In 1957, ABC-Paramount Records released the LP "Hugh O'Brian - TV's Wyatt Earp Sings," which had O'Brian vocalizing on a dozen ballads and western-related songs, backed (or more appropriately, fronted) by Ken Darby's Orchestra and Chorus. Here are two cuts from the album that were also released on a 45: the extended version of the Wyatt Earp theme song ("Legend of Wyatt Earp") and "Down In the Meadow."
A.B.C. was a reference to the network and Paramount was a reference to United Paramount Theaters. Their record division is now a part of Universal Music.
In 1972, O'Brian starred in a television film called PROBE, about a high-tech investigations company, World Securities, who uses agents, called Probes, to solve various international cases. The agents are aided by implanted audio receivers and carry tiny cameras and telemetry units which can be attached to tie tacks or rings. In this film, the pilot for a series, O'Brian played "Hugh Lockwood," who is assigned to retrieve a famous diamond collection stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The film was directed by Russ Mayberry and had a well-liked theme and score by Dominic Frontiere.
When it was decided to convert the film into a series, NBC found that PBS was already airing a weekly program called PROBE, so the series was dubbed "Search", and when the TV movie re-aired as the pilot of the TV show, the credits for it were shortened and redone to use the "Search" title.
And here are the main titles for the regular weekly series:
And when the series was bought for British TV by the BBC there was already a programme with that name running on BBC1, so it was retitled Search Control. (Although the pilot movie in its original form in the '90s!)
