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Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens (The Name of the Game, The Outer Limits), and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman (Star Trek), John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows. The series centered on "World Securities Corporation," an international high-tech private investigation company that employed field operatives—the elite of whom were aided by implanted audio receivers and who carry Scanners, tiny video...