SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART TEN

By Scott Bettencourt

THE ALAMUT AMBUSH - Christopher Gunning

AMERICAN GEISHA - Miles Goodman
Pam Dawber IS the American geisha

ANASTASIA: THE MYSTERY OF ANNA - Laurence Rosenthal
Score CD on Southern Cross; 1986/1987 Emmy winner Music Composition For a Miniseries or Special, Part 1; Amy Irving as "Anastasia," Olivia de Havilland as the Empress, with Susan Lucci, Elke Sommer, Edward Fox, Claire Bloom, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison and Christian Bale; teleplay by James Goldman

ANNIHILATOR - Sylvester Levay
A journalist is menaced by killer humanoid robots

APOLOGY - Maurice Jarre
Score LP on Varese Sarabande; HBO movie written by Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God), with Lesley Ann Warren as an artist menaced by a serial killer, and Peter Weller as the cop who investigates; co-staring John Glover, Harvey Fierstein, Charles Dutton and Chris Noth

AS SUMMERS DIE - Michel Legrand
HBO Southern drama based on a novel by Winston Groom (Forrest Gump), with Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, John Randolph and Beah Richards

BARNUM - Charles Gross
Burt Lancaster as the great showman, Hanna Schygulla as Jenny Lind

BETRAYED BY INNOCENCE - Charles Fox
Married Barry Bostwick is accused of statutory rape; co-staring Isaac Hayes and Paul Sorvino; directed by Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou, The Car)

BETWEEN TWO WOMEN - Charles Gross
Jon Avnet directed and co-wrote this drama with Farrah Fawcett, Colleen Dewhurst and Steven Hill

BEVERLY HILLS MADAM - Lalo Schifrin
Faye Dunaway is the madam; costarring Melody Anderson, Donna Dixon, Terry Farrell, Robin Givens, and Louis Jourdan

BLIND JUSTICE - Miles Goodman
Tim Matheson is falsely accused of rape

BLOOD & ORCHIDS - Charles Fox, Mark Snow
Fact based drama about a rape case in WWII era Hawaii; with Kris Kristofferson, Jane Alexander, Sean Young, Jose Ferrer, Susan Blakely, Ricahrd A. Dysart and Madeleine Stowe

BROTHERHOOD OF JUSTICE - Brad Fiedel
Drama about high school vigilantes, with Keanu Reeves, Keifer Sutherland, Lori Loughlin, Billy Zane and Danny Nucci

C.A.T. SQUAD - Ennio Morricone
To Live and Die in L.A.'s writer (Gerald Petievich) and director (William Friedkin) reteam for this story of an anti-terrorist group

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST - Howard Blake
Remake of the Oscar Wilde classic with John Gielgud as the ghost, costarring Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci and Alyssa Milano; co-written by Sue Grafton

A CASE OF DEADLY FORCE - Paul Chihara
True crime drama about a police coverup, with Richard Crenna and John Shea

CHOICES - Charles Gross
Judge George C. Scott discovers that his teen daughter (Melissa Gilbert) and new wife (Jacqueline Bisset) are both pregnant; picture Father of the Bride Part II as an abortion drama

CHRISTMAS EVE - Johnny Mandel
Wealthy, terminally ill Loretta Young tries to reunite her grandchildren with their estranged father for Christmas; with Arthur Hill, Ron Leibman, Trevor Howard and Kate Reid

THE CHRISTMAS STAR - Ralph Burns
An escaped convict is mistaken for Santa Claus; with Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois and Fred Gwynne

CIRCLE OF VIOLENCE: A FAMILY DRAMA - Gil Melle
Tuesday Weld is a woman who physically abuses her mother, Geraldine Fitzgerald; River Phoenix is the son

CLAIRE - Vladimir Cosma

COMBAT HIGH - Robert Folk
Military school comedy with Keith Gordon, Wallace Langham, Dana Hill, Danny Nucci, Robert Culp, Jamie Farr, Sherman Helmsley, Bernie Kopell, and George Clooney

COURAGE - Craig Safan
New York mom Sophia Loren (!) becomes an undercover DEA agent to clean up her neighborhood; with Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo, Ron Rifkin, Corey Parker, and Mary McDonnell

CROSSINGS - Michel Legrand
WWII miniseries from a Danielle Steel novel, with Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Stewart Granger, Joanna Pacula, Horst Bucholz, Kelsey Grammer, and Joan Fontaine

DEAD MAN'S FOLLY - John Addison
Peter Ustinov returns as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, with Constance Cummings and Jean Stapleton (who by this point may have regretted not doing Murder, She Wrote)

