SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART NINE

By Scott Bettencourt

ADERYN PAPUR -- AND PIGS MIGHT FLY - Trevor Jones
Welsh comedy

ALL THE RIVERS RUN - Bruce Rowland
9:10 on the ABC CD The Film and Television Themes of Bruce Rowland; four-part Australian mini-series; parts 1 & 3 were directed by Snowy River's George Miller

AMAZONS - Basil Poledouris
Paul Michael Glaser directed this campy thriller with Jennifer Warren, Madeleine Stowe, Stella Stevens, and Cleopatra Jones herself, Tamara Dobson; photographed by Dean Cundey

ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS - Brad Fiedel
Medical docudrama with Ed Asner as Norman Cousins, co-starring Eli Wallach, Millie Perkins, and David Ogden Stiers as Cleveland Amory

BEST KEPT SECRETS - Gil Melle
Thriller with Patty Duke, Frederic Forrest and Peter Coyote, directed by Jerrold Freedman

BILLET DOUX - Vladimir Cosma

BOY IN THE BUSH - Bruce Smeaton
Australian miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh

THE BURNING BED - Charles Gross
Farrah Fawcett received acclaim for her role as a woman who burned her abusive husband alive

CALAMITY JANE - Fred Karlin
Jane Alexander as the famous Western hellion, with David Hemmings and Frederic Forrest as Wild Bill Hickok; directed by James Goldstone

THE CALENDAR GIRL MURDERS - Brad Fiedel
Calendar models are being murdered; starring Tom Skerritt, Sharon Stone, Alan Thicke and Robert Morse

THE CARTIER AFFAIR - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Romantic caper pairing Joan Collins and David Hasselhoff

CELEBRITY - Leonard Rosenman
Miniseries from Tommy Thompson's only novel, directed by Paul Wendkos and featuring Debbie Allen, Ned Beatty, Michael Beck, Joseph Bottoms, Tess Harper, Hal Holbrook, Ben Masters, James Whitmore and River Phoenix

CHILDREN IN THE CROSSFIRE - Brad Fiedel
Drama about Irish children taken to live in the U.S.; with Julia Duffy, Charles Haid, Karen Valentine and Kirk Cameron

THE COLD ROOM - Michael Nyman
Score CD on Silva; George Segal, Amanda Pays and Renee Soutendijk in a time travel story written and directed by James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and photographed by Tony Pierce-Roberts (A Room With a View, Underworld)

CORDUROY - Harry Manfredini
Children's story about the adventures of a stuffed bear

COVER UP - Paul Chihara
Pilot movie for the spy series starring Jennifer O'Neill and Jon-Erik Hexum

THE COWBOY AND THE BALLERINA - Bruce Broughton
Romance pairing Lee Majors and Leslie Wing, co-starring Chirstopher Lloyd and Anjelica Huston

DARK MIRROR - Dominic Frontiere
Jane Seymour takes the Olivia de Havilland double role in this remake of a 1946 thriller (scored by Dimitri Tiomkin) about twins suspected of murder

DIE FORSTERBUBEN - Ennio Morricone

A DOCTOR'S STORY - Randy Edelman
Howard E. Rollins Jr. as a doctor, co-starring Art Carney and Uta Hagen

DRAW! - Ken Wannberg
27:53 of score on the Prometheus CD The Film Music of Ken Wannberg Vol. 2; HBO Western pitting Kirk Douglas against James Coburn

THE EBONY TOWER - Richard Rodney Bennett
Adaptation of a John Fowles story, starring Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees and Greta Scacchi

ELLIS ISLAND - John Addison
Miniseries about immigrants with an impressive cast - Peter Reigert, Claire Bloom, Joan Greenwood, Stubby Kaye, Alice Krige, Milo O'Shea, Ben Vereen, John Moulder-Brown, Liam Neeson, Faye Dunaway and Richard Burton

ERNIE KOVACS: BETWEEN THE LAUGHTER - Ralph Burns
Jeff Goldblum as Kovacs, Cloris Leachman as his mother, Madolyn Smith as his first wife, Melody Anderson as his second wife, Edie Adams, and Edie Adams herself as Mae West

EUREKA STOCKADE - Bruce Smeaton
Australian miniseries with Bryan Brown, Tom Burlinson and Amy Madigan

THE FAR PAVILIONS - Carl Davis
Score LP on Chrysalis; HBO romance set in 19th century India, with Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Rossano Brazzi, Omar Sharif, John Gielgud, and Rupert Everett

