![]() ![]() The movie was well written, acted (it was great having older, more cerebral actors on the show) and produced, and the show started out that way until I think they ran out of ideas. The movie had all the pieces of a fun romp: sci-fi with the hight tech scanners and communications, intrigue with the search for the NAZI theft of the French "Entourage" diamond collection, and locations spanning from Innsbrook Austria, the Gulf coast, and New York City, though I think all of the filming was done in southern CA with the Angeles National Forest doubling as the Austrian mountains and forests. Probe, later to become the TV series "SEARCH" (72-73 on NBC) was an attempt to cash in on the publics fascination with high tech from the space program. I enjoyed this show very much it was extremely well-done and it's too bad they didn't continue on in this way. Elke Sommer, Lilia Skalia and Alfred Ryder are also involved in some way with the jewels, and it's up to Hugh to figure out who's telling the truth since there is obviously more to this story than he was told. The story involves a set of 6 missing jewels, which John Gielgud wants the Probe team to recover. This, and Burgess' performance, were the highlights of the show, and were quite entertaining. She frequently made catty and snide but very funny remarks about Hugh's hormonal reactions to the beautiful women he encountered, and since he could hear what she said via his earpiece, he frequently shot a quip back at her. Several technicians helped Burgess in this endeavor, one of them the gorgeous Angel Tompkins. ![]() Burgess Meredith played the head of the "secret agency", who presided over the monitoring of Hugh's vital signs from the control room via high-tech spy equipment on Hugh's person. Hugh O'Brian was a natural for the suave, polished lead he was never at a loss for words. If the series had stuck to the quality of this pilot, it might have been a hit, but NBC wouldn't let Leslie Stevens make the series on his own they interfered and killed the show. "Probe" was the pilot for the series "Search", which lasted barely a year. ![]()
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