They just don’t compose TV show themes like they used to... with catchy hooks, amazing orchestrations, and that undefinable “something” which made them so memorable. Really feeling the nostalgia. 🙂

I actually have the original 1972 95 minute pilot on VHS with Hugh 'O' Brien. This was one of the best series ever on television. My daughter and I were watching it so much we had to convert it to DVD. It still rocks after all these years.

Suddenly I'm 9years old again. I loved this Show it went out on Wednesday Nights

Classic 70’s high end TV ! All you guys RIP & thank you for all you gave us !

I have to listen to this theme at least once a month...

I was 7 in 1972 and this theme has stuck in my head since then.

WOW! Brings back the memories! I loved this show, whether it was called "Probe" and/or "Search". I had no idea Leslie Stevens was behind It (The Outer Limits), nor that Domonic Frontiere had done the fantastic theme song (also from the Outer Limits). I loved this show when it was on NBC and watched it, as well as "Night Gallery" religiously. Not to mention the NBC Mystery Movies. This was a great time for television!!!

Loved the theme as a 12 year old kid when this first came out and still do. One of the best TV themes ever.

An amazing score - so 70s with the unison flutes and trumpets with horn flairs with just a hint of violins - and the touch of secret agent riffs the trombones -- just perfect.

@methu124 I agree. Absolutely beautiful. Dominic Frontiere, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams, and Jerry Goldsmith composed some of the most awesome television theme music. They'll never be equaled much less surpassed. Now we don't even get television themes, just credits rolling during a show's dialogue. The end credits are even worse with a diminished screen within a screen so small that it's impossible to read the credits and you can't hear any music because of the load voiceover. Crazy!

A very smooth, elegant piece of music. You never hear this kind of class on television. Only music stolen from rock bands just synthesized garbage.

Used to watch this show every week ..I was about 11 / 12 but the theme got me involved straight away !

Burgess Meredith played Cameron, the chief scientist/controller at the Probe control room

I rember watching this TV show when I as a kid growing up in the '70s.

I'm going through a period where I am positively hooked on this ... clearly the all-time greatest theme/titles for a series that didn't make it!

What a catchy theme..really classy....

I remember the show and liked it a lot, I was13 or 14 y/o. Had a book based on the TV show.

Thjis show really takes me back.. Hugh Obrian was about the handsomest man i had ever seen and he will be 90 years old this year

After all of this time- this music still holds up. I can't believe it has been 35 years. Most of these people are either dead or on social security. Hugh O' Brian must be about 85 years old now

Intros such as this make me sad for today's programs; no theme music, only a few seconds of a title, and closing credits are pushed aside by ads for other programs.

I'm so glad this is available on DVD -- as is the entire series.

RIP Mr. O'Brian, you were great as Hugh Lockwood in Probe and in Search. Miss you!

This is one series that deserves a 21st century update either as a series or movie..enjoyed this when I was in Jr. High..

I love watching this intro to PROBE (SEARCH) and listening to Dominic Frontiere main title.

This used to be a really good show on NBC on Saturdays. And that theme kicked ass.

Dominic Frontiere composed a great score for this as well as Leslie Steven's other classic series, 'The Outer Limits'.

Thank you for posting this. After all these years, I still remembered Frontiere's vivid theme music for this pilot, as well as the rotating diamond motif. And HERE IT IS! Even better than I remember it!

Ever since then, I have had this music stuck in my head. TY for sharing.

By-the-way, a great big THANK YOU to Warner Brothers for releasing the full compilation of the series.

Absolutely love this ...

Wow!! I remember this show so well. I use to love the way his command center could communicate with the agents... That was so called... A ring and or neckless and the earphone.....

I rember this fondly as well as the follow up TV Series "Search" both shown here in the UK. Fantastic opening title sequence.

I so LOVED this show...greatest theme song ever.

I loved, loved, loved this show! And Longstreet. Two well-written and acted detective programs with actors I loved. I became a fan of Burgess Meredith with Batman, and this introduced me to computers and electronics.

Same show - the pilot TV movie was called "Probe"; when it was picked up as a series the title was changed to "Search".

I've never heard of this show, but thanks to KZfaq's algorithms, now I do. The music is divine!

RIP Hugh O'Brian. You gave us some good acting in this series.

Here in the UK Probe was transmitted under the name of Search Control. I remember the catch phrase "Lock in, Lockwood" Uttered by Burgess Meredith when contacting Agent Hugh O'Brien through the receiver secreted in his teeth. 2 other agents featured were Tony Franciosa & Doug McClure. Happy times.

I am so thrilled to see this post. This was my favorite TV theme in the summer of 1973 (as the title theme for Search) and this extended version is a dream come true.

This is early 70s futurism!! Love it!

About a year ago, I discovered this movie in my dad's bin. He recorded it in 1982 off of Superstation WTBS. Tape also includes "I Go Pogo" (recorded off of The Movie Channel) and Blake Edwards' "The Party" (recorded off of Cinemax). Great tape! And this movie is awesome. The music is kickass, and Lockwood is one of the coolest spies I have ever seen!

I have to admit I come back and visit this post often this is one of the finest show openings ever done.

Probe became Search...This was Dominic's Second TV Production for Leslie Stevens.Doing the Intro for Name of the Game from 1968-71..

This was a great show... I love that music.

First time I heard the full version of the elegant but strong theme music by Dominic Frontiere. The title is also beautiful. This is great, thank you for posting!

This was a great show wow!!! I remember this from the 70's.. Just great!!!

Hey mhinrichs, My brother and I were reminiscing tonight and came across a number of PROBE/SEARCH themes and we just wanted to both thank you SO VERY MUCH for providing us such a wonderfully special moment! This was our favorite show back then. All the love to you buddy! Thanks from 2 total fans in San Diego! :-)

That makes me feel nostalgic.

We need "Probe" to be released as a Soundtrack!

Wow! Haven't seen this in YEARS! A really great off-beat tv-movie and later series. Thanks for posting!

That is fantastic. Thank you!!!

I watched this as an adolescent and loved it!

Superb tv series.Great theme tune and colourfull graphics.

I could imagine a rework of this series and a crossover between this one and Agents of SHIELD

A remake of this would be a lot better than most of the shows and movies that are out there now to see!

I was living in Germany when this show debut.....I was visiting family and I thought this was sooo cool!! It was a hip show for a 10 year old kid.....we use to play this outside.....I always wanted to be Lockwood......=) I'm ordering the movie on Amazon

I like how the gemstone appears to morph shape...

Just ordered the Pilot DVD. Love the title music, great theme! Just like as already been mentioned, Frontiere could sure write music and Stevens had a great eye for the engaging sci-fi futuristic material!

@SolarisBreeze57 Frontiere was a master! His Outer Limits theme will always stay with me (referring to the first season - not the second, which was scored by someone else using a theremin. His themes, or rather, parts of them were played throughout the first season. ABC always used parts of "The Galaxy Being" and the second episode aired, which I think was called "100 Days of the Dragon." Parts of both of these scores were used to fill out 1st season episodes. Stunning music!!

Thanks for posting the link about the dvd being available. I've been looking for this for years and no luck.

This is the cool music!

Remember, it was Leslie Stevens who was the creative force behind the ORIGINAL Outer Limits. No wonder this show was so good.

This was a very well done pilot in it's day. It would do very, very well today too. I would hope that Warner looks at these posts. They might get an idea to revive it without messing up the concept.

And subsequently, the movie/pilot's title was changed to match the TV series, "Search" - it was under this revised title that it was shown as a film on New York station WNBC-TV's "Movie 4" on May 11, 1973, a year after its original airing - and a year before "Movie 4" was cancelled to make room for a two-hour newscast, "NewsCenter4," whose set was designed by the same person (Fred Harpman) who'd designed the "Probe/Search Control" set out of which Burgess Meredith's character worked.

The works of Dominic Frontiere is crying to be re-discovered!!!!

This is one great theme. It's always stayed with me since childhood, I'd say the best ever. The theme to another one of his is Vegas with Robert Urich which is great .

Fantastic! This was one of my Favourite Shows!!!! EAT IT, 2K T.V.!

Wow, I'd forgotten this show. Thanks!

Very cool -- I remember when it was called SEARCH but I guess this was the pilot.

Obviously, this tv theme music reflects the influence of the music from the 60's [i.e. rock, pop] on the writing of Frontiere, but I would not be surprised if he was not given total musical freedom by Hollywood execs...although I do notice that this show was produced by Leslie Stevens, who Frontiere worked closely with on "the Outer Limits"...

