Probe consisted of a two-hour pilot and six one-hour episodes, and has been re-run on Sci-Fi Channel's Sci-Fi Series Collection.
This episode guide is originally from Tony Anderson <demeter@eskimo.com> and can be found at FTP Probe Guide. Any additions or corrections should be mailed to Lisa Jenkins <jenkins@rrnet.com>
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Writer Issac Asimov co-created this literate series. Austin James was a brilliant young scientist who operated out of a warehouse laboratory nicknamed the "batcave"; his secretary and helper was the ever-amazed Mickey. With cocky self-confidence, the ability to anaylize physical clues in his high-tech lab, and deductive reasoning worthy of Sherlock Holmes, Austin managed to unravel crimes perpetrated by the world's most clever criminals.The most distinctive aspect of this series was the plots, all based on scientific principles -- a computer whose artificial intelligence program had run amok, a murder-plot utilizing genetic engineering, a super-intelligent ape accused of murder (in an episode titled "Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You"). The police simply shook their heads and arrested whomever Austin fingered.
| CAST | AS: |
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| Parker Stevenson | Austin James |
| Ashley Crow | Michelle "Mickey" Castle |
| CREATED BY | Isaac Asimov and Michael Wagner |
| MUSIC BY | Sylvester Levay |
| PRODUCED BY | Stephen Caldwell and Michael Piller |
| EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS | Alan J. Levi and Michael Wagner |
| EXECUTIVE STORY CONSULTANT | William Link |
| Gary L. Messenger | |
| FILMED BY | Westland Productions, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona |
| WRITTEN BY | Michael Wagner |
| DIRECTED BY | Sandor Stern |
| FILMED AT THE | Earl Owensby Studios, Shelby, North Carolina |
| AND | Westland Productions, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona |
Issac Asimov helped create this series about scientific wizard Austin James, who works at a think tank and tackles mysterious crimes on the side. In the opener, James reluctantly accepts the assignment of batty secretary Mickey Castle, who unwittingly helps him solve killings involving a human-like supercomputer, a frozen corpse and a maintenance man.
| GUEST STARS | AS: |
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| Jon Cypher | |
| Wm. Edward Phipps | |
| Andy Wood | John Blaine |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Scott Feraco | William Stevens |
| Jan Sandwich | Maid |
| Roy Guth | Hotel Manager |
| Gene Johnson | |
| Judy Scovern | |
| Diana Baynes | Secretary #1 |
| Carol Weston | Secretary #2 |
| Fred Schiwiller | Old Man |
| Sandy Ellas | Customer |
| Bill Lane | Truck Driver |
| Gertude Nicholls | Old Woman |
| TELEPLAY BY | Lee Sheldon |
| STORY BY | Howard Brookner and Colman deKay |
| DIRECTED BY | Kevin Hooks |
A nuclear explosion at Serendip produces a radioactive corpse, whose $2.5 million life insurance policy names his maid -- and not his wife -- as beneficiary.
| GUEST STARS | |
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| Jon Cypher | |
| Eileen Barnett | |
| Christopher Thomas | |
| Katherine Moffat | |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Frank Sprague | Natsib |
| Emily Aagsdale | Val Kennedy |
| Hope Silvestri | Housekeeper |
| Carol Weston | Secretary |
| Nick Young | Elder |
| WRITTEN BY | Lee Sheldon |
| DIRECTED BY | Alan J. Levi |
A witch casts a killer spell on a caustic talkshow host, but Austin, dismisses witchcraft as a form of hypnosis, suspects there's more than the power of suggestion in her sorcery.
| GUEST STARS | |
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| Stanley Kamel | |
| Gretchen Wyler | |
| Lena Raymond | |
| Eric Christmas | |
| Bob Sorenson | |
| Heather McNair | |
| Larry Soller | |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Joel Kennedy | Assistant Coroner |
| Ron Briskman | Lt. Bulwer |
| Jackson Douglas Fisher | Waiter |
| Randy Harris | Guest |
| Liz Romero | Woman |
| TELEPLAY BY | Tim Burns |
| STORY BY | Robert Bielak |
| DIRECTED BY | Rob Bowman |
Seeking a $10 million grant, Serendip asks Austin to evaluate a superintelligent monkey. Meanwhile, an overzealous graduate student swings into Austin's lab, where she is murdered -- but is it simianly possible for the ape to be the killer?
| GUEST STARS | |
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| Clive Revill | |
| John M. Jackson | |
| Tara Windsor | |
| Michael Pniewski | |
| Katheryn Leigh Scott | |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Michael McNab | Walt |
| Artur Cybulski | Eric |
| Frank Welker | Voice of Josephine |
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| Joe Corcoran | Animal Control Officer |
| Tom Downs | Judge Parker |
| Carolyn Pain | Mrs. Parker |
| Andy Hill | Officer |
| Marc Madnick | Officer |
| WRITTEN BY | James Novack |
| DIRECTED BY | Rob Iscove |
It's a case of now you see it, now you don't when one of Austin's computerized brainchildren goes haywire and kills several people, and the only lead is a series of illusions.
| GUEST STARS | |
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| Clive Revill | |
| Nicholas Hormann | |
| Stevern Darden | |
| Mickey Jones | |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Michael Waltman | Truck Driver |
| Gary Clarke | Paul Watkins |
| WRITTEN BY | Michael Wagner |
| DIRECTED BY | Virgil Vogel |
An egotistical sci-fi writer claims to be haunted by a vengeful extra- terrestrial named "Pretzel 14" and calls on a skeptical Austin James to help him trap the alien.
| GUEST STARS | AS: |
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| Michael Constantine | Truman Smith |
| May Britt | Helga |
| Sam Currie | Tish Smith |
| WRITTEN BY | Philip Reed |
| DIRECTED BY | Vincent McEveety |
Perfect parents, perfect children and the perfect neighborhood seem like the American dream, but when Austin and Mickey stumble into this idyllic scene, something seems perfectly wrong and it may have something to do with some perfect little anti-smoking pills.
| GUEST STARS | |
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| Eileen Seeley | |
| Jim McMullan | |
| Phillip Richard Allen | |
| Deborah Slaboda | |
| Darleen Carr | |
| ALSO STARRING | AS: |
| Josh Arnold | Barry, Jr. |
| Lance Harpham | Chris |
| Polly Chapman | Barb McNally |
| Linda Jurgens | Elaine Boxell |
| Paul Mancuso | Robert Black |
| Fred Nelson | Barry Boxell |
| Danny Sullivan | Wayne Laudormil |
| Connie Kranz | Julie Cutler |
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