SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART SIXTEEN

By Scott Bettencourt

ACCIDENTAL MEETING - Patrick Williams
Unofficial reworking of Strangers on a Train with Linda Gray and Linda Purl

AGAINST THE WALL - Gary Chang
John Frankenheimer directed this HBO docudrama on the Attica riot, with Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, and Anne Heche

AMELIA EARHART: THE FINAL FLIGHT - George S. Clinton
TNT biopic with Diane Keaton as the aviatrix, Bruce Dern as her husband and Rutger Hauer as her co-pilot

ASSAULT AT WEST POINT: THE COURT-MARTIAL OF JOHNSON WHITTAKER - Terence Blanchard
Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Waterston play the lawyers for an African-American at West Point beaten by fellow cadets

BAMBINO MIO - Stephen Warbeck
British drama written by Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire), with Julie Walters and George Corraface

BECAUSE MOMMY WORKS - Patrick Williams
John Heard tries to get custody of his son from ex-wife Anne Archer due to the reason given in the movie's title

BETRAYED BY LOVE - George S. Clinton
FBI agent Steven Weber becomes involved with informant Mare Winningham; written by Alan Sharp

BREATHING LESSONS - John Kander
Disappointing adaptation of Anne Tyler's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, with James Garner and Joanne Woodward as a long married couple; co-starring Eileen Heckart, Paul Winfield and Henry Jones

A BURNING PASSION: THE MARGARET MITCHELL STORY - Billy Goldenberg
Larry Peerce directs Shannen Doherty as the author of Gone With the Wind

THE BURNING SEASON - Gary Chang
John Frankenheimer directs Raul Julia as South American activist Chico Mendes; with Sonia Braga, Nigel Havers, Esai Morales and Edward James Olmos

THE CHANGELING - Stephen Warbeck
Jacobean melodrama with Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Grant and Bob Hoskins

COGNACQ-JAY - Bruno Coulais

THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE - Patrick Williams
Elizabeth Montgomery plays crime reporter Edna Buchanan in this mystery inspired by her memoir, with Dennis Farina and Yaphet Kotto

CRIES UNHEARD: THE DONNA YAKLICH STORY - Harry Manfredini
Jaclyn Smith has a difficult relationship with steroid abusing cop Brad Johnson; co-starring David Lascher and Hilary Swank

DAVID'S MOTHER - David Mansfield
Kirstie Alley tries to keep custody of autistic son Michael Goorjian; co-starring Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston

FAMILY ALBUM - Lee Holdridge
Actress Jaclyn Smith copes with a troubled personal life in this Danielle Steel adaptation

FATHER AND SCOUT - David Kitay
Family comedy with Bob Saget

FATHERLAND - Gary Chang
Unsatisfying HBO movie from Robert Harris' bestseller set in an alternate reality where Germany won World War II; Rutger Hauer is the cop who investigates the mystery of the missing six million, co-starring Miranda Richardson and Jane Marsh

A FEW SHORT JOURNEYS OF THE HEART - Simon Boswell

FRENCH SILK - Patrick Williams
In New Orleans, cop Lee Horsley falls for murder suspect Susan Lucci

GETTING GOTTI - Patrick Williams
Anthony John Denison is the mobster; co-starring Lorraine Bracco and Ellen Burstyn

GETTING OUT - Mason Daring
Ex-con Rebecca DeMornay tries to cope with her mother, Ellen Burstyn

THE GIFT OF LOVE - Patrick Williams
Drama with Any Griffith and Blair Brown

GOOD KING WENCESLAS - Charles Gross
The late Jonathan Brandis plays the title role, co-starring Stefanie Powers, Leo McKern, Oliver Milburn and Joan Fontaine

GUNSMOKE: ONE MAN'S JUSTICE - Artie Kane
Jerry Jameson directs James Arness as Matt Dillon, co-starring Bruce Boxleitner

THE HAUNTING OF SEACLIFF INN - Shirley Walker
Ally Sheedy's bed-and-breakfast proves to be haunted, making it only slightly less scary than most bed-and-breakfasts

HEART OF DARKNESS - Stanley Myers
Nicolas Roeg directed this TNT version of the Joseph Conrad classic, with Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz; this was Myers' last project with Roeg, and his last completed score before his death in 1993

HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS - Christopher Gunning
TV movie adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, with David Suchet playing the perpetually retired Belgian detective

HERLOCK SHOLMES S'EN MELE - Vladimir Cosma
French comedy (and no, the title is not a misprint)

IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES: MARRIAGE, PRIDE & MADNESS - Don Davis
True crime family drama with Kelly McGillis, Harry Hamlin, Keith Carradine and Holland Taylor; also shown as Bitter Blood

