SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART TWELVE

By Scott Bettencourt

AGE-OLD FRIENDS - Stanley Myers
Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia in a comedy set in a retirement home

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - Billy Goldenberg
Score CD on Cinedisc; Miniseries remake of the Jules Verne classic, directed by Buzz Kulik, with Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, and costarring Jack Klugman, Roddy McDowall, Darren McGavin, Robert Morley, Lee Remick, Jill St. John, Robert Wagner, Gabriele Ferzetti, John Hillerman, Chirstopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, John Mills, Simon Ward and Peter Ustinov

ASK ME AGAIN - Dick Hyman
PBS drama written by Richard Greenberg

BANGKOK HILTON - Graeme Revell
Australian miniseries with Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott, Hugo Weaving and Noah Taylor

BAYWATCH: PANIC AT MALIBU PIER - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Pilot movie for Baywatch, with Parker Stevenson, Erika Eleniak, and, of course, David Hasselhoff

BILLY THE KID - Laurence Rosenthal
Score CD released as a composer promo; Val Kilmer as Billy, Duncan Regehr as Pat Garrett, and co-starring Rene Auberjonois, Wilford Brimley, and Michael Parks; written by Gore Vidal, who has a cameo as a preacher

BIONIC SHOWDOWN: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN - Bill Conti
Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner and Richrd Anderson all return, joined by Sandra Bullock as a bionic girl

BRIDESMAIDS - Paul Chihara
Chick flick with Brooke Adams, Shelley Hack, and Sela Ward

BRIDGE TO SILENCE - Fred Karlin
A deaf widow fights her mother for custody of her little girl; with Lee Remick, Marlee Matlin and Michael O'Keefe

BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE - Laurence Rosenthal
4:04 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; Peter Strauss and David Morse are CIA agents trained by Robert Mitchum in this adaptation of the David Morrell novel

THE CASE OF THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS - Gil Melle
True crime drama with Richard Crenna as the cop, Dennis Farina and Billy Zane as the killers

CASSIDY - Paul Grabowsky
Australian drama, with Caroline Goodall as a woman investigating her late father's life

CAST THE FIRST STONE - Ira Newborn
Jill Eikenberry in a docudrama directed by John Korty

COLD SASSY TREE - Brad Fiedel
Southern romantic drama directed by Nashville's screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, with Faye Dunaway, Richard Widmark and Neil Patrick Harris

COLUMBO GOES TO THE GUILLOTINE - John Cacavas
The first in the new wave of Columbo movies, this one pitting Peter Falk against a murderous magician (Anthony Andrews)

COLUMBO: GRAND DECEPTIONS - Patrick Williams
Columbo matches wits with military man Robert Foxworth

COLUMBO: MURDER, A SELF PORTRAIT - Patrick Williams
Columbo investigates an artist (Patrick Buchau)

COLUMBO: MURDER, SMOKE & SHADOWS - Patrick Williams
1988/1989 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore); Columbo harasses a Spielbergian young director (Fisher Stevens)

COLUMBO: SEX AND THE MARRIED DETECTIVE - Patrick Williams
Columbo vs. sex therapist Lindsay Crouse

THE COMEBACK - Craig Safan
Robert Urich as an ex-football star who reunited with his ex-wife and son

THE COVER GIRL AND THE COP - Sylvester Levay
Julia Duffy is the cover girl, Dinah Manoff is the cop, co-starring Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo

DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD - Stanley Myers
Family story from a Roald Dahl novel, starring Jeremy Irons and his son Samuel, and co-starring Robbie Coltrane, Michael Hordern, Jean Marsh, Lionel Jeffries, and Cyril Cusack (Irons' father-in-law)

DARK HOLIDAY - Paul Chihara
Lee Remick in a Turkish prison

DARLINGS OF THE GODS - Brian May
Australian biopic with Anthony Higgins as Laurence Olivier and Mel Martin as Vivien Leigh, co-starring former Hammer heartthrob Shane Briant as Cecil Beaton

DAY ONE - Mason Daring
Docudrama on the Manhattan Project, reputed to be far superior to Fat Man and Little Boy; directed by Joseph Sargent, teleplay by David W. Rintels, with David Strathairn as Oppenheimer, Brian Dennehy as Groves, David Ogden Sties as FDR, Richard A. Dysart as Truman, and Michael Tucker, Hal Holbrook, Barnard Hughes, Tony Shalhoub, and Hume Cronyn

A DEADLY SILENCE - Richard Gibbs
A father's murder leads to revelations of incest; with Mike Ferrell, Bruce Weitz, Charles Haid, Wallace Langham and Sally Struthers

DESPERATE FOR LOVE - Charles Bernstein
Murder among teens, with Christian Slater, Brian Bloom and Veronica Cartwright

DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN MAN? - Lee Holdridge
1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore); Child sex abuse drama with Pam Dawber, John Shea and Stephen Dorff

ENDING UP - John Scott
Peter Sasdy directs this adaptation of a Kingsley Amis novel with the usual bunch of British hacks -- John Mills, Wendy Hiller, Michael Hordern and Lionel Jeffries

FEAR STALK - Fred Karlin
Hollywood producer Jill Clayburgh is menaced by a stalker; finally, Hollywood producers are making stories they themselves can relate to

FELLOW TRAVELLER - Colin Towns
HBO drama about the McCarthy era, with Ron Silver, Hart Bochner, Imogen Stubbs and Daniel J. Travanti

THE FIFTEEN STREETS - Colin Towns
Turn of the century romance with co-starring Sean Bean, Billie Whitelaw and Ian Bannen

THE FINAL DAYS - Cliff Eidelman
1:55 on the composer promo Cliff Eidelman Film Music; Nixon's last days in office, from the Woodward/Bernstein book, with Lane Smith as Nixon, David Ogden Stiers as Haig, Theodore Bikel as Kissinger, and Ed Flanders, Richard Kiley, James Sikking and Gary Sinise; directed by Richard Pearce

FIRE AND RAIN - Artie Kane
Plane crash docudrama with Charles Haid, John Beck, Tom Bosley, Robert Guillame, David Hasselhoff, Dean Jones, Patti LaBelle, and Angie Dickinson; directed by Jerry Jameson (Airport '77)

FIRST BORN - Hans Zimmer
British miniseries about genetic engineering, with Charles Dance, Gabrielle Anwar, and the unfortunately named Julie Peasgood

THE FORGOTTEN - Laurence Rosenthal
Thriller about a group of freed POWs, with Keith Carradine and Steve Railsback

FROM THE DEAD OF NIGHT - Gil Melle
Miniseries with Lindsay Wagner as a woman whose near death experience leads to more supernatural visitations; with Bruce Boxleitner, Robert Prosky, Merritt Butrick and Diahann Carroll

THE GIFTED ONE - J. Peter Robinson
A boy with special powers goes on the run; directed by Stephen Herek

THE HEIST - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Racetrack caper with Pierce Brosnan and Tom Skerritt

HEROES ARE BORN SUCH - Luis Bacalov

HOME FIRES BURNING - Don Davis
Drama with Barnard Hughes, Sada Thompson, Bill Pullman and Neil Patrick Harris

I KNOW MY FIRST NAME IS STEVEN - David Shire
Memorable miniseries with Corin Nemec as Steven Stayner, a boy kidnapped and raised by a pedophile (Arliss Howard); with Cindy Pickett, John Ashton, Luke Edwards, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ray Walston, and Stephen Dorff

IL PRINCIPE DEL DESERTO - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on Mercury; Italian miniseries with Rutger Hauer, Omar Sharif, Elliot Gould and Carol Alt

ISABELLA LA LADRA - Luis Bacalov

JUST ANOTHER SECRET - Paul Chihara
Thriller from a Frederick Forsyth story, with Beau Bridges

LA FORMULA MANCATA - Pino Donaggio
Italian miniseries with Mario Adorf and Florinda Balkan

THE LADY AND THE HIGHWAYMAN - Laurie Johnson
2:33 on the Fly/Unicorn CD The Rose and the Gun: The Music of Laurie Johnson; Barbara Cartland romance with Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Michael York, John Mills, Ian Bannen, Gordon Jackson and Hugh Grant

LADY IN THE CORNER - David Raksin
With Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Davison, Brian Keith, Lois Maxwell and Loretta Lynn

LES GRANDES FAMILLES - Vladimir Cosma
French miniseries directed by Edouard Molinaro (La Cage Aux Folles)

LONESOME DOVE - Basil Poledouris
Score CD on Sonic Atmospheres; 1988/1989 Emmy winner Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 4; this faithful adaptation of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning Western epic, scripted by William D. Witliff and directed by Simon Wincer, is arguably the greatest miniseries of all time; with Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Frederic Forrest, Robert Urich, Rick Schroder, Chris Cooper, Glenne Headley, and Steve Buscemi

LOVE AND BETRAYAL - Charles Bernstein
Divorce drama with David Birney and Lisa Aliff

LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS - Richard Robbins
PBS adaptation of a Harold Brodkey story, with Stephen Mailer and Christopher Collet

MAN AGAINST THE MOB: THE CHINATOWN MURDERS - Artie Kane
Followup to Man Against the Mob, starring George Peppard as a 40s cop in L.A., co-starring Richard Bradford, Charles Haid, and Ursula Andress

THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Agatha Christie adaptation with Stephanie Zimbalist, Rue McClanahan, Edward Woodward and Tony Randall

MANHUNT: SEARCH FOR THE NIGHT STALKER - Sylvester Levay
Richard Jordan and A Martinez as detectives hunting L.A's serial killer

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE - John Cacavas
Farrah Fawcett as the famous photographer, with Frederic Forrest as Erskine Caldwell

A MASTER OF THE MARIONETTES - Colin Towns
British mystery with Kenneth Colley and Kenneth Cranham

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE - Charles Gross

MON DERNIER REVE SERA POUR VOUS - Antoine Duhamel
Score CD on Milan; French miniseries with Anouk Aimee

MONEY, POWER, MURDER - Miles Goodman
Mystery adapted by Mike Lupica from his novel Dead Air, with Kevin Dobson, Blythe Danner, Josef Sommer, Julianne Moore and Tony Shalhoub

MURDER BY MOONLIGHT - Trevor Jones
Whodunit on a moonbase, with Julian Sands, Brigitte Nielsen, Gerald McRaney and Brian Cox

MURDERERS AMONG US: THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY - Bill Conti
Score CD on Bay Cities; Biopic of the famed concentration camp survivor/Nazi hunter, with Kingsley as Wiesenthal, co-staring Paul Freeman, Miriam Margolyes, Craig T. Nelson, and Renee Soutendijk

MY NAME IS BILL W. - Laurence Rosenthal
Biopic of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, with James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner, Fritz Weaver, and Gary Sinise

THE NEON EMPIRE - Lalo Schifrin
Fictionalized version of the Bugsy Siegel story, with Ray Sharkey, Gary Busey, Linda Fiorentino, Dylan McDermott, Harry Guardino and Martin Landau; written by Pete Hamill and Edward Anhalt, directed by Larry Peerce

NIGHT WALK - Patrick Williams
Thriller with Robert Urich and Lesley-Anne Down

THE NIGHTMARE YEARS - Vladimir Cosma
The rise of the Third Reich, from the point of view of foreign journalists; with Sam Waterston, Marthe Keller, Ronald Lacey, and Kurtwood Smith

NO PLACE LIKE HOME - Charles Gross
Incredibly depressing drama with Christine Lahti and Jeff Daniels as the parents of a family who become homeless; with Kathy Bates and CCH Pounder, directed by Lee Grant

OCEANO - Pino Donaggio
Italian miniseries with Irene Papas, Martin Balsam, Marisa Berenson and Ernest Borgnine

ORIGINAL SIN - Lalo Schifrin
Mafia drama with Ann Jillian and Charlton Heston

OUT ON THE EDGE - Stanley Clarke
Teenager Rick Schroder has trouble coping with his parents' divorce; with Richard Jenkins and Mary Kay Place

PARENT TRAP: HAWAIIAN VACATION - Joel McNeely
Third of the Parent Trap sequels, with Hayley Mills and Barry Bostwick

PARENT TRAP III - Joel McNeely
Second of the Parent Trap sequels, with Hayley Mills and Barry Bostwick

PERFECT WITNESS - Brad Fiedel
Aidan Quinn as the witness to a mob hit, with Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing, directed by Robert Mandel (F/X)

PETER GUNN - Henry Mancini
Blake Edwards wrote and directed this terrific revival of his classic TV private eye, with Peter Strauss in the lead

PRECIOUS BANE - Rachel Portman
Romantic drama with Janet McTeer

PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER - Geoffrey Burgon
Suite from The Chronicles of Narnia on the Silva CD Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon; Continuation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

A PRIVATE LIFE - Trevor Jones
Romantic drama with Embeth Davidtz

RED KING, WHITE KNIGHT - John Scott
Score CD on Intrada; HBO spy thriller with Tom Skerritt, Max Von Sydow and Helen Mirren

THE REVENGE OF AL CAPONE - Craig Safan
Another attempt to cash in on the success of The Untouchables, with Keith Carradine and Ray Sharkey as Capone

SINGLE WOMEN, MARRIED MEN - Johnny Mandel
CBS drama with Michele Lee, Julie Harris and Margaret Avery

SKULDUGGERY - Carl Davis
BBC drama with David Thewlis

SOMEWHERE TO RUN - Carl Davis
Two teenage runways on their own in London

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER - Bruce Broughton
Remake of the Lucille Fletcher classic, with Loni Anderson, Hal Holbrook and Patrick Macnee

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH - Ralph Burns
Nicolas Roeg directed this remake of the Tennessee Williams play, with Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon and Valerie Perrine

TARZAN IN MANHATTAN - Charles Fox
The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? Also starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Tony Curtis

