inch). Also it would > be very helpful if you could optimize the files before posting. You > may have to hunt through your manual or the help file that came with > the software for your scanner. The more you work with the scanner, > though, the more you will get the hang of things. :-) > > The 300 to 400 dpi scans I suggested recently are for high quality > TIF files you want to put on a CD and mail to Actingman for placement > on the probecontrol.com website. That way he can work with the > images and decide on the best dots-per-inch resolution to display > them. > > By the way, we have just about run out of space in Files. Any way we > can transfer some of the photos and printed articles to the website > so as to free up more space for new uploads? Please? :-) > > --Don > > ----------------------------- > --- In probe_control, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > > ...Getting better at this scanning and uploading files on the web > > page. I have just added what I think may have been part of the > > press kit for Search. It is located under the Files section of the > > web page, titled Press Kit JPEG. I don't why it came out so large, > > but if anyone knows how to adjust it to make it smaller, please let > > me know. Thanks. 2959 From: "Morningstar" Date: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:29am Subject: Re: NBC & Sci-Fi Channel am2star It is not that NBC is connected to Sci-Fi, it is the Universal component, since most of those shows, with the exception of "Star Trek," were produced by Universal Television. In fact, Universal has had a good connection with science fiction over the years. The only other major studio has been Warner Brothers. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "dghprobe3" wrote: > > http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue391/news.html > > From scifi.com's website: > Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM. > > ----------------------------- > --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "dghprobe3" > wrote: > > > > http://www.exisle.net/mb/lofiversion/index.php/t21629.html > > > > ...forum posts on exisle.net mentions that NBC is the parent > > company of Sci-Fi Channel. As Johnny Carson would say, I did not > > know that. Maybe that's why they are always showing classic Star > > Trek, Buck Rogers, SeaQuest, and other old NBC sci-fi shows... 2960 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Thu Jan 13, 2005 0:17pm Subject: Re: Re: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information dmanmetz@... Actually it followed "The Streets of San Francisco" at 10PM fon Thursdays for the two years it was on. Chris 2961 From: "Michael" Date: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:23pm Subject: "Moonrock" by Robert Weverka - on ebay prisoner_fal... FYI to anyone interested, I've decided to part with my paperback copy of "Moonrock" (a novelization based on "Search") that was authored by Robert Weverka. On ebay, of course. Now if we can just get the series on DVD! Michael (ebay id: "routemasterbus") 2962 From: tech_76@... Date: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:30am Subject: Search episodes tech_76 Hello, I saw your post on the Probe Control group. How much would you charge for just the Probe pilot and how is the quality on that? 2963 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:10am Subject: "Moonrock" by Robert Weverka - on ebay probecontrol Thanks for sharing your eBay offer of MOONROCK with the group, Michael. If I didn't already have three copies myself, I'd go for it. ;) Good luck with the auction! :) Thanks-- Jim Alexander =================================== > FYI to anyone interested, I've decided to part with my paperback > copy of "Moonrock" (a novelization based on "Search") that was > authored by Robert Weverka. On ebay, of course. > > Now if we can just get the series on DVD! > > Michael > (ebay id: "routemasterbus") 2964 From: "actingman_jc" Date: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:39am Subject: New Articles From Chris Are Up actingman_jc ...on the web site. Here is the direct link: http://probecontrol.com/chrisscan/ I haven't done a formal link on the site itself...but I will. Thanks to Chris for bringing us these gems from the past. He has also supplied a publicity still from Moonrock...which I will have to put up as well. Hopefully it won't take as long. 2965 From: Date: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:44pm Subject: New Articles from Chris probecontrol Man! Thanks to Chris for sharing his wealth of great articles! Regarding the first image: Has anyone ever seen that WONDERFUL picture of O'Brian and Meredith standing at Cam's console before!? WHAT A GREAT PHOTO!!! Thanks again, John and Chris! Jim Alexander =======================================> > >...on the web site. Here is the direct link: > >http://probecontrol.com/chrisscan/ > > >I haven't done a formal link on the site itself...but I will. > >Thanks to Chris for bringing us these gems from the past. > >He has also supplied a publicity still from Moonrock...which I will >have to put up as well. > >Hopefully it won't take as long. 2966 From: "Anthony" Date: Thu Jan 20, 2005 0:26am Subject: Re: SEARCH, Cannon, Julie Andrews et al. fusillade2000 --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, dmanmetz@a... wrote: > Seems as tough they tought the Julie Andrews show was more of a > threat than Cannon! WOW! We should been so lucky if that's all > Search had to worry about. Been awhile (as in years) since I last posted here but this brought me out ;). Yeah, it must have been that in the early 1970's Julie Andrews was still a big enough name (and variety shows still a big event) that a series with her would get major publicity (and major worries from competing networks). As for myself, was never a fan of either "Sound of Music" or "Mary Poppins"...and I was part of what must have been the target (child) audience! Adults would try to drag me to those things, I would want to stay home and watch Trek or some such. Will admit, Andrews' later "film-within-a-film" takeoff on her persona in "SOB" was amusing. Anyway, at least SEARCH seems to have made enough of a dent in the Julie Andrews show that it was cancelled even faster. Yet "Cannon" was the ultimate winner in the ratings race between the three. About "Cannon," even though I liked some of it, posted here once why I liked SEARCH more. William Conrad was just too much out there alone on that series, he had nothing and no one to play against (unless it was the occasional worthwhile guest star), and to me the Cannon character himself just wasn't that interesting. On SEARCH, the three rotating regulars always had Cameron and the others (even if it was through the probe technology). Plus the rotation format itself gave variety to the show, fans could see how the three regulars approached the job differently as well as similarly. Again, one