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[njudahchronicles]

Google '72

[farnumbp]

Great memories! The ads were cool too!

Thank you for posting this

[MarcusLeepapi]

This was a great show..

[chipsunlimited]

amaizing music!

[MarcusLeepapi]

I guess I am getting old.. I remember good shows back in the 60's, 70's and early 80's.

[MarcusLeepapi]

I really miss this show... Wow! I loved Tony Franciosa so much.. He was a cool agent...Really cool...

[Classictvcollector]

Very cool. I loved the old viewmasters, especially the projectors.

[Survivor87]

I'm pretty up on this era and I hadn't really heard of it except for the fact that growing up, my brothers and I had some random view master discs, and this show was one of them, they have out of print on them.

[pacific707]

Wow! Tony Franciosa!! I remember him.....

[NowhereMan1966]

I also remember the Prestone commercial. I'd love to see the show released in DVD/VHS/Blu-Ray/whatever.

[MONGOOSE1ful]

12/2/10

To fans of the TV series "SEARCH"-please go to Warner Archives,and petition

them to release this series on their MOD/DVDs,,as the studio is already starting

to make some of it's TV series and TV Films availible through it's WB Shop on

line. this 1972-73 NBC series,23 shows in all,is way overdue for availibilty!

[Actingman6]

In the past when tv shows were running from film, the networks would have the HQ 35mm copy on the air, and at the same time, they would have a 16mm copy (with all the commercials included) running in synch from a different location. This clip is from an NBC 16mm backup copy. That is one reason the colors are washed out. Another is that it is a multigenerational video copy.

[Blackwolff9]

I LOVED this show as a kid! Tony Franciosa was my favorite of the three. Sad that they've all passed on except Hugh O'Brien. You must live on the West Coast as that was the show's timeslot here back then. It was WAY past my bedtime then,but I had to have my dose of "Search"! You just earned yourself a new subscriber,my friend. Thanks for posting!

[MorganScorpion]

Burgess Meredith OWNED this show. I became a lifelong fan.

[KatellaGate]

@MorganScorpion . That's funny, me too. I knew Burgess Meredith from the old BATMAN series, but I became a fan when I saw him on SEARCH/PROBE. So much so, I had a hard time when he did ROCKY -- all I could see was Cameron slumming in a dirty gym.

[MarcusLeepapi]

I remember this show.. It was really nice... I loved the super agents..

[KatellaGate]

No fair! What did Frankie say? I remember the commercial, but not the end of the line.

[billflowers]

I remember search being one of my favourites as a child. Thanks for the flach back!

[youtub3k]

I think in this case Soujurn, it's the condition of the print stock, that's held back the DVDs. Some of the Kodak film used back then, turned red after a few decades. I got a reel of he NY World's Fair (1965) that's has no color but red now. And I've seen some single frames of Search footage that was all red. So besides the pilot (that got syndicated) episode, the rest need serious restoration from negative stock. If it still exists.

[planthi80]

@youtub3k i hope they get going on it as this is great show~!

[videoholic2000s]

Great post, thanks for uploading! I always loved the theme song from this show, and if you search hard enough, it's available on the 'Net in stereo!!! I'm lucky enough to have about a dozen of these Search shows on tape!!!!

[efrem1]

Mr. Frontiere also did the music for The Invaders as well. What a talent!!

[gell7]

the good old of quality tv notthis crap ass jonas bro / hanth montas rap music de dog the dog shit

[younger1968]

this looks like a cool show. i was too young to remember the show, but it look like something i would like get on dvd.

[PortVienna80]

Indeed it was a great show,and ahead of its time regarding the technologies used,much of which we take for granted today.

I especially remember that theme to the opening credits,one of the best ever.

[raquelroyena]

I loved this theme when I was a teener. Thanks at my age now, I am able to watch it again especially those episodes I missed because I have to study as a child. Now I can watch whenever I want. Brings back memories-Royena

[MikeNichols50]

Too bad Leslie Stevens got the sack on this show...that move probably robbed us fans of Frontiere from exciting music [since Frontiere had a work history with Stevens - i.e. "The Outer Limits"]....

[creolelady182]

@MikeNichols50

why did leslie stevens get sacked form this show?

[MikeNichols50]

@creolelady182 - That's a good question; unfortunately I don't have an answer for you right now...

If I stumble upon the 411 in my research I will pass it along to you.

Thanx for the interest!

[Ruffrob]

Theme by Dominic Frontiere who was head of music at Paramount. (And this was a Warner Bros series) Throughout the series music from The Immortal (Christopher George ,Paramount Television) was heard. I guess since the Immortal was only on for one season,Mr. Frontiere reused it here...

[quimleal]

and what a great theme it was...nothing can ever come close now!!!!

[MikeNichols50]

I'm sure you're right..he had a great talent for rewoking his own musical motifs, as

I am discovering watching "12 O'Clock High" episodes on the American Life

network...

[megamanj2004X]

Yep, because Dominic Frontiere was also the man that also gave us the 1st music jingle to the 1969-75 version of the Paramount Television logo, called by some as "The Closet Killer."

And incidentally, he also was the guy that composed the 1972 Warner Bros. Television logo jingle as well.

[midknightryder13]

Wouldn't you think, with things the way the are vis-a-vis the economy, TW wouldn't place such arbitrary restrictions on releases of older programs. What are they protecting? It makes no sense.

[Soujurn]

It is usually the estates of series cast members who want too much money that holds up the release of old shows onto DVD. Sometimes it is the music for which they cannot get clearance that holds things up. But sometimes it is a network or production company like Universal for example, that holds backs.

[StevenErnest]

Thanks for the cool info in the sidebar. I loved this show.

[youtub3k]

Wow! The prints are a real mess. Not just "red shifted", but also just plain worn out. No way they'll ever make DVDs from these. They'll have to go back to the negative stock (if they have it) and work from there. If never a DVD set, maybe it get syndicated on some of the new digital Tv channels.

[marknulty]

@youtub3k How do you know the prints are a mess? Im not challenging you just trying to understand better. I'd love to see this on DVD or Hulu

[youtub3k]

@marknulty - There use to be a website devoted to this series (sadly gone). It had scripts, wavs and mp3s of the series theme. And lots of digitized 35MM frames of reel footage. All turned to red. At 1st I though it was only the lighting in Probe control. But no, all scenes gone red. So they'd have to go back to the negative reels, to recover the colors. Assuming those survived. Special software might be able to extrapolate colors from the ruined stock. But I doubt it exists.

[suir52]

@youtub3k The website still exists on Yahoo' , but I know they have had problems with the website.

[TigrisKhan]

Hey!! What was Frankie gonna say??!!

[torgman]

I liked the Prestone commercial :D

[gaIIery]

That was a neat idea for a series having rotating actors taking turns in the lead each week. Tony Franciosa and Doug McClure were the most likable of the 3.