SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART EIGHT

By Scott Bettencourt

THE AMBUSH MURDERS - Paul Chihara
Crime drama with James Brolin, Dorian Harewood, Alfre Woodard and Amy Madigan

BARE ESSENCE - Billy Goldenberg
1982/1983 Emmy nominee Music and Lyrics; Genie Francis launches a perfume company; co-starring Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Lee Grant, and Francis' future husband Jonathan Frakes; became a short-lived series

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY - Bruce Broughton
12:20 on the Edel CD Best of the West; 1982/1983 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 2; Andrew V. McLaglen directed this Civil War miniseries, with Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, Colleen Dewhurst, Warren Oates, Geraldine Page, Robert Vaughn, Sterling Hayden, Paul Winfield, Rip Torn as Gen. Grant, and Gregory Peck as Lincoln

BORN BEAUTIFUL - Brad Fiedel
Erin Grey as a model who's reached her 30s

COMING OUT OF THE ICE - Maurice Jarre
John Savage in the true story of a young American working in the Soviet Union who spends decades as a prisoner of the gulags for refusing to renounce his American citizenship; teleplay by Alan Sharp (Night Moves, Rob Roy)

COUNTRY GOLD - Billy Goldenberg

CRY FOR THE STRANGERS - John Cacavas
Thriller from a John Saul novel, directed by Peter Medak

DEADLY ENCOUNTER - Fred Karlin
Larry Hagman as a helicopter pilot protecting his girlfriend from the mob; I defy anyone to find a more generic TV-movie title

DESPERATE LIVES - Bruce Broughton
High school drama -- one imdb.com reader claims this is the TV movie with the humorous Helen Hunt PCP suicide scene, not Angel Dusted -- anyone have any info?

DIVORCE WARS: A LOVE STORY - Paul Chihara
Marital drama with Tom Selleck and Jane Curtin as a troubled couple; co-starring Joan Bennett, Viveca Lindfors and Mimi Rogers

DREAMS DON'T DIE - Brad Fiedel
Trini Alvarado and Ike Eisenmann are two street kids in love; co-starring Paul Winfield and James Broderick

THE ELECTRIC GRANDMOTHER - John Morris
Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story "I Sing the Body Electric" (previously filmed as a Twilight Zone episode), with Maureen Stapleton as the robot grandmother; directed by Noel Black (Pretty Poison)

THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - John Cacavas
Acclaimed mini-series from Norman Mailer's compelling non-fiction novel, starring Tommy Lee Jones as convicted killer Gary Gilmore, co-starring Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti and Eli Wallach; photographed by Freddie Francis

FALCON'S GOLD - Lalo Schifrin
South American treasure hunt with John Marley and Simon MacCorkindale, from an Arthur Conan Doyle story

FAMILY IN BLUE - Patrick Williams
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Dirk Benedict and Dick O'Neill as a family of cops

FARRELL FOR THE PEOPLE - Bill Conti
Valerie Harper as an Assistant District Attorney

THE FIRST TIME - Fred Karlin
Jennifer Jason Leigh falls in love with Peter Barton

THE GIFT OF LIFE - Billy Goldenberg
Married Susan Dey agrees to serve as a surrogate mother for another couple

HAVING IT ALL - Miles Goodman
Starring Dyan Cannon, Barry Newman and Sylvia Sidney, directed by Edward Zwick

HELP WANTED: MALE - Nelson Riddle
Romantic comedy pairing Suzanne Pleshette and Gil Gerard

HOME SWEET HOME - Carl Davis
Mike Leigh wrote and directed this story of three postal workers and their families, co-starring Leigh regular Timothy Spall

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES - Carl Davis
BBC miniseries with Tom Baker and Terence Rigby as Holmes & Watson

HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON? - Geoffrey Burgon
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in a World War I drama