A DEADLY BUSINESS - Paul Chihara
Thief Alan Arkin becomes a government witness against the mob-run garbage business; with Armand Assante, Jon Polito and Michael Learned; directed by John Korty

DEADLY RECRUITS - Christopher Gunning
Spy thriller with Terence Stamp

THE DELIBERATE STRANGER - Gil Melle
Mark Harmon as serial killer Ted Bundy, with Fredric Forrest, George Grizzard, Glynnis O'Connor, M. Emmet Walsh, and Terry Farrell

DOING LIFE - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Crime drama with Tony Danza

DREAM WEST - Fred Karlin
Western miniseries from the David Nevin novel, adapted by Evan Hunter, with Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Ben Johnson, Jerry Orbach, Fritz Weaver, Anthony Zerbe, Rip Torn as Kit Carson, and F. Murray Abraham as Abraham Lincoln

DREAMS OF GOLD: THE MEL FISHER STORY - Ernest Gold
Cliff Robertson hunts for sunken treasure

DRESS GRAY - Billy Goldenberg
Gore Vidal adapts Lucian Truscott IV's bestselling novel about a murder at West Point, with Alec Baldwin, Eddie Albert, Lloyd Bridges, Hal Holbrook, Cecilia Peck, and Alexis Smith; at one point, Herbert Ross planned to make Vidal's script as a feature with sets by Ken Adam

ECHOES IN THE DARKNESS - David Shire
Joseph Wambaugh adapts his own engrossing true crime book, with Peter Coyote, Stockard Channing, Robert Loggia, Peter Boyle, Gary Cole, and Treat Williams

EDGE OF DARKNESS - Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton
Score CD on BBC Records; British thriller written by Troy Kennedy-Martin (The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes) and directed by Martin Campbell (GoldenEye), with Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker and Joanne Whalley; Kamen and Clapton's music earned them the job of scoring Lethal Weapon, which helped establish Kamen as an A-list Hollywood composer

ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR - Georges Delerue
Fact-based concentration camp drama, with Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, and Rutger Hauer

THE FIFTH MISSILE - Pino Donaggio
Larry Peerce directs this adaptation of Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia's suspenseful nuclear submarine novel The Gold Crew, with Robert Conrad, David Soul, Sam Waterston, Richard Roundtre, Jonathan Banks and Yvette Mimieux

A FIGHTING CHOICE - Brad Fiedel
Teen Patrick Dempsey wants brain surgery to cure his epilepsy; Beau Bridges and Karen Valentine play his parents

FLORIDA STRAITS - Michel Colombier
HBO adventure set in Cuba and directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Croupier), with Raul Julia and Fred Ward

FRESNO - John Morris
Miniseries parody of nighttime soaps, with Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Harrison, Teri Garr, Charles Grodin, and Bill Paxton

THE GEORGE MCKENNA STORY - Herbie Hancock
Denzel Washington as an L.A. high school principal; released on video as Hard Lessons

GEORGE WASHINGTON II: THE FORGING OF A NATION - Bruce Broughton
Sequel to the 1984 miniseries (scored by Laurence Rosenthal) with Barry Bostwick as Washington, Patty Duke as Martha, and Jeffrey Jones as Thomas Jefferson

HAREM - John Scott
Romantic adventure with Nancy Travis, Omar Sharif, Art Malik, Sarah Miles, Yaphet Kotto, Julian Sands, and Ava Gardner

HELP WANTED: KIDS - Craig Safan
Family comedy with Cindy Williams, Bill Hudson, and Chad Allen

HOTEL DU LAC - Carl Davis
Christopher Hampton adaptation of the Anita Brookner novel, with Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Jean-Marc Barr and Googie Withers

I-MAN - Craig Safan
Scott Bakula is exposed to alien gas and develops special powers

INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS - Sylvester Levay
Married Donna Mills starts sleeping around compulsively; costarring James Brolin, Veronica Cartwright and Cicely Tyson

INTIMATE STRANGERS - Barry De Vorzon
Vietnam War nurse/POW Teri Garr returns to the U.S. and adjusts to her new life; with Stacy Keach and Cathy Lee Crosby

JOHNNY MAE GIBSON: FBI - Billy Goldenberg
Lynn Whitfield as a real-life FBI agent, with Howard E. Rollins, directed by Bill Duke

KATE'S SECRET - J. Peter Robinson
Lawyer's wife Meredith Baxter copes with bulimia

