3200 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Sun May 1, 2005 1:22am Subject: White Room Security secretconcierge In the pilot, recall the handprint recog unit for entry to Probe Control, Today Id add the following: o Iris scanner o Scan for implants- NO implants, area sealed off o ID badges for Probe Control staff scanned. o Robotic gun modules? o Steel plate doors. o sensor array for sensing explosives, BW, CW. o counter hacking software installed. Comments? Any guesstimate about Probe Control Unit cost & plus implants & agent training? In 2005 dollars? Or WSC Total budget? Why agents should be armed or acess arms: seeking diamonds, gold etc. guarding VIP? self defense role. Otherwise Taser minimum used? Probe nanocam should have X Ray scan via Control for unusual cases. Data recorded onto hard drive units & CD drives. 3201 From: "Morningstar" Date: Sun May 1, 2005 6:39am Subject: Re: Search Sequel suggestions Part I am2star While some of it seems a little too contrived, and unneccessarily complex for a new movie/ television series, there are a lot of good elements here. If Probe Control was attacked/ destroyed, perhaps the records are compromised, and Harding-Bennett wants someone that she can trust. Who better than a retiree that she knew in the old days. The chips for mind and muscle enhancement are superfluous. Remember, the technology only enhances our story, but the key is the individual. His limitations are our limitations. If he can out-think and out-perform his foes, then he is boring. If the technology gives him the advantage, but he is still one of us, then that raises the interest. Besides, the idea of Probe Control is all the information at there disposal. Why use a chip when Control can give you the instructions to defuse a bomb, hotwire a jeep, or perform a tracheatomy? --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Brown" wrote: > Au Contraire, mon Captaine! You say you are not much of a writer? I beg > to differ. Some fantastic ideas there. > > > > I thought it would be an interesting plug for HOBE to have Lockwood as > the spokesman/director of a children's organization as one of his "off > duties". He buries himself in the joy of working with children, in > order to forget the both the errors and arrogance of his past. > > > > I can see Gloria rekindling a deep friendship with Lockwood. She has > fought to bring him on board again, seeing that her superiors have lost > faith in her, due to the recent deaths of PROBE agents. The "system" > plays against her, and she feels like her superiors are reverting to the > gender bias of the past, so she uses Lockwood as leverage to keep the > PROBE division alive. > > Is it just a coup to give her job security, or does she have unrequited > feelings for Lockwood? All of that can be explored in the sequel. > > > > Skip > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: probe_control@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:probe_control@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dmanmetz@a... > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:42 AM > To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [probe_control] Search Sequel suggestions Part I > > > > > Wow, Skip what great concept you have come up with! I spent the whole > day at > work thinking of ideas that would help you with your story, not that > you > need it. I'm not much of a writer but here's what I came up with. 3202 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sun May 1, 2005 3:09pm Subject: Probes wired? probecontrol bfiler2002000 wrote: >... I suspect that as time went on, more and more people would start catching on that the Probes were wired, seems like that would be almost unavoidable, especially since those transmissions were taped for the record, if the tapes were played back at some point, say, at the trial of a bad guy caught out by a Probe, seems like he's going to be sitting there wondering where the camera and microphone were and would put it together sooner or later. (snip) How big of a secret would the Probes being wired have been in the last season, as compared to the first? And how big of a secret would it be with a 21st-Century SEARCH? I'm thinking of things like hackers intercepting Probe transmissions and wrecking various kinds of havoc that couldn't have been thought of in 1972...maybe a transmission with highly explosive material or implications turns up on a cable news channel? ============================================= Those are excellent notions! Even in the regular series, certain individuals were picking up/had picked up on the PROBE thing, and a few were even aware of the technology. Something like that is bound to get out-that these individuals were "wired" 24/7, so to speak. Those are ideas that I think bear more examination. Jim Alexander 3203 From: "Geoff Willmetts" Date: Sun May 1, 2005 10:07pm Subject: RE: imagination gfwillmetts Hello Stephen Russell Amongst the brigade of people who chat here are several pro-writers. I'm sure they're likely to agree with me that working the imagination isn't always to do with widening the expanse but working within the rules that are previously established. The odd time in the episodes that Probes were involved in helping the Government out was also done for hefty fees. Er...many of us actually own reasonable copies of the Probe movie but you're welcome to get yourself invited to the Playboy Mansion and ask Hef himself. :-) As to Martin Caiden. His novel ‘Cyborg’ is one of the best realistic portrayals of making a cyborg. No wonder people thought he had inside information. Gotta go Geoff 3204 From: STEPHEN RUSELL Date: Sun May 1, 2005 10:08pm Subject: RE: imagination secretconcierge Thanks. Geoff Willmetts wrote: Hello Stephen Russell Amongst the brigade of people who chat here are several pro-writers. I'm sure they're likely to agree with me that working the imagination isn't always to do with widening the expanse but working within the rules that are previously established. The odd time in the episodes that Probes were involved in helping the Government out was also done for hefty fees. Er...many of us actually own reasonable copies of the Probe movie but you're welcome to get yourself invited to the Playboy Mansion and ask Hef himself. :-) As to Martin Caiden. His novel ‘Cyborg’ is one of the best realistic portrayals of making a cyborg. No wonder people thought he had inside information. Gotta go Geoff 3205 From: "Jeffrey Rush" Date: Mon May 2, 2005 2:51am Subject: Re: Probes wired? drjeffreyp Mr. Alexander, We'rent you the one with the SEARCH eps for sale? If so, could you run the list down for me again. I'm sorry. They hit one of us, they hit us all - Horatio Caine, CSI Miami More is lost through indecision than no decision - Carmela Soprano Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway - John Wayne I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them - John Bernard Books, The Shootist Think Highly, Feel Deeply, Speak Plainly, Felix Ibanex, MD Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. Dr. Benjamin Rush (no relation) Jeffrey P. Rush 205/368-6893 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Alexander To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:09 AM Subject: [probe_control] Probes wired? bfiler2002000 wrote: >... I suspect that as time went on, more and more people would start catching on that the Probes were wired, seems like that would be almost unavoidable, especially since those transmissions were taped for the record, if the tapes were played back at some point, say, at the trial of a bad guy caught out by a Probe, seems like he's going to be sitting there wondering where the camera and microphone were and would put it together sooner or later. (snip) How big of a secret would the Probes being wired have been in the last season, as compared to the first? And how big of a secret would it be with a 21st-Century SEARCH? I'm thinking of things like hackers intercepting Probe transmissions and wrecking various kinds of havoc that couldn't have been thought of in 1972...maybe a transmission with highly explosive material or implications turns up on a cable news channel? ============================================= Those are excellent notions! Even in the regular series, certain individuals were picking up/had picked up on the PROBE thing, and a few were even aware of the technology. Something like that is bound to get out-that these individuals were "wired" 24/7, so to speak. Those are ideas that I think bear more examination. Jim Alexander 3206 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Tue May 3, 2005 2:24am Subject: PROBE CON 1. secretconcierge Shall we "probe" having a PROBE CON 1 to honor TV show Search? Con features: o celebs (alive) from show o fandom o merchendise? o speakers? o Plasma TV Room to air episodes? Speaker topics: "Implants Tracking systems Probe Control systems Realizing Probe Control WSC IPO? Technically feasible Problems with Probes? WSC Funding, finances? Hiring? Role models?" IF enough fans recall show etc worldwide? Sample companies on site at Con: Dell, IBM, HP, NASA, JPL, CalTech, MIT, IT, IS, Wired magazine, Pop Sci, GQ, Benz, Porsche, BMW, Lotus, liquor companies, wines, fashion? Media, Marketting, Venture finance? Back to speakers, theyd use DVD, CD/R, slides etc to Visualize topics of speeches or issues. All Q&A debate. Handouts, etc OK. Benefits: PR Probe Control concept Real time studies done? PR this Tech PR new ideas tap fandom for show? new Convention market within spy genre? revitalize ideas from show for Today current affairs. Needed Radical then as now. (more so now). Unique. See MI Con planned July 2006, LAX Hilton as guide. 3207 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Wed May 4, 2005 0:31am Subject: RE: PROBE CON 1. martadawes Is there a website with information on the M:I convention that's planned in 2006? Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of the Graveyards of Omaha and the New Twilight Zone Featuring the 2004 Twilight Zone Convention page! All we are saying... is give peace a chance. John Lennon -----Original Message----- From: probe_control@yahoogroups.com [mailto:probe_control@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:25 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] PROBE CON 1. Shall we "probe" having a PROBE CON 1 to honor TV show Search? Con features: o celebs (alive) from show o fandom o merchendise? o speakers? o Plasma TV Room to air episodes? Speaker topics: "Implants Tracking systems Probe Control systems Realizing Probe Control WSC IPO? Technically feasible Problems with Probes? WSC Funding, finances? Hiring? Role models?" IF enough fans recall show etc worldwide? Sample companies on site at Con: Dell, IBM, HP, NASA, JPL, CalTech, MIT, IT, IS, Wired magazine, Pop Sci, GQ, Benz, Porsche, BMW, Lotus, liquor companies, wines, fashion? Media, Marketting, Venture finance? Back to speakers, theyd use DVD, CD/R, slides etc to Visualize topics of speeches or issues. All Q&A debate. Handouts, etc OK. Benefits: PR Probe Control concept Real time studies done? PR this Tech PR new ideas tap fandom for show? new Convention market within spy genre? revitalize ideas from show for Today current affairs. Needed Radical then as now. (more so now). Unique. See MI Con planned July 2006, LAX Hilton as guide. 