FATAL VISION - Gil Melle
Engrossing true crime miniseries starring Gary Cole in his breakthrough role as a military surgeon suspected of murdering his wife and children, with Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint as the suspicious in-laws; Andy Griffith's role as a lawyer inspired his later TV series Matlock

THE FIRST OLYMPICS: ATHENS 1896 - Bruce Broughton
1:18 on the composer promo CD Double Feature; 1983/1984 Emmy winner Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special for Part 1; the founding of the modern Olympics, with Louis Jourdan, Angela Lansbury and David Caruso

FLIGHT 90: DISASTER ON THE POTOMAC - Gil Melle
Plane crash docudrama with Stephen Macht, Richard Masur, Chad  Lowe and Ken Olin

FOR LOVE OR MONEY - Billy Goldenberg

GEORGE WASHINGTON - Laurence Rosenthal
Miniseries with Barry Bostwick as the Father Of Our Country, co-starring Jaclyn Smith, Lloyd Bridges, Jose Ferrer, Hal Holbrook, Trevor Howard, Richard Kiley, and James Mason

THE GUARDIAN - Robert O. Ragland
Tense and intelligent HBO movie, written by Levinson & Link, with Martin Sheen as a liberal New Yorker who doesn't trust his apartment building's new security guard (Louis Gossett Jr.)

HEARTSOUNDS - Leonard Rosenman
Doctor James Garner recovers from a heart attack with the help of his wife, Mary Tyler Moore

HE'S FIRED, SHE'S HIRED - Lee Holdridge
Ad exec Wayne Rogers is fired so wife Karen Valentine gets a job using his resume

HE'S NOT YOUR SON - Charles Fox
Two families deal with the possibility that their babies may have been switched

HIS MISTRESS - Billy Goldenberg
Marital infidelity drama with Robert Urich and Julianen Phillips

INVITATION TO HELL - Sylvester Levay
Wes Craven directed this story of a family who moves to a new town and discovers the local health spa isn't quite what they expected

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Christmas story with Mickey Rooney, photographed by Dean Cundey

THE JESSE OWENS STORY - Michel Legrand
Dorian Harewood as the famous athlete, with Georg Stanford Brown, LeVar Burton, Ronny Cox, Norman Fell, George Kennedy, Greg Morrris, James Sikking, Vic Tayback, Ben Vereen, and Tom Bosley as Jimmy Hoffa

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN - George Fenton
Score CD on EMI; acclaimed miniseries based on Paul Scott's superb The Raj Quartet, about the last days of the British rule in India; with Charles Dance, Art Malik, Geraldine James, Judy Parfitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Om Puri, and Peggy Ashcroft

LA BAUVRE - Vladimir Cosma

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII - Trevor Jones
ABC miniseries with Nicholas Clay, Duncan Regehr, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia Hussy, Linda Purl, Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Franco Nero, Anthony Quayle, and Laurence Olivier

LE TUEUR TRISTE - Claude Bolling

LICENSE TO KILL - Laurence Rosenthal
Father James Farentino tries to make sure the drunk driver who killed his daughter is brought to justice; with Penny Fuller, Don Murray, Millie Perkins and Denzel Washington

LITTLE HOUSE: BLESS ALL THE DEAR CHILDREN - David Rose
Penultimate Little House on the Prairie spinoff movie, this time without Michael Landon

LITTLE HOUSE: THE LAST FAREWELL - David Rose
The final Little House on the Prairie spinoff movie, written and directed by Michael Landon

THE LOST HONOR OF KATHRYN BECK - Laurence Rosenthal
Remake of the Heinrich Boll novel (and Volker Schlondorff film) The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum, with Marlo Thomas as the woman whose life is destroyed by the tabloid media after she has a fling with suspected terrorist Kris Kristofferson; photographed by Gordon Willis (!)

