SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART SEVEN

By Scott Bettencourt

ACT OF LOVE - Billy Goldenberg
Family docudrama starring Ron Howard, Mickey Rourke and Robert Foxworth

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN - Billy Goldenberg
Drama with Richard Widmark, Ned Beatty, Ossie Davis

ATTICA - Gil Melle
Docudrama on the infamous 1971 prison riot, featuring Charles Durning, Morgan Freeman, George Grizzard, and Anthony Zerbe; in 1994, the cable movie Against the Wall, directed by John Frankenheimer and scored by Gary Chang, retold the same story

BABY COMES HOME - Fred Karlin
Sequel to And Baby Makes Six, with Colleen Dewhurst and Warren Oates as the middle aged couple coping with an unexpected new baby

BOGIE - Charles Bernstein
Kevin O'Connor (not to be confused with Kevin J. O'Connor) as Humphrey Bogart, Kathryn Harrold as Lauren Bacall, Richard A. Dysart as Jack Warner; directed by Vincent Sherman, who directed the real Bogart in All Through the Night, and today is still alive and well at age 97

THE BOY WHO DRANK TOO MUCH - Michael Small
Scott Baio is an alcoholic high school hockey player; photographed by Allen Daviau (E.T., Empire of the Sun)

BRAVE NEW WORLD - Paul Chihara
The Aldous Huxley science-fiction classic, with Kristoffer Tabori, Marcia Strassman, Keir Dullea, Bud Cort, Valerie Curtin, and Superfly's Ron O'Neal

CHERE OLGA - Antoine Duhamel

THE CHILDREN OF AN LAC - Paul Chihara

CITY IN FEAR - Leonard Rosenman
Newspaper reporters covering a crazed killer, starring David Janssen, Robert Vaughn, William Daniels, M. Emmet Walsh, and Mickey Rourke; director Jud Taylor used the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym -- not a good sign

THE CURSE OF KING TUT'S TOMB - Gil Melle
Dreary quasi-historical thriller with Eva Marie Saint, Raymond Burr and a slumming Wendy Hiller, and narrated by Paul Scofield

THE DAY CHRIST DIED - Laurence Rosenthal
Chris Sarandon as Christ, with Jonathan Pryce, Eleanor Bron, Hope Lange

DESPERATE VOYAGE - Bruce Broughton
Christopher Plummer as a modern day pirate who pillages yachts

DOCTOR FRANKEN - John Morris
Unsold pilot with Robert Vaughn as a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, co-starring Teri Garr

THE DREAM MERCHANTS - George Duning
Adaptation of the Harold Robbins novel about the early days of Hollywood, with Mark Harmon, Vincent Gardenia, Morgan Fairchild, Robert Picardo, Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Red Buttons, Robert Culp, Howard Duff, Jose Ferrer; helmed by Golden Age director Vincent Sherman

EDWARD AND MRS. SIMPSON - Ron Grainer
Two cues on the Stet/DRG LP Tales of the Unexpected: The Exciting Television Music of Ron Grainer; British mini-series with Edward Fox as King Edward, Cynthia Harris as Mrs. Simpson, Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary, and co-starring Nigel Hawthorne

ENOLA GAY - Maurice Jarre
Score LP on Varese Sarabande; docudrama on the crew of the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, with Billy Crystal, Patrick Duffy, Gregory Harrison, and Robert Walden as Oppenheimer

F.D.R.: THE LAST YEAR - Laurence Rosenthal
Jason Robards as Franklin, Eileen Heckart as Eleanor

FANTOMAS - Georges Delerue

FATHER FIGURE - Billy Goldenberg
Drama with Hal Linden, Timothy Hutton

FIGHTING BACK - Fred Karlin
Another sports-and-illness docudrama, with Robert Urich as Rocky Bleier, co-starring Bonnie Bedelia and Art Carney

GAUGUIN THE SAVAGE - Gerald Fried
David Carradine as the painter, with Lynn Redgrave and Ian Richardson as Degas

THE GHOSTS OF BUXLEY HALL - Frank DeVol
Disney comedy about a haunted military academy