3208 From: STEPHEN RUSELL Date: Wed May 4, 2005 1:09am Subject: RE: PROBE CON 1. secretconcierge No, I heard about it from IMFYahooGroups. Tell others. Marta Dawes wrote: Is there a website with information on the M:I convention that's planned in 2006? Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of the Graveyards of Omaha and the New Twilight Zone Featuring the 2004 Twilight Zone Convention page! All we are saying... is give peace a chance. John Lennon -----Original Message----- From: probe_control@yahoogroups.com [mailto:probe_control@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:25 PM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] PROBE CON 1. Shall we "probe" having a PROBE CON 1 to honor TV show Search? Con features: o celebs (alive) from show o fandom o merchendise? o speakers? o Plasma TV Room to air episodes? Speaker topics: "Implants Tracking systems Probe Control systems Realizing Probe Control WSC IPO? Technically feasible Problems with Probes? WSC Funding, finances? Hiring? Role models?" IF enough fans recall show etc worldwide? Sample companies on site at Con: Dell, IBM, HP, NASA, JPL, CalTech, MIT, IT, IS, Wired magazine, Pop Sci, GQ, Benz, Porsche, BMW, Lotus, liquor companies, wines, fashion? Media, Marketting, Venture finance? Back to speakers, theyd use DVD, CD/R, slides etc to Visualize topics of speeches or issues. All Q&A debate. Handouts, etc OK. Benefits: PR Probe Control concept Real time studies done? PR this Tech PR new ideas tap fandom for show? new Convention market within spy genre? revitalize ideas from show for Today current affairs. Needed Radical then as now. (more so now). Unique. See MI Con planned July 2006, LAX Hilton as guide. 3209 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Wed May 4, 2005 3:19am Subject: Anyone on the list fluent in Spanish? dghprobe3 Out of curiosity, is there anyone on the list who is fluent or can get by pretty well in Spanish? We may have need in the future as we hear from more Spanish SEARCH fans. Thanks, Don H. 3210 From: "Jimmy Keary" Date: Wed May 4, 2005 9:09am Subject: MI Convention jimmy_keary I understand there will be a site devoted to the proposed MI convention. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about it, you can join my MI group at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/ImpossibleMissionsForce/ Jimmy (Moderator of ImpossibleMissionsForce group) 3211 From: "Marta Dawes" Date: Wed May 4, 2005 11:31pm Subject: RE: MI Convention martadawes Thanks, Jimmy. I just joined. Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of the Graveyards of Omaha and the New Twilight Zone Featuring the 2004 Twilight Zone Convention page! All we are saying... is give peace a chance. John Lennon -----Original Message----- From: probe_control@yahoogroups.com [mailto:probe_control@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Keary Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:09 AM To: probe_control@yahoogroups.com Subject: [probe_control] MI Convention I understand there will be a site devoted to the proposed MI convention. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about it, you can join my MI group at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/ImpossibleMissionsForce/ Jimmy (Moderator of ImpossibleMissionsForce group) 3212 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Fri May 6, 2005 1:19am Subject: Probe Control Today secretconcierge Even if seris didnt run the time it should I see Probe Control (IF in Real Life) with these capabilities via the implanted Probes: o IR Vision o Multilingustics o audio o Dbase acess for 100K dbases for miscl subjects Plus o spyware? o counterspyware o hacking software? o EW software o counter EM pulse? o graphics softwares & GPS o Maps dbase. o Biomed telemedicine. o fiber optics lines o directed audio? using Probes & environment around agent? Major counterterrorisim impact alone would WSC be. Above software offshelf type? sold wholesale? One fan's vision of WSC & Probe Control. 3213 From: "kevin_searchprobe" Date: Sun May 8, 2005 10:14am Subject: Photo on EBAY kevin_search... Nice still -- and the jacket is back in style! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=32988&item=7512644693&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW 3214 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Tue May 10, 2005 7:39pm Subject: McCloud DVD set for August release dghprobe3 Leslie Stevens was a writer-producer for "McCloud" just before "Search," and the guest stars include "Search" alumni Doug McClure, Burgess Meredith, Diana Muldaur, Stefanie Powers, Sebastian Cabot, Terry Carter, among others. Plus the various crew members, such as John Strong. ------------------------------ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3396 McCloud - There Ya' Go! The 'Sagebrush Sherlock Holmes' Is Riding Onto DVD! Posted by David Lambert - 5/10/2005 We've been telling you for more than a year that McCloud was coming to DVD in 2005, and today Universal has made it official with their announcement of McCloud - Seasons 1 & 2 for release on August 9th in a 3-disc set (each one double-sided). For $39.98 SRP you get 946 minutes containing what ought to be 14 episodes. Why so few for two seasons? Don't forget that McCloud, along with McMillan & Wife and Columbo and sometimes others, were part of a rotating selection of shows that shared a (1.5-2 hour) timeslot under the group name "NBC Sunday Mystery Movie", so each characters' series only appeared every 3rd or 4th week. Prior