KILLER IN THE MIRROR - Gil Melle
Ann Jillian as twins, one good and one evil; co-starring Len Cariou, Allen Garfield, Jessica Walter and Chris Noth, directed by Frank De Felitta

KUNG FU: THE MOVIE - Lalo Schifrin
Followup to the classic 70s series, with David Carradine returning as Caine, plus Mako, Keye Luke, Martin Landau, and Brandon Lee as Caine's son (fittingly enough, since the series was originally developed for Bruce Lee)

THE LAST DAYS OF FRANK AND JESSE JAMES - Paul Chihara
Johnny Cash as Frank, Kris Kristofferson as Jesse, with June Carter Cash and Willie Nelson; I'm guessing that at some point, somebody sings

THE LAST FRONTIER - Brian May
Drama set in Australia with Linda Evans, Jason Robards, Jack Thompson, and Meredith Salinger; directed by Simon Wincer

LE TIROIR SECRET - Vladimir Cosma
French miniseries with Marie-France Pisier, Michael Lonsdale, Jeanne Moreau and Rossano Brazzi

L'ETE 36 - Vladimir Cosma

A LITTLE PRINCESS - Rachel Portman
British remake of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic (remade again as an acclaimed feature in 1995 with a Patrick Doyle score), with Nigel Havers and Miriam Margolyes

LONG TIME GONE - Artie Kane
Drama with Paul Le Mat and Wil Wheaton, written by Glenn Gordon Caron

MAFIA PRINCESS - Lee Holdridge
Crime drama with Susan Lucci and Tony Curtis

MILES TO GO - Kenneth Wannberg
Drama with Jill Clayburgh and Tom Skeritt

MIRACLE OF THE HEART: A BOYS TOWN STORY - Lee Holdridge
Drama with Art Carney, Kristy Swanson and Casey Siemaszko

MR. BOOGEDY - John Addison
Disney haunted house comedy with Richard Masur, Mimi Kennedy, David Faustino, Kristi Swanson and John Astin

MONTE CARLO - Stanley Myers
Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Robert Carradine and Malcolm McDowell; teleplay by Peter Lefcourt

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE - Charles Gross
Jeannot Szwarc directs this remake of the Poe classic with an unusually stellar cast -- George C. Scott (as Auguste Dupin), Rebecca De Mornay and Val Kilmer

MURROW - Carl Davis
Daniel J. Travanti as Edward R. Murrow, David Suchet as William Shirer, Dabney Coleman as William Paley, and Robert Vaughn as FDR

NORTH AND SOUTH II - Bill Conti
Civil War sequel miniseries, with Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Mary Crosby, Lesley Anne-Down, Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francis, Parker Stevenson, Patrick Swayze, Lloyd Bridges, Olivia de Havilland, Linda Evans, Morgan Fairchild, Nancy Marchand, Wayne Newton, Jean Simmons, James Stewart, Anthony Zerbe, Forest Whitaker, and Hal Holbrook as Lincoln

OCEANS OF FIRE - Patrick Williams
Aquatic adventure with Gregory Harrison, Billy Dee Williams and David Carradine

OF PURE BLOOD - Brad Fiedel
Lee Remick discovers she's the result of Nazi selective breeding experiments; co-starring Patrick McGoohan, directed by Joseph Sargent

ON WINGS OF EAGLES - Laurence Rosenthal
Miniseries from Ken Follett's nonfiction book about the attempt to free American execs from Iran; with Burt Lancaster, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Crenna as Ross Perot

PARENT TRAP II - Charles Fox
Sequel to the Disney classic, with Hayley Mills recreating her original role(s) and costarring Tom Skerritt

THE PARK IS MINE - Tangerine Dream
Score CD on Silva; Vietnam vet Tommy Lee Jones forcibly takes over Central Park; with Helen Shaver and Yaphet Kotto

PASSION FLOWER - Miles Goodman
Western businessmen in Singapore; with Bruce Boxleitner, Barbara Hershey and Nicol Wiliamson, directed by Joseph Sargent

PENALTY PHASE - Ralph Burns
Courtroom mystery with Peter Strauss, directed by Tony Richardson

PETER THE GREAT - Laurence Rosenthal
Score CD on Southern Cross; 1985/1986 Emmy winner Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special, Part I; historical miniseries with Maximillian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard, Helmut Griem, Elke Sommer, Renee Soutendijk, Ursula Andress, Mel Ferrer, Hanna Schygulla, and Laurence Olivier; photographed by Vittorio Storaro

PLEASURES - Lee Holdridge
Romantic drama with Joanna Cassidy, Linda Purl and Tracy Nelson, co-starring David Paymer and Barry Bostwick