LOUISIANA - Claude Bolling
Score CD on Hortensia; Philippe de Broca directed this French miniseries set in the American South, starring Margot Kidder and Ian Charleson

LOVE LEADS THE WAY - Fred Karlin
Period drama about the start of the Seeing Eye Dog program, with Timothy Bottoms, Susan Dey, Ralph Bellamy, Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Hill, Patricia Neal, Glynnis O'Connor and Eva Marie Saint; directed by Delbert Mann

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR - Georges Delerue
Comedy with John Ritter and Penny Marshall, directed by Tony Bill

MADEMOISELLE JULIE - Georges Delerue
Fanny Ardant in a French adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie

THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE - Bruce Broughton
Score CD from Prometheus CD Club; Douglas Hickox (Theater of Blood) directed this adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson swashbuckler, with Michael York, Richard Thomas, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, and John Gielgud

MISTRAL'S DAUGHTER - Vladimir Cosma
Douglas Hickox and Kevin Connor directed this miniseries from the Judith Krantz novel, with Stefanie Powers, Lee Remick, Stacy Keach, Robert Urich, Stephane Audran, Ian Richardson, Joanna Lumley and Timothy Dalton

MY MOTHER'S SECRET LIFE - Brad Fiedel
Teen Amanda Wyss discovers long lost mom Loni Anderson is a high-priced prostitute

THE MYSTIC WARRIOR - Gerald Fried
Score CD released as a composer promo; 1983/1984 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special, for Part 1; miniseries about American Indians, from the Ruth Beebe Hill novel Hanta Yo; with Robert Beltran, James Remar and Will Sampson

THE NAIROBI AFFAIR - Charles Gross
Africa-set drama with Charlton Heston, John Savage, Maud Adams, John Rhys-Davies and Connie Booth

NANCY ASTOR - Stanley Myers
Miniseries with Lisa Harrow as the first female Member of Parliament; with Dan O'Herlihy, James Fox, Julian Glover, Nigel Havers, and Pierce Brosnan

THE NIGHT THEY SAVED CHRISTMAS - Charles Gross
Santa Claus (Art Carney) tries to stop an oil company from drilling near his North Pole home

THE PARADE - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Co-written by The Rainmaker's N. Richard Nash, with Michael Learned, Frederic Forrest, Rosanna Arquette, James Olson and Geraldine Page

PASSIONS - Bruce Broughton
Joanne Woodward learns of her dead husband's son by another woman

REFLECTIONS - Rachel Portman
Romantic drama from a John Banville novel, with Gabriel Byrne and Fionnula Flanagan

SAKHAROV - Carl Davis
Jason Robards as the Russian physicist, with Glenda Jackson as his wife and co-starring Frank Finlay, Paul Freeman and Nicol Wiliamson

SCORNED AND SWINDLED - Billy Goldenberg
Paul Wendkos directed, with Tuesday Weld, Keith Carradine and Peter Coyote

THE SEDUCTION OF GINA - Thomas Newman
Young wife Valerie Bertinelli becomes a compulsive gambler

SILENCE OF THE HEART - Georges Delerue
Chad Lowe is a suicidal teen, Mariette Hartley and Howard Hesseman are his parents, Charlie Sheen is his friend

SINGLE BARS, SINGLE WOMEN - Basil Poledouris
The title pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?; Christine Lahti, Shelley Hack, Frances Lee McCain and Kathleen Wilhoite are the women, Tony Danza, Paul Michael Glaser and Keith Gordon aren't

SINS OF THE PAST - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Ex-prostitutes find their past catching up with them; with Barbara Carrera, Kim Cattrall and Kirstie Alley

THE SKY'S NO LIMIT - Maurice Jarre
Sharon Gless, Dee Wallace and Anne Archer vie to be the first woman in space

SPRAGGUE - Lalo Schifrin
Unsold mystery pilot with Michael Nouri

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - Marvin Hamlisch
Score LP on Allegiance; Ann-Margret as Blanche, Treat Williams as Stanley, Randy Quaid as Mitch and Beverly D'Angelo as "Stella!"

THE SUN ALSO RISES - Billy Goldenberg
Miniseries remake of the Hemingway novel directed by James Goldstone, with Hart Bochner, Jane Seymour, Ian Charleson, Julian Sands and Leonard Nimoy

SWEET REVENGE - Gil Melle
Military wife Kelly McGillis seeks revenge against the man who destroyed her brother's life; with Kevin Dobson, Alfre Woodard, Alec Baldwin and Helen Hunt

TERRIBLE JOE MORAN - Charles Gross
Joseph Sargent directed this drama with James Cagney, Art Carney and Ellen Barkin

THIS OFFICE LIFE - Trevor Jones

THOSE GLORY GLORY DAYS - Trevor Jones

THE THREE WISHES OF BILLY GRIER - Brad Fiedel
Ralph Macchio as a boy with progeria, with Betty Buckley, Hal Holbrook and Laura Dern