to that, McCloud was briefly part of NBC's "Four In One" program in the same timeslot, which had the same "rotating shows" concept. McCloud told the story of one Sam McCloud (played to perfection by Dennis Weaver), a Deputy Marshal from Taos, New Mexico whose pilot episode had him traveling to New York City to transport a prisoner to the NYPD. Later, he stays in the Big Apple to learn law enforcement techniques there (and to be near his lady (Star Trek/ST:TNG's Diana Muldaur), who works for her daddy's NY newspaper), but his down-home style also ends up teaching the big-city cops a thing or two. No only did this classic show work as a great detective story, but there was also lots of humor to be had from the program's fish-out-of-water concept. Glen A. Larson was one of the Executive Producers of this series, so it's no surprise that you'll find Battlestar Galactica's Terry Carter ("Colonel Tigh") on board as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst, who was friends with McCloud despite Chief Clifford's grouchy manner in respect to Sam's style. Other regular cast seen in the show when appropriate included Teri Garr and Della Reese. The pilot episode (if included on this set) guest stars Julie Newmar and Raul Julia, among others. Throughout the first two seasons you'll also see the likes of Susan Strasberg, Lorraine Gary, Doug McClure, Richard Dawson, Susan St. James, Randolph Mantooth, Sebastian Cabot, Alan Oppenheimer, Elisha Cook Jr., Stefanie Powers, Joan Blondell, Vincent Gardenia, Pat Morita, Burgess Meredith, Gary Collins, Shelley Fabares, Avery Schreiber, Vic Tayback, and the incomparable Milton Berle. Expect the DVD to present this classic series in the orginal Full Frame video and English Mono audio. English and Spanish subtitles are also going to be included. Stay tuned for box art, plus any updates that may or may not include extras. 3215 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Tue May 10, 2005 7:50pm Subject: McClure & Meredith in McCloud dghprobe3 More on the two separate episodes of "McCloud," one featuring Doug McClure (in an unbilled cameo) and the other with Burgess Meredith: http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeGuideSummary/showid- 103/McCloud/ 4. Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral) gs: Albert Salmi (Goose Jenkins) Joanna Moore (Donna Roberts) Burr deBenning (Blue Roberts) Nancy Malone (Iris McKensie) James Wainwright (Billy Gibson) Bill McKinney (Reuben) Dennis Fimple (Frankie) Tom Castronova (Officer) McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears. b: 30-Sep-1970 pc: 185A w&s: David P. Harmon and Warren Douglas d: Nicholas Colasanto (directed McClure in "In Search of Midas.") NOTE: Ringo Montana, the TV Western star McCloud is charged with protecting at the end of the episode, is played by DOUG McCLURE of The Virginian in a disguised and unbilled cameo. ---------------------------------- 12. A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley gs: BURGESS MEREDITH (Marvin Sloan) Moses Gunn (Morgan) Vic Morrow (Richard) Allen Garfield (Ralphie Goodbody) Arlene Martel (Tour Guide) Joyce Van Patten (Lucy Sloan) Alfred Ryder (Dr. Dudley) Val Avery (Walter McKay) Bruce Kirby (PR Man) Lonny Chapman (Gabe Lester) Hank Worden (Elderly Patient [unbilled cameo]) Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery. b: 12-Jan-1972 pc: 33417 w: Peter Allan Fields d: Jack Smight 3216 From: "David Paleg" Date: Wed May 11, 2005 9:02am Subject: Re: McClure & Meredith in McCloud dpaleg Much obliged. Thanks for the roundup of info on the McCloud disks. One name you mentioned, director Nicholas Colasanto, might be better known as Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, the bartender at Cheers. But I am surprised that you did not highlight another name in McCloud episode 12, Alfred Ryder. He was in two episodes of Search, the pilot (as Cheyne) and episode 16 "Goddess of Destruction" (as Dr. Sutra). There ya go. 3217 From: "dghprobe3" Date: Thu May 12, 2005 1:33am Subject: Re: McClure & Meredith in McCloud dghprobe3 Hi David: Thanks for the additional info. After I'd posted the McCloud info I caught Alfred Ryder's name, but then I wondered if someone else might pick up on it, so thanks for that. Harve Bennett once said he often used actor James B. Sikking (who appeared as Callas in "Moment of Madness") as a "good luck charm." It's possible Leslie Stevens had similar thinking about certain actors, like Alfred Ryder, who show up now and again in their different projects. The late director Nick Colasanto has been discussed at times on my "Name of the Game" Yahoo group as he directed some of the more intriguing segments of that series. NOTG is notable to us, of course, for the presence of Tony Franciosa as one of the stars, and Leslie Stevens as one of the producers, along with production assistance from our friend John Christopher Strong. And various guest stars, writers, and directors. :-) http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/nameofthegame/ ------------------------------------- --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "David Paleg" wrote: > ...director Nicholas Colasanto, might be better known > as Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, the bartender at Cheers. > ...you did not highlight another name in McCloud episode 12, Alfred > Ryder. He was in two episodes of Search, the pilot (as Cheyne) and > episode 16 "Goddess of Destruction" (as Dr. Sutra). There ya go. 3218 From: dmanmetz@... Date: Sat May 14, 2005 6:45pm Subject: Dominic Frontiere/ TV Themes dmanmetz@... Hi gang. I stumbled onto a fun site