GUYANA TRAGEDY: THE STORY OF JIM JONES - Elmer Bernstein
Powers Boothe in his breakthrough role as Jim Jones, with Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Meg Foster, Diane Ladd, Ron O'Neal, Randy Quaid, Diana Scarwid, Brenda Vaccaro, LeVar Burton, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones, and Ned Beatty as Leo Ryan

HARDHAT AND LEGS - Brad Fiedel
Romantic comedy pairing Kevin Dobson and Sharon Gless, written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin

HAYWIRE - Billy Goldenberg
Deborah Raffin as Brooke Hayward in an adaptation of Hayward's memoir, with Lee Remick and Jason Robards as her parents, Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward

THE HENDERSON MONSTER - Dick Hyman
Scientist Jason Miller inadvertently creates a monster, with Stephen Collins and Christine Lahti

HIGH ICE - Robert O. Ragland
David Janssen as a national park rescue worker

HOMEWARD BOUND - Fred Karlin
1980/1981 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), Music and Lyrics; drama with Barnard Hughes, David Soul and Moosie Drier as three generations of a family

THE HOSTAGE TOWER - John Scott
Eiffel Tower held hostage, from an Alistair MacLean book, with Peter Fonda, Maud Adams, Billy Dee Williams, Keir Dullea, Britt Ekland and Rachel Roberts

JESSIE - Michael J. Lewis
BBC drama directed by Bryan Forbes

KING CRAB - Lee Holdridge
Two brothers battle over the family seafood business

THE LATHE OF HEAVEN - Michael Small
Memorable PBS adaptation of the Ursula K. LeGuin sci-fi novel, with Bruce Davison as a man whose dreams can change reality, co-starring Margaret Avery and Kevin Conway; recently remade for TV with Lukas Haas, Lisa Bonet and James Caan, scored by Angelo Badalamenti

LE VIOL D'ICARE - Claude Bolling

LES CHEVAUX DU SOLEIL - Georges Delerue

LES MYSTERES DE PARIS - Vladimir Cosma

LES VISITEURS - Georges Delerue

THE LONG DAYS OF SUMMER - Walter Scharf
Dan Curtis' sequel to his own autobiographical When Every Day Was the Fourth of July

MALICE AFORETHOUGHT - Ron Grainer
BBC miniseries from the Frances Iles mystery, which Hitchcock had expressed an interest in filming (Suspicion was also from an Iles book)

MARRIAGE IS ALIVE AND WELL - Fred Karlin
Comedy with Joe Namath, Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES - Stanley Myers
Score CD on Airstrip One; ambitious mini-series adapted by Richard Matheson from the classic Ray Bradbury story collection, with Rock Hudson, Bernie Casey, Roddy MacDowall, Bernadette Peters, Fritz Weaver and Darren McGavin; directed by Michael Anderson

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE - Carl Davis
The Shakespeare classic, with John Rhys-Davies, Douglas Wilmer, Gemma Jones as Portia, and Warren Mitchell as Shylock

MOM, THE WOLFMAN AND ME - Fred Karlin
Danielle Brisebois must cope as mom Patty Duke is wooed by David Birney

MOVIOLA: THE SCARLET O'HARA WAR - Walter Scharf
The struggle to cast Scarlet O'Hara, from Garson Kanin's book Moviola; Tony Curtis as Selznick, Harold Gould as Mayer, George Furth as Cukor, Sharon Gless as Lombard, Edward Winter as Gable, Carrie Nye as Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Revill as Chaplin, and Morgan Brittany as Vivien Leigh

MOVIOLA: THE SILENT LOVERS - Gerald Fried
1979/1980 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); from Garson Kanin's book Moviola, with Kristina Wayborn (Octopussy) as Garbo, Barry Bostwick as John Gilbert, John Rubinstein as Thalberg, Mackenzie Phillips as Lillian Gish

MOVIOLA: THIS YEAR'S BLONDE - Elmer Bernstein
From Garson Kanin's book Moviola; Constance Forslund as Marilyn, Vic Tayback as Harry Cohn, Michael Lerner as Jack Warner

MY KIDNAPPER, MY LOVE - Fred Karlin
Another truly horrendously titled TV movie, directed by Sam Wanamaker and featuring Glynnis O'Connor and Mickey Rooney

