SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART TWO

By Scott Bettencourt

But first, a correction from a journalist who has forgotten more about TV music than I will ever know:

FROM: "Jon Burlingame"

"Split Second to an Epitaph" is not the "Ironside" pilot. How this oft-repeated error got started is a complete mystery. What's even crazier is that it's in Quincy Jones' own autobiography!

The "Ironside" pilot is, surprise, called "Ironside." Quincy Jones actually did score it; it aired 3/28/67. Then he came aboard for the series and did half a dozen or so episodes.

"Split Second to an Epitaph" was a two-hour episode that aired early in the second season (9/26/68, subsequently split into two parts for syndication). Oliver Nelson scored this one (as he did several in the first and second seasons). Q had had it with TV and was long gone by this time. "Split Second to an Epitaph" is just another episode of "Ironside," and not all that interesting at that.

ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - Vladimir Cosma

ANY SECOND NOW - Leonard Rosenman

D'ARTAGNAN - Antoine Duhamel

DAVID COPPERFIELD - Malcolm Arnold
28:04 of score rerecorded for the Marco Polo label, paired with The Roots of Heaven. Co-stars Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Richard Attenborough, Wendy Hiller, Edith Evans, and some other no-talent hacks.

DESTINY OF A SPY - Ron Grainer
From Omega Man director Boris Sagal, a spy thriller starring Lorne Greene and Rachel Roberts

EIN ABEND ZU ZWEIT - Francis Lai

FEAR NO EVIL - Billy Goldenberg
Louis Jordan as a psychiatrist investigating the occult; one of the first acclaimed supernatural TV movies

THE IMMORTAL - Dominic Frontiere
Based on a James Gunn novel, with Christopher George as a man on the run who is immune to all illness; became a short-lived TV series

JACQUOU LE CROQUANT - Georges Delerue

LOST FLIGHT - Dominic Frontiere, Stanley Wilson
Plane crash survivors on a desert island struggle against heir own savagery

MARCUS WELBY, M.D. - Leonard Rosenman
Pilot movie for the long running series

NIGHT GALLERY - Billy Goldenberg
Pilot for the Rod Serling anthology series, with segments directed by Boris Sagal ("The Cemetery"), Steven Spielberg ("Eyes") and Barry Shear ("Escape Route")

THE OVER-THE-HILL GANG - Hugo Friedhofer
Comedy Western starring Pat O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Andy Devine

THE SILENT GUN - Leith Stevens

SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT - Billy Goldenberg
Romance with Lloyd Bridges and Shirley Jones

THEN CAME BRONSON - George Duning
Pilot movie for the series with Michael Parks as a man traveling around the country on a motorcycle

THIS SAVAGE LAND - Leonard Rosenman
Western starring Barry Sullivan

THE YOUNG LAWYERS - Lalo Schifrin
Pilot movie for the TV series

1968/1969 Emmy Nominations:

MUSIC COMPOSITION

Jacques Belasco - Hemingway's Spain - A Love Affair
Hugo Montenegro - The Outcasts (Take Your Lover in the Ring)
Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Impossible (The Heir Apparent)
Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five-O
John T. Williams - Heidi

ALONG CAME A SPIDER - David Rose

THE AQUARIANS - Lalo Schifrin
Underwater adventure, produced by Ivan Tors, with Ricardo Montalban and Leslie Neilsen

BERLIN AFFAIR - Francis Lai

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL - Jerry Goldsmith
Collegiate conspiracy thriller from future Mephisto Waltz director Paul Wendkos, featuring quasi-Baroque score from Goldsmith

BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED! - George Duning

A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER - Billy Goldenberg
Hal Holbrook as a senator who takes on smog; launched the "Senator" section of The Bold Ones TV series

GORY O ZMIERZCHU - Wojciech Kilar

HAMLET - John Addison
1970/1971 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Special Program, Music Direction of a Variety Musical or Dramatic Program; Richard Chamberlain as the melancholy Dane, John Gielgud as the ghost

A HOSTAGE - Georges Delerue

THE HOUSE THAT WOULD NOT DIE - Laurence Rosenthal
Haunted house story starring Barbara Stanwyck

HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN - Laurence Rosenthal
Psychological thriller with Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris, from Henry Farrell, creator of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, and What's the Matter With Helen, and directed by Helen helmer Curtis Harrington

HUNTERS ARE FOR KILLING - Jerry Fielding
Burt Reynolds as an ex-con fighting stepfather Melvyn Douglas for his share of the estate

THE INTRUDERS - Dave Grusin
Western with a small town marshal going up against the James and Younger gangs

LANCELOT DU LAC - Georges Delerue

LES COUSINS DE LA CONSTANCE - Georges Delerue

THE LOVE WAR - Dominic Frontiere
A group of aliens from two warring planets come to Earth and take human form to finish the conflict here; Angie Dickinson falls in love with one of them.

THE MASK OF SHEBA - Lalo Schifrin

MAUREGARD - Georges Delerue

MCCLOUD: WHO KILLED MISS U.S.A.? - David Shire
Pilot movie for the Coogan's Bluff-ish Dennis Weaver TV series (written by the great Levinson & Link), with guest cast including Craig Stevens, Raul Julia and Julie Newmar

MISTER JERICO - Laurie Johnson
Patrick Macnee as a charming rogue

MY SWEET CHARLIE - Gil Melle
The breakthrough in serious made-for-TV movies: runaway pregnant teenager Patty Duke hides out in a beach house off-season, meets Al Freeman Jr. as a black attorney on the run from killing a racist in self-defense during a riot. Adapted by Richard Levinson and William Link from the novel by David Westheimer (Von Ryan's Express) and directed by Lamont Johnson. Won Emmys for Duke, Levinson & Link, and editor Edward Abroms.

NIGHT CHASE - Laurence Rosenthal
5:18 released on the two-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television. David Janssen and Yaphet Kotto in a chase-thriller

THE OTHER MAN - Michel Colombier
Murderous romantic triangle involving a D.A., his wife, and an ex-con

THE OVER-THE-HILL GANG RIDES AGAIN - David Raksin
Sequel to The Over-the-Hill Gang

QUARANTINED - George Duning
A family of doctors battle a cholera epidemic; directed by Leo Penn (Sean's dad)

RITUAL OF EVIL - Billy Goldenberg
Sequel to Fear No Evil

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL - Patrick Wililams
TV movie became the series San Francisco International Airport, with Lloyd Bridges replacing Pernell Roberts in the lead; the TV movie was screened on Mystery Science Theater 3000

SOLE SURVIVOR - Paul Glass
Mystery with William Shatner and Richard Basehart, about a WWII bomber found in the Libyan desert

UPON THIS ROCK - Michael J. Lewis
Score CD released as a composer promo

1969/1970 Emmy Nominations:

MUSIC COMPOSITION

For a Series or a Single Program of a Series (in its first year only) (In the first year of original music's use only):

Quincy Jones - The Bill Cosby Show
Franklyn Marks - Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five-O (A Thousand Pardons, You're Dead)

For a Special Program:

Van Alexander - Gene Kelly's Wonderful World of Girls with 50 Girls, Count ëEm, 50
Jacques Belasco - Apollo: Journey to the Moon (The Threshold)
Pete Rugolo - The Challengers
 

ALIAS SMITH AND JONES - Billy Goldenberg
Pilot for the Butch & Sundance-style Western series

ALL THE WAY HOME - Arthur B. Rubinstein
The second of four versions of James Agee's classic novel A Death in the Family, this time with Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley as the parents, and Pat Hingle recreating his role from the 1963 film as Kiley's brother. (The third version, in 1981, was done as a live TV broadcast with Sally Field and William Hurt in the leads)

ASSAULT ON THE WAYNE - Leith Stevens
Nuclear sub thriller with Joseph Cotton and Leonard Nimoy

BANYON - Leonard Rosenman
Pilot movie for the 30s detective series starring Robert Forster

THE BIRDMEN - David Rose
World War II adventure -- The Great Escape meets Flight of the Phoenix

BLACK NOON - George Duning
A horror Western involving a Satanic cult

BRIAN'S SONG - Michel Legrand
1970/1971 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a special program; the great tearjerker TV movie of the era, with James Caan as Brian Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers; Legrand's main theme was extremely popular (though I may be the only person around in that era who does not actually know it)