called mythemes.tv. It has a number of themes from old TV shows and other promos. At the very bottom of the list are the composers of some of those themes. Right now, there are only four of them and Dominic Frontiere is one of them, picture and all. I never knew what he looked like or that he was responsible for themes such as Vegas and Matt Houston (both, which I never liked), but no wonder those two themes sound similar. Also Rat Patrol, The Immortal, Branded, Stoney Bruke, The Outer Limits, and of course our favorite, Search. Check it out at: _http://www.mythemes.tv/_ (http://www.mythemes.tv/) Chris 3219 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Sat May 14, 2005 11:46pm Subject: Re: Dominic Frontiere/ TV Themes probecontrol That's a fun little site, and the fellow who runs it seems quite literate in his decriptions of music, and what he enjoys. Great stuff! I appreciate you passing it along, Chris! Jim Alexander ================================== > Hi gang. I stumbled onto a fun site called mythemes.tv. It has a number of > themes from old TV shows and other promos. At the very bottom of the list are > the composers of some of those themes. Right now, there are only four of them > and Dominic Frontiere is one of them, picture and all. I never knew what he > looked like or that he was responsible for themes such as Vegas and Matt > Houston (both, which I never liked), but no wonder those two themes sound > similar. Also Rat Patrol, The Immortal, Branded, Stoney Bruke, The Outer Limits, and > of course our favorite, Search. Check it out at: _http://www.mythemes.tv/_ > (http://www.mythemes.tv/) > > > Chris 3220 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Sun May 15, 2005 4:47am Subject: mythemes.tv secretconcierge Excellent website, great nostalgia feeling. I recommend for all TV YAHOO GROUPS & Message Boards for other TV websites IE fansites. See Robert Louisell site for KITT replica car vehicles made for 35K total. Mythemes.TV has A-Z in TV tunes music. Great Dbase for music buffs alone out there. 3221 From: "Morningstar" Date: Mon May 16, 2005 3:15am Subject: Re: Probes wired? am2star The advantage of the Probe agents were that they had field knowledge. Probe Control only worked to facilitate their knowledge, either if environment or research. The Probe wouldn't have to divulge that he was wired. Most of the stories, as I recall, centered around recovery. That is what World Securities was in the business to do. Of course, it would be nice to arrest the bad guy, but if theri plans were foiled, they might have been convicted on the evidence, and not the testimony of the Probe agent. --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Alexander" wrote: > bfiler2002000 wrote: > >... I suspect that as time went on, more and more people would start > catching on that the Probes were wired, seems like that would be almost > unavoidable, especially since those transmissions were taped for the record, > if the tapes were played back at some point, say, at the trial of a bad guy > caught out by a Probe, seems like he's going to be sitting there wondering > where the camera and microphone were and would put it together sooner or > later. (snip) How big of a secret would the Probes being wired have been in > the last season, as compared to the first? And how big of a secret would it > be with a 21st-Century SEARCH? I'm thinking of things like hackers > intercepting Probe transmissions and wrecking various kinds of havoc that > couldn't have been thought of in 1972...maybe a transmission with highly > explosive material or implications turns up on a cable news channel? > ============================================= > > Those are excellent notions! > > Even in the regular series, certain individuals were picking up/had picked > up on the PROBE thing, and a few were even aware of the technology. > Something like that is bound to get out-that these individuals were "wired" > 24/7, so to speak. > > Those are ideas that I think bear more examination. > > Jim Alexander 3222 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Mon May 16, 2005 1:45pm Subject: Field Probes Future Implants secretconcierge I recall during the shows that the agents would use Probe to help in field assignments IE pre GPS etc. & linguistics etc. Today, agents could/would use: monocular eyepieces for visual data hidden in eyeglasses, PDA, celphone, wrist watch MP3 type & body implants for Mission. Agents can don eye/sunglasses & Probe Control can relay data to agents LIVE with audio feed. Problem: Local EM interference, audio.(bkground noise). Agents can use PDA to aid Probe Control thus Verify etc actions. Agents can then be trained to do above mission MINUS the above & rely on implants alone??? Agents can be injected with nanobots for increase strength alone biologically (Imagine implications then). Damn, lets have a SEARCH Revival!. Note episode: Stealth & Beyond about Hi Tech for the Army Future warrior project that could be incorporated into a Probe agent (undercover). Agents instead of having 1 nanocamera could have 100 on body for relaying data to Probe Control alone!. 30 noncams alone on wrist watch & main nanocam neckpiece, coat buttons, vest buttons, pen set? eyeglasses/sunglasses. For women, theyre jewelry alone & purse. 3223 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Mon May 16, 2005 1:44pm Subject: Field Probes Future Implants secretconcierge I recall during the shows that the agents would use Probe to help in field assignments IE pre GPS etc. & linguistics etc. Today, agents could/would use: monocular eyepieces for visual data hidden in eyeglasses, PDA, celphone, wrist watch MP3 type & body implants for Mission. Agents can don eye/sunglasses & Probe Control can relay data to agents LIVE with audio feed. Problem: Local EM interference, audio.