A POCKET FOR CORDUROY - Harry Manfredini
Sequel to 1984's Corduroy, about the adventures of a stuffed bear

POPEYE DOYLE - Brad Fiedel
TV spinoff of The French Connection with Ed O'Neill in the Gene Hackman role, co-starring Candy Clark and George De La Pena

PRINCE OF BEL AIR - Robert Folk
Not Will Smith, just Mark Harmon as an L.A. pool cleaner; co-starring Kirstie Alley and Robert Vaughn

PROMISE - David Shire
Acclaimed drama with James Garner as a man taking care of his schizophrenic brother (James Woods)

RACE FOR THE BOMB - Claude Bolling
Miniseries about the development of the atom bomb, with Maury Chaykin as Gen. Groves

RESTING PLACE - Paul Chihara
Drama about the death of an African-American war hero, with John Lithgow, Richard Brooks, Frances Sternhagen, M. Emmet Walsh, and Morgan Freeman

THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE - Billy Goldenberg
A small town allows it citizens greater freedom to carry guns, and chaos results; with Michael Ontkean, Jane Kaczmarek, Billy Dee Williams, John Randoph and M. Emmet Walsh

ROCKABYE - Charles Bernstein
Valerie Bertinelli's child is kidnapped by a black market baby ring; with Rachel Ticotin and Jason Alexander

ROANOAK - Paul Chihara
PBS historical drama with Victor Garber, Paul Guilfoyle and Will Samspon

SAMARITAN: THE MITCH SNYDER STORY - Craig Safan
Martin Sheen as the advocate for the homeless, with Roxanne Hart and Cicely Tyson

SECOND SERVE - Brad Fiedel
Vanessa Redgrave as transsexual tennis player Renee Richards; with Martin Balsam, Louise Fletcher and Alice Krige

SHOOT FOR THE SUN - Michael Kamen

SIN OF INNOCENCE - Georges Delerue
Step-siblings Dermot Mulroney and Megan Follows fall in love; with Bill Bixby and Dee Wallace-Stone as the parents

SINS - Francis Lai
Miniseries with Joan Collins as a WWII survivor, co-starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, Capucine, Timothy Dalton, James Farentino, Paul Freeman, Giancarlo Giannini, Lauren Hutton and Gene Kelly; directed by Douglas Hickox

SLOW BURN - Loek Dikker
Romantic noir from an Arthur Lyons novel, with Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo, and Johnny Depp

SPOT MARKS THE X - Patrick Williams
Kids adventure with Barret Oliver

STRANGER IN MY BED - Laurence Rosenthal
Married mom Lindsay Wagner can't remember her family once she comes out of a coma, and tries to make a new life for herself

STRONG MEDICINE - Stanley Myers
Medical drama from an Arthur Hailey novel, with Pamela Sue Martin, Patrick Duffy, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Cross, Sam Neill, Annette O'Toole, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

SWORD OF GIDEON - Georges Delerue
Thriller about Mossad agents tracking down the 1972 Olympics terrorists, with Steven Bauer, Michael York, Colleen Dewhurst, Leslie Hope and Rod Steiger; directed by Michael Anderson

THE THANKSGIVING PROMISE - Bruce Broughton
Holiday story about a boy and a goose, starring and directed by Beau Bridges, and co-starring Millie Perkins, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Jason Bateman and Lloyd Bridges

THERE MUST BE A PONY - Billy Goldenberg
Joseph Sargent directs Mart Crowley's adaptation of James Kirkwood Jr.'s autobiographical novel, with Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, James Coco, Ken Olin and Chad Lowe

THOMPSON'S LAST RUN - Miles Goodman
Robert Mitchum is a convict who escapes during a prison transfer, Wilford Brimley is his pursuer

A TIME TO TRIUMPH - John Cacavas
Patty Duke joins the Army to help support ailing husband Joseph Bologna

UNDER SIEGE - Brad Fiedel
Terrorists attack Washington D.C.; with Peter Staruss, Mason Adams, Lew Ayres, George Grizzard, E.G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight, Fritz Weaver, Paul Winfield, and Hal Holbrook as the President; co-written by celebrity journalist Bob Woodward

UNNATURAL CAUSES - Charles Fox
Lamont Johnson directs John Sayles' teleplay with John Ritter as a Vietnam vet suffering from exposure to Agent Orange; co-starring Alfre Woodard and Patti LaBelle