TERROR ON HIGHWAY 91 - Artie Kane
Deputy Rick Schroder fights police corruption; co-starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Brad Dourif, and George Dzundza, directed by Jerry Jameson

THIRD DEGREE BURN - Charles Gross
Film noir directed by Roger Spottiswoode, with Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen and Richard Masur

TILL WE MEET AGAIN - Vladimir Cosma
Score CD on Colossal; Charles Jarrott directs this miniseries from the Judith Krantz novel, with Courteney Cox, Mia Sra, Micael York, Hugh Grant, Barry Bostwick and Bruce Boxleitner

TRAVELING MAN - Miles Goodman
Irvin Kershner directed this HBO comedy with John Lithgow as a traveling salesman

TRENCHCOAT IN PARADISE - John Debney
Unsold private eye pilot set in Hawaii, with Dirk Benedict, Bruce Dern and Catherine Oxenberg, directed by Martha Coolidge

TWIST OF FATE - Laurence Rosenthal
Thriller with Bruce Greenwood as an ex-Nazi who becomes an Israeli general, costarring Veronica Hamel, Simon MacCorkindale, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ian Richardson

UNCONQUERED - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Civil rights drama written by Pat Conroy, with Peter Coyote, Dermot Mulroney, Tess Harper and Frank Whaley

WOLF - Artie Kane
Pilot for the short lived series starring Jack Scalia

THE WOMAN IN BLACK - Rachel Portman
British ghost story, adapted by Nigel Kneale from the Susan Hill novel

THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE - David Shire
Oprah Winfrey executive produced and stars in this adapation of the Gloria Naylor novel, with Mary Alice, Robin Givens, Moses Gunn, Jackee Harry, Paula Kelly, Lonette McKee, Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER - Carl Davis
 
YOUNG CHARLIE CHAPLIN - Rachel Portman
Joe Geary as the young Chaplin, with Ian McShane and Twiggy as his parents

1988/1989 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Alf Clausen - Moonlighting (A Womb With a View)
Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek: The Next Generation (The Child)
Angela Morley - Blue Skies (The White Horse)
Joel Rosenbaum - Falcon Crest (Dust to Dust)
Patrick Williams - Columbo (Murder, Smoke & Shadows)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Chris Boardman - The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Bob Cobert - War and Remembrance, Part 11
Allyn Ferguson - Pancho Barnes
Fred Karlin - Bridge to Silence
Basil Poledouris - Lonesome Dove, Part 4

MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

Stanley Clarke - Knightwatch
James Newton Howard - Men
Jerrold Immel - Paradise
Mike Post - UNSUB
Jonathan Tunick - Tattinger's

Though they nominated these entries in the Main Title Theme Music category, no award was given that year.

ALL THE RIVERS RUN 2 - Bruce Rowland
Sequel to the 1984 Australian miniseries

ALWAYS REMEMBER I LOVE YOU - David Shire
Teen Stephen Dorff tracks down the parents he was kidnapped from when he was a child

ANGEL OF DEATH - Harry Manfredini
Jane Seymour and her little boy are stalked by escaped convict Gregory Harrison

THE BIG ONE: THE GREAT LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE - David Shire
Another classically self-explanatory MOW title

BLIND FAITH - Laurence Rosenthal
6:37 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; Adapted from the Joe McGinnis true crime book, with Robert Urich as a dad who may have murdered his wife

BLUE BAYOU - Stanley Clarke
Alfre Woodard as an L.A. lawyer in New Orleans; with Elizabeth Ashley, Bibi Besch, Roy Thinnes and Mario Van Peebles

BURIED ALIVE - Michel Colombier
Frank Darabont directed this suspense thriller with Jennifer Jason Leigh and William Atherton plotting to kill her husband, Tim Matheson

BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT - Trevor Jones
A modern-day Fail-Safe about a nuclear bomber crew, with Powers Boothe, Rebecca DeMornay, James Earl Jones, Darren McGavin, Rip Torn, and Martin Landau as the President; directed by Jack Sholder

CAROLINE? - Charles Bernstein
Joseph Sargent directs, with Stephanie Zimbalist as a woman claiming to be the missing daughter of a wealthy man; with Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal and Dorothy McGuire

A CASUALTY OF WAR - Paul Chihara
Frederic Forsyth thriller with a British agent trying to stop Libya from arming the IRA

CHILDREN CROSSING - Stanley Myers
BBC drama with Peter Firth and Saskia Reeves

COLUMBO: MURDER IN MALIBU - Patrick Williams
A rare Columbo where we don't know from the start who-did-it (though the choices are pretty much Andrew Stevens and Brenda Vaccaro)

COMMON GROUND - David Shire
Mike Newell directed this docudrama about busing in Bostin during the 70s; with Jane Curtin, James Farentino, CCH Pounder and Richard Thomas