(bkground noise). Agents can use PDA to aid Probe Control thus Verify etc actions. Agents can then be trained to do above mission MINUS the above & rely on implants alone??? Agents can be injected with nanobots for increase strength alone biologically (Imagine implications then). Damn, lets have a SEARCH Revival!. Note episode: Stealth & Beyond about Hi Tech for the Army Future warrior project that could be incorporated into a Probe agent (undercover). Agents instead of having 1 nanocamera could have 100 on body for relaying data to Probe Control alone!. 30 noncams alone on wrist watch & main nanocam neckpiece, coat buttons, vest buttons, pen set? eyeglasses/sunglasses. For women, theyre jewelry alone & purse. 3224 From: "Geoff Willmetts" Date: Mon May 16, 2005 10:17pm Subject: RE: Field Probes Future Implants gfwillmetts Hello Stephen Russell Something to consider is how corporations are run today. If budgets were cut back, then surely they'd reduce the tech & number of support staff. Watched 'Probe' again last week. Something for all of you to ponder on. Streeter wanted the Entourage Collection to remain lost yet to use it has his 'stepping stones to power' it would have to be acknowledged as found. So why didn't he lead Lockwood on a song & dance & then recover it. Hmmmm...he did that, didn't he. Geoff 3225 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Fri May 20, 2005 4:06am Subject: OT: Help with U.N.C.L.E. episode probecontrol Does anyone tape THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. off of American Life TV? Or, does anyone have any MAN FROM UNCLE episodes on VHS? I need the episode they aired last night called "The Foxes and Hounds Affair". It guest-starred Vincent Price. It's also Volume Nine of the prerecorded U.N.C.L.E. set of VHS tapes that MGM released a few years ago. I was taping some Orson Welles stuff for a friend off of TCM, and completely missed it! I can pay or trade somethin' keen for it. ;) Sorry for the OT post, but I had a 'complete set' goin' up until tonight. Auuugggh!!! Contact me offlist if you can assist. Thanks-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 3226 From: C denova Date: Fri May 20, 2005 4:19am Subject: Re: OT: Help with U.N.C.L.E. episode c_denova I have DVR recordings of episodes eight through the end of the first season and one through 7 on VHS plus the Movie "To Catch a Spy" which is the retitled "Solo" Pilot on VHS. Would you be interested in an exchange for those SEARCH episodes? Jim Alexander wrote: Does anyone tape THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. off of American Life TV? Or, does anyone have any MAN FROM UNCLE episodes on VHS? I need the episode they aired last night called "The Foxes and Hounds Affair". It guest-starred Vincent Price. It's also Volume Nine of the prerecorded U.N.C.L.E. set of VHS tapes that MGM released a few years ago. I was taping some Orson Welles stuff for a friend off of TCM, and completely missed it! I can pay or trade somethin' keen for it. ;) Sorry for the OT post, but I had a 'complete set' goin' up until tonight. Auuugggh!!! Contact me offlist if you can assist. Thanks-- Jim Alexander probecontrol@... 3227 From: "franklinberke" Date: Tue May 24, 2005 3:26am Subject: Looking Once Again for Search... franklinberke Hi Everyone While I don't particularly enjoy beating a dead horse or banging my head against the wall, I probably did just that in an attempt to find some way of getting more information about the whereabouts of the original series that we so fondly remember. I didn't get much in the way of results, but I'll share the response I did get. I originally found my way to the probecontrol web site via a TV themes page that was compiled by Lee Goldberg, http://www.lgoldberg.com/leegoldbergthemes.htm Unfortunately he has since takem down most of the themes for legal reasons. However prior to that time, amongst the many he had was the Search theme, and he also had a link to the probecontrol web site. Desperate as we have been to gain information and given the fact that he is involved with television, I decided to just send him an e-mail asking if he could shed light on what happens to old discontinued series, and I also asked if he could provide some idea as how to get access to the Search series especially since we have such a dedicated group - clever, resourceful, and lucky enough to have dredged up copies of almost all of the series episodes. His response was predictably less than hopeful. I have included it at the bottom of this message. All I can say is that I tried. Franklin The simple answer is that cancelled shows end up in a film vault somewhere. Unless the series had enough episodes to syndicate (which SEARCH didn't), and there's a real demand to see the reruns (which there isn't), the show will just stay on the shelf forever. There are literally thousands of series like that, and not all of them are one-or-two season flops. . There really is no opportunity for fans to get episodes, except bootlegs from collectors. There's some room for hope...the success of TV show collections on DVD have given some obscure old shows new life. Whoever thought you'd be able to buy the complete DUSTY'S TRAIL (and who would want to?) Whether SEARCH will ever come out on DVD remains to be seen...but there are a lot of other, better known and more successful shows in the Warner Brothers vault that are likely to come out first. I'm still waiting for SPENSER FOR HIRE... Lee Goldberg www.leegoldberg.com www.diagnosis-murder.com 3228 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Tue May 24, 2005 4:12am Subject: Re: Looking Once Again for Search... probecontrol Mr. Berke-- I think that writing Lee Goldberg was an inspired idea, actually. Seeing as he's in the business, it's a good 'reality check' to get the honest facts from someone who'll give them to us straight. On a similar note: I happened to be at BEST BUY this afternoon, and gravitated to the TV SHOWS ON DVD section as I always do, where I was absolutely astonished at the amount of offbeat series now available. THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW? THE NAKED CITY? THE PERILS OF PENELOPE PITSTOP? Not one, but TWO different box sets of CLUTCH CARGO cartoons (in Synchro-Vox!)