That was a good show....Very nice...I remember watching it all the time...

I get a kick out of a Dominic Frontiere tune!

Great theme! I bought the pilot movie and the series from WB Archives!

What happened to the old television shoes like Search and Checkmate .

懐かしいです。昔、よく見たテレビドラマで素晴らしい作品であると今でも思っています！！

Angel Tompkins Forever!

GREAT to the 12th power! Man, I also recall being glued to the TV (late hour or not) every week for this show. Kind of a blend of James Bond with Star Trek (at least the hi-techiness of Trek). I won't belabor NBC's stupidity in canceling the show as everyone else has already done it. With the fewness of episodes, I seriously doubt we fans will ever see a DVD release - but never say never, ya know? Thanks to you, mhenrichs for the memories!

This is a series that could be revitalized.

Hugh O'Brian Wyatt Earp,Jim Sinclair,Hugh Lockwood RIP.

So glad you posted this. The audio and video are fantastic, and it brings back such great memories for me. I was 18 when this show came out and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Until I watched the clip tonight, the last time I had seen anything relating to this show was when it went off the air in August 1973. With nearly 50,000 hits, maybe your post will convince some of the "powers that be" that it may be a good time to release a DVD of this show.

Mitica serie TV. Quando per un ragazzino aveva un senso guardare la TV

Una serie de TV con elegancia de su época.......

That was nice...This was a great show... I remember when the theme song was updated... But this was a great show in general.... Wow!!!! Thanks...Yeah, Probe became Seach! Thanks...

Actually this clip inspired me. I found the movie on mininova and now having seen it in its entirety for the 1st time in 36 years, I remember why I chose a technology career! This show was ahead of its time; no wonder it was cancelled eventually by NBC.

Wow! I loved this show as a kid. It was so cool.

Hugh O'Brian with titles by John Christopher Strong like Game Of Death

An incredible series and wonderful theme

and he also composed one of TV's all-time scariest closing logo jingles from 1969-70 in the Paramount Television closing logo jingle called to some as the "Closet Killer." You can hear his "Closet Killer" jingle logo at the end of shows produced by Paramount-TV between 1969 and Oct./Nov. 1970 such as "The Brady Bunch," "Mission: Impossible," "The Odd Couple" among those shows in that time period.

Creator Leslie Stevens also wrote, Return To the Blue Lagoon. Which starred Milla Jovovich.

Thank you for posting this. I got to watch this show when I was a kid and thought it was very cool them. I have had the theme song in my head for years and hummed it on those days when I was sad. Now as i hear it and see the video for it. All I can do is think happy thoughts of cool pieces of music where people really played music and my world was a much bigger place. Thank again for the posting. you are the best. !!!!!

Thanks a bunch. Great stuff. I'm not famiilar with this series, but will look into it. Leslie Stevens was half of Outer Limits creative team if memory serves.

friend...thanks a lot .....amazing intro......amazing time ! Thanks a lot for posting !

@us71 Great news! I have the link to go buy it in this video's description now.

Can't believe you even have this. How did you get it? One of the great underrated shows of the 70s. Certainly on par with The Man From Uncle. Have to say, though, Burn Notice is pretty good for the modern era.

I have to admit I had a terrible crush on all 3 of the guys...and I was "crushed" when they cancelled it way too soon. One of my favorite shows of all time.

I watched the PROBE/SEARCH series back in the day and it was great! Thanks, mhinrichs, for uploading the video; I've watched it numerous times and am listening to the great theme music now. I also wound up ordering the DVD from Warner Brothers WBshop online today - $14.95 and free shipping!

Absolutely LOVED this series. Having 3 lead actors rotate kept it fresh. Was really sad that it was cancelled. Had hoped they'd eventually do episodes with 2 or even all 3 heroes. ne could have been in jeopardy while the other(s) worked to rescue. IF it were to be redone I'd like to see 3 KNOWN leads - have 1 a woman - instead of 3 unknowns. Just like the original show used well-known tv actors.

I remember this show...it was awesome!!!

Part of the series' is trying to guess which of the three heroes, Hugh, Doug or Tony will star in the chosen episode.

i liked this