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Person of Interest

  • Mar. 10th, 2013 at 7:52 AM
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Of what old-time crime fighting story series does Person of Interest remind me?  I can't help thinking that sometime in the early 20th c. there was a similar setup, with a stay-at-home tech guy with a range of apparatus and another on-the-street guy who did the rough stuff, and they chose their own crimes to solve, which seemed mostly rather ordinary given all the resources they had.  (It's NOT Nero Wolfe -- he just stayed home with his orchids and pondered.  This was high-tech marvel stuff).  Any thoughts?  Am I supposing their ought to have been such a setup back then though there wasn't?

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grandparonnie
Mar. 10th, 2013 05:29 pm (UTC)
I remember a programme from the early 70`s - on checking it had various titles Probe/Search in US and Search Control in UK. It starred Hugh O`Brien/Doug McLure/Tony Franciosa. They had hi-tech implants which allowed them to communicate with a central control room run by Burgess Meredith. I remember enjoying it at the time (I was 14 so wasn't very discriminating).
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crowleycrow
Mar. 10th, 2013 08:57 pm (UTC)
Thanks. Since I didn't have a TV for much of the 70s I doubt that's what I remember -- but the connection's clear. I suppose Charlie's Angels has an even dimmer connection.
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thatmakesmemad
Mar. 10th, 2013 07:20 pm (UTC)
Apparently Nolans work on Batman was a major influence. It's a superhero series without a superhero.Or so he said in an interview
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hotclaws
Mar. 11th, 2013 12:16 pm (UTC)
Maybe The New Avengers ? Bit of a long shot though.
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(Anonymous)
Mar. 11th, 2013 07:00 pm (UTC)
It could the The Shadow, in its radio formulation, the later books, the comic-strip (especially the 70s pastiche of 30s stories that Marvel ran for a year) or - heaven forfend - the dire Alec Baldwin thing from the 90s.

But Search Control, as it was called here when the BBC ran it, is a close fit. The original star was so dull they rotated hmim with three others, including the hapless Doug Mclure as Christopher Robin Grover (who insisted on being called 'CR'.) It as also called P.R.O.B.E.and there was a TV Movie to launch it.

So, does the voice in your head when you think of this story Orson Welles or Burgess Meredith?
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crowleycrow
Mar. 11th, 2013 07:56 pm (UTC)
Actually it is no image and no voice. I'm thinking of a written thing, a vintage magazine series, possibly but not necessarily British, from somewhere between 1890 and 1930. And I am probably inventing it, or modifying a vague memory of something read in an anthology 60 years ago, and unfindable. I appreciate your knowledge of these odd video byways, though.
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