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - Ken Thorne
31:38 on the composer promo CD The Film Music of Ken Thorne volume 1; Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo, Lesley Anne-Down as Esmerelda, co-starring Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Nigel Hawthorne and John Gielgud; apparently all the good actors were unavailable

I WAS A MAIL ORDER BRIDE - John Addison
Romance pairing Valerie Bertinelli and Ted Wass

INSIDE THE THIRD REICH - Fred Karlin
26:06 on the Reel Music CD The Fred Karlin Collection Volume 1; Nazi architect Albert Speer's memoir of the Third Reich - with Rutger Hauer as Speer, Blythe Danner as his wife, John Gielgud as his father, Ian Holm as Goebbels, Renee Soutendijk as Eva Braun, and Derek Jacobi as Hitler; co-starring Trevor Howard, Viveca Lindfors, Randy Quaid, Stephen Collins, Ian Holm, Elke Sommer, Michael Gough and Robert Vaughn

L'ADIEU AUX AS - Vladimir Cosma

THE LEGEND OF WALKS FAR WOMAN - Paul Chihara
Raquel Welch as a 19th century American Indian; written by Evan Hunter

LES SECRETS DE LA PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN - Claude Bolling

THE LETTER - Laurence Rosenthal
5:01 on the two-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; 1981/1982 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); remake of the Bette Davis classic, with Lee Remick, Jack Thompson, Ian McShane, James Hong, Soon-Tek Oh and Beulah Quo

MARCO POLO - Ennio Morricone
Score LP on Fonit Cetra, and recently but only briefly available on CD; mini-series with Ken Marshall (Krull) as the famed adventurer; also starring Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Burt Lancaster, David Warner, Leonard Nimoy, F. Murray Abraham, and, oddly enough, the supporting cast of The Letter -- Ian McShane, James Hong, Soon-Tek Oh and Beulah Quo

MARIAN ROSE WHITE - Billy Goldenberg
Nancy Cartwright (more famous as the voice of Bart Simpson) as a young woman unfairly placed in an institution; Katharine Ross as the nurse who helps her

MARKS - Geoffrey Burgon
BBC production of an Alan Bennett play

MASSARATI AND THE BRAIN - Billy Goldenberg
A spy and a boy genius search for Nazi treasure; co-starring Christopher Lee

MILLION DOLLAR INFIELD - Artie Kane
Comedy with an unusually strong cast -- Bonnie Bedelia, Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Bruno Kirby and Harry Shearer

MISS ALL-AMERICAN BEAUTY - Paul Chihara

MOONLIGHT - Patrick Williams

MURDER IS EASY - Gerald Fried
Agatha Christie adaptation with Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes, Jonathan Pryce, and Hammer star Shane Briant

MY BODY, MY CHILD - Charles Gross
Vanessa Redgrave must decide whether to carry her pregnancy to term; with Jack Albertson, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon

MY PALIKARI - John Cacavas
PBS drama about a Greek and his American son returning to his native village; with Telly Savalas, Michael Constantine, Keith Coogan

1915 - Bruce Smeaton
5:27 on the ABC Records CD Bruce Smeaton: Film and Television Themes; Australian World War I miniseries

NOT JUST ANOTHER AFFAIR - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Romantic comedy with Victoria Principal and Gil Gerard

NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN - Fred Karlin
Relationship drama with Linda Gray, John Getz, John Lithgow

ONE SHOE MAKES IT MURDER - Bruce Broughton
Private eye mystery with Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson and Mel Ferrer

OUR WINNIE - George Fenton

A PIANO FOR MRS. CIMINO - James Horner
Drama with Bette Davis, Christopher Guest, George Hearn and Keenan Wynn

PRAYING MANTIS - Carl Davis
Romantic thriller with Jonathan Pryce and Cherie Lunghi

PRIME SUSPECT - Charles Gross
Absence of Malice-style drama with Mike Farrell as a man falsely accused of being a serial killer, Veronica Cartwright as his wife, and Teri Garr as the reporter hounding him