VANISHING ACT - Kenneth Wannberg
Levinson & Link penned this remake of 1976's One of My Wives Is Missing (scored by Billy Goldenberg), with Mike Farrell, Margot Kidder, Fred Gwynne and Elliot Gould

VENGEANCE: THE STORY OF TONY CIMO - Charles Gross
Brad Davis as a man trying to bring his parents' killer to justice; with Roxanne Hart, Brad Dourif, Michael Beach, and Frances McDormand

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS - Paul Chihara
Ted Danson as mystery solving child psychologist Alex Delaware in this adaptation of the first of Jonathan Kellerman's best selling series of novels; with Rachel Ticotin, Merritt Butrick, David Huddleston, and Richard Masur as Milo; directed by Waris Hussein

WOMEN OF VALOR - Georges Delerue
Susan Sarandon and Kristy McNichol play U.S. Army nurses imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II

1985/1986 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Alf Clausen - Moonlighting (The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice)
Jan Hammer - Miami Vice (Bushido)
Angela Morley - Dynasty (The Subpoenas)
Arthur B. Rubinstein - Scarecrow and Mrs. King (We're Off to See the Wizard)

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

Bill Conti - North and South, Book I, Part 1
John Kander - An Early Frost
Johnny Mandel - A Letter to Three Wives
Alex North - Death of a Salesman
Laurence Rosenthal - Peter the Great, Part 1

PAGE COOK'S YEAR IN TV MUSIC:

BEST:
Promise (David Shire)

RUNNERS UP:
Fresno (John Morris)
Liberty (William Goldstein)

WORST:
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (Laurence Rosenthal)

THE ABDUCTION OF KARI SWENSON - Sylvester Levay
Tracy Pollan as the real life Olympic athlete abducted by mountain men; directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal (father of Jake and Maggie)

AFTER THE PROMISE - Ralph Burns
Depression era widower Mark Harmon tries to retrieve his sons from foster care

ALMOST PARTNERS - Paul Chihara

AMERICAN HARVEST - Christopher Young
19:51 of score on the Intrada 2-CD set Cinema Septet; Farm drama with Wayne Rogers, Casey Siemaszko and Earl Holliman

AMERIKA - Basil Poledouris
Score CD announced by Prometheus; Controversial speculative miniseries about American life under Soviet rule; with Kris Kristofferson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ivan Dixon, Dorian Harewood, Mariel Hemingway, Wendy Hughes, Lara Flynn Boyle, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sam Neill, Cindy Pickett, and Robert Urich

ASSAULT AND MATRIMONY - Johnny Mandel
War of the Roses-style comedy with Jill Eikenberry, Michaeel Tucker and John Hillerman

AT MOTHER'S REQUEST - Charles Gross
True crime drama with Stefanie Powers as a woman who convinces her sons (Corey Parker, Doug McKeon) to murder her parents; co-starring E.G. Marshall, Chris Noth, Terry O'Quinn and Frances Sternhagen; another book on the same case was also filmed that year, as Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (see below)

BABY GIRL SCOTT - Paul Chihara
A couple has a premature baby; with John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt and Ronny Cox

BATES MOTEL - J. Peter Robinson
Supernatural pilot with Bud Cort inheriting the motel from fellow mental patient Norman Bates; with Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Jason Bateman and Robert Picardo

THE BETTY FORD STORY - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Gena Rowlands and Josef Sommer as the Fords

BIGFOOT - Bruce Rowland
Family adventure with Dianne Wiest and Colleen Dewhurst, directed by Danny Huston

BLUFFING IT - Brad Fiedel
Dennis Weaver tires to keep his illiteracy a secret; with Robert Sean Leonard as his son

BRIDE OF BOOGEDY - John Addison
Sequel to 1986's Mr. Boogedy

BROKEN VOWS - Charles Gross
Tommy Lee Jones as a ghetto priest, with Annette O'Toole, Frances Fisher, Milo O'Shea, David Strathairn and M. Emmet Walsh

CASANOVA - Michel Legrand
Richard Chamberlain as the famous ladies man, with Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Sophie Ward, Frank Finlay, Roy Kinnear and Jean-Pierre Cassel; teleplay by George MacDonald Fraser (The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers)

CHRISTMAS COMES TO WILLOW CREEK - Charles Fox
Holiday drama set in Alaska, with John Schneider, Tom Wopat (no, not recreating their Dukes of Hazzard roles) and Kim Delaney

COMEBACK - Hans Zimmer
English hospital drama

CONVICTED: A MOTHER'S STORY - David Shire
Mom Ann Jillian embezzles for her boyfriend, goes to prison