THREESOME - Angela Morley

TIME BOMB - Sylvester Levay
Terrorist thriller with Morgan Fairchild and Billy Dee Williams

A TOUCH OF SCANDAL - Sylvester Levay
Political drama with Angie Dickinson, Tom Skerritt, Jason Miller, Don Murray and Robert Loggia

UN CASO D'INCOSCIENZA - Luis Bacalov

V: THE FINAL BATTLE - Barry De Vorzon, Joseph Conlan, Dennis McCarthy
McCarthy's music released on CD as a composer promo; Sequel miniseries without V creator Kenneth Johnson, adding Michael Ironside to the original cast

VELVET - Dominic Frontiere
Charlie's Angels-style adventure with aerobic instructors who double as action heroines, featuring Shari Belafonte, Polly Bergen and Andrea Marcovicci

VICTIMS FOR VICTIMS: THE THERESA SALDANA STORY - Paul Chihara
Actress Theresa Saldana plays herself in a docudrama about her recovery from a near fatal attack by a stalker

WER WAR EDGAR ALLAN? - Ennio Morricone

WET GOLD - Sylvester Levay
Brooke Shields and Burgess Meredith hunt for sunken treasure

WHY ME? - Billy Goldenberg
Docudrama starring Glynnis O'Connor as an Army Nurse disfigured in a jeep crash, with Armand Assante as the surgeon who restores her face

WITH INTENT TO KILL - Paul Chihara
Crime drama with Karl Malden, Paul Sorvino, Shirley Knight, William Devane and Holly Hunter

1983/1984 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Bruce Broughton - Dallas (The Letter)
Angela Morley - Emerald Point N.A.S. (The Homecoming)
John Parker - Trapper John, M.D. (Send in the Clowns)
J.A.C. Redford - St. Elsewhere (In Sickness and in Health)
Patrick Williams - Mr. Smith (Mr. Smith Falls in Love)

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

Bruce Broughton - The First Olympics - Athens 1896, Part 1
Allyn Ferguson - Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game, Part 1
Gerald Fried - The Mystic Warrior, Part 1
Mark Snow - Something About Amelia
Jonathan Tunick - Concealed Enemies, Part 3: Investigation

Bruce Broughton was also nominated for Music and Lyrics for Two Marriages.

A.D. - Lalo Schifrin
Score CD on Prometheus; Miniseries depicting the years after the Crucifixion, with Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, John Houseman, James Mason, Jennifer O'Neill, Millie Perkins, Fernando Rey, Richard Roundtree, Susan Sarandon, Ben Vereen and Jack Warden; co-written by Anthony Burgess

AMOS - Georges Delerue
Kirk Douglas as a nursing home resident menaced by sinister nurse Elizabeth Montgomery

ANZACS - Bruce Rowland
Australian miniseries about World War I soldiers, with Paul Hogan

ARCH OF TRIUMPH - Georges Delerue
Remake of the Erich Maria Remarque WWII romance, with Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence and Frank Finlay

ARTHUR THE KING - Charles Gross
Malcolm McDowell as Arthur, Candice Bergen as Morgan Le Fay and Edward Woodward as Merlin, co-starring Dyan Cannon, Liam Neeson, and Rupert Everett as Lancelot; directed by Clive Donner

THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS - Billy Goldenberg
Controversial true crime docudrama written by Abby Mann, with Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Ruby Dee, Gloria Foster, Martin Sheen, Bill Paxton, and Morgan Freeman

THE BAD SEED - Paul Chihara
Remake of the classic 50s thriller, with Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, and Carrie Wells as the killer child; directed by Paul Wendkos

BEWITCHED - Geoffrey Burgon

BLACK ARROW - Stanley Myers
From the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure, with Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey and Donald Pleasence

BLACKOUT - Laurence Rosenthal
14:05 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; Thriller directed by Douglas Hickox, with Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan and Richard Widmark

BLEAK HOUSE - Geoffrey Burgon
12:19 on the Silva CD Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon; BBC miniseries from the Dickens classic, with Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott

THE BLUE YONDER - David Shire
Time travel adventure with Peter Coyote, Art Carney, and Terms of Endearment's Huckleberry Fox

BRIDGE ACROSS TIME - Lalo Schifrin
When London Bridge is moved to Arizona, the spirit of Jack the Ripper goes with it; with David Hasselhoff, Stepfanie Kramer, Adrienne Barbeau, Clu Gulager and Rose Marie; written by William F. Nolan (Logan's Run)

