SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART SEVENTEEN

By Scott Bettencourt

An important entry was unfortunately left off the 1993 edition:

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON - Carter Burwell
Score CD on Varese Sarabande; Roger Spottiswoode directed this HBO movie adapted by Arnold Schulman from Randy Shilts non-fiction book about the spread of the AIDS epidemic in America; Matthew Modine led a remarkable cast including Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye, David Clennon, Phil Collins, Bud Cort, David Dukes, Richard Gere, David Marshall Grant, Glenne Headley, Anjelica Huston, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Swoosie Kurtz, Steve Martin, Richard Masur, Ian McKellen, Lawrence Monoson, Saul Rubinek, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen Spinella, Lily Tomlin, B.D. Wong, and an especially memorable Alan Alda as Dr. Robert Gallo

THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN ZOOM IN OUTER SPACE - Shirley Walker
In this comedy which preceded Galaxy Quest by four years, Daniel Riordan plays a TV superhero actor who's recruited to save an alien race; co-starring Liz Vassey, Ron Perlman, Gia Caredes, Nichelle Nichols, and Everwood's Gregory Smith

THE AFFAIR - Christopher Gunning
Courtney Vance and Kerry Fox have an interracial romance in World War II England, co-starring Ned Beatty and Ciaran Hinds

ALMOST GOLDEN: THE JESSICA SAVITCH STORY - David Shire
Biopic on the doomed TV newswoman whose life was unrecognizably fictionalized for 1996's Up Close and Personal; with Sela Ward, Ron Silver, Jeffrey DeMunn and Judith Ivey

THE ANDROID AFFAIR - Simon Boswell
Isaac Asimov received story credit for this sci-fi drama starring Griffin Dunne as the android in question; with Harley Jane Kozak, Ossie Davis and Saul Rubinek

THE AVENGING ANGEL - Gary Chang
In the Line of Fire reworked as a Mormon Western -- Tom Berenger has to protect Brigham Young (Charlton Heston) from assassination; co-starring Kevin Tighe, Fay Masterson, Jeffrey Jones, Leslie Hope and James Coburn, directed by Craig R. Baxley

BETRAYED: A STORY OF THREE WOMEN - Patrick Williams
The friendship of Meredith Baxter and Swoosie Kurtz is understandably strained when one's daughter has an affair with the other's husband

BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER - Don Davis
CBS "Schoolbreak Special" with Lindsay Crouse, A.J. Langer and Christopher Daniel Barnes

BODY LANGUAGE - Colin Towns
HBO romantic thriller with Tom Berenger, Nancy Travis and Robert Patrick

THE BUCCANEERS - Colin Towns
Score CD on Mercury; BBC/PBS miniseries from the Edith Wharton novel, with Mira Sorvino, Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, James Frain, Connie Booth and Jenny Agutter

BUFFALO GIRLS - Lee Holdridge
Score CD released as a composer promo, paired with Gunfighter's Moon; 1994/1995 Emmy nominee Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore); Adaptation of the Larry McMurtry novel with Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Jack Palance, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote as Buffalo Bill, and Sam Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok

CATHERINE THE GREAT - Laurence Rosenthal
Score CD Katharina die Grosse released by BMG (Germany); German miniseries with Catherine Zeta-Jones as the Russian empress, co-starring Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed, John Rhys-Davies, Mel Ferrer, Jeanne Moreau, and Omar Sharif

CE QUE SAVAIT MAISIE - Claude Bolling
Eduardo Molinaro adapted and directed Henry James' novel What Maisie Knew

THE CHRISTMAS BOX - Richard Gibbs
Holiday family drama with Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole and Maureen O'Hara

CITIZEN X - Randy Edelman
Score CD on Varese Sarabande; First rate HBO movie written and directed by Chris Gerolmo about the hunt for a Russian serial killer, starring Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Joss Ackland, John Wood, Imelda Staunton, Max von Sydow, and Jeffrey DeMunn

THE COURTYARD - Mark Mothersbaugh
Fred Walton (When a Stranger Calls) directed this Rear Window-ish Showtime thriller starring Andrew McCarthy, Madchen Amick, David Packer and Cheech Marin

DAS KALIFORNISCHE QUARTETT - Pino Donaggio

A DANGEROUS AFFAIR - David Mansfield
Connie Sellecca is stalked by Gregory Harrison; co-starring Christopher Meloni and Rosalind Cash

DAZZLE - Vladimir Cosma
Judith Krantz adaptation with Lisa Hartman, James Farentino, Dixie Carter, Bruce Greenwood, B.D. Wong, Linda Evans and Cliff Robertson

DEADLINE FOR MURDER: FROM THE FILES OF EDNA BUCHANAN - Patrick Williams
Elizabeth Montgomery returns as crime reporter Buchanan in this followup to The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, co-starring Audra Lindley and Yaphet Kotto

DEGREE OF GUILT - Craig Safan
Novelist Richard North Patterson has a cameo in this adaptation of two of his thrillers, with David James Elliott, Sharon Lawrence and Daphne Zuniga