THE CABLE CAR MURDER - Jerry Goldsmith
Also known as Crosscurrent; two San Francisco cops investigate a murder on a cable car (duh)

THE CITY - Billy Goldenberg
Anthony Quinn as a Hispanic mayor of a U.S. city; became a TV series The Man and the City

CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A BOY! - Basil Poledouris, Richard Baskin
Comedy with Bill Bixby as a swinging bachelor (oh, those were the days) who meets a teenager who claims to be his son

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Georges Delerue

DEADLY DREAM - Dave Grusin
Paranoid thriller with Lloyd Bridges and Janet Leigh

THE DEADLY HUNT - Vic Mizzy
A young couple are stalked by hitmen in the middle of a forest fire; a rare chance for Mizzy to score something non-goofy

THE DEVIL AND MISS SARAH - David Rose
Western about an outlaw with Satanic powers; apparently, the early 70s were a rare flourishing of the Satanic Western genre

DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE - Jerry Goldsmith
Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Sylvia Sidney and Mildred Natwick create an imaginary girl for a computer dating service, and psycho Vince Edwards becomes obsessed with the girl

DUEL - Billy Goldenberg
One of the all-time great TV movies. Dennis Weaver as a motorist imperiled by an unseen driver and his truck. Written by Richard Matheson, directed by Steven Spielberg -- this deservedly put Spielberg on the map, and inaugurated the killer vehicle genre (Killdozer, The Car, Christine, Maximum Overdrive)

EARTH II - Lalo Schifrin
Pilot movie for an unmade TV series about a space station, starring 2001's Gary Lockwood

ELLERY QUEEN: DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU - Jerry Fielding
Based on the Queen mystery Cat of Many Tales, with Peter Lawford as Ellery and Harry Morgan as Inspector Queen

ESCAPE - Lalo Schifrin
Christopher George is a private eye battling a mad scientist with a zombie-making virus; why the generic title?

THE FAILING OF RAYMOND - Patrick Williams
Dean Stockwell (during the arrested adolescent phase of his career) stalking the teacher (Jane Wyman) who once failed him; directed by Boris Sagal

FIVE DESPERATE WOMEN - Paul Glass
Women menaced on a resort island; directed by Ted Post

THE FORGOTTEN MAN - Dave Grusin
Vietnam War drama with presumed-dead Dennis Weaver returning home to find everyone has gone on without him

THE GOING UP OF DAVID LEV - Jerry Goldsmith
Family drama with Melvyn Douglas, Claire Bloom, Topol, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father's Brandon Cruz

GWIAZDA WYTRWALOSCI - Wojciech Kilar

THE HARNESS - Billy Goldenberg
Lorne Greene in a farm drama, from a John Steinbeck story; fine Goldenberg score

HARPY - David Shire

HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH - Dominic Frontiere
Strange doings on an island resort; one of those ABC Movies of the Week that made TV viewing wonderfully spooky for us growing up at the time

THE HOMECOMING: A CHRISTMAS STORY - Jerry Goldsmith
TV movie which led to The Waltons series, but with Patricia Neal and Andrew Duggan as the parents, Edgar Bergen as grandpa, and no sign of the famous theme Goldsmith wrote for the TV series

A HOWLING IN THE WOODS - Dave Grusin

IF TOMORROW COMES - Gil Melle
Patty Duke marries a Japanese-American boy on the eve of World War II

THE IMPATIENT HEART - David Shire
Carrie Snodgress as a social worker; teams Shire with his Yale classmate director John Badham

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT - Leonard Rosenman
A blind actor plots to murder his unfaithful wife and her lover -- his best friend; written by Larry Cohen

INCIDENT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Williams

JANE EYRE - John Williams
Score CD on Silva; 1970/1971 Emmy winner Music Composition For a Special Program; Susannah York as Jane, George C. Scott as Rochester, directed by Delbert Mann. One of Williams' greatest early scores, with some of his most beautiful music - buy this CD!