A BUNNY'S TALE - Paul Chihara
Kirstie Alley as Gloria Steinem, going undercover as a Playboy Bunny in the early 60s for a magazine article; with Delta Burke, Mary Woronov and Diana Scarwid

CHASE - Charles Bernstein
Jennifer O'Neill as a big city lawyer who takes over her late father's small town practice

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT - Miles Goodman
Sociologist Kathleen Quinlan tries to help Hollywood's teen prostitutes

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - Riz Ortolani
Score LP on Varese Sarabande; miniseries with Gabriel Byrne as Columbus, Nicol Williamson as Ferdinand, Faye Dunaway as Isabella, and co-starring Rossano Brazzi, Virna Lisi, Oliver Reed, Raf Vallone, Max Von Sydow and Eli Wallach

COMMAND 5 - Lalo Schifrin

CONSENTING ADULT - Laurence Rosenthal
Martin Sheen and Marlo Thomas as a couple coping with son Barry Tubb's homosexuality

COVENANT - Charles Bernstein
Score CD released as a composer promo, paired with Cujo; Good vs. Satanic Evil, with Barry Morse, Judy Parfitt, Michelle Phillips, Jose Ferrer, and Bradford Dillman

CRIME OF INNOCENCE - Paul Chihara
A teenage girl is assaulted in jail after a minor offense, and she and her family seek justice; with Andy Griffith as the judge, Shawnee Smith as the girl, Diane Ladd and Ralph Waite as the parents, and Brent Spiner

DEADLY INTENTIONS - Georges Delerue
True crime drama as doctor's wife Madolyn Smith suspects husband Michael Biehn is plotting to kill her; Harry Hamlin played the Biehn role in a 1991 sequel, Deadly Intentions -- Again? scored by J. Peter Robinson

DEADLY MESSAGES - Brad Fiedel
Kathleen Beller has a sinister encounter with an Ouija Board

A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA - John Cacavas
True crime drama directed by Delbert Mann, with Cheryl Ladd, Sam Elliott and Alexis Smith

THE DEATH OF A HEART - Geoffrey Burgon
British drama featuring Nigel Havers, Wendy Hiller and Miranda Richardson

DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Alex North
1985/1986 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; Volker Schlondorff directs Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Kate Reid as Linda, and John Makovich and Stephen Lang as Biff & Happy, as well as Charles Durning, Jon Polito and Linda Kozlowski; photographed by Michael Ballhaus and designed by Tony Walton, with North reworking his original Broadway incidental music once more

DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE? - David Shire
1984/1985 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; professor Joanne Woodward falls prey to Alzheimer's; Richard Kiley plays her husband

DOUBLETAKE - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Based on William Bayer's novel Switch, police detective Richard Crenna investigates a pair of otherwise unrelated decapitation murders where the heads have been switched; with Beverly D'Angelo, Lee Richardson, Eddie Jones, Lois Smith, and Jeffrey DeMunn, with Michael Cerveris and Angela Bassett in small roles

DR. FISCHER OF GENEVA - Trevor Jones
Adaptation of one of Graham Greene's final novels, with James Mason, Alan Bates and Greta Scacchi

THE EAGLE AND THE BEAR - Lee Holdridge

AN EARLY FROST - John Kander
1985/1986 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; acclaimed drama with Aidan Quinn as a homosexual with AIDS and Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara as his parents; co-starring Sylvia Sidney and John Glover

EMBASSY - Gerald Fried
Unsold pilot filmed in Rome, with Nick Mancuso, Mimi Rogers, Kim Darby, Sam Wanamaker and Eli Wallach

EVERGREEN - Laurence Rosenthal
20:20 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; miniseries from the Belva Plain novel, with Joan Allen, Armand Assante, Betty Buckley, Brian Dennehy, Ian McShane, Robert Vaughn and Lesley Anne Warren

THE EXECUTION - Georges Delerue
A group of female concentration camp survivors living in America come across a Nazi torturer and decide to murder him; with Loretta Swit, Jessica Walter, Barbara Barrie, Sandy Dennis, Valerie Harper and Rip Torn

FINAL JEOPARDY - Fred Karlin
12:09 on the RMDU CD The Fred Karlin Collection Volume 3: Electronic Chronicle; Richard Thomas and Mary Crosby play a small-town couple menaced during a trip to the big city

FIRST STEPS - Leonard Rosenman
Amy Steel as a girl paralyzed in a car accident; with Judd Hirsch, Kim Darby, David Packer, Lucinda Jenney and John Mahoney

