Você está pensando em Doomwatch ?
Foi produzido no Reino Unido entre 1970 e 72; Wikipedia descreve o enredo como sendo sobre o
"Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work". Officially Doomwatch was an agency dedicated to preserving the world from dangers of unprincipled scientific research - "We were set up to investigate any scientific research, Public or Private, which could possibly be harmful to Man"