DEADLY CARE - Tangerine Dream
Score CD on Silva; Nurse Cheryl Ladd battles her own substance abuse; directed by David Anspaugh (Rudy, Hoosiers)

THE DECALOGUE - Zbigniew Preisner
Score CD on Milan; Kryzysztof Kieslowski's ten part miniseries set in a Polish housing project, with each segment illustrating one of the Ten Commandments; the most critically acclaimed television program of all time

DEEP DARK SECRETS - Charles Fox
Drama with James Brolin and Melody Anderson

DENNIS THE MENACE - Randy Edelman
Victor DiMattia as Dennis, William Windom as Mr. Wilson

DESPERADO - Michel Colombier
Western pilot written by Elmore Leonard and directed by Virgil Vogel, with Alex McArthur, David Warner, Yaphet Kotto, Robert Vaughn, Pernell Roberts and Gladys Knight

DESPERATE - Lee Holdridge
Thriller with John Savage and Meg Foster

DOTTIE - Paul Chihara

DOUBLE SWITCH - Michel Colombier
Modern Prince and the Pauper with George Newbern as a young pop star who switches places with his double; co-starring Elisabeth Shue, directed by David Greenwalt

DOWNPAYMENT ON MURDER - Laurence Rosenthal
Suspense thriller with Ben Gazzara, Connie Sellecca, Miguel Ferrer, Jonathan Banks and David Morse

EAST OF IPSWICH - George Fenton
BBC comedy written by Michael Palin

THE FACTS OF LIFE DOWN UNDER - Fred Karlin
Despite the suggestive sex-ed class title, it's just a sitcom spinoff with the cast going to Australia

THE FIG TREE - John Morris
PBS adaptation of a Katherine Anne Porter story

FIGHT FOR LIFE - Laurence Rosenthal
Jerry Lewis and Patty Duke as the parents of an epileptic, co-starring Morgan Freeman (the Jerry Lewis-Morgan Freeman pairing we've all been waiting for); directed by Elliot Silverstein

FOXFIRE - Johnny Mandel
1987/1988 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Miniseries or Special; From Susan Cooper's play, starring Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and John Denver

GHOST OF A CHANCE - Charles Bernstein
Ghost comedy with Redd Foxx and Dick Van Dyke

GUILTY OF INNOCENCE: THE LENELL GETER STORY - Ira Newborn
Dorian Harewood as an engineer wrongly convicted of armed robbery

THE HAPPY VALLEY - Geoffrey Burgon
BBC drama set in Kenya, with Denholm Elliott and Roshan Seth

HARRY'S HONG KONG - Dominic Frontiere
David Soul is Harry; co-starring Mel Harris and David Hemmings

HARRY'S KINGDOM - Stanley Myers

HAUNTED BY HER PAST - Paul Chihara
Ghost story with Susan Lucci

A HAZARD OF HEARTS - Laurie Johnson
2:42 on the Fly/Unicorn CD The Rose and the Gun: The Music of Laurie Johnson; John Hough directs this Barbara Cartland adaptation, with Diana Rigg, Edward Fox, Helena Bonham Carter, Fiona Fulelrton, Christopher Plummer, Stewart Granger, Anna Massey, and Eileen Atkins

HER SECRET LIFE - Georges Delerue
Kate Capshaw as a spy, co-starring Jeroen Krabbe, directed by Buzz Kulik

IF IT'S TUESDAY, IT STILL MUST BE BELGIUM - Henry Mancini, Ken Thorne
Followup to the 60s tourist comedy, with Courtney Cox, Peter Graves, Tracy Nelson and Doris Roberts

I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN - Lee Holdridge
Judith Krantz miniseries with Valerie Bertinelli as a magazine heiress, co-starring Barry Bostwick, Francesca Annnia, Timothy Daly, Julianne Moore, Perry King, Ken Olin, Fritz Weaver, and Donald Trump as Donald Trump

IN LOVE AND WAR - Charles Gross
James Woods as Vietnam War POW James Stockdale (who later ran for Vice President with Ross Perot), and Jane Alexander as his wife

INTO THE HOMELAND - David Mansfield
HBO drama about white supremacists, with Powers Boothe, Paul Le Mat and C. Thomas Howell

ISLAND SONS - Basil Poledouris
Hawaii-set drama starring the Bottoms brothers

THE KING OF LOVE - Paul Chihara

KOJAK: THE PRICE OF JUSTICE - Patrick Williams
The second of the Telly Savalas Kojak movies, with Kate Nelligan, Pat Hingle, Jeffrey DeMunn, Stanley Tucci and Jack Thompson

