Probe Computer Logic (1988– ) Online

I have always remembered this series with Parker Stevenson and Ashley Crow as the main example of a great show that wasn't appreciated or given a chance for the success it deserved. So much emphasis is put on "chemistry" today and this show was lousy with it. The actors were perfect together and the premise of the show was intelligent and entertaining. There has not been a show since that combined two actors, detective work and science in quite this way. It was a gem!

I remember "Probe" from when I was 12; I loved it. It was kind of a mystery-slash-sci-fi hybrid. I thought it was very funny and the characters were engaging. Parker Stevenson was surprisingly good as the eccentric genius scientist in the lead, and Ashley Crow was also good as his plucky secretary (the patter between the two was always amusing). It had good acting, but unfortunately (for the life of the show, not the quality) I think the writing was a bit too intelligent, and people were lost; that's the only reason I can think of as to why it lived such a short life. I wish it would be released on DVD or that I could at least catch it sometime on sci-fi. This show, along with "Shadow Chasers" (a mystery-horror hybrid from the 80s) sadly introduced me to the concept of ratings controlling a show's future, and good shows being canceled way too early. I doubt many people even remember it now, which is a crying shame. It will always be a favorite of mine in the "canceled way too early" category of TV shows.

This show was fun. It was sort of zany and odd, offbeat in a neat way, and at the same time a smart show with plots that drew you in.

I think it lasted less than one season, but I could be wrong.

Along with Max Headroom, easily one of my best-loved and most-remembered series, ever. It was intelligent, funny, intriguing, and one of the first shows that made it cool to be a nerd =) The episode with the orangutan is the series' best. Oh, how I wish I could find a copy of it somewhere. A little hard to believe that a series created by Asimov could flop so catastrophically. Even the opening theme song and imagery were completely memorable. It doesn't hurt that, as a 16 year-old, I was madly in love with Ashley Crow from the moment that she appeared on the screen. I remember running home to watch this show from school. Does no one else remember how fun this series was?

-koik

I have most of the season on VHS. I love how the plots were so unexpected--I never knew how it was going to turn out until the end. The pilot was the best episode of all, partly because it's one of the few that has any romantic scenes between the two main characters.

Micky the secretary was both meek and bold, clever and clueless in all the right places to be the perfect Dr. Watson to Austin James' genius mystery solving.

I also liked how Parker Stevenson managed to make Austin boyishly likable even though the character had one of the trademarks of such genius-- arrogance that the rest of us didn't know what was going on.