THE COURT-MARTIAL OF JACKIE ROBINSON - Stanley Clarke
Larry Peerce directs the great Andre Braugher in this story of the early life of the great baseball player; with Daniel Stern, Ruby Dee, Stan Shaw, Paul Dooley, Kasi Lemmons and Bruce Dern

CRIMINAL JUSTICE - Elliot Goldenthal
Gritty HBO legal drama with Forest Whitaker as the accused and Rosie Perez as the victim, co-starring Anthony LaPaglia and Jennifer Grey

CROSSING TO FREEDOM - Carl Davis
Peter O'Toole tries to help children escape from Nazi Germany; from the Nevil Shute novel

DAGLI APPENNINI ALLE ANDE - Luis Bacalov
Italian miniseries

DANGEROUS PURSUIT - Stanley Clarke
A woman tries to stop assassin Gregory Harrison from killing his next target

DARK AVENGER - Sylvester Levay
Pulpy action with a disfigured judge becoming a masked avenger

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS - Colin Towns
Vampire story directed by Stuart Gordon, with Anthony Perkins and Mia Sara

DAUGHTER OF THE STREETS - Lee Holdridge
Mom Jane Alexander tries to rescue daughter Roxana Zal from the street life; with Harris Yulin, Martha scott, and John Stamos, directed by Edwin Sherin (Alexander's husband)

DEATH HAS A BAD REPUTATION - Paul Chihara
Another Frederic Forsyth thriller, this time with Tony Lo Bianco as Carlos the Jackal (not to be confused with Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal)

DECORATION DAY - Patrick Williams
1990/1991 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special; drama with James Garner and Bill Cobbs as WWII veterans, co-starring Judith Ivey, Ruby Dee and Laurence Fishburne

DESCENDING ANGEL - James Newton Howard
Eric Roberts falls for Diane Lane, only to discover her dad (George C. Scott) is an ex-Nazi; pilot movie for the short-lived sitcom (just kidding)

DONOR - Gary Chang
Melissa Gilbert plays the Genevieve Bujold role of the young doctor who discovers sinister goings-on in her hospital

THE DREAMER OF OZ - Lee Holdridge
Score CD on Percepto; Richard Matheson wrote this biopic of L. Frank Baum, with John Ritter, Annette O'Toole, Rue McClanahan, and John Cameron Mitchell

DRUG WARS: THE CAMARENA STORY - Charles Bernstein
Steven Bauer as a real-life DEA agent, with Elizabeth Pena, Miguel Ferrer, Craig T. Nelson and Benicio Del Toro

83 HOURS 'TIL DAWN - Gary Chang
Race against time to find a kidnapped girl buried alive; with Peter Stauss, Robert Urich, Paul Winfield and Samantha Mathis

THE ENDLESS GAME - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on Virgin; Bryan Forbes wrote and directed this spy drama with Albert Finney, George Segal, Ian Holm and Kristin Scott Thomas

EXTREME CLOSE-UP - James Horner
Teen Morgan Weisser tries to understand the death of his mentally ill mother by watching home videos; with Craig T. Nelson, Samantha Mathis, Bibi Besch and Blair Brown; written by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, directed by Peter Horton

THE EYES OF THE PANTHER - John Debney
Score CD on Prometheus, paired with Not Since Casanova; Adaptation of an Ambrose Bierce story, with C. Thomas Howell, Daphne Zuniga and John Stockwell, directed by Noel Black (Pretty Poison)

THE FACE OF FEAR - John Debney
Pam Dawber and psychic Lee Horsley are trapped by a serial killer in a skyscraper; from a Dean Koontz novel

FACE TO FACE - Lalo Schifrin
Africa-set romantic drama with Robert Foxworth and Elizabeth Montgomery

FALL FROM GRACE - Charles Bernstein
Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

A FAMILY FOR JOE - Charles Fox
Homeless Robert Mitchum pretends to be a grandfather for four orphaned kids; became a short-lived series with Mitchum and Juliette Lewis (who wasn't in the pilot movie)

FAMILY OF SPIES - Paul Chihara
Powers Boothe as John A. Walker Jr., the Navy officer who sold U.S. secrets to the Russians; with Lesley Ann Warren, Lili Taylor and Jeroen Krabbe, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal

THE FATAL IMAGE - Michel Colombier
Michele Lee and Justine Bateman witness a murder in Paris

FINE THINGS - Lee Holdridge
Danielle Steel adaptation

A GHOST IN MONTE CARLO - Laurie Johnson
2:12 on the Fly/Unicorn CD The Rose and the Gun: The Music of Laurie Johnson; Barbara Cartland adaptation with Lysette Anthony, Samantha Eggar, Joanna Lumley, Ron Moody, Christopher Plummer and Oliver Reed; Laurie Johnson was also associate producer