of my regrets was that there was never an episode where, say, Hugh and Tony worked together (or even all three leads! :). Nowadays, this is the type of "special episode" that likely would indeed be done. Only they's save it for the sweeps. I don't want to get into the "mystery movies" too much, they did share the "Name of the Bold Ones" rotating format with SEARCH. Just that the one I could never get into was "Columbo," (and many would disagree) the reason being what it had in common with "Cannon." Same solo lead going about his routine week after week, no other (regular) characters to play against. And the bit about Columbo annoying his way into getting Robert Culp or whomever to slip up got old real fast (they did vary this with Columbo working with other detectives, working on cases besides homicides and so forth though not enough). It's funny, I've heard others used to wait until "Columbo" was on to watch the "mystery movies," I used to wait until it was one of the other rotating leads! > Also, Hugh hints that he has a piece of the action in the series > (ownership?) hmmmmmmm. You be the judge. Anyway, read it for your > self and enjoy. Ok and thanks. That was mentioned here before, if so I wonder why Hugh would have ownership and not Tony Franciosa and/or Doug McClure? Because he was the bigger "star"? Maybe not, Tony was a fairly big name at that time and Doug had done "The Virginian." It is doubtful that Stevens and Franciosa would have gone into business that closely after "Name of the Game," even if they reconciled enough to work together again. Of course it could've been Hugh was simply the best negotiator of the three... Anthony 2967 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Thu Jan 20, 2005 0:59am Subject: Possible Interview with Hugh O'Brian probecontrol SEARCH listmembers-- I'm not exactly sure how this all came about (perhaps it had to do with some of the materials that I gave to Hugh O'Brian when I met him in Chicago about 2-1/2 years ago), but I have recently been contacted by the H.O.B.Y. (Hugh O'Brian Youth) Organization. It appears that Mr. O'Brian is (finally?!) interested in doing an interview for the website. Or then again... maybe not. I had been previously contacted twice via e-mail by the H.O.B.Y. President and Chief Executive Officer, and this evening, by O'Brian's Executive Secretary. They all say that he "wants to talk about the probecontrol.com website." I have no idea if that means that O'Brian wants to ask questions/pay compliments/congratulate John Gumbinger, Bryan Durk, Don Harden--and all the others who have contributed--about the site... or if he is planning on granting an interview. The President's e-mail said that O'Brian, and I quote word-for-word, "would like to contact you to talk about the site and your efforts related to the show." So. I have NO idea about what is going to transpire. It may be a 2-minute conversation, and it may be a two-hour interview. Or something in-between. I offered to take a whole day off of work of HOBY's choosing, so that O'Brian might have an entire morning/afternoon/evening to pick from in which to phone me--and I could record the conversation as I did John Christopher Strong's. But for whatever reason, they seem resistant to that idea. They simply keep asking for my home phone number. I hesitate to give it to them, only for fear that I might NOT be home when O'Brian chooses to call--and I might miss an opportunity to speak to him. So... what I'm trying to get to (in my usual long-winded way) is that perhaps y'all should send me some questions for Mr. O'Brian. Then, if an interview 'happens' to transpire, then I'll be ready. My address is below--you can send them to me privately. Since I don't know when Mr. O'Brian will call, you should do this immediately. I don't know how/when this will come about, but I will try and be prepared. ;) Thanks-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 2968 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:24pm Subject: Re: Re: SEARCH, Cannon, Julie Andrews et al. dmanmetz@... In reference to Hugh O'brian saying he owned piece of Search, I realized that it has been mentioned before on this site and in the 1972 TV Guide interveiw with O'Brian, but in Jim Alexander's phone interveiw with John Christopher Strong, he stated that O'Brian didn't own a thing Search. That's what I was alluding to. Chris 2969 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:26am Subject: Re: SEARCH, Cannon, Julie Andrews et al. dghprobe3 Hi Anthony: Enjoyed reading your post about "Search" competing with "Cannon" and "Julie Andrews" back during the 1972-73 season. The early part of the 1972 season had "Cannon" as the ratings winner, followed by "Search" and Ms. Andrews. However, at midseason, ABC cancelled Ms. Andrews, and put "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law" in it's place. Unfortunately, "Search" was not able to hold it's own against this new combo and lost this three-way race. Unfair because "Cannon" and "Owen Marshall" were both into their second seasons. They'd been running longer and had found their audience. "Search" was only into it's first year and sadly lost whatever momentum it had earlier that season. Too bad NBC didn't try airing it earlier in the evening, shifting the "Wednesday Mystery Movie" to a later time, even just once as an experiment. But they didn't. by the way, was that really 32 years ago? Ouch. 2970 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:43am Subject: Re: New Articles from Chris dghprobe3 Hi: I second Jim's motion. Many thanks to Chris for scanning and sharing his interesting Search articles, and many thanks to Actingman for posting them to the probecontrol website. Folks, if you plan on printing these articles, be sure to crop away the large black areas where they appear, if you have a graphics program that will do it. Otherwise, you will use up your ink cartridge rather quickly. > ======================================= > >http://probecontrol.com/chrisscan/ 2971 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:56pm Subject: Joanna Cameron acknowledges Search in 2003 Interview dmanmetz@... Joanna Cameron is best remembered as CBS' superhero, "Isis" on Saturday mornings in the 1970's. She played "Laura" in episode 10 "Flight to Nowhere". She mentions "Search" in an online interview from 2003 at the following address below. It doesn't say much, but hey, anytime someone acknowledges "Search" It's worth reporting. Man, she looks hot as she did 30 years ago! I guess John Christopher Strong put it best in his interview with Jim Alexander. "Search is was like your first girlfriend" I couldn't have put it better myself. For years I always thought about Search and wonder if it would ever return or that it even happened considering no one remembers it. It definitley burned a hole in my memory. Anyway, enjoy. Chris _http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/isis/cameron2.html_ (http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/isis/cameron2.html) 2972 From: Date: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:10pm Subject: OT: E-Mail for Marta probecontrol Sorry about the last-minute notification, and sorry for contacting you on the list, Marta (I'm at work and don't have your e-mail in my WORK address book). I just stumbled across this on eBay just now, and thought you might like to know about this COMBAT Game. It's not complete- -but maybe you'd consider it for the inexpensive price--as a 'starter.' ;) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=5950170690&ssPageName=ADME:B:WN:US:202 Or, look under eBay Item #5950170690 Thanks-- Jim Alexander 2973 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Sat Jan 22, 2005 0:57am Subject: RE: OT: E-Mail for Marta martadawes Thanks for letting me know! I'm running over to look at it. Marta -----Original Message----- From: probecontrol@... [mailto:probecontrol@...] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:11 AM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] OT: E-Mail for Marta Sorry about the last-minute notification, and sorry for contacting you on the list, Marta (I'm at work and don't have your e-mail in my WORK address book). I just stumbled across this on eBay just now, and thought you might like to know about this COMBAT Game. It's not complete- -but maybe you'd consider it for the inexpensive price--as a 'starter.' ;) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=5950170690&ssPageName=ADME:B:WN:US:202 Or, look under eBay Item #5950170690 Thanks-- Jim Alexander 2974 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:16am Subject: Jim's S.E.A.R.C.H. Comic Book probecontrol When I was a kid, I was crazy about SEARCH. Okay. That's not really a revelation. :) To ease my disappointment that the series had gone off the air a few months before, a comic-book-loving friend and I created a comic strip that revolved around a pseudo-SEARCH setting. It was set in a considerably more 'comic-booky' world, and starred myself, my best pals Ted Haycraft (as a Probe Agent) and Kennedy Felsher (as a Cameron-type Probe Division Controller)... and featured dozens of our High School classmates in various 'roles.' Some appeared in our comic as Probe Technicians, Probe Agents, others were scientists, literary figures, and even everyday folk in our 'comic book scenario.' Many people even asked us to have them written into our comic books. :) *My* Probe Agents didn't work for World Securities. They worked for S.E.A.R.C.H.: The Space and Earth Association's Rescue Control Headquarters. ;) Their 'Scanners' didn't look like the TV show's medallions--but they functioned in basically the same way--they were called 'Communiphones', and were carried on the agents' belts. Our 'Probe Control' was practically identical to the TV show, though. ;) Anyway... I was searching for something entirely different in my files today--and came across a copy of this old comic. The four pages that I just uploaded to the groups' PHOTOS section were published less than 7 years after the series went off the air (in the Spring of 1980) in a local magazine called 'Fanfare.' This was actually the SECOND installment/issue of the magazine-- and the action in this story picks up where it left off in the previous issue. My S.E.A.R.C.H. characters (OF COURSE I was a Probe Agent) appeared in many other forms besides 'Fanfare' They saw print in the local newspaper, a long-running series of strips in my High School newspaper, and elsewhere. For me, S.E.A.R.C.H. lasted for a longer period of time than SEARCH. ;) If you choose to peek at the pages, what you'll be seeing is artwork that's a quarter-century old. It's crude; even laughable. I hope you'll forgive the youthful enthusiasm of a young SEARCH fan. ;) Thanks-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 2975 From: actingman@... Date: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:58am Subject: Re: Joanna Cameron acknowledges Search in 2003 Interview actingman_jc She said :"Search took me to Jamaica and put me in a race car " Huh? She was in a dune buggy. But do we think that a show with a tight budget (according to John Christopher Strong) would shoot in Jamaica, when the story takes place in the Nevada desert? At 06:56 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: >Joanna Cameron is best remembered as CBS' superhero, "Isis" on Saturday >mornings in the 1970's. She played "Laura" in episode 10 "Flight to >Nowhere". >She mentions "Search" in an online interview from 2003 at the following >address below. It doesn't say much, but hey, anytime someone acknowledges >"Search" >It's worth reporting. Man, she looks hot as she did 30 years ago! > I guess John Christopher Strong put it best in his interview with Jim >Alexander. "Search is was like your first girlfriend" I couldn't have put it >better myself. For years I always thought about Search and wonder if >it would >ever return or that it even happened considering no one remembers it. It >definitley burned a hole in my memory. Anyway, enjoy. > >Chris > > _http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/isis/cameron2.html_ >(http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/isis/cameron2.html) 2976 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Sun Jan 23, 2005 0:05am Subject: Re: Joanna Cameron acknowledges Search in 2003 Interview dmanmetz@... In a message dated 1/23/2005 12:01:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, actingman@... writes: She was in a dune buggy. But do we think that a show with a tight budget (according to John Christopher Strong) would shoot in Jamaica, when the story takes place in Perhaps she remembered Search and got it mixed up with one of other acting gigs. After all she hasn't acted in over 20 years. Chris 2977 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:19pm Subject: Joanna Cameron: Faulty Memory? probecontrol John wrote: > She said :"Search took me to Jamaica and put me in a race car " > > Huh? > > She was in a dune buggy. > > But do we think that a show with a tight budget (according to John Christopher Strong) would shoot in Jamaica, when the story takes place in the Nevada desert? ==================== For what it's worth... I tend to agree. John's right. John C. Strong related that they had to beg, grovel, and bend over backwards just to film in Las Vegas. Jim Alexander 2978 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:44pm Subject: Re: Joanna Cameron: Faulty Memory? dghprobe3 http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0131622 I checked Joanna Cameron's Internet Movie Database page, and none of the titles, which seem to be all television, hint at Jamaica and a race car. Her Search ep, "Flight to Nowhere," is listed there. A Google search yielded no movie or show titles either. Her last listed role is for 1980's "Swan Song." After that, she appeared in a 2003 VH-1 special on superheroes, due to her role as "Isis" on Saturday mornings during the mid-1970s. So she probably mixed Search up with some other show or film. One item in her IMBD bio: She was originally favored by Paramount for the role of Jenny in "Love Story" (1970), which made Ali MacGraw a star. 2979 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Mon Jan 24, 2005 0:09pm Subject: Re: Re: Joanna Cameron: Faulty Memory? dmanmetz@... Perhaps somebody from behind the scences of Search took her to Jamacia and put her behind the wheel of a race car. An actor, producer, director, camera man, etc? You never know in Hollywood. Chris 2980 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:19pm Subject: RE: Jim's S.E.A.R.C.H. Comic Book martadawes Very impressive...I didn't realize you were a published graphic artist. Did you do all the artwork and story? Marta -----Original Message----- From: Jim Alexander [mailto:probecontrol@...] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:17 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] Jim's S.E.A.R.C.H. Comic Book When I was a kid, I was crazy about SEARCH. Okay. That's not really a revelation. :) To ease my disappointment that the series had gone off the air a few months before, a comic-book-loving friend and I created a comic strip that revolved around a pseudo-SEARCH setting. It was set in a considerably more 'comic-booky' world, and starred myself, my best pals Ted Haycraft (as a Probe Agent) and Kennedy Felsher (as a Cameron-type Probe Division Controller)... and featured dozens of our High School classmates in various 'roles.' Some appeared in our comic as Probe Technicians, Probe Agents, others were scientists, literary figures, and even everyday folk in our 'comic book scenario.' Many people even asked us to have them written into our comic books. :) *My* Probe Agents didn't work for World Securities. They worked for S.E.A.R.C.H.: The Space and Earth Association's Rescue Control Headquarters. ;) Their 'Scanners' didn't look like the TV show's medallions--but they functioned in basically the same way--they were called 'Communiphones', and were carried on the agents' belts. Our 'Probe Control' was practically identical to the TV show, though. ;) Anyway... I was searching for something entirely different in my files today--and came across a copy of this old comic. The four pages that I just uploaded to the groups' PHOTOS section were published less than 7 years after the series went off the air (in the Spring of 1980) in a local magazine called 'Fanfare.' This was actually the SECOND installment/issue of the magazine-- and the action in this story picks up where it left off in the previous issue. My S.E.A.R.C.H. characters (OF COURSE I was a Probe Agent) appeared in many other forms besides 'Fanfare' They saw print in the local newspaper, a long-running series of strips in my High School newspaper, and elsewhere. For me, S.E.A.R.C.H. lasted for a longer period of time than SEARCH. ;) If you choose to peek at the pages, what you'll be seeing is artwork that's a quarter-century old. It's crude; even laughable. I hope you'll forgive the youthful enthusiasm of a young SEARCH fan. ;) Thanks-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 2981 From: Date: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:49pm Subject: Jim's S.E.A.R.C.H. Comic Book probecontrol Marta wrote: >... Very impressive...I didn't realize you were a published graphic artist. Did you do all the artwork and story? =================== I think using the word 'published' for this little trifle is being way too kind, Marta. ;) Yes. I did do the art and the story. The whole package. But as I say--it was 25 years ago, when I was just... a kid. <> Good times... good times. ;) Thanks for your kind words. Jim 2982 From: Martin Parrott Date: Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:27am Subject: VCD or DVD covers? parrott76262 Does anyone have any high-res Probe/Search themed VCD or DVD covers? I am converting my Search VHS tapes to DVD and wanted to print some appropriate labels. I have the old VCD cover from the Files section, but it isn't very high-res and prints with a lot of pixelation. TIA, Martin Parrott 2983 From: "buynblind" Date: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:00am Subject: Monk Episode buynblind Did anyone happen to catch "Monk" last week? Long story short, he had to retrieve a stolen moon rock. Some plots just never get old. 2984 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:17am Subject: You can't spell "Moonrock" without M-O-N-K probecontrol buynblind wrote: >... Did anyone happen to catch "Monk" last week? Long story short, he had to retrieve a stolen moon rock. Some plots just never get old. ================ Didn't see it... but I'll bet that MONK used different methods to retrieve it than LOCKWOOD did. ;) I'm guessing that MONK didn't rent a 747... for two. Jim Alexander 2985 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:15pm Subject: TV Detectives By Richard S. Meyers dmanmetz@... Hi gang, don’t know if anybody enjoyed the write up of “Search” from the 1981 book, TV Detectives by Richard S. Meyers that John posted last week. Unfortunately he did not give Search a favorable review, but it was fun that someone acknowledged our show. Didn’t know if anyone was interested, but you can purchase used out of print copies of this book on Amazon. If you are a fan of old TV shows, like me, then you will enjoy this book. I think they are about ten of them for sale pricing from $10.00 to $26.00. In the book, Mr. Meyers gives some in depth write ups and interesting opinions on famous TV detectives, spy, and police shows such as The Rockford Files, Mannix, Columbo, I Spy, The Man From Uncle, The Wild, Wild West, Mission Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Cannon, The Streets of San Franscio, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, Barretta, Police Woman, etc. He also reviews some unfamous shows such as The Outsider, NYPD, Longstreet, Honey West, Harry O, Chase, Get Christie Love, Griff, Tenafly, My Parnter the Ghost, Toma, Banyon, Dan August, Matt Helm, The Barbary Coast, Madigan , Cool Million, The Magician, and of course our favorite.....Search! Remember any of thos other shows? You name it, he’s got it until 1981. To show you how old the book is, he ends the book by reviewing the new shows of 1981 to include Magnum PI and Hilllstreet Blues! (LOL). Fun reading. Just thought I’d pass along the information. Chris 2986 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:36am Subject: Search cast on Johnny Carson Show dghprobe3 http://www.johnnycarson.com/carson/search/index.jsp The Johnny Carson Show website has a feature where you can search for any guest of The Tonight Show since 1969 to May 22, 1992. If footage of that show is available, a listing is given. If no footage is available, generally only the date is given. I've heard that they used to sell whole episodes of the Carson show on VHS for $100 each, if they had the one you wanted. But they reportedly stopped doing it due to lack of interest (also could've been due to the price). No listings appeared at all for Tony Franciosa or Burgess Meredith. Listings below are for Hugh O'Brian and Doug McClure (if anyone remembers these shows, let us know): 7-5-71: HUGH O'BRIAN. No description. 