RASCALS AND ROBBERS: THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FINN - James Horner
Anthony Michael Hall as Huck, Patrick Creadon as Tom

REHEARSAL FOR MURDER - Billy Goldenberg
Twisty Levinson & Link murder mystery revolving around a group of Broadway actors; with Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave, Patrick MacNee, Lawrence Pressman, William Russ, Madolyn Smith, William Daniels, and Jeff Goldblum

THE RENEGADES - Barry De Vorzon
Mod Squad-style thriller with Patrick Swayze as one of a group of street toughs who works undercover for the police; directed by Roger Spottisdwoode, co-written by Steven E. DeSouza; became a short-lived series

THE RULES OF MARRIAGE - Paul Chihara
Elizabeth Montgomery and Elliot Gould as mutually unfaithful spouses, with Sean Astin as their son

THE SHOOTING - John Cacavas
Family drama with Lynn Redgrave and Wil Wheaton

SISTER, SISTER - Alex North
Family drama written by Maya Angelou, with Diahann Carroll, Rosalind Cash, Irene Cara and Paul Winfield

SOFT TARGETS - Geoffrey Burgon
Cold War drama directed by Charles Sturridge, with Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Nigel Havers and Rupert Everett

SOMETHING SO RIGHT - Charles Gross
Patty Duke and Ricky Schroder as a mother and son

TALES OF THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG - Frank DeVol, Tom Worrall
TV followup to the Disney comedy Westerns

THIS IS KATE BENNETT - Lee Holdridge
Janet Eilber as a newswoman

THOU SHALT NOT KILL - Lee Holdridge
A falsely convicted man kills a guard in self-defense; with Lee Grant, Gary Graham, Diana Scarwid, Robert Culp

TOMORROW'S CHILD - Patrick Williams
Scientists help a couple have a baby outside the womb; with Stephanie Zimbalist, William Atherton, Bruce Davison and Arthur Hill; directed by Joseph Sargent

THE UNAPPROACHABLE - Wojciech Kilar

VIA DEGLI SPECCHI - Pino Donaggio

THE WILD WOMEN OF CHASTITY GULCH - Frank DeVol
Comedy Western with Priscilla Barnes, lee Horsley, Pamela Bellwood, Joan Collins and Donny Osmond

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - John Cameron
Remake of the Agatha Christie/Billy Wilder classic, with Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges, Donald Pleasence, Wendy Hiller, Ralph Richardson in the Laughton role, and Diana Rigg in the Dietrich role

A WOMAN CALLED GOLDA - Michel Legrand
1981/1982 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); Judy Davis plays the young Golda Meir, Ingrid Bergman plays her later in life; with Ned Beatty, Anne Jackson, Leonard Nimoy, Jack Thompson, and Robert Loggia as Sadat

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE - George Fenton

WORLD WAR III - Gil Melle
Surprisingly good miniseries (written by Robert L. Joseph) about a Russian incursion into Alaska bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war; Rock Hudson is the President, Brian Keith is the Soviet premier, and Jeroen Krabbe is the leader of the Russian squad; Omega Man director Boris Sagal died in a helicopter accident during location scouting, so David Greene finished it and shared the directing credit

1981/1982 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION - SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Dallas (The Search)
Joe Harnell - The Incredible Hulk (Triangle)
David Rose - Little House on the Prairie (He Was Only Twelve, Part 2)
Patrick Williams - Lou Grant (Hometown)

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

Bruce Broughton - Killjoy
Allyn Ferguson - Ivanhoe
Billy Goldenberg - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Michel Legrand - A Woman Called Golda
Laurence Rosenthal - The Letter
Patrick Williams - The Princess and the Cabbie

Billy Goldenberg was also nominated for Music and Lyrics for the song "Friends Forever" from the show Love, Sidney

THE AERODROME - Carl Davis

ANOTHER WOMAN'S CHILD - Billy Goldenberg

BETWEEN FRIENDS - James Horner
HBO drama pairing Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett

A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY - Lee Holdridge
Sue Grafton co-wrote the teleplay for this Agatha Christie adaptation, with Helen Hayes as Miss Marple and co-starring Barnard Hughes, Jameson Parker, Swoosie Kurtz, Zakes Mokae, Brock Peters and Maurice Evans

CHIEFS - Michael Small
A serial killing in a small town spans three generations of police chiefs; with Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen colins, Brad Davis, Tess Harper, Paula Kelly, Wayne Rogers, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Tennant, Billy Dee Williams and Danny Glover

CHINA ROSE - Charles Gross
George C. Scott goes to China to find his long lost son, meets Ali MacGraw

COCAINE: ONE MAN'S SEDUCTION - Brad Fiedel
Dennis Weaver becomes a coke addict; co-starring James Spader and Jeffrey Tambor, directed by Paul Wendkos

CONFESSIONS OF A MARRIED MAN - Billy Goldenberg
Marital drama with Robert Conrad, Mary Crosby and Lance Guest

COOK & PEARY: THE RACE TO THE POLE - Charles Gross
Richard Chamberlain and Rod Steiger try to reach the North Pole

COWBOY - Bruce Broughton
Western drama with James Brolin, Ted Danson, Annie Potts and Randy Quaid, directed by Jerry Jameson

CREDO - Claude Bolling

THE DAY AFTER - David Raksin
3:46 on the Edel CD Highlander: Best of Fantasy; Nicholas Meyer directed this powerful drama about the impact of a nuclear war on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas; with Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow and Amy Madigan; Raksin's original score was largely replaced with music from Virgil Thompson's score for The River

DEMPSEY - Billy Goldenberg
Treat Williams as boxer Jack Dempsey; with Sam Waterston and Sally Kellerman

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD - George Fenton
John Schlesinger directed Alan Bennett's acclaimed script about the actress Coral Browne (as herself) encountering the infamous spy Guy Burgess (Alan Bates) on a trip to Russia

THE FACE OF RAGE - Miles Goodman
Dianne Weist as a rape victim; co-starring Jeffrey DeMunn, John Glover, Danny Glover and John Goodman

THE FIGHTER - Patrick Williams
Vietnam vet Gregory Harrison becomes an amateur boxer

FIRST AFFAIR - Lee Holdridge
College student Melissa Sue Anderson falls for the husband of her professor

GHOST DANCING - John Morris
Ecological drama with Dorothy McGuire, Richard Farnsworth and Bruce Davison

THE GIFT OF LOVE: A CHRISTMAS STORY - Fred Karlin
Delbert Mann directed this It's a Wonderful Life-ish fantasy starring Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick, partly filmed in my mom's picturesque hometown of Chelsea, Vermont

GIRLS OF THE WHITE ORCHID - Brad Fiedel
Jennifer Jason Leigh goes to Japan to be a singer, finds herself trapped in a prostitution ring instead; directed by Jonathan Kaplan, who later worked with Fiedel on The Accused and Immediate Family; released on video as Death Ride to Osaka

HAPPY - Billy Goldenberg
Dom DeLuise as a former kid's show host targeted for murder by an armed robber; co-starring Dee Wallace, Henry Silva, Jack Gilford

THE HAUNTING PASSION - Paul Chihara
Jane Seymour has a ghost for a lover; co-starring Gerald McRaney and Millie Perkins, directed by John Korty

HEART OF STEEL - Brad Fiedel
Peter Strauss as a steel worker, co-starring Pamela Reed, John Goodman and Gary Cole

HIGH SCHOOL U.S.A. - Miles Goodman
High school comedy starring Michael J. Fox, with Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges, Angela Cartwright, Bob Denver, Anthony Edwards, and Crispin Glover