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET WIFE: A MURDER IN BOSTON - Patrick Williams
Ken Olin as Charles Stuart, the man who killed his pregnant wife and blamed it on an imaginary black carjacker

GUNSMOKE: THE LAST APACHE - Bruce Rowland
James Arness returns as Marshal Matt Dillon, co-starring Richard Kiley, Geoffrey Lewis, Hugh O'Brian and Michael Learned

HANDS OF A MURDERER - Colin Towns
Edward Woodward is Holmes, John Hillerman is Watson, Anthony Andrews is Moriarty; written by Charles Edward Pogue

HEAT WAVE - Thomas Newman
Award-winning TNT drama on the Watts riots, with Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl Jones and David Strathairn

HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE - Richard Gibbs
Comedy with Joan Rivers and Morgan Fairchild

IL CACCIATORE DI NAVI - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on RCA; Seafaring drama with Perry King and Michael Beck, also known as Only One Survived and Danger Adrift

THE IMAGE - James Newton Howard
HBO drama about TV journalism, with Albert Finney, John Mahoney, Kathy baker, Swoosie Kurtz, Marsha Mason and Spalding Gray

IMOGENE ET LA VEUVE BLANCHE - Jean-Claude Petit

THE INCIDENT - Laurence Rosenthal
In post WWII America, lawyer Walter Matthau defends a German POW accused of murder; with Susan Blakely, Robert Carradine, Peter Firth, Barnard Hughes and Harry Morgan; directed by Joseph Sargent

JEKYLL & HYDE - John Cameron
Michael Caine as the good doctor, with Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland, and Lionel Jeffries as Jekyll Senior

JOSHUA'S HEART - Lee Holdridge
A 10 year old boy wants to be adopted by his neglectful dad's ex-girlfriend

JUDGMENT - Cliff Eidelman
All-too topical fact-based HBO drama written and directed by Tom Topor (Nuts), with Keith Carradine and Blythe Danner as a couple who discover their little boy has been molested by their priest (David Strathairn)

KALEIDOSCOPE - Johnny Mandel, Dennis McCarthy
Danielle Steel adaptation with Jaclyn Smith, Patricia Kalember and Claudie Christian as reunited sisters

THE KENNEDYS OF MASSACHUSETTS - David Shire
1:35 on the composer promo David Shire Film Music; 1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 3; Miniseries on the Kennedys with Steven Weber as JFK, Randle Mell as Robert, Campbell Scott as Joe Jr., William L. Petersen as Joe Sr., Annette O'Toole as Rose, Josef Sommer as FDR, Madolyn Smith-Osborne as Gloria Swanson, and Casey Affleck as the teenage Bobby

THE KID WHO LOVED CHRISTMAS - Stanley Clarke
Family drama with Cicely Tyson, Della Rees, Esther Rolle, Ben Vereen, and Sammy Davis Jr.

A KILLER AMONG US - Gary Chang
One of the jurors in a murder trial may be the killer; what are the odds?

A KILLING IN A SMALL TOWN - Richard Gibbs
Brian Dennehy defends Barbara Hershey on a murder charge; directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal

THE KISSING PLACE - Laurence Rosenthal
A little boy begins to think his parents aren't his real parents

KOJAK: NONE SO BLIND - John Cacavas
Telly Savalas returns as Kojak again, with a pretty staggering supporting cast - Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Jerry Orbach, Amanda Plummer and Marcia Gay Harden

THE KREMLIN, FAREWELL - John DuPrez

LAKER GIRLS - Sylvester Levay
Three young women aspire to be cheerleaders for the L.A. Lakers

THE LAST BEST YEAR - John Morris
Therapist Mary Tyler Moore helps ailing Bernadette Peters

THE LAST ELEPHANT - Charles Bernstein
Joseph Sargent directed this drama about the illegal ivory trade in Africa, with John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and James Earl Jones; released on video as Ivory Hunters

LAST FLIGHT OUT - Christopher Young
16:45 on the Intrada 2-disc set Cinema Septet; 1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore); Saigon, 1975, after the U.S. pullout; with Eric Bogosian, Richard Crenna, Arliss Howard, James Earl Jones, and Haing S. Ngor,

LE DENIER DU COLT - Claude Bolling
Thriller from the James Hadley Chase novel Want to Stay Alive

LE LIEN DU SANG - Bruno Coulais

A LITTLE PIECE OF SUNSHINE - Paul Chihara
Mystery thriller from a Frederic Forsyth story, with Lauren Bacall, Chris Cooper and Philip Michael Thomas

LOVE AND LIES - Patrick Williams
Undercover detective Mare Winningham falls for murder suspect Peter Gallagher