NURSE - Charles Gross
Recently widowed Michael Learned becomes a nurse

ONCE UPON A SPY - John Cacavas
Espionage with Ted Danson and Christopher Lee

OPPENHEIMER - Carl Davis
BBC miniseries with Sam Waterston as the nuclear physicist, and David Suchet as Edward Teller

THE ORDEAL OF DR. MUDD - Gerald Fried
Dennis Weaver as the doctor persecuted for treating the injured John Wilkes Booth; with Richard A. Dysart, Nigel Davenport and Arthur Hill; directed by Paul Wendkos

A PERFECT MATCH - Billy Goldenberg
A woman needs a bone marrow transplant from the daughter she gave up for adoption; with Linda Kelsey, Lisa Lucas, Charles Durning and Colleen Dewhurst

PETIT DEJEUNER COMPRIS - Vladimir Cosma

PLAYING FOR TIME - Brad Fiedel
Acclaimed docudrama, adapted by Arthur Miller, about an orchestra of female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp; with a controversially cast Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski and Marisa Berenson

THE PLUTONIUM INCIDENT - Fred Karlin
Janet Margolin and Powers Boothe in a nuclear plant drama inspired by the Karen Silkwood incident

THE PROMISE OF LOVE - Paul Chihara
Valerie Bertinelli is widowed by the Vietnam War; directed by Don Taylor

RAGE! - Laurence Rosenthal
David Soul as an imprisoned rapist; photographed by Allen Daviau

RAIN ON THE ROOF - George Fenton
BBC drama written by Dennis Potter

RAPE AND MARRIAGE: THE RIDEOUT CASE - Gil Melle
Linda Hamilton as the woman who charged her husband (Mickey Rourke) with rape

THE RETURN OF FRANK CANNON - Bruce Broughton
Obese 70s detective William Conrad comes out of retirement

REUNION - Brad Fiedel
Kevin Dobson goes to his 20 year high school reunion; co-starring Lew Ayres, Joanna Cassidy, Lindsay Crouse, Linda Hamilton, and future director Nick Cassavetes

REVENGE OF THE STEPFORD WIVES - Laurence Rosenthal
First of the cheesy TV cash-ins of Ira Levin's novel, directed by Robert Fuest, with Don Johnson, Sharon Gless, Julie Kavner, and Arthur Hill playing the role Patrick O'Neal played in the original film (Christopher Walken is playing it in the upcoming remake of the Levin original, which stars Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Glenn Close)

RISE AND FALL OF IDI AMIN - Christopher Gunning
British docudrama about the notorious Ugandan dictator

ROD GASIENICOW - Wojciech Kilar

A RUMOR OF WAR - Charles Gross
From Philip Caputo's acclaimed memoir of the Vietnam War, starring Brad Davis as Caputo, co-starring Keith Carradine, Michael O'Keefe, Brian Dennehy, Stacy Keach, Laurence Fishburne, and Jeff Daniels

S*H*E - Michael Kamen
Cornelia Sharpe as an international spy, co-starring Omar Sharif, Robert Lansing and Anita Ekberg, written by James Bond scribe Richard Maibaum

SCRUPLES - Charles Bernstein
Miniseries from the Judith Krantz novel, with Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Connie Stevens and Gene Tierney

THE SHADOW BOX - Henry Mancini
Paul Newman directs Michael Cristofer's own adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize winning play about the terminally ill; with Christopher Plummer, Valerie Harper, Sylvia Sidney, James Broderick, Melinda Dillon, and Mrs. Newman herself, Joanne Woodward

SHOGUN - Maurice Jarre
Score LP on RSO; acclaimed miniseries (just released on DVD) from the James Clavell novel, starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune

SKAG - Billy Goldenberg
Karl Malden as a steel mill worker, Piper Laurie as his wife, Craig Wasson as his son, co-starring Powers Boothe and M. Emmet Walsh; written by Abby Mann, directed by Frank Perry; became a short-lived series

SKYWARD - Lee Holdridge
Flight instructor Bette Davis teaches a handicapped girl to fly a plane; directed by Ron Howard -- Howard and Holdridge reteamed four years later for Splash

SOPHIA LOREN: HER OWN STORY - Fred Karlin
Sophia Loren plays herself and her own mother, with John Gavin as Cary Grant, Rip Torn as Carlo Ponti, and The Egyptian's Edmund Purdom as Vittorio De Sica