1-24-72: No description, but was about the time of PROBE premiere. 4-28-72: No description, but was just before the SEARCH series began shooting. 10-10-74: HUGH O'BRIEN and guest host Don Rickles discuss: Doing stock theatre in Chicago, enjoying theatre because he loves an audience, the acting awards from U.C.L.A., and then performs several magic tricks. --------------------------------------------- 11-16-70 & 5-13-71: DOUG McCLURE, no description given. 12-20-72: DOUG McCLURE, no description given. About the time SEARCH entered its midseason. 10-9-75: DOUG McCLURE & guest host Joey Bishop discuss: His series BARBARY COAST, does impression of Burt Lancaster, Durante and Dean Martin, drew a cartoon, then reveals hs lives in Monterey and flies back & forth to the studio. 2987 From: "rbrfab" Date: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:59pm Subject: RIP Johnny Carson rbrfab Since Carson has just been mentioned in a post, I thought somebody might be interested to read the obituary I saw yesterday in the British Guardian newspaper. His comments on democracy were new to me and worth reading! Aren't there trailers for his show as well as Ed McMahon during the closing theme music on some of the original audio tapes from Search's first showing? Richard Obituary --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Johnny Carson American television's most popular and long-enduring show host Christopher Reed Monday January 24, 2005 The Guardian For almost 30 years, the last person that millions of Americans saw before they went to sleep was Johnny Carson, hosting his Tonight television chat show on NBC. In it, Carson, who has died aged 79, honed an apparently effortless technique that influenced comedians and interviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Such was his popularity that his final show, on May 21 1992, became almost a national day of mourning, with Bette Midler singing a lament as he left the studio in Burbank, Los Angeles. Carson represented 17% of NBC's profit, and it took two leading comedians to replace him: Jay Leno at Tonight and his rival for that job, David Letterman, who departed for his own late show at CBS. Lean and self-contained, Carson developed an opening monologue in which he would comment coolly, but hilariously, on what was preoccupying America. He appeared more liberal than he was by cleverly anticipating changes in public attitude and knowing when a controversial topic, such as opposition to the Vietnam war, was gaining mass approval. His constant, wounding, cracks about Richard Nixon probably contributed to the president's downfall. Although he was one of America's most popular figures during his reign at Tonight from October 1962 (first guest: Groucho Marx) until the last show, he almost disappeared after that. He did write a few humorous articles in the New Yorker in 2000, after surviving quadruple by-pass surgery in 1999, but mostly he kept to his Malibu home, with his fourth wife, Alexis. He also contributed quietly to charities and established a theatre at his old high school. His previous three wives and his often disastrous business investments, which included John De Lorean's fated Northern Ireland car-building enterprise, were the source of rueful jokes. His third wife took him for a reported $20 million, but he remained good humored about it, which further endeared him to Americans. Only once did this sunny disposition crack, when he displayed a copy of the National Enquirer, denounced its report of his marriage difficulties as "lies", and challenged them to sue. They did not. The marital humour also went the other way. He acknowledged that he met his fourth wife when she strolled past his Malibu home, but wags said it was her fifth pass - in a bikini. Although the show was always tightly scripted, Carson was capable of spontaneous wit. After a man ran naked across the set during the streaking craze of the 1970s, and was promptly arrested by police, Carson cracked he would not be prosecuted "for lack of evidence". A private man behind the public banter, he hid his true feelings, an act of heroic modesty considering his huge potential influence. But after he had given his notice to NBC, and his final show approached, he delivered a laconic message about democracy that is worth repeating. He compared it to buying "a big house you can't afford, with money you don't have, to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties. "Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold on to, usually a mop or a leaf blower. It means that with proper timing and scrupulous bookkeeping, anyone can die owing the government a huge amount of money... Democracy means free television, not good television, but free... And finally, democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollarbill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head. This signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle. I thank you." Carson was born in Iowa, raised in Nebraska and, while still a schoolboy, sent for a conjuring set and entertained his fellow pupils as the "Great Carsoni". He spent the latter part of the second world war in the US Navy, then went to Nebraska University on the GI bill. In 1949, he worked for a radio station in Omaha, polishing his repartee before starting his own TV show. It lasted only a year but attracted the attention of the famous comedian Red Skelton, for whom he wrote jokes. In 1957, that led to him hosting a TV game show, Who Do You Trust? After five successful seasons, he was offered the job of replacing the formidable Jack Paar on Tonight, after standing in for him several times. From then on, with an annual income growing to over $15 million, and the power to dictate the show's content, switching it from New York to California, and reducing the length from 90 to 60 minutes, he became a national institution, frequently hosting the Oscars, and set for permanent success in his public life. Privately, he struggled with alcohol and endured three divorces, the first soon after he became a hit on Tonight. In 1991, one of his three sons by his first wife, Jody, was killed in a traffic accident. He is survived by two sons and four wives. · John William Carson, television show host, born October 23 1925; died January 23 2005 2988 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:23pm Subject: Search - NBC closing credit audios dghprobe3 Here is a list of all the "Search" closing credits from NBC we have accumulated on audiotape, from three different collectors. I have taken the audio from most of these and re-matched them where possible to the closing credits video Trevor sent us, and will add them as extras to future editions of Search eps we send out on VHS, and eventually, on DVD. It's kinda eerie seeing and hearing the closing credits this way, it's like you're back in 1972-73 again. If anyone else out there has audiotapes of Search back in the NBC days, let us know so we can add them to the collection. 