THE LOVE SHE SOUGHT - Charles Bernstein
Romantic drama set in Ireland, pairing Angela Lansbury and Denholm Elliott

LUCKY/CHANCES - Billy Goldenberg
Danielle Steel miniseries directed by Buzz Kulik, co-starring Sandra Bullock

MAX AND HELEN - Christopher Young
Score CD on Bay Cities; Treat Williams and Alice Krige as lovers separated by the Holocaust; based on the book by Simon Wiesenthal, played by Martin Landau

MURDER C.O.D. - Fred Karlin
A mystery man commits murders then blackmails the relatives into paying for the killings

MURDER IN BLACK AND WHITE - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Another followup to Double Take, with Richard Crenna as Detective Frank Janek

MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI - Mason Daring
Docudrama about the Civil Rights workers whose murder inspired the highly fictionalized Mississippi Burning; with Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, Josh Charles, CCH Pounder and Andre Braugher; Daring's music reportedly replaced a rejected score by Elmer Bernstein

MURDER IN PARADISE - John Cacavas

MURDER TIMES SEVEN - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Richard Crenna as William Bayer's detective Frank Janek, again; interestingly, they never filmed Bayer's Edgar winning Janek novel, Peregrine

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES - Christopher Gunning
David Suchet is Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christie mystery

NEVER COME BACK - Stanley Myers
Adventure thriller with Nathaniel Parker and James Fox

NIGHT OF THE FOX - Vladimir Cosma
Charles Jarrott directs this WWII adventure thriller from the Jack Higgins novel, with George Peppard, Michael York, John Mills and Deborah Raffin

NIGHT VISIONS - Brad Fiedel
A cop and a female psychic hunt aa serial killer; directed by Wes Craven, written by Craven and Thomas Baum

NON APRITE ALL'UOMO NERO - Pino Donaggio

NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS - Michel Legrand
Clive Donner directs this Jeffrey Archer caper, with Jenny Agutter, Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr., and Maryan d'Abo

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Bruce Broughton
Score CD on Intrada; 1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore); remake of the Ernest Hemingway classic (the Spencer Tracy version won an Oscar for Dimitri Tiomkin's score), with Anthony Quinn, Gary Cole, Patricia Clarkson and Alexis Cruz

ONE COLD MAY MORNING - Riz Ortolani

THE OPERATION - Bill Conti
Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman and Kathleen Quinlan in a medical mystery whose plot apparently bears uncomfortable similarities to Malice, made three years later

ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT - Rachel Portman
1:31 on the Universal/Redial CD Rachel Portman - Soundtracks; Beeban Kidron directs Geraldine McEwan, David Thewlis, and the late Charlotte Coleman in Jeannette Winterson's adaptation of her own acclaimed autobiographical novel about a lesbian girl growing up in a religious cult

PASSEZ UNE BONNE NUIT - Claude Bolling
Jeannot Szwarc directed Michael Brandon and Marisa Berenson in this adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel; also known as Have a Nice Night

PEOPLE LIKE US - Billy Goldenberg
1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 2; adaptation of yet another Dominick Dunne crime roman a clef, with Dennis Farina, Ben Gazzara, Eva marie Saint, Connie Sellecca, Jean Simmons, Beatrice Straight, and Paul Williams

PERSONALS - Ken Thorne
Jennifer O'Neill is a librarian by day, murderous femme fatale by night; with Stephanie Zimbalist, Clark Johnson and Colm Feore

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - John Addison
Score CD on Colossal; 1989/1990 Emmy nominee Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Part 2; Tony Richardson directed Arthur Kopit's adaptation of his own play (which was the book for the Maury Yeston musical Phantom), with Charles Dance as the Phantom, Teri Polo as Christine, and Burt Lancaster as the Phantom's dad

THE PLOT TO KILL HITLER - Laurence Rosenthal
German officers attempt to assassinate Der Fuhrer; with Brad Davis, Madolyn-Smith Osborne, Ian Richardson, Jonathan Hyde and Rupert Graves

POLLY: COMIN' HOME! - Joel McNeely
Song and Score CD on Disney; Debbie Allen directed this African-American musical version of Polyanna

THE PRICE OF THE BRIDE - Paul Chihara
Apparently Chihara spent most of the late 80s/early 90s scoring Frederic Forsyth thrillers; this one features Mike Farrell and Robert Foxworth

PRIDE AND EXTREME PREJUDICE - Paul Chihara
What I wrote in the last entry goes for this one too, except this one stars Brian Dennehy and Lisa Eichhorn

THE PRIVATE WAR OF LUCINDA SMITH - Bruce Smeaton

A PROMISE TO KEEP - David Shire
Family drama with William Russ, Dana Delaney and Francis Fisher

PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING - Graeme Revell
Anthony Perkins returns for the last time as Norman Bates, with flashbacks featuring Henry Thomas as the young Norman and Olivia Hussey as his mother; written by Joseph Stefano, directed by Mick Garris

RAINBOW DRIVE - Tangerine Dream
L.A. cop Peter Weller investigates a Hollywood murder, with Sela Ward, David Caruso and Megan Mullally; directed by Bobby Roth, from the Roderick Thorp novel

REVEALING EVIDENCE: STALKING THE HONOLULU STRANGLER - James Newton Howard
Stanley Tucci in a Hawaiian cop thriller

RICH MEN, SINGLE WOMEN - Charles Fox
Romantic comedy directed by Elliot Silverstein and co-written by Rita Mae Brown, with Suzanne Somers and Heather Locklear

RISING SON - Gary Chang
TNT family drama with Brian Dennehy as a laid off factory worker and Matt Damon (in his first lead) as his son

ROCK HUDSON - Paul Chihara
Thomas Ian Griffith as Hudson, featuring Don Galloway as John Frankenheimer

THE ROSE AND THE JACKAL - Michael J. Lewis
Score CD released as a composer promo, paired with Yes, Giorgio; Civil War spy romance pairing Christopher Reeve and Madolyn Smith-Osborne, co-starring Jeff Corey, Kevin McCarthy and Carrie Snodgress

RUNNING AGAINST TIME - Don Davis
Robert Hays goes back in time to stop the JFK assassination in order to prevent the Vietnam War

THE SECRET LIFE OF IAN FLEMING - Carl Davis
Jason Connery (how'd they think to cast him?) plays Fleming in this glamorized look at the author's early life, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Joss Ackland, David Warner and Richard Johnson

SHATTERED DREAMS - Michael Convertino
Lindsay Wagner as a battered wife

SHE SAID NO - Charles Bernstein
Veronica Hamel is raped by lawyer Judd Hirsch but ends up getting sued for malicious prosecution

THE SILVER CHAIR - Geoffrey Burgon
Suite from The Chronicles of Narnia on the Silva CD Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon; Continuation of the Chronicles of Narnia series

SNOW KILL - Sylvester Levay
Corporate execs menaced in the mountains

SO PROUDLY WE HAIL - Gil Melle
Drama about white supremacists with David Soul, Edward Herrmann, Chad Lowe

SOMEBODY HAS TO SHOOT THE PICTURE - James Newton Howard
Photographer Roy Scheider tries to prove a death row inmate is innocent; with Bonnie Bedelia, Robert Carradine, Andre Braugher and Arliss Howard, directed by Frank Pierson

TOO YOUNG TO DIE? - Charles Bernstein
Juliette Lewis as a teenage murderer, Brad Pitt as her boyfriend

VENGEANCE - Claude Bolling

VOICES WITHIN: THE LIVES OF TRUDDI CHASE - Charles Fox
Shelley Long as a woman with multiple personalities, Tom Conti as her doctor

VOYAGE OF TERROR: THE ACHILLE LAURO AFFAIR - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on RCA; Docudrama about the famous hijacking, with Burt Lancaster as Leon Klinghoffer and Eva Marie Saint as his wife, so-ctarring Dominique Sanda, Gabriele Ferzetti, and Robert Culp

THE WIDOWMAKER - Rachel Portman

WOMEN AND MEN: STORIES OF SEDUCTION - Marvin Hamlisch
HBO adaptation of three classic short stories - Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit, and Dorothy Parker's Fireworks Before Dusk; directed by Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson and Ken Russell, with Beau Bridges, Melanie Griffith, Elizabeth McGovern, Molly Ringwald, Kyra Sedgwick, Peter Weller and James Woods

1989/1990 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks (Episode 002)
Bruce Babcock - Matlock (The Clown)
Don Davis - Beauty and the Beast (A Time to Heal)
Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek: The Next Generation (Yesterday's Enterprise)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

John Addison - The Phantom of the Opera, Part 2
Bruce Broughton - The Old Man and the Sea
James DiPasquale - The Shell Seekers
Billy Goldenberg - People Like Us, Part 2
Lee Holdridge - Do You Know the Muffin Man?
David Shire - The Kennedys of Massachusettes, Pt. 3
Christopher Young - Last Flight Out

MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch - Twin Peaks
John Debney - The Young Riders
Danny Elfman - The Simpsons
Dan Foliart, Howard Pearl - Carol & Company
Patrick Williams - FM

As with the previous year, no award was given in this category.

SUBJECT: Small screen, big scores part ten: 1986
 
As a sidenote: The Robert Folk scored film Combat High is also released under the name Combat Academy

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