SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART ELEVEN

By Scott Bettencourt

ACT OF BETRAYAL - Bruce Smeaton
The IRA pursues an informer and his family to Australia; with Lisa Harrow, Elliot Gould and Patrick Bergin

THE ALIEN YEARS - Bruce Smeaton

THE ATTIC: THE HIDING OF ANNE FRANK - Richard Rodney Bennett
Retelling of the Anne Frank story focusing on the woman who hid the family; with Mary Steenburgen as Miep Gies, Paul Scofield as Otto Frank, Eleanor Bron, Tom Wilkinson and Lisa Jacobs as Anne

ALMOST GROWN - Craig Safan
Pilot movie for the short lived romantic drama, starring Timothy Daly and Eve Gordon

BABY M - Charles Fox
Fact based drama about the battle over a surrogate's child, with JoBeth Williams, John Shea, Anne Jackson and Dabney Coleman

BAJA OKLAHOMA - Stanley Myers
HBO movie with Lesley-Anne Warren as a Texas barmaid, Julia Roberts as her daughter

BERYL MARKHAM: A SHADOW ON THE SUN - John Addison
Tony Richardson directed this biopic of the aviatrix, with Stefanie Powers, Claire Bloom, Brian Cox, Frederic Forrest and James Fox

BLUEGRASS - Don Davis, Mark Snow
Simon Wincer directs Cheryl Ladd, Wayne Rogers, Diane Ladd and Mickey Rooney

THE BOURNE IDENTITY - Laurence Rosenthal
Score CD on Intrada; 1987/1988 Emmy winner Music Composition For A Miniseries Or Special (Dramatic Underscore); Miniseries from Robert Ludlum's amnesiac spy bestseller (remade as a feature in 2002 with a John Powell score), with Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle and Denholm Elliott

CAMILLO CASTIGLIONI ODER DIE MORAL DER HAIFISCHE - Ennio Morricone

CASE CLOSED - Sylvester Levay

THE CHILD SAVER - Lennie Niehaus
Urban drama with Alfre Woodard, Mario Van Peebles and Martin Balsam

CHINA BEACH - Paul Chihara
Pilot movie for the acclaimed series about American nurses in the Vietnam War; with Dana Delany, Marg Helbenberger, Robert Picