Re: Search/Probe/Search Control and Name of the Game - Any chance of a release?
"The Name of the Game" was a series of weekly 90-minute episodes, yes. (About 75 mins actual running time, without commercials.) One of the Encore channels ran some of these a few years back. Sadly not all the episodes, but just the same handful over and over again, mostly the Gene Barry and Robert Stack episodes. I don't remember seeing a Tony Franciosa one at all during that run, but I think they did run "L.A. 2017" -- one of Spielberg's earliest directing jobs -- several times.
I'd love to see that on DVD, as well as "Search" (as it was called Stateside). At least NOTG was in syndication for many years after its cancellation, so I've seen some episodes a few times since then, but not so with "Search."
I wish both Universal and Warners were doing more with their back catalog. There wasn't much licensed music used in television in those days, so that shouldn't be an issue. Granted, that's not the *only* issue that keeps something from being released. Neither of these would likely be huge sellers for either company, but I sure would buy them.