INCIDENT IN A SMALL TOWN - Lee Holdridge
Period mystery with Walter Matthau as a lawyer involved in a case where a rapist was apparently murdered by the family of one of his victims; co-starring Harry Morgan, Stephanie Zimbalist and Nick Stahl

JANE'S HOUSE - David Shire
Widowed dad James Woods falls for Anne Archer; written by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump)

KEYS - John Frizzell
Marg Helgenberger investigates a kidnapping

THE LAST OUTLAW - Mason Daring
HBO Western written by Eric Red (The Hitcher) and directed by Geoff Murphy (Young Guns II), with Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine, Keith David and Steve Buscemi

LEAVE OF ABSENCE - Don Davis
Brian Dennehy cheats on wife Blythe Danner with Jacqueline Bisset, then moves in with Bisset when she's diagnosed with cancer; actress Polly Bergen co-stars as well as writing the story and receiving co-executive producer credit

LIE DOWN WITH LIONS - Carl Davis
Romantic adventure thriller from the disappointing Ken Follett novel, with Timothy Dalton, Marg Helgenberger, Nigel Havers and Omar Sharif

LILY IN WINTER - David Shire
A little white boy runs away from home to be with housekeeper Natalie Cole; production designer J. Michael Riva (Lethal Weapon, The Goonies) shares story credit

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT - Geoffrey Burgon
Score CD on Destiny Music; David Lodge adapted Charles Dickens novel for this BBC miniseries, with Paul Scofield, John Mills, Pete Postlethwaite and Tom Wilkinson

MATLOCK: THE IDOL - Artie Kane
Andy Griffith returns one final time as the folksy attorney

MESSAGE FOR POSTERITY - Carl Davis
John Neville in a remake of a Dennis Potter teleplay (the original 60s version is lost)

MIDDLEMARCH - Stanley Myers, Christopher Gunning
Myers died while working on this BBC adaptation of the George Eliot classic, with Juliet Aubry, Patrick Malahide, Rufus Sewell, and Judi Dench as the voice of George Eliot

MIDNIGHT MOVIE - Christopher Gunning
Dennis Potter adapted this thriller with Brian Dennehy as an American producer renting a possibly haunted English mansion

MORT D'UN GARDIEN DE LA PAIX - Bruno Coulais

THE MOTHER - Stephen Warbeck
PBS version of a Paddy Chayefsky script, with Anne Bancroft, Mary Alice, Stephen Lang, Anne Meara, and Joan Cusack

MY NAME IS KATE - Charles Bernstein
Donna Mills as Daniel J. Travanti's alcoholic wife, with Nia Peeples, Eileen Brennan and Ryan Reynolds

NOBODY'S CHILDREN - Jean-Claude Petit
USA movie with Ann-Margret, Dominique Sanda and Clive Owen

NOWHERE TO HIDE - Gary Chang
Mafia wife Rosanna Arquette goes into Witness Protection and falls for an FBI agent

ON PROMISED LAND - Mason Daring
Disney racial drama directed by Joan Tewksbury, with Joan Plowright, Judith Ivey, Carl Lumbly and Wayne Brady

ONCE IN A LIFETIME - David Shire
Danielle Steel adaptation with Lindsay Wagner and Barry Bostwick

ONE CHRISTMAS - Van Dyke Parks
Tony Bill directed this adaptation of a Truman Capote story, with Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz, Pat Hingle and Julie Harris

ONE OF HER OWN - George S. Clinton
Rookie Lori Laughlin is raped by a fellow cop and struggles to receive justice; with Greg Evigan and Martin Sheen

OUT OF DARKNESS - Michel Colombier
Diana Ross as a schizophrenic; with Beah Richards, Lindsay Crouse and Maura Tierney

PAT AND MARGARET - Colin Towns
Julie Walters and Victoria Wood (who wrote the script) as long-lost sisters

A PERFECT STRANGER - Lee Holdridge
Danielle Steel adaptation with Robert Urich, Stacy Haiduk and Darren McGavin

RENCONTRE AVEC LE DOCTEUR FREUD - Vladimir Cosma

REQUINS A LA HAVANE - Vladimir Cosma

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE - Carl Davis
Romance from the Thomas Hardy novel, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Clive Owen and Joan Plowright

REUNION - David Shire
Marlo Thomas as a grieving mother who may or may not be visited by the ghost of her dead child; teleplay by Ron Bass (Rain Man) and John Pielmeier (Agnes of God), directed by Lee Grant, co-starring Peter Strauss and Leelee Sobieski

ROOMMATES - Lee Holdridge
Gay Eric Stoltz and homophobic Randy Quaid become unlikely friends at a house for AIDS patients