THE LAST CHILD - Laurence Rosenthal
Futuristic sci-fi from the "overpopulation crisis" era

LOCK, STOCK AND BARREL - Patrick Williams

LOVE HATE LOVE - Lyn Murray
Romantic suspense with Ryan O'Neal and Lesley Ann Warren

MARRIAGE: YEAR ONE - David Shire
Romantic drama with Sally Field and a pretty impressive supporting cast -- Agnes Moorehead, Bob Balaban, Michael Lerner, Cicely Tyson

MR. AND MRS. BO JO JONES - Fred Karlin
High schooler Desi Arnaz Jr. marries his pregnant girlfriend

THE NEON CEILING - Billy Goldenberg

ONCE UPON A DEAD MAN - Jerry Fielding
Pilot movie for Macmillan and Wife

OWEN MARSHALL, COUNSELOR AT LAW - Elmer Bernstein
Pilot movie for the lawyer series, starring Arthur Hill

THE PRIEST KILLER - David Shire
Followup to Sarge, teaming George Kennedy with the cast of Ironside

RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN - Billy Goldenberg
Theme rerecorded for the Mercury CD Mission: Impossible and Other TV Themes; second pilot movie for Columbo, with Lee Grant as the killer

THE RELUCTANT HEROES - Frank DeVol
Ken Berry leads a platoon in the Korean War

REVENGE - Dominic Frontiere
Shelley Winters locks her daughter's seducer in the basement; adapted by Joseph Stefano

ROLA - Wojciech Kilar

SARGE - Dave Grusin
Pilot movie for the TV series Sarge, with George Kennedy as a cop-turned-priest

SEE THE MAN RUN - David Shire

THE SHERIFF - Dominic Frontiere
Ossie Davis as a small town sheriff investigating an interracial rape case

THE SNOW GOOSE - Carl Davis
One cue featured on the DRG LP Carl Davis: Music For Television; 1970/1971 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Special Program. Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter and a goose, adapted by Paul Gallico from his novel

A STEP OUT OF LINE - Jerry Goldsmith
Peter Falk, Vic Morrow and Peter Lawford plan a bank robbery

SUDDENLY SINGLE - Billy Goldenberg
Hal Holbrook faces life after divorce

SWEET, SWEET RACHEL - Laurence Rosenthal
Psychic vs. a telepathic killer

TERROR IN THE SKY - Patrick Williams
Another version of Arthur Hailey's Runway Zero Eight, previously filmed as Zero Hour!, and later remade (uncredited) as Airplane!

THIEF - Ron Grainer
Richard Crenna as a burglar

THE TRACKERS - Johnny Mandel
Western starring Sammy Davis Jr. as a tracker helping a rancher hunt the gang kidnapped his daughter; story by Davis and Aaron Spelling

TRAVIS LOGAN, D.A. - Patrick Williams

VANISHED - Leonard Rosenman
The first two-part TV movie, from the Fletcher Knebel bestseller; a top adviser to the President (Richard Widmark) disappears

WELCOME HOME, JOHNNY BRISTOL - Lalo Schifrin
Vietnam War POW Martin Landau returns to his hometown, but can find no trace of it

WHEN MICHAEL CALLS - Lionel Newman
Ben Gazzara and Elizabeth Ashley receive calls from their nephew Michael, who's been dead 15 years; co-starring Michael Douglas, adapted by James Bridges from a John Farris novel

YUMA - George Duning
Western with Clint Walker, directed by Ted Post

YVETTE - Georges Delerue

1970/1971 Emmy nominations:

MUSIC COMPOSITION

For a series or a single program of a series (in the first year of music's use only):

Frank Comstock - Adam-12 (Elegy For a Pig)
Charles Fox - Love, American Style
Robert Prince, Billy Goldenberg - The Name of the Game (LA 2017)
David Rose - Bonanza (The Love Child)

For a special program:

John Addison - Hamlet
Pete Rugolo - Do You Take This Stranger?
Walter Scharf - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (The Tragedy of the Red Salmon)

Nominees for Music Direction of a Variety, Musical or Dramatic Program included John Addison for Hamlet and Dominic Frontiere (the winner) for Swing Out, Sweet Land

Billy Goldenberg was nominated for Achievement in Music, Lyrics and Special Material for the Name of the Game episode "All the Old Familiar Faces."

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