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES - Michael J. Lewis
Score CD released as a composer promo; Ian Richardson and Donald Churchill as Holmes & Watson; co-starring Denholm Elliott, Brian Blessed, Eleanor Bron, Edward Judd, Ronald Lacey (as Lestrade), Martin Shaw, Connie Booth and Nicholas Clay; adapted by Charles Edward Pogue, directed by Douglas Hickox

I WANT TO LIVE - Lee Holdridge
Remake of the Robert Wise film, with Lindsay Wagner as death row inmate Barbara Graham, co-starring Martin Balsam, Pamela Reed and Harry Dean Stanton

JACOBO TIMERMAN: PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER - Brad Fiedel
Docudrama about an Argentine activist's years in prison; with Roy Scheider and Liv Ullman

JANE DOE - Paul Chihara
Thriller with William Devane and Eva Marie Saint

A KILLER IN THE FAMILY - Gerald Fried
Convicted killer Robert Mitchum convinces his sons (James Spader, Lance Kerwin, Eric Stoltz) to break him out of jail, and more mayhem ensues; co-written by Sue Grafton

LE DERNIER CIVIL - Philippe Sarde

LITTLE HOUSE: LOOK BACK TO YESTERDAY - David Rose
Follow-up movie to Little House on the Prairie

M.A.D.D.: MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS - Bruce Broughton
Mariette Hartley as Candy Lightner, founder of M.A.D.D.; photographed by Dean Cundey

MACBETH - Carl Davis
Nicol Wiliamson as the Thane of Cawdor

MANIMAL - Paul Chihara
Pilot movie with Simon MacCorkindale as the man who can morph into animals

MISS LONELYHEARTS - Leonard Rosenman
Michael Dinner directed this black-and-white PBS remake of the Nathaniel West classic, with Eric Roberts and Arthur Hill

MURDER IN COWETA COUNTY - Brad Fiedel
Sheriff Johnny Cash goes after murderous millionaire Andy Griffith

NELLY'S VERSION - Michael Nyman
2:17 on the Virgin CD The Very Best of Michael Nyman; British drama with Eileen Atkins

A PATTERN OF ROSES - Stanley Myers
British drama co-starring Helena Bonham Carter

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - John Cacavas, Ralph Burns
Maximillian Schell as the Phantom, Jane Seymour as his beloved, co-starring Michael York

POLICEWOMAN CENTERFOLD - Fred Karlin
Melody Anderson plays the titular cop

PRINCESS DAISY - Lalo Schifrin
From the Judith Krantz bestseller, co-starring Barbara Bach, Claudia Cardinale, Rupert Everett, Paul Michael Glaser, Stacy Keach, Ringo Starr, Robert Urich and Lindsay Wagner

PROTOTYPE - Billy Goldenberg
Rare sci-fi entry from the great writing team of Levinson & Link, with Christopher Plummer as a scientist and David Morse as his android creation

RAGE OF ANGELS - Billy Goldenberg
1982/1983 Emmy winner Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); Sidney Sheldon adaptation with Jaclyn Smith and Armand Assante

THE RETURN OF THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. - Gerald Fried
Disappointing follow-up to the 60s series, with Vaughn and McCallum joined by Patrick Macnee, Anthony Zerbe, Keenan Wynn, and George Lazenby as "J.B."

RIGHT OF WAY - Brad Fiedel
James Stewart and Bette Davis as a couple seeking euthenasia

RITA HAYWORTH: THE LOVE GODDESS - Lalo Schifrin
Lynda Carter as Hayworth, Michael Lerner as Harry Cohn; directed by James Goldstone

RUNNING OUT - Lee Holdridge
Deborah Raffin returns to the family she abandoned

SADAT - Charles Bernstein
Score CD released as a composer promo; Louis Gossett Jr. as the assassinated leader, with Barry morse as Begin and Nehemiah Persoff as Brezhnev