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE - Stanley Myers
Jaclyn Smith plays the famous nurse, with Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton and Brian Cox; directed by Daryl Duke

FOUR DAYS IN JULY - Rachel Portman
Stephen Rea in a Mike Leigh comedy

GENERATION - Charles Bernstein
Family comedy set in the future, with Richard Beymer and Cristina Raines

GUILTY CONSCIENCE - Billy Goldenberg
Levinson & Link thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as a lawyer plotting a murder, with Blythe Danner as his wife and Swoosie Kurtz as his mistress

GULAG - Elmer Bernstein
HBO movie with David Keith and Malcolm McDowell as Westerners held in a Russian prison camp

THE HEARST AND DAVIES AFFAIR - Laurence Rosenthal
Robert Mitchum as William Randolph Hearst, Virginia Madsen as Marion Davies

HOLLYWOOD WIVES - Lalo Schifrin
Miniseries from the Jackie Collins novel, with Candice Bergen, Joanna Cassidy, Mary Crosby, Angie Dickinson, Steve Forrest, Anthony Hopkins, Roddy McDowall, Stefanie Powers, Suzanne Somers, Robert Stack, and Rod Steiger

HOSTAGE FLIGHT - Fred Karlin
3:40 on the RMDU CD The Fred Karlin Collection Volume 3: Electronic Chronicle; airline passengers turn the tables on the terrorists who've taken over their plane; with Ned Beatty, Jack Gilford, and Dee Wallace

INTO THIN AIR - Brad Fiedel
Fact-based drama with Ellen Burstyn as a mother trying to find out what happened to her college age son, who disappeared while traveling cross country

JENNY'S WAR - John Cacavas
Dyan Cannon as a WWII mother trying to rescue her son, a RAF pilot shot down by the Germans; with Elke Sommer, Nigel Hawthorne, John Moulder-Brown and Hugh Grant

KANE & ABEL - Billy Goldenberg
Miniseries from the Jeffrey Archer novel, with Peter Strauss, Sam Neill, Ron Silver, Reed Birney, David Dukes and Fred Gwynne

KIDS DON'T TELL - Fred Karlin
Michael Ontkean as a documentarian doing a film on child abuse, JoBeth Williams as his wife; directed by Sam O'Steen

KOJAK: THE BELARUS FILE - Barry De Vorzon
First of seven TV movies returning Telly Savalas to his most famous role, co-starring Suzanne Pleshette and Max Von Sydow

THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH - Trevor Jones
Score LP on Island Visual Arts; British miniseries on Scott and Amundsen's competition to reach the South Pole; co-staring Max Von Sydow and Hugh Grant

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES - Johnny Mandel
1985/1986 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; remake of the Joseph L. Mankweicz classic, with Loni Anderson, Michele Lee and Stephanie Zimbalist

LETTING GO - Lee Holdridge
Romantic drama with John Ritter and Sharon Glass, featuring Keanu Reeves in a small role

THE LONG HOT SUMMER - Charles Bernstein
Remake of the William Faulkner adaptation, with Don Johnson, Cybill Shepherd, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, and Ava Gardner

LOST IN LONDON - Ken Thorne

LOVE IS NEVER SILENT - Billy Goldenberg
Drama about deafness directed by Joseph Sargent, with Mare Winningham and Cloris Leachman

LOVE ON THE RUN - Billy Goldenberg
Romantic thriller starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist, co-written by Sue Grafton

MACGRUDER AND LOUD - Paul Chihara
Pilot movie for the TV series about a pair of police officers who are secretly married

MALICE IN WONDERLAND - Charles Bernstein
Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons and Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper, with Richard A. Dysart as Louis B. Mayer and Tim Robbins as Joseph Cotten

MEUTRES POUR MEMOIRE - Bruno Coulais

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR - Brad Fiedel
Horror comedy with teens inadvertently raising the dead on Halloween; with Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Kevin McCarthy, Lee Montgomery and Kurtwood Smith

MIRRORS - Craig Safan
Drama about a struggling dancer in New York; written by James Lipton, based on his novel (yes, the Inside the Actors Studio James Lipton)

MR. AND MRS. EDGEHILL - Stanley Myers
Ian Holm and Judi Dench are the titular couple in this Noel Coward adaptation

MOONLIGHTING - Lee Holdridge
Pilot movie for the popular Bruce Willis/Cybill Shepherd romantic comedy mystery series