STUNTS UNLIMITED - Barry De Vorzon
A team of stuntmen try to retrieve a stolen laser; directed by Hal Needham

A TIME FOR MIRACLES - Fred Karlin
Religious drama with Kate Mulgrew and Rossano Brazzi

THE TIMELESS LAND - Bruce Smeaton

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY - Geoffrey Burgon
3:48 on the Silva CD Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon; John Irvin directs this acclaimed miniseries from the John LeCarre novel, with Alec Guinness as spymaster Smiley and co-starring Joss Ackland, Ian Bannen, Hywel Bennett, Michael Jayston, Sian Phillips, Ian Richardson, Patrick Stewart (as Karla), and Thorley Walters; Guinness returned to the role in Smiley's People, scored by Patrick Gowers

TOP OF THE HILL - George Duning
Skiing drama from an Irwin Shaw story, with Wayne Rogers, Adrienne Barbeau, MacDonald Carey, Rae Dawn Chong, Mel Ferrer, Gary Lockwood, Paula Prentiss, Elke Sommer, and Sonny Bono

THE WILD AND THE FREE - Gerald Fried
Nature drama from James Hill, director of Born Free

THE WOMEN'S ROOM - Billy Goldenberg
Lee Remick is the lead in this story of a woman's journey through the 50s, 60s and 70s, co-starring Colleen Dewhurst, Patty Duke, Kathryn Harrold, Tovah Feldshuh, Tyne Daly, Mare Winningham and Ted Danson

1979/1980 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION - SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Dallas (The Lost Child)
John Cacavas - Eischeid (Only the Pretty Girls Die, Part 2)
Billy Goldenberg - Skag (Premiere)
Fred Karlin - Paris (Decisions)
Patrick Williams - Lou Grant (Hollywood)

MUSIC COMPOSITION - LIMITED SERIES OR A SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Jerry Fielding - High Midnight
Gerald Fried - Moviola: The Silent Lovers
Pete Rugolo - The Last Convertible, Episode One
Harry Sukman - Salem's Lot

ANGEL DUSTED - James Horner
John Putch plays a teen who gets hooked on PCP; Arthur Hill and Jean Stapleton (Putch's real-life mom) are his parents; Helen Hunt's PCP crazed leap through a window was shown repeatedly to humorous effect when she hosted Saturday Night Live years later

THE AWAKENING OF CANDRA - Billy Goldenberg

THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD - Billy Goldenberg
Jennifer Jason Leigh as a teenage anorexic, with Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, and Jason Miller; directed by Sam O'Steen

BITTER HARVEST - Fred Karlin
Ron Howard as a young farmer whose child is affected by chemical toxins

THE BORGIAS - Georges Delerue
Score CD on Prometheus; BBC miniseries about the notorious Italian family

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Geoffrey Burgon
Score CD on Chrysalis; extremely popular miniseries from the Evelyn Waugh novel, with Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier; directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Charles Sturridge

THE BUNKER - Brad Fiedel
Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, Richard Jordan as Speer, Cliff Gorman as Goebbels, Piper Laurie as Mrs. Goebbels, Michael Losndale as Bormann, and Susan Blakely as Eva Braun

CALLIE & SON - Billy Goldenberg
Soap opera starring Lindsay Wagner, with Jameson Parker as her long lost son and Michelle Pfeiffer as her daughter-in-law

CALVAIRE D'UN JEUNE HOMME IMPECCABLE - Claude Bolling

CHICAGO STORY - Lalo Schifrin
TV movie pilot about Chicago cops, doctors and nurses; became a short-lived series featuring Maud Adams, Dennis Franz, Craig T. Nelson and John Mahoney

CHILD BRIDE OF SHORT CREEK - John Cacavas
Cult drama with Diane Lane, Christopher Atkins, Helen Hunt and Dee Wallace

CRISIS AT CENTRAL HIGH - Billy Goldenberg
Levinson & Link adaptation of Elizabeth Huckaby's memoir of the integration of a Little Rock high school in 1957; with Joanne Woodward as Huckaby, directed by Lamont Johnson

THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - Christopher Gunning
Miniseries remake of the John Wyndham sci-fi classic