DES MOTS QUI DECHIRENT - Bruno Coulais

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Stephen Warbeck
BBC crime drama with Lena Headey as a British au pair on trial in Italy, co-starring Alice Krige, Nigel Terry and James Frain

DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD - Graeme Revell
Showtime drama about survivors of political torture, with Laura Dern, Raul Julia, Jeffrey DeMunn, Cliff Gorman, F. Murray Abraham and Vanessa Redgrave

EMBRASSE-MOI VITE! - Bruno Coulais

THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON - Leonard Rosenman
Teen Kellie Martin realizes she was a kidnapped child, and is torn between the parents she lost and the ones who reaised her

A FATHER FOR CHARLIE - David Shire
Joe Mazzello, the son of a racist, is befriended by Louis Gossett Jr.; also known as High Lonesome

THE GLASS VIRGIN - Christopher Gunning
British miniseries from the Catherine Cookson novel, with Nigel Havers and Emily Mortimer

THE GREAT ELEPHANT ESCAPE - Bruce Rowland
Juvenile adventure directed by Snowy River's George Miller, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Zimbalist and Julian Sands

THE HEIDI CHRONICLES - David Shire
TNT adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein's inexplicably Pulitzer Prize winning play, with Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce, Kim Cattrall, Sharon Lawrence, and Peter Friedman recreating his Broadway role

HER HIDDEN TRUTH - Patrick Williams
Kellie Martin escapes from prison to solve her parents murder

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK - Christopher Gunning
David Suchet returns as Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christie mystery

IN PURSUIT OF HONOR - John Debney
Score CD released as a composer promo, paired with Class of '61; Ken Olin directed this HBO Western, with cavalrymen Don Johnson and Craig Sheffer trying to save a herd of Army horses

INKA CONNECTION - Pino Donaggio

IT WAS HIM OR US - John Frizzell
Ann Jillian's daughter is stalked by Richard Grieco; co-starring Wil Wheaton

JACK REED: ONE OF OUR OWN - Lee Holdridge
Brian Dennehy returns as the tough cop (is there any other kind?)

JOURNEY - Patrick Williams
Meg Tilly abandons her children Max Pomeranc and Eliza Dushku to be raised by grandparents Jason Robards and Brenda Fricker

KANSAS - John Debney
Robert Mandel (F/X) directed this drama starring Patricia Wettig and Matt Craven

KINGFISH: A STORY OF HUEY P. LONG - Patrick Williams
1994/1995 Emmy nominee Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore); Thomas Schlamme directs John Goodman as the controversial Louisiana governor, with Anne Heche and Bob Gunton as FDR

LA RIVIERE ESPERANCE - Bruno Coulais
Score CD on Trema

LA TABATIERE DE L'EMPEREUR - Vladimir Cosma
Francois Dunoyer returns as Arsene Lupin

LE MASQUE DE JADE - Vladimir Cosma
Dunoyer as Lupin, encore

LE NID TOMBE DE L'OISEAU - Bruno Coulais

LIZ: THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR STORY - Ken Thorne
Kevin Connor (The Land That Time Forgot) directs Sherilyn Fenn as Liz, Angus MacFayden as Richard Burton, William McNamara as Montgomery Clift, Corey Parker as Eddie Fisher, Nigel Havers as Michael Wilding, Kevin McCarthy as Sol Seigel, Katherine Helmond as Hedda Hopper, John Saxon as Richard Brooks, Ray Wise as Mike Todd, and Eugene Roche as George Stevens

LUCIFER'S CHILD - Charles Gross
Julie Harris in a one woman show as Isak Dinesen

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE - David Shire
Thriller directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey), starring Roger Moore, Malcolm MacDowell, Eric McCormack and Nancy Allen

A MOTHER'S GIFT - Lee Holdridge
Western drama with Nancy McKeon, Adrian Pasdar and Jeremy London

MURDEROUS INTENT - David Shire
Corbin Bernsen plots to kill his ex-wife

NOTES FOR MY DAUGHTER - Charles Gross

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER - Lee Holdridge
Gerald DiPego adapted this Sidney Sheldon novel about three female doctors, with Brooke Shields, Gail O'Grady, Vanessa Williams, Gregory Harrison, Chris Noth and Lloyd Bridges

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP - Mason Daring
Score CD released as a composer promo; Miniseries from the Dickens classic, with Tom Courtenay as Mr. Quilp, James Fox and Peter Ustinov

OLIVER'S TRAVELS - Carl Davis
Romantic comedy mystery from the BBC, with Alan Bates and Sinead Cusack

OP CENTER - Patrick Williams
Lewis Teague directed this Tom Clancy story about a U.S. government crisis center, with Harry Hamlin, Patrick Bauchau, John Savage, Carl Weathers, and Ken Howard as the President

ORIGINAL SINS - Gary Chang
John Pielmeier (Agnes of God) wrote this drama starring Mark Harmon, Julianne Phillips and Ron Perlman

