High-tech investigations company World Securities uses Agents, called Probes, to solve various international cases, such as the retrieval of a famous diamond collection stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Pilot for sci-fi detective series "Search." Hugh O'Brian as Lockwood, a high-tech private eye, was outfitted with two electronic implants (one to hear what was said at HQ and a dental contact he could bite to communicate with HQ--one bite for yes and two bites for no) and a button-sized "scanner" that combined a micro-miniaturized television camera that could also see in infrared spectrum, microphone, medical sensors, and transmitter, putting him in constant contact with a room full of experts monitoring his actions and vital signs and supplying him with encyclopedic information. Burgess Meredith as Cameron, Lockwood's "head kibitzer." Story involves missing diamonds. Series plots tended to be "missing object(s) or person(s)"-type detective stories, rather than murder "whodunits" or "howcatchems."—James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@hb.quik.com>
This synopsis includes a spoiler. Streeter retains the high tech PROBE agency to recover the stolen Hitler "entourage" jem collection. Directed from PROBE HQ via a dime size satilite transmitter, receiver, camera, and microphone disguised as jewelry, agent Lockwood's leads fail to pan out and nearly get him killed. He tells Cameron to shut down the investigation. Cameron orders everyone from the HQ control room including Streeter. Only when Cameron and Lockwood are "alone" is it revealed that Lockwood's earlier statement was an encoded ruse. Lockwood believes Streeter to be the culprit. He is soon entraped, and found to have the jems on his person.