SAIGON: YEAR OF THE CAT - George Fenton
Judi Dench and Frederic Forrest fall in love as Saigon is falling; co-starring E.G. Marshall, Josef Sommer, Roger Rees and Wallace Shawn; directed by Stephen Frears from David Hare's script

THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK - Ennio Morricone
Score LP on Cerberus; Gregory Peck as a Vatican Monsignor helping the allies during World War II; with Christopher Plummer, Raf Vallone, and John Gielgud as the Pope

SESSIONS - Charles Gross
Veronica Hamel as a high-class prostitute

SHOOTING STARS - Dominic Frontiere
Parker Stevenson and Billy Dee Williams as two out of work actors who try to become real detectives

STARFLIGHT: THE PLANE THAT COULDN'T LAND - Lalo Schifrin
An upper atmosphere passenger jet accidentally ends up in outer space; directed by Jerry Jameson, with Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton and Ray Milland

STILL THE BEAVER - John Cacavas
Catching up with the Leave It To Beaver characters twenty years later

SUMMER GIRL - Angela Morley
Precursor to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle with Diane Franklin as a babysitter with evil intentions

SVENGALI - John Barry
Modernized version of the classic story, set in the rock world, with Peter O'Toole as the teacher and Jodie Foster as the pupil; directed by Anthony Harvey

THE TERRY FOX STORY - Bill Conti
Docudrama of one-legged man who runs across Canada to raise money for cancer research; co-starring Robert Duvall and Chris Makepeace

THIS GIRL FOR HIRE - Bruce Broughton
Bess Armstrong as a private eye in possession of a murdered writer's sought-after manuscript; co-starring Celeste Holm, Hermione Baddeley, Howard Duff, Jose ferrer, Beverly Garland, Roddy McDowall, and Elisha Cook Jr.

THE THORN BIRDS - Henry Mancini
10:51 on the Denon CD Premier Pops; 1982/1983 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 1; popular miniseries from the Colleen McCullough novel about the romantic entanglements of a priest in Australia; with Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Piper Laurie, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, and Barbara Stanwyck

THROUGH NAKED EYES - Gil Melle
Voyeurism thriller with David Soul and Pam Dawber

THURSDAY'S CHILD - Lee Holdridge
Gena Rowlands and Don Murray as the parents of a teenager (Rob Lowe) with a heart defect

AN UNCOMMON LOVE - Miles Goodman
Romance featuring barry Bostwick, Kathryn Harrold and Holly Hunter

THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS - Carl Davis
Romantic drama with Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn and Joanna Lumley

WHITE WATER REBELS - Ken Thorne

WHO WILL LOVE MY CHILDREN? - Laurence Rosenthal
1982/1983 Emmy nominee Music Composition - Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore); dying farm wife Ann-Margret tries to find homes for her children

WILL THERE REALLY BE A MORNING? - Billy Goldenberg
Frances Farmer biopic competing with Frances, with Susan Blakely as Farmer, Lee Grant as her mother, and John Heard as Clifford Odets

WOMEN OF SAN QUENTIN - John Cacavas
More women in prison, co-written by Larry Cohen

1982/1983 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION - SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Dallas (The Ewing Blues)
William Goldstein - Fame (Not in Kansas Anymore)
Jerrold Immel - Knots Landing (Loss of Innocence)
David Rose - Father Murphy (Sweet Sixteen)
Nan Schwartz - The Devlin Connection (Ring of King, Ring of Thieves)

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

Bruce Broughton - The Blue and the Gray, Part 2
Billy Goldenberg - Rage of Angels
Joe Harnell - V
Henry Mancini - The Thorn Birds, Part 1
Peter Matz - Drop-Out Father
Laurence Rosenthal - Who Will Love My Children?

Among the nominees for Music and Lyrics were Bruce Broughton (for "Quincy's Wedding Song" for the Quincy, M.E. episode "Quincy's Wedding, Part 2") and Billy Goldenberg (for the song "Finding You" from Bare Essence). Neither composer won.

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