THE DAY THE LOVING STOPPED - Lee Holdridge
Family drama with Ally Sheedy and Dominique Dunne as the children of a divorce

DIAL M FOR MURDER - Billy Goldenberg
Boris Sagal directed this remake of the Frederick Knott play, with Angie Dickinson as the wife, Christopher Plummer as the husband, Michael Parks as the lover, Anthony Quayle as the inspector, and Ron Moody as the would-be murderer

DREAM HOUSE - Brad Fiedel
Romantic comedy with John Schneider

EAST OF EDEN - Lee Holridge
Score LP on Elektra; miniseries remake of the John Steinbeck novel, with Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner, Karen Allen, Hart Bochner, Warren Oates, Anne Baxter, Lloyd Bridges and M. Emmet Walsh

EVITA PERON - Johnny Mandel
Faye Dunaway as Evita, James Farentino as Peron

A FEW DAYS IN WEASEL CREEK - James Horner
Rural drama with Mare Winningham, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN - Basil Poledouris
Score CD on Prometheus; Buddy Ebsen refuses to let the government take away his ranch to build a missile range; co-starring Ron Howard, co-written by Edward Abbey

THE FIVE OF ME - Fred Karlin
David Birney copes with his multiple personalities

THE GANGSTER CHRONICLES - Billy Goldenberg
1980/1981 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Series (Dramatic Underscore), for Episode 1; miniseries with Michael Nouri as Lucky Luciano, Joe Penny as Bugsy Siegel, Jonathan Banks as Dutch Schultz, co-starring Madeleine Stowe

THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH & DYNAMITE - Bruce Broughton
Sequel to 1980's The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, from John D. MacDonald's novel about a watch that can stop time, with Philip MacHale and Lee Purcell playing the Robert Hays & Pam Dawber roles

THE GOLD BUG - Charles Gross
Robert Fuest directed this adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story, with Anthony Michael Hall and Geoffrey Holder

GOLDEN GATE - Ralph Burns
Drama about a San Francisco publishing family, written by Stirling Silliphant, directed by Paul Wendkos, and featuring Perry King, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, John Saxon, and Melanie Griffith

GOLIATH AWAITS - George Duning
A Lusitania-like sunken ship is found to contain a community of survivors; with Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, Kirk Cameron, John Carradine, Robert Forster, and Jean Marsh

HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES: LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER - Georges Delerue

THE HISTORY MAN - George Fenton
Christopher Hampton adaptation of the Malcolm Bradbury novel, starring Antony Sher

INCIDENT AT CRESTRIDGE - Arthur B. Rubinstein

THE INTRUDER WITHIN - Gil Melle
Monsters on an oil rig

JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY - Billy Goldenberg
1981/1982 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); Jaclyn Smith as Jackie, James Franciscus as JFK

JACQUELINE SUSANN'S VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Fred Karlin
Modernized miniseries remake of the Susann novel, with Catherine Hicks, Lisa Hartman, Veronica Hamel, Jean Simmons and James Coburn

KILLJOY - Bruce Broughton
1981/1982 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); murder mystery with Kim Basinger and Robert Culp

LE MYTHOMANE - Georges Delerue

LES ROSES DE DUBLIN - Vladimir Cosma

L'OISEAU BLEU - Georges Delerue

MADAME X - Angela Morley
Remake of the melodrama about an attorney defending a woman (Tuesday Weld) on a murder charge, unaware that she's his long lost mother

THE MARVA COLLINS STORY - Fred Karlin
Cicely Tyson as a real life teacher, with Morgan Freeman (!!!) as her husband

MASADA - Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Score CD on Varese Sarabande (re-recording of Goldsmith cues from the first two parts); Episode 2 (Goldsmith): 1980/1981 Emmy winner Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); Episode 4 (Stevens): 1980/1981 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); impressive miniseries, adapted by Joel Oliansky from Howard Fast's novel The Antagonists, about the Roman siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada and its unexpected ending; with Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle, David Warner, Richard Basehart, Nigel Davenport, Joseph Wiseman; one of the finest TV scores ever

MIDNIGHT OFFERINGS - Walter Scharf
Battle between two high school witches

THE MIRACLE OF KATHY MILLER - Patrick Williams
Helen Hunt as a car accident survivor competing in a marathon