ROSEANNE AND TOM: BEHIND THE SCENES - Craig Safan
Patrika Darbo is Roseanne Barr, Stephen Lee is Tom Arnold (this might have been a good opportunity for Safan to use his rejected Wolfen score)

ROSWELL - Elliot Goldenthal
3:12 on the Sonic Images CD Watch the Skies; Jeremy Paul Kagan directed this unconvincing Oliver Stone-style "docudrama" about the alleged alien crash; with Kyle Maclachlan, Martin Sheen, Kim Griest and Dwight Yoakam

ROYCE - Stanley Clarke
Showtime movie with Jim Belushi as an American spy; no, seriously.

RUNNING DELILAH - Lee Holdridge
Richard Franklin (Psycho II) directs Kim Cattrall as a dead spy brought back to life with bionic-ish technology; with Billy Zane and Diana Rigg

SCARLETT - John Morris
Score CD on Polydor (import); Miniseries from Alexandra Ripley's Gone With the Wind sequel, with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Timothy Dalton as Scarlett and Rhett, Stephen Collins as Ashley Wilkes, and co-starring Barbara Barrie, Annabeth Gish, George Grizzard, Julie Harris, Melissa Leo, Jean Smart, Paul Winfield, Sean Bean, John Gielgud, Charles Gray, and Esther Rolle as Mammy

SEASONS OF THE HEART - Marvin Hamlisch
Lee Grant directed this marital drama with Carol Burnett, George Segal and Malcolm McDowell

SEDUCED BY EVIL - George S. Clinton
Thriller with Suzanne Somers (as if that isn't redundant)

SPRING AWAKENING - Lee Holdridge
Period romance from a Willa Cather story, with Sherilyn Fenn, Jamey Sheridan and Fritz Weaver

STATE OF EMERGENCY - Robert Folk
HBO movie about life in a hectic inner city hospital, with Joe Mantegna, Melinda Dillon, Paul Dooley and Richard Beymer

TAKE ME HOME AGAIN - Patrick Williams
Kirk Douglas is a traveling salesman and Craig T. Nelson is his son; written by and co-starring Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond)

TWO FATHERS: JUSTICE FOR THE INNOCENT - Robert Folk
Dads Robert Conrad and George Hamilton go after the dealers whose drugs killed their kids

WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? - Craig Safan
Marg Helgenberger's children are adopted after she's falsely arrested, and she struggles to get them back

THE WHIPPING BOY - Lee Holdridge
Disney Channel period story with George C. Scott and Mathilda May (Lifeforce)

WITCH HUNT - Angelo Badalamenti
Cable sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell (scored by Curt Sobel); Paul Schrader directs Dennis Hopper, taking over the Fred Ward role of private eye H. Philip Lovecraft in a supernatural 50s Hollywood; with Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian and Julian Sands

WITHOUT CONSENT - Craig Safan
Troubled teen Jennie Garth tries to straighten up her life after a drunken car crash; with Johnny Galecki, Jill Eikenberry, Tom Irwin, Doug McKeon, Helen Shaver and Paul Sorvino

WITHOUT WARNING - Craig Safan
Wellesian fake newscast about aliens barraging the Earth with meteors

WORLD WAR II: WHEN LIONS ROARED - John Morris
Painfully dull historical miniseries with Michael Caine as Stalin, Bob Hoskins as Churchill and John Lithgow as FDR; directed by Joseph Sargent, photographed by John Alonzo

THE YEARLING - Lee Holdridge
Remake of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings classic, with Peter Strauss, Jean Smart, Wil Horneff and Philip Seymour Hoffman

YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES - Laurence Rosenthal
1994/1995 Emmy winner Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore); Young Indy teams up with director Erich Von Stroheim ("Indy, if you still want the Ark, it's being loaded on a craft service truck to Cairo! " "What craft service truck! "); co-starring Steven Caffrey as John Ford

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR A SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Richard Bellis - Double, Double, Toil And Trouble
Lennie Niehaus - Lush Life
Mark Snow - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
W.G. Snuffy Walden - Stephen King's The Stand, Part 4
Patrick Williams - Geronimo

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Alf Clausen - The Simpsons (Cape Feare)
Don Davis - SeaQuest DSV (Whale Song)
Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek: The Next Generation (All Good Things...)
Ron Ramin - Christy (Pilot)
Laurence Rosenthal - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Ireland, 1916)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

John Debney - SeaQuest DSV
Jay Gruska - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman
Bruce Miller, Darryl Phinnessee - Frasier
Mike Post - NYPD Blue
Mark Snow - The X-Files

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