OUT OF ANNIE'S PAST - Charles Bernstein
Blackmailer Dennis Farina threatens to expose married mom Catherine Mary Stewart's past

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Carl Davis
Score CD on BBC/EMI; Popular miniseries remake of the Jane Austen classic, with Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy

PRIME SUSPECT: INNER CIRCLES - Stephen Warbeck
Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) uncovers wrongdoing in small town government

PRIME SUSPECT: THE LOST CHILD - Stephen Warbeck
5:59 on the Delos CD Mobil Masterpiece Theatre; Jane Tennison hunts for a missing baby

PRIME SUSPECT: SCENT OF DARKNESS - Stephen Warbeck
Jane Tennison discovers that the killer she put away in the original Prime Suspect may be innocent

RADETZKYMARSCH - Zbigniew Preisner
Miniseries with Max Von Sydow and Charlotte Rampling

SAVED BY THE LIGHT - Patrick Williams
Eric Roberts' life is changed when he's struck by lightning

A SEASON OF HOPE - Ken Thorne
Drama about a family of lemon growers, with JoBeth Williams, Stephen Lang, Jeremy London and Ralph Waite

SERVING IN SILENCE: THE MARGARETHE CAMMERMEYER STORY - David Shire
Glenn Close is outstanding as the National Guard nurse discharged for lesbianism; with Judy Davis as her lover

SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP - Don Davis
Mentally disturbed Tracey Gold looks for her missing baby

SOLOMON & SHEBA - David Kitay
Jimmy Smits and Halle Berry as the Biblical lovers

STREETS OF LAREDO - David Shire
Joseph Sargent directed this worthy Lonesome Dove sequel, with James Garner taking over from Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow Call, Sissy Spacek as Lorena, Sam Shepard as Pea Eye, Ned Beatty as Judge Roy Bean, Randy Quaid as John Wesley Hardin, Wes Studi, Charles Martin Smith, George Carlin, Sonia Braga, Kevin Conway as Mox Mox (the "Manburner") and Alexis Cruz as the boy psychopath Joey Garza

TAD - George S. Clinton
Kris Kristofferson and Jane Curtin as President and Mrs. Lincoln, coping with the death of their child

TECUMSEH: THE LAST WARRIOR - David Shire
One of a series of TNT biopics of famous Native Americans, starring Jesse Borrego, August Schellenberg, David Clennon and David Morse

TEXAS - Lee Holdridge
Score CD released as a composer promo; Historical epic from the James Michener novel, with Maria Conchita Alonso, Benjamin Bratt, Anthony Michael Hall, Stacy Keach, David Keith, John Schneider, Rick Schroder, and Randy Travis

TRUMAN - David Mansfield
Frank Pierson directs Gary Sinise as the President, with Diana Scarwid, Richard A. Dysart, Colm Feore, Tony Goldwyn, Pat Hingle and Marian Seldes as Eleanor Roosevelt

THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - Lee Holdridge
Score CD released as a composer promo; 1995/1996 Emmy nominee Outstanding Music Composition For a Miniseries or a Special; HBO movie about the black World War II pilots, with Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Daniel Hugh Kelly, John Lithgow, Chris McDonald, Courtney Vance, Mekhi Phifer, Andre Braugher and Cuba Gooding Jr.

TYSON - Stewart Copeland
Uli Edel directs Michael Jai White (Spawn) as the boxer, with George C. Scott, James Sikking, Malcolm Jamal Warner, and Paul Winfield as Don King

THE WEST SIDE WALTZ - Patrick Williams
Ernest Thompson directs his play (which starred Katharine Hepburn on stage), starring Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey and Kathy Bates

WHOSE DAUGHTER IS SHE? - John Frizzell
Stephanie Zimbalist returns to the children she abandoned years earlier

YOUNG AT HEART - Mason Daring
Olympia Dukakis and Joe Penny in a family story featuring a cameo by Frank Sinatra

ZOOMAN - Daniel Licht
Score CD on Citadel, paired with Woman Undone; A young girl is murdered in an inner city neighborhood, and no one wants to get involved; with Louis Gossett Jr., Charles Dutton, Khalil Khan, Hill Harper, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons and CCH Pounder

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

Jay Chattaway - 30 Years of National Geographic Specials
Lee Holdridge - Buffalo Girls, Part 1
Laurence Rosenthal - Young Indiana Jones And The Hollywood Follies
Mark Snow - Children Of The Dust, Part l
Patrick Williams - Kingfish: The Story Of Huey P. Long

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

Bruce Babcock - Murder, She Wrote (Murder In High C)
Jay Chattaway - Star Trek: Voyager (Caretaker)
Alf Clausen - The Simpsons (Tree House Of Horror V)
Don Davis - SeaQuest DSV (Daggers)
Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek: Voyager (Heroes & Demons)
 
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: Voyager
James Newton Howard - ER
Mark Isham - Chicago Hope
Michael Skloff, Allee Willis - Friends
W.G. Snuffy Walden - My So-Called Life

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