MIRACLE ON ICE - Fred Karlin
Docudrama on the U.S. hockey team's Olympic victory in 1980; with Karl Malden, Andrew Stevens, Steve Guttenberg

MISTRESS OF PARADISE - John Addison
Melodrama with Genevieve Bujold, directed by Peter Medak

THE MUNSTERS' REVENGE - Vic Mizzy
Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo and Al Lewis return, though the Munster kids are re-cast

MURDER IN TEXAS - Leonard Rosenman
True crime drama with Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Farrah Fawcett, Andy Griffith and Craig T. Nelson; the true story also inspired Tommy Thompson's page turner Blood and Money

MY MOTHER WAS NEVER A KID - Brad Fiedel
After School Special about a girl who time travels to the 40s and meets her own mother as a child; directed by Robert Fuest

THE ORDEAL OF BILL CARNEY - Billy Goldenberg
Ray Sharkey as a man trying to keep custody of his sons after being paralyzed in an accident

THE PATRICIA NEAL STORY - Laurence Rosenthal
Docudrama about the actress's recovery from a stroke, with Glenda Jackson as Neal and Dirk Bogarde as her husband, writer Roald Dahl

THE PEOPLE VS. JEAN HARRIS - Brad Fiedel
Ellen Burstyn as the accused murderess, in a docudrama taken from the trial transcripts, with Martin Balsam, Richard A. Dysart and Peter Coyote

THE PRINCESS AND THE CABBIE - Patrick Williams
1981/1982 Emmy winner Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); romance with cab driver Robert Desiderio helping Valerie Bertinelli overcome dyslexia; co-starring Peter Donat and Shelley Long

PRIVATE SCHULZ - Carl Davis
WWII comedy with German counterfeiters attempting to destroy the British economy, with Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson

ROBINSON CRUSOE AND MAN FRIDAY - Maurice Jarre
Score LP Vendredi Ou La Vie Sauvage on Prometheus; Michael York as Crusoe, Fame's Gene Anthony Ray as Friday

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE STRANGE CASE OF ALICE FAULKNER - Arthur B. Rubinstein
HBO movie with Frank Langella as Holmes, featuring a young Christian Slater in a small role

SIDE SHOW - Ralph Burns
A boy runs away to join the circus and witnesses a murder

SKYWARD CHRISTMAS - Lee Holdridge
Sequel to Skyward, but without Bette Davis and director Ron Howard

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS - John Morris
Remake with Melissa Gilbert and Cyril O'Reilly as the young lovers, co-starring Ned Beatty, Eva Marie Saint and Michelle Pfeiffer

THIS HOUSE POSSESSED - Billy Goldenberg
Rock singer Parker Stevenson recovers from a nervous breakdown in a haunted house

THORNWELL - Fred Karlin
Fact-based drama of the U.S. Army's LSD experiments on their own troops

A TOWN LIKE ALICE - Bruce Smeaton
Score CD on Southern Cross; miniseries remake of the Nevil Shute romantic novel about civilian prisoners of the Japanese during WWII

WE'RE FIGHTING BACK - Fred Karlin
The formation of a Guardian Angels-like group

A WHALE FOR THE KILLING - Basil Poledouris
Ecological drama from the Farley Mowat book, with Peter Strauss, Dee Wallace and Richard Widmark

WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN - Charles Gross
Romance with Elizabeth Montgomery and Christopher Plummer, directed by Boris Sagal

WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE WILDERNESS YEARS - Carl Davis
Docudrama with Robert Hardy as Churchill in the 1930s

1980/1981 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION - SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Buck Rogers (The Satyr)
Billy Goldenberg - The Gangster Chronicles (Episode 1)
Mike Post - Hill Street Blues (Hill Street Station)
David Rose - Little House on the Prairie (The Lost Ones, Part 2)
Patrick Williams - Lou Grant (Stroke)

MUSIC COMPOSITION - LIMITED SERIES OR A SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Paul Chihara - The Tempest
Jerry Goldsmith - Masada (Episode 2)
Fred Karlin - Homeward Bound
Peter Matz - Father Damien: The Leper Priest
Morton Stevens - Masada (Episode 4)

Fred Karlin was also nominated for Music and Lyrics for writing the song "Home" (with lyricist David Pomeranz) for Homeward Bound

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