??? And don't get me wrong--I'm not knocking ANY other TV series. But still, it boggles the mind how SOME of these have generated enough interest to get mass-produced, released--and stocked in my local BEST BUY. Frankly, I can't imagine we'll ever see SEARCH released on DVD in any sort of mass-market fashion. I still think our best bet lies in one day interesting a cable network (like AMERICAN LIFE TV) to televise our short-lived gem, perhaps in a rotating showcase with OTHER one-season wonders. THANKS for writing Goldberg, Mr. Berke. It was a good idea, and thanks for the effort. Jim Alexander probecontrol@... ========================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "franklinberke" To: Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: [probe_control] Looking Once Again for Search... > Hi Everyone > > While I don't particularly enjoy beating a dead horse or > banging my head against the wall, I probably did just that in an > attempt to find some way of getting more information about the > whereabouts of the original series that we so fondly remember. I > didn't get much in the way of results, but I'll share the response I > did get. > > I originally found my way to the probecontrol web site via a TV > themes page that was compiled by Lee Goldberg, > http://www.lgoldberg.com/leegoldbergthemes.htm > > Unfortunately he has since takem down most of the themes for > legal reasons. However prior to that time, amongst the many he had > was the Search theme, and he also had a link to the probecontrol web > site. > > Desperate as we have been to gain information and given the > fact that he is involved with television, I decided to just send him > an e-mail asking if he could shed light on what happens to old > discontinued series, and I also asked if he could provide some idea > as how to get access to the Search series especially since we have > such a dedicated group - clever, resourceful, and lucky enough to > have dredged up copies of almost all of the series episodes. > > His response was predictably less than hopeful. I have > included it at the bottom of this message. All I can say is that I > tried. > > Franklin > > > The simple answer is that cancelled shows end up in a film vault > somewhere. Unless the series had enough episodes to syndicate (which > SEARCH didn't), and there's a real demand to see the reruns (which > there isn't), the show will just stay on the shelf forever. There > are literally thousands of series like that, and not all of them are > one-or-two season flops. . There really is no opportunity for fans to > get episodes, except bootlegs from collectors. There's some room for > hope...the success of TV show collections on DVD have given some > obscure old shows new life. Whoever thought you'd be able to buy the > complete DUSTY'S TRAIL (and who would want to?) Whether SEARCH will > ever come out on DVD remains to be seen...but there are a lot of > other, better known and more successful shows in the Warner Brothers > vault that are likely to come out first. I'm still waiting for > SPENSER FOR HIRE... > > Lee Goldberg > www.leegoldberg.com > www.diagnosis-murder.com 3229 From: "kevin_searchprobe" Date: Tue May 24, 2005 7:08am Subject: Re: Dominic Frontiere/ TV Themes kevin_search... SEARCH profited greatly from Frontiere's theme, I don't think the series would've made nearly as much of an impact with me as a kid without it. He did some movie scores too, including one of my favorite films, "The Stunt Man" with Peter O'Toole. 3230 From: "Stephen Russell" Date: Tue May 24, 2005 1:37pm Subject: TV Themes etc. secretconcierge Franklin try mythemes.com for A-Z TV themes from all shows Including Search. Excellent site. For music that is. Nice quality Dbase. As for Search I agree sadly. I wrote earlierposts about What If Search plots etc. Today with globalwide terrorisim & neededing HUMNIT: Human Intelligence the need for a WSC & Probe Control would even be more in demand. Problems: probes need to speak farsi, etc? Otherwise doable. 