09-20-72 "ONE OF OUR PROBES" (from Jim - Dean Martin promo.) 11-15-72 "THE ADONIS FILE" (from Jim - Ed McMahon promo.) The rest of these are from Don's audios, except where noted, and each has an Ed McMahon promo, except where noted: 12-27-72 "ONE OF OUR PROBES IS MISSING" (Repeat) 04-25-73 "LIVE MEN TELL TALES" (Repeat) (Chet Huntley promo.) 05-09-73 "MOONROCK" (Repeat) 05-23-73 "SHORT CIRCUIT" (Repeat) 06-13-73 "A HONEYMOON TO KILL" (Repeat) 06-20-73 "MOMENT OF MADNESS" (Repeat) (from Actingman - Ed McMahon) 06-27-73 "THE 24 CARAT HIT" (Repeat) 07-11-73 "SUFFER MY CHILD" (Repeat) (from Jon Bach - Ed McMahon) 07-18-73 "ENDS OF THE EARTH" (Repeat) (Jon - Doc Severinsen promo) 07-25-73 "THE PACKAGERS" (Repeat) 08-01-73 "FLIGHT TO NOWHERE" (Repeat) 08-08-73 "THE CLAYTON LEWIS DOCUMENT" (Repeat) 08-15-73 "GODDESS OF DESTRUCTION" (Repeat) 08-29-73 "THE MATTSON PAPERS" (Repeat) ------------------------------------- --- In probe_control, richard.rutherford wrote: > ...Aren't there trailers for his show as well as > Ed McMahon during the closing theme music on some of the original > audio tapes from Search's first showing? --Richard 2989 From: Date: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:13pm Subject: Re: RIP Johnny Carson probecontrol An interesting read-- Thanks very much, Richard! Jim Alexander ======================================= >Since Carson has just been mentioned in a post, I thought somebody >might be interested to read the obituary I saw yesterday in the >British Guardian newspaper. His comments on democracy were new to >me and worth reading! Aren't there trailers for his show as well as >Ed McMahon during the closing theme music on some of the original >audio tapes from Search's first showing? > >Richard 2990 From: "drjeffreyp" Date: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:07pm Subject: Re: Finally got hold of some SEARCH episodes drjeffreyp Maam, May I ask where you got your episodes, how many did you get? I'd love to get some myself. many thanks. btw, you can reply to asipowicz@... if you'd like. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, Connie wrote: > Yes - I am a bit behind ;) > > I was afraid that I might be disappointed - after all, the show was > just a memory I had. Didn't quite turn out to be the case. The first > episode I saw, Let Us Prey, a Bianco episode, was quite enjoyable. A > number of goofs - but all and all not bad. Besides, I guess I am a > Bianco fan and so this was a good re-introduction to the show. > > Anyone else has any other thoughts? > > Connie 2991 From: "kevin_searchprobe" Date: Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:58am Subject: Re: Search episodes kevin_search... An release version of the pilot (PROBE) was/is available on VHS. I have both the "cut" TV version & the release version. Oddly enough, there are things I like better about the TV cut -- for example I think the theme music on it synchs better during the intro. BTW, Are all the broadcast episodes accounted for? Was "The Gold Machine", the Holy Grail of "Search" fans, ever discovered? --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, tech_76@y... wrote: > > > Hello, > > I saw your post on the Probe Control group. How much would you charge for just the > Probe pilot and how is the quality on that? 2992 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:24am Subject: John C. Strong Interview--Part Six probecontrol Listmembers-- My extreme apologies for the amount of time I have taken to transcribe this second-to-last segment of my John Christopher Strong interview. After this conversation ended, Mr. Strong and I were able to have one more very brief chat, where he shared with me a quick story about Tony Franciosa, and the automobile that Franciosa drove during the series. I will endeavor to post that last, brief segment to the list within a couple of days. And since it's brought up in the conversation below, there ARE arrangements being made in the near future for one of our listmembers to photograph Mr. Strong's Scanner prop. :) Since this 'Part Six' of the interview begins in the middle of a thought, I have included the last few sentences of 'Part Five' to jump-start this portion. ;) Enjoy-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... ======================================= S = John Strong A = Jim Alexander -------------- S: That's right. We tried to break (new) ground in that show, and did it successfully. Unfortunately, times and ratings dictate things that you don' t expect. And I think that because we'd had a lot of major talent wanting to come aboard as guest stars... and I think that if Leslie had gone a little further... if Leslie had stayed with the show, it would have maintained its integrity. A: One could only guess what it might have been like. You likened (SEARCH) to a 'first girlfriend', but you'd been a trendsetter before--you'd broken new ground before... S: Yep! Yep! A: THE OUTER LIMITS was TERRIBLY trendsetting, and you were breaking new ground with that. You had GREAT guest stars... S: THIRTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS an episode!!! A: Great guest stars wanted to do OUTER LIMITS too, so it's interesting to ME that you would call SEARCH 'your first girlfriend'... S: Well, you know... there're a lot of PERSONAL reasons for it, as well. There's relationships with people within the cast and the show, and... OUTER LIMITS was an anthology. You just had people come in for their three days, and go away. A: Same crew, but different people in FRONT of the camera. S: We started on OUTER LIMITS with talents like Conrad Hall, William Fraker, Haskell Wexler... the greatest cinematographers of all time. ======================== NOTE: In addition to THE OUTER LIMITS, cinematographer Conrad Hall worked on other Leslie Stevens projects like STONEY BURKE (1962) and INCUBUS (1965). He won Academy Awards for his work on BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969), AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999), and ROAD TO PERDITION (2002). His imdb credits are at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005734/ Among other films, William A. Fraker worked on ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), BULLITT (1968), and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977). More on Fraker at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005710/ Haskell Wexler contributed to such classic films as IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967), the original THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968), and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975). More on Wexler at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005549/ Conrad Hall and Haskell Wexler are two of only six cinematographers to achieve stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. =========================== S: ... some of the great cinematographers of all time! A: The VERY best. S: So, you look at things, and you say well, "I consider SEARCH a first girlfriend" because it was a pretty, pretty show. END OF PART FIVE ================ BEGINNING OF PART SIX A: It was lush! S: We went to Lake Arrowhead (to double) for Germany. =========================== Strong is apparently speaking of the LAKE ARROWHEAD LODGE in Arrowhead, California--located about 90 minutes from Los Angeles in the San Bernardino National Forest. More at: http://rentalo.com/properties/lake_arrowhead_resort1.html http://rimoftheworldhistory.com/lakearrowhead.htm http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=dspv&&itid=&itdx=&itty=new&from=m and http://www.hotels.com/property.jsp?property=245240&PSRC=TAQ&hotelname=LAKE%20ARR\ OWHEAD%20RESORT&isRedirect=true =========================== A: Ahhhhhh! S: Remember the Bavarian sequence? A: For the PROBE pilot. Right. S: Yeah. A: The hotel used for the pilot--same place? S: It was the old Lake Arrowhead Inn. And we also went to The Madonna Inn down in Riverside (California)... =========================== The Madonna Inn is located at 100 Madonna Road, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405. More at: http://www.madonnainn.com/ Incidentally, imdb.com lists Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, and San Bernardino National Forest, California, as filming locations for the PROBE pilot at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069125/locations =========================== S: We went to more places on that show that ANYBODY! And we had a great cinematographer named John Stephens, who I'd known for years. =========================== John M. Stephens worked on television shows like McCLOUD and ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, and films like SECONDS, GRAND PRIX, ICE STATION ZEBRA and TITANIC. More details on Stephens at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828497/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHxwbj0wf\ HE9am9obiBzdGV2ZW5zfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=7;ft=20;fm=1 Incidentally, John M. Stephens and John Christopher Strong worked together again in 1987 on the TV Movie, STEELE JUSTICE. =========================== S: (Stephens) worked with our company at Universal (Studios). Universal would never let John Stephens do anything... and I got him on to be the Director of Photography of Doug McClure's segments of THE VIRGINIAN. And then he became our Director of Photography for the PROBE pilot, (unintelligible) and did some of the episodes. A: Understood. And they looked incredible! Obviously, you made a good choice. (laughs) S: Yeah... he's still a wonderful cameraman, and he's still a great friend. A: Anything that you'd like to say to the fans of the show on the web, regarding your memories and experiences... I mean, over-and-above all the other things that you've shared so far? S: I just want to say on behalf of me, and Leslie, and everybody involved in the show... that we had a GOOD RIDE... and we thank them for their appreciation of the work we did. A: Well, you'd be surprised... or maybe you WOULDN'T, after all... how many people there are out there who still have deep, deep affection for SEARCH. I 'd like to offer YOU something, in case you're interested. Do you have copies of the show? S: No A: Are you interested in them? S: Oh, sure. A: We'd love to send them to you. S: That'd be great! A: Current projects? S: I'm doing a new 3-D animated feature film called P.C. & THE WEB PIRATES. It's an animated 3-D feature. Then we're doing a movie called THE IRON DUKE... and a movie called THE LAST PISTOLERO. A: We'll be looking for all those in the upcoming months. S: We're going to be starting the animated feature up in Canada. There's a CGI house up there that's spectacular! And they do all the things that I did with computers... that I did by hand! A: (laughs) Gotcha! S: You know, Bruce Lee was a dear friend of mine, and Leslie and I were going to produce a show called THE WAY OF THE DRAGON. A: Right. S: And THE WAY OF THE DRAGON eventually became (the TV series) KUNG FU. A: Right. S: And I brought Bruce in to meet Leslie, and he loved him.. and we wanted him to star as Caine in THE WAY OF THE DRAGON. We took him in to (some studio executives), and Bruce ripped off his shirt, and did some gyrations, and some kicks... and missed them by millimeters! And he was the embodiment of what we believed that that show could have been. And we thought Bruce was the biggest hit in the world in that meeting. And actually, he scared the bejesus out of'em. They said, "Nobody's gonna want to watch a real Chinese go across the desert. So we're gonna get an American... for the TVQ." And that was IT. A: And we saw where KUNG FU ultimately went, because it was considered successful, and was just released on DVD recently, and STILL plays in syndication. S: That's correct. But Bruce went on to become one of the great movie stars of the world, and one of the great cult heroes of the last two generations. A: Was, and always will be. You were correct in your assessment of him, weren't you? S: Yep. And then Raymond Chow... =========================== Raymond Chow is a Hong King film producer whose career has spanned 30 years. Despite having a prolific career, Chow is likely most known (by American audiences, anyway) as being the man responsible for bringing Bruce Lee to international fame through Lee's all-too-brief motion picture career. More on Chow at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159494/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHxwbj0wf\ HE9cmF5bW9uZCBjaG93fGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20 =========================== ... asked me, as an homage on GAME OF DEATH, to come in and work on GAME OF DEATH and design a Main Title and End Credits as an homage to Bruce, from all his pictures... which I did. And it's become the most famous piece of film on Bruce that there is. A: Right. A very cohesive, beginning-to-end, kind of a retrospective on Bruce in just a few seconds. S: That's correct. Five minutes in the front, and five minutes in the back. A: In fact, Hugh O'Brian was involved in GAME OF DEATH, wasn't he? S: Absolutely! A: Pulling one of your old friends back in, weren't you? (laughs) S: That's right! You ALWAYS bring your friends in! A: Well... I'm sure that there's a dozen more questions that I'd love to ask, but I need to be considerate of your time, and... S: If you're ever in need again, to talk or chat, or (if there's something you) need to find out anything else about... there's LOTS of things that I remember that were great... I guess it comes out of conversation, as opposed to... A: True. Kind of stream-of-consciousness. So, you're offering that if there 's something that 'slipped though the loopholes' that you don't mind me calling again? S: Not at all. You can do it anytime you want. A: You're very kind, and I appreciate that a great deal. We will work on getting you copies of the episodes, and we'd love to send them to you. Could we ask one thing of YOU? We're interested in photographing your scanner prop. Could we set up a time to do that? S: SURE! You can... you can do whatever you'd like. A: (laughs) Well you couldn't be much kinder than THAT! I'll let you go. I'm sure you're a busy man, and I appreciate your time, sir. S: It's been a great pleasure. Tell all the folks out there that SEARCH is still alive! A: (laughs) Don't we KNOW it! Through the probecontrol.com website, and through people writing in there from all around the world... just about weekly. There're going to be a lot of people that are thrilled to find out some of the answers to the questions that I've asked you today, and it's going to take a bit to get it on the website, but you're going to have a lot of people who are going to have a good time reading through the interview transcript. Thank you very much, sir. S: You're very welcome. A: I appreciate it. Thanks for your time. S: All right, bye-bye. A: Bye, now. 2993 From: actingman@... Date: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:06pm Subject: Re: Re: Search episodes actingman_jc Sorry we haven't gotten back to you before. The Gold Machine was found long ago. The only episode that we do not have is Ends Of The Earth. -----Original Message----- From: kevin_searchprobe Sent: Jan 27, 2005 11:58 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] Re: Search episodes An release version of the pilot (PROBE) was/is available on VHS. I have both the "cut" TV version & the release version. Oddly enough, there are things I like better about the TV cut -- for example I think the theme music on it synchs better during the intro. BTW, Are all the broadcast episodes accounted for? Was "The Gold Machine", the Holy Grail of "Search" fans, ever discovered? 2994 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:34am Subject: Incorrect link in John C. Strong Interview--Part Six probecontrol I supplied an incorrect link in Part Six of the John Strong interview. The sequence below is correct. Jim probecontrol@... ======================================================================== S: We went to more places on that show that ANYBODY! And we had a great cinematographer named John Stephens, who I'd known for years. =========================== John M. Stephens worked on television shows like McCLOUD and ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, and films like SECONDS, GRAND PRIX, ICE STATION ZEBRA and TITANIC. More details on Stephens at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827063/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHxwbj0wf\ HE9am9obiBNLiBTdGVwaGVuc3xodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20 Incidentally, John M. Stephens and John Christopher Strong worked together again in 1987 on the TV Movie, STEELE JUSTICE. =========================== 2995 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:04pm Subject: Fw: eBay Suggestions and Help probecontrol Listmembers-- I received the below e-mail from a friend last night: (My wife) bought me an X-mas gift on eBay. It was supposed to arrive in time for X-mas, but it didn't. She told the buyer she would wait, which she did. She entered a dispute claim yesterday, saying the item never arrived. Lo and behold, it arrived today. Now we can't see how to reverse this thing... Any ideas? Any suggestions from y'all on what he might do? I've never been involved in one of these dispute claims on eBay before, so I'm clueless. Any assistance would be appreciated-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 2996 From: yorktowncmdr@... Date: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:52pm Subject: Re: Re: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information worldsecanalyst I am overdue with this post. "Harry-O" was a 10pm Thursday night fixture. I can't recall what it followed though. I don't believe ABC ever moved it from that slot even once. David > I remember both series. As I recall "O'Hara" was a traditional police > investigation drama, not unlike "The FBI." > > However, your comment about "Harry O" does ring true. It was along the > lines of the new "anti-cop" type show. I think that it followed "Get > Christy Love" on Saturdays. > 2997 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:59pm Subject: Re: Re: Random Thoughts/ Triva/ Information dmanmetz@... The Streets of San Francisco. 2998 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:54am Subject: SEARCH Cast List on imdb.com probecontrol I found this a couple of days ago. It's an exceptional list. I don't know WHO took the time to compile it, but I'd love to congratulate them. :) Interested parties might want to save it somewhere (or at least remember where to look on imdb) the next time that 'Guest Cast' questions come up for the series. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068131/guests Thanks-- Jim probecontrol@... 2999 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Mon Jan 31, 2005 0:00pm Subject: RE: SEARCH Cast List on imdb.com martadawes Actually, I'm going to take some of the credit for this list. I spent a weekend or two over a year ago putting a lot of these names in the IMDB for "Search." The new listing feature just makes it look impressive. Marta -----Original Message----- From: Jim Alexander [mailto:probecontrol@...] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:54 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] SEARCH Cast List on imdb.com I found this a couple of days ago. It's an exceptional list. I don't know WHO took the time to compile it, but I'd love to congratulate them. :) Interested parties might want to save it somewhere (or at least remember where to look on imdb) the next time that 'Guest Cast' questions come up for the series. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068131/guests Thanks-- Jim probecontrol@... 3000 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:26pm Subject: Wyatt Earp rides again dmanmetz@... Just a heads up. TV Land will start showing "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" on Saturday, 5 FEB at 3PM EST. To us Hugh O'Brian will always be Hugh Lockwood, to the rest of the world, he is Wyatt Earp. I don't know about any of you, but I have never seen this series. Well, just wanted let everyone know. Maybe if enough viewers show up, "Search" won't be far behind? Chris