LAGUNA HEAT - Patrick Williams
HBO mystery from the T. Jefferson Parker novel, with Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards, Rip Torn, Anne Francis and Catherine Hicks

THE LAST FLING - Charles Bernstein
Comedy with John Ritter, Connie Sellecca, Scot Backula and Shannon Tweed

THE LAST INNOCENT MAN - Brad Fiedel
Roger Spottiswoode directs this HBO legal mystery with Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet and Clarence Williams III

LBJ: THE EARLY YEARS - Johnny Mandel
1986/1987 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Miniseries or Special, Part 1; Randy Quaid as LBJ, Patti LuPone as Lady Bird, with Pat Hingle and Kevin McCarthy as Joseph Kennedy

LE FILS CARDINAUD - Jean-Claude Petit

L'ILE - Jean-Claude Petit
Score CD on Milan

THE LION OF AFRICA - George S. Clinton
HBO adventure with Brian Dennehy and Brooke Adams

LITTLE MISS PERFECT - Charles Bernstein
1986-1987 Daytime Emmy winner Oustanding Music Direction and Composition; Marsha Mason directs this story of a college girl with bulimia

LOVE AMONG THIEVES - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Romantic caper with Audrey Hepburn (!), Robert Wagner, Jerry Orbach and Samantha Eggar

THE MAN WHO BROKE 1,000 CHAINS - Charles Bernstein
Val Kilmer in a biopic of Robert Burns, author of I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang; with Sonia Braga, Clancy Brown, Charles Durning, Kyra Sedgwick and Billy Bob Thornton

MAYFLOWER MADAM - David Shire
Candice Bergen as Sydney Biddle Barrows, costarring Chris Sarandon and Chita Rivera

MIRACLE DOWN UNDER - Bruce Rowland
PBS Christmas movie set in Australia, directed by Snowy River's George Miller

MISTRESS - Michael Convertino
Victoria Principal as a woman trying to cope after her married lover dies

MOUNTBATTEN: THE LAST VICEROY - John Scott
Score LP on Varese Sarabande; Nicol Williamson as Lord Mountbatten, co-starring Nigel Davenport, Wendy Hiller, Ian Richardson and Janet Suzman
 
MURDER BY THE BOOK - Henry Mancini, Billy Goldenberg, Mark Snow
Mystery writer Robert Hays finds himself involved in real life intrigue; with Catherine Mary Stewart, Fred Gwynne and Celeste Holm

NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: A LOVE STORY - Gerald Fried
1987/1988 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Miniseries or Special; Armand Assante and Jacqueline Bisset as the famous couple, with Stephanie Beacham, Leigh Taylor-Young, Ione Skye and Anthony Perkins as Talleyrand; theme by Bill Conti

NESSUNO TORNA IN DIETRO - Luis Bacalov

NIGHTSTICK - Robert O. Ragland

1914 ALL OUT - Rachel Portman

NUTCRACKER: MONEY, MADNESS & MURDER - Billy Goldenberg
1986/1987 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Miniseries or Special, Part 1; At Mother's Request (see above) again, with Lee Remick as the mom, Tate Donovan and Frank Military as the sons, and co-starring John Glover, G.D. Spradlin, Elizabeth Wilson, Tony Musante and Jonathan Frakes

OUT ON A LIMB - Lalo Schifrin
Shirley MacLaine plays herself in an adaptation of her New Age memoir; with Charles Dance, John Heard and Jerry Orbach, co-written by Colin Higgins

PACK OF LIES - Stanley Myers
Spy drama from the Hugh Whitemore play, with Alan Bates, Ellen Burstyn and Teri Garr

THE PETROV AFFAIR - Paul Grabowsky

A PLACE TO CALL HOME - Fred Karlin
A Texas family moves to the Australian outback; with Lane Smith, Linda Lavin, Lori Loughlin and E.T.'s Robert MacNaughton

POKER ALICE - Billy Goldenberg
Romantic Western with Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton and David Wayne

POLICE STORY: THE FREEWAY KILLINGS - John Cacavas
Followup to the 70s anthology cop series, with Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson, Tony Lo Bianco< James B. Sikking and Ben Gazzara

POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL: THE BARBARA HUTTON STORY - Richard Rodney Bennett
Farrah Fawcett as the famous heiress, with Burl Ives, Miriam Morgolyes, Anne Francis, Stephane Audran, Brenda Blethyn, Zoe Wanamaker, Bruce Davison, Nicholas Clay, Kevin McCarthy, James Read (as Cary Grant), Jonathan Brandis, and Fairuza Balk as the 12-year old Barbara