MURDER: BY REASON OF INSANITY - John Cacavas
True crime drama with Candice Bergen and Jurgen Prochnow as a Polish couple who move to the U.S., co-starring Hector Elizondo and Eli Wallach

MURDER IN SPACE - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Whodunit on a space station, with Wilford Brimley, Michael Ironside, Martin Balsam, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson and Arthur Hill

MURDER WITH MIRRORS - Richard Rodney Bennett
1984/1985 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; Helen Hayes as Miss Marple in an Agatha Christie mystery, with Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern and Tim Roth; 11 years earlier, Bennett scored the Christie/Poirot mystery Murder on the Orient Express

MUSSOLINI: THE UNTOLD STORY - Laurence Rosenthal
2-disc score CD from Intrada Special Collection; miniseries biopic written by Stirling Silliphant with an impressive cast -- George C. Scott as Il Duce, with Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Raul Julia, Virginia Madsen, Robert Downey Jr., George Coulouris and David Suchet

MY BROTHER JONATHAN - Stanley Myers
BBC miniseries from the Francis Brett Young novel, previously filmed in 1945, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS - THE LEGEND OF ERROL FLYNN - Ken Thorne
Don Taylor directs Duncan Regehr (The Monster Squad's Dracula) as Flynn, with Denise Crosby, Barbara Hershey, Hal Linden, and Darren McGavin

NOON WINE - Paul Chihara
PBS drama from the Katherine Anne Porter story, with Fred Ward, Stellan Skarsgard, Lise Hilboldt and Jon Cryer

NORTH AND SOUTH, BOOK I - Bill Conti
19:17 on a Varese CD paired with The Right Stuff; 1985/1986 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special, part 1; Civil War miniseries from the John Jakes novel, with Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Lesley-Anne down, John Stockwell, Patrick Swayze, Johnny Cash, Morgan Fairchild, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor, Forest Whitaker, and Hal Holbrook as Lincoln

OBSESSED WITH A MARRIED WOMAN - Billy Goldenberg
Romantic infidelity drama with Jane Seymour and Tim Matheson

THE OTHER LOVER - Lee Holdridge
Romantic infidelity drama with Lindsay Wagner, Jack Scalia, Millie Perkins and Shannen Doherty

OUR FAMILY HONOR - Barry De Vorzon
Drama about two New York families -- one cops, one criminals, with Kenneth McMillan, Eli Wallach, Michael Madsen and Ray Liotta; became a short-lived series

OUT OF THE DARKNESS - Billy Goldenberg
True crime drama about the hunt for the "Son of Sam" killer, with Martin Sheen and Hector Elizondo

PAST CARING - Stanley Myers
British drama with Denholm Elliott, Emlyn Wiliams, Connie Booth and Joan Greenwood

PICKING UP THE PIECES - Paul Chihara
Margot Kidder faces life after marriage; directed by Paul Wendkos

POISON IVY - Miles Goodman
Summer camp comedy with Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, and Close Encounters' Cary Guffey

PROMISES TO KEEP - Michel Legrand
Dying Robert Mitchum returns to the family he abandoned, including Mitchum's actual son Christopher and grandson Bentley; co-starring Tess Harper, Merritt Butrick and Claire Bloom, directed by Noel Black

A REASON TO LIVE - Miles Goodman
Rick Schroder tries to keep divorcing dad Peter Fonda from killing himself

RETURN TO EDEN - Brian May
Score LP on Varese Sarabande; Australian soap opera miniseries, photographed by Dean Semler

RIGHT TO KILL? - Paul Chihara
Siblings Christopher Collet and Justine Bateman kill their abusive father (Frederic Forrest)

ROBERT KENNEDY & HIS TIMES - Fred Karlin
Miniseries with Brad Davis (as RKF), Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young (JFK), Ned Beatty (Hoover) Beatrice Straight (Rose Kennedy), G.D. Spradlin (LBJ), George Grizzard, Harris Yulin (Joe McCarthy), Mitch Ryan (Robert McNamara), Joe Pantoliano (Roy Cohn), Trey Wilson (Jimmy Hoffa), Jeffrey Tambor (Pierre Salinger), and Jack Warden as Joe Kennedy Sr., co-starring Jason Bateman, Shannen Doherty, Brent Spiner and River Phoenix

SCANDAL SHEET - Randy Edelman
Drama about the tabloids, with Butt Lancaster, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich, Lauren Hutton and Frances McDormand