3231 From: "franklinberke" Date: Tue May 24, 2005 2:16pm Subject: Re: Looking Once Again for Search... franklinberke Jim, please you and everyone else in the group can call me Franklin or Frank. You referred to AMERICAN LIFE TV in your previous e-mails. Have you tried posting a message to them enquiring about Search? Unfortunately I can't get AMERICAN LIFE TV from my satellite provider. Franklin 3232 From: Date: Tue May 24, 2005 5:29pm Subject: AMERICAN LIFE TV addresses probecontrol >... Jim, please you and everyone else in the group can call me Franklin or Frank. ================== Good enough, Franklin. ;) ================== >... You referred to AMERICAN LIFE TV in your previous e- mails. Have you tried posting a message to them enquiring about Search? Unfortunately I can't get AMERICAN LIFE TV from my satellite provider. ================== I have, Franklin. And here's a link where others can contact them via e-mail: http://www.americanlifetv.com/contact.php Here's the Snail Mail Address of their corporate offices: American Life TV Network 650 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Vice President, Programming Mark Ringwald (202) 289-6633 Potential points to include in e-mails/letters to AMERCIAN LIFE: I might suggest that interested parties relate how SEARCH would be perfect for AMERICAN LIFE programming as it follows along the lines of their other Baby Boomer series. SEARCH is interestingly-positioned as it stars HUGH O'BRIAN (a star who would appeal to AMERICAN LIFE'S Western audience by virtue of his long run as WYATT EARP) and would dovetail well into the channel's Secret Agent adventure and Private Eye dramas. Letters to AMERICAN LIFE could concentrate on SEARCH's impressive list of SEARCH Guest Stars, high-quality production values, and the overall fun and likability of the series--not to mention the fact that SEARCH hasn't been seen elsewhere, which would make it fresh and new to syndication. SEARCH might even prove to be a good 'weekend' programmer for AMERCIAN LIFE; the episodes could be run all year long with only a single repeat. Any thoughts? Jim Alexander 3233 From: R P Date: Tue May 24, 2005 3:30pm Subject: Re: Re: Dominic Frontiere/ TV Themes tinatylerfan I AGREE ! The PROBE pilot's plot and story got me to tune in....but Frontiere's theme enriched and brought excitement to my already wonderful Midwestern upbringing..so much so that it's still in my heart today. Whenever I need to smile or a lift, I simply hum the theme and instantly become a member of the jet set crowd saving the world from the next catastrophe ! I can't imagine PROBE having a more appropriate theme which invited the audience to stay tuned for excitement and immediately let them know they were going to be entertained for the next 90+ minutes. I was disappointed that much of the series never lived up to the excitement potential I felt was inherent in the opening credits. kevin_searchprobe wrote:SEARCH profited greatly from Frontiere's theme, I don't think the series would've made nearly as much of an impact with me as a kid without it. He did some movie scores too, including one of my favorite films, "The Stunt Man" with Peter O'Toole. 3234 From: "bfiler2002000" Date: Wed May 25, 2005 7:23am Subject: Re: TV Themes etc. bfiler2002000 --- In probe_control@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Russell" wrote: > Franklin try mythemes.com for A-Z TV themes from all shows Including > Search. > Excellent site. > For music that is. > Nice quality Dbase. > > As for Search I agree sadly. > I wrote earlierposts about What If Search plots etc. > Today with globalwide terrorisim & neededing HUMNIT: Human > Intelligence the need for a WSC & Probe Control would even be more in > demand. > Problems: probes need to speak farsi, etc? > Otherwise doable. Well, in the original series, that was where Griffin (Albert Popwell) came in, when there was a need for a translation, he would provide it, being sort of the resident language expert. He had been a formet translator at the UN and spoke several languages (no longer remember which ones, if specific languages were even mentioned.) However, however much of a genius at languages somebody might be, there might still be one that they're not all that great with, or are unfamiliar with. So maybe a real-life or 21st-Century Probe-Control would have a language database...where possible, Griffin or his modern-day counterpart would provide a translation on the spot, but maybe for something like Farsi, (which I've heard that few Western-born people can speak due to its complexity...a person supposedly almost has to have been speaking it all their lives to have any level of fluency in it, so it would probably almost have to be someone originally from that part of the world, or maybe an immigrant family who only spoke Farsi at home among themselves, the way my paternal great-great grandparents only spoke German, and their children were bilingual, speaking English outside the home, but only German inside....) they might have to hit the database to translate the message or inscription. 3235 From: "Jim Alexander" Date: Fri May 27, 2005 4:32am Subject: Conversation with John Strong probecontrol I spoke with SEARCH Associate Producer John Strong again today--just to check and make sure that he received the set of SEARCH DVD's that our group mailed to him a couple of weeks ago. He said that he DID receive them, and thanked all of us profusely for them. Mr. Strong also mentioned that he received the package of Belgian Chocolates and Stroopwafels (imported from Holland), generously supplied by one of our members (who asked to remain anonymous). Strong said, "I've gained 48 damned pounds from eating the damned things--they were FANTASTIC," and wanted me to thank all those who were involved in sending them and contributing towards their purchase. When I confirmed with Mr. Strong our desire that he share with us any memories he had of the series once he'd had a chance to view the DVD's, he asked me to e-mail him my contact information again so he could get in touch with me when he was ready. He also asked about plans to get pics of the SEARCH scanner by one of our members, and I assured him that he'd be contacted before too long regarding arrangements to photograph the prop. Hopefully, I'll hear from Strong when he has a chance to enjoy the episodes--and of course, I'll inform the group of any details. Thanks-- Jim Alexander