PORTERHOUSE BLUE - Christopher Gunning
British miniseries featuring Ian Richardson and Charles Gray

PRISON FOR CHILDREN - Basil Poledouris
John Ritter as the new superintendent of a reform school

PROUD MEN - Laurence Rosenthal
Family drama with Charlton Heston and Peter Strauss as father and son

QUEENIE - Georges Delerue
Larry Peerce directs this adaptation of Nicholas Korda's fictionalized version of the life of Merle Oberon; with Mia Sara, Joss Ackland, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Kirk Douglas, Joel Grey, Sarah Miles and Topol

QUI C'EST CE GARCON? - Philippe Sarde
Score CD on Milan

THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - Ken Thorne
The great detective (Michael Pennington) wakes up after a cryogenic freeze in the present day

THE RETURN OF THE SIX-MILLION-DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN - Marvin Hamlisch
Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reteam, co-staring Gary Lockwood and Martin Landau

RIGHT TO DIE - Brad Fiedel
Drama with Raquel Welch and Michael Gross

THE ROOM UPSTAIRS - Robert Folk
Drama with Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Linda Hunt, Joan Allen, Clancy Brown, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jerry O'Connell

ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Romantic drama with Lisa Hartman, Betty Buckley, Bruce Dern, Kate Mulgrew, and Robert Picardo

SCOOP - Stanley Myers
William Boyd adapts Evelyn Waugh's novel, with Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern, Herbert Lom, Donald Pleasence and Renee Soutendijk

THE SECRET GARDEN - John Cameron
Remake of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, with Barret Oliver, Michael Hordern, Billie Whitelaw, Derek Jacobi, Julian Glover and Colin Firth

STILLWATCH - Gil Melle
Adaptation of a Mary Higgins Clark mystery, with Lynda Carter, Angie Dickinson, Don Murray and Stuart Whitman

STRANGE INTERLUDE - Richard Rodney Bennett
Kenneth Branagh, David Dukes, Jose Ferrer, Rosemary Harris, Ken Howard and Glenda Jackson in the Eugene O'Neill play

SWEET AS YOU ARE - John DuPrez
William Nicholson wrote this BBC drama, with Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson

TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS - Dick Hyman
PBS adaptations of classic short stories about Hollywood

TALKING HEADS - George Fenton
A series of Alan Bennett monologues, performed by actors such as Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Bennett himself

TIMESTALKERS - Craig Safan
Time travel adventure with William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker and Klaus Kinski, co-written by Brian Clemens

THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES - Marvin Hamlisch
Adaptation of the Dominick Dunne novel, with Ann-Margaret, Elizabeth Ashley, Stephen Collins, Sian Phillips, Sam Wanamaker, and Claudette Colbert

UN BAMBINO DI NOME GESU - Piero Piccioni
Italian miniseries on the life of Christ, with Alessandro Gassman, Bekim Fehmiu and Pierre Clementi

WE ARE THE CHILDREN - Paul Chihara
Drama about an African famine, with Ted Danson, Judith Ivey and Ally Sheedy

WEREWOLF - Sylvester Levay
David Hemmings directs this pilot for the Fox series, with John J. York, Chuck Connors, Raphael Sbarge, Michelle Johnson and Ethan Phillips

WHEN THE TIME COMES - Marvin Hamlisch
Terminally ill Bonnie Bedelia seeks a mercy killing

A WREATH OF ROSES - Stanley Myers

WYGASLE CZASY - Wojciech Kilar

YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI - Lee Holdridge
Wil Wheaton as young Houdini, Jeffrey DeMunn as his grownup self

1986/1987 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Alf Clausen - Moonlighting (Atomic Shakespeare)
Dick DeBenedictis - Matlock (The Chef)
Angela Morley - Dallas (A Death in the Family)
Joel Rosenbaum - Knots Landing (Cement the Relationship)
Nan Schwartz - Jack and Mike (Come Together)
Patrick Williams - The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (Here's Why You Should Never Wear High Heels To the Bank)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Allyn Ferguson - The Last Days of Pompeii
Billy Goldenberg - Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder, Part 1
Johnny Mandel - LBJ: The Early Years, Part 1
Laurence Rosenthal - Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Part 1
Nan Schwartz - Under the Influence

1983/1984 Emmy winners:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Dallas (The Letter)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - The First Olympics - Athens 1896, Part 1

1984/1985 Emmy winners:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

John Addison - Murder She Wrote (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Allyn Ferguson - Camille

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