SECRET WEAPONS - Charles Bernstein
Espionage drama with Sally Kellerman, Linda Hamilton, Viceca Lindfors, Christopher Atkins, James Franciscus and Geena Davis

SEDUCED - Patrick Williams
1984/1985 Emmy nominee Music Composition For a Limited Series or Special; mystery with Gregory Harrison, Cybil Shepherd, Ray Wise, Adrienne Barbeau, Jose Ferrer and Mel Ferrer

SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVLOE - Carl Davis
Ben Kingsley as the miser in this BBC adaptation of the George Eliot classic, with Jenny Agutter, Freddie Jones, Patsy Kensit and Jim Broadbent

SINS OF THE FATHER - Sylvester Levay
Romantic lawyer drama, with James Coburn, Ted Wass and Glynnis O'Connor

SPACE - Miles Goodman
Miniseries from James Michener's novel about the history of the American space program; with James garner, Beau Bridges, Bruce Dern, Blair Brown, Melinda Dillon, David Dukes, Harry Hamlin, Barbara Sukowa, Michael York, Martin Balsam, and Ralph Bellamy; directed by Lee Phillips and Joseph Sargent

STARCROSSED - Gil Melle
Starman-style sci-fi romance, with James Spader falling for alien Belinda Bauer

STONE PILLOW - Georges Delerue
Lucille Ball in a rare dramatic role as a homeless woman befriended by Daphne Zuniga

STORMIN' HOME - Bruce Broughton
Gil Gerard as a motocross racer

A SUMMER TO REMEMBER - Charles Fox
A boy who lost his hearing to meningitis befriends an orangutang

SURVIVING - James Horner
Molly Ringwald and Zach Galligan as suicidal teens, with Ellen Burstyn, Len Cariou, Marsha Mason, Paul Sorvino, Heather O'Rourke and River Phoenix

TENDER IS THE NIGHT - Richard Rodney Bennett
2:04 on the Chandos CD The Film Music of Richard Rodney Bennett; Miniseries remake of the Fitzgerald novel, with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Young and John Heard

THIRTEEN AT DINNER - John Addison
Peter Ustinov resumes his big screen role as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, with Faye Dunaway, David Suchet and Bill Nighy

A TIME TO LIVE - Georges Delerue
Liza Minnelli as the mother of a boy with muscular dystrophy; with Jeffrey DeMunn, Swoosie Kurtz and Corey Haim

TOUGHLOVE - Paul Chihara
Parents Lee Remick and Bruce Dern try to cope with drug addict son Jason Patric

TRIPLECROSS - Lalo Schifrin
Three cops become millionaires and open a private detective agency

VIA MALA - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on GDM

WALLENBERG: A HERO'S STORY - Ernest Gold
Richard Chamberlain as Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands during the Holocaust; with Alice Krige, Melanie Mayron, Bibi Anderson, Mark Rylance and Lena Olin

WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE - Gil Melle
A museum guide has dreams that predict murders; with Cindy Williams, Jessica Harper and David Morse

WILD HORSES - Hans Zimmer
Contemporary Western with Kenny Rogers and Richard Farnsworth

1984/1985 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

John Addison - Murder She Wrote (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes)
Jan Hammer - Miami Vice (Evan)
Angela Morley - Dynasty (Triangles)
J.A.C. Redford - St. Elsewhere (Fade to White)
David Rose - Highway to Heaven (Thoroughbreds)
Nan Schwartz - Cagney and Lacey (Organized Crime)

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

Richard Rodney Bennett - Murder With Mirrors
Allyn Ferguson - Camille
David Shire - Do You Remember Love?
Patrick Williams - Seduced

Lee Holdrige was nominated for Music and Lyrics for the title song to the series Moonlighting.

FROM: "Victor Field"

SUBJECT:   "Desperate Lives"

I remember watching that movie on TV years ago; there was indeed a scene with a drugged-up girl jumping out of a window, but I'm pretty sure the character played by Helen Hunt -- because later in the movie she and the one played by Doug McKeon go driving off the side of a road while they're both high, with her saying "Wheeeeeeeee" as they fly down the slope before the car crashes. He survives, but she doesn't - he's "maimed forever," and she's "dead forever," as Diana Scarwid passionately tells a gym full of teenagers in the finale, as part of a speech to get them to burn all the drugs they're carrying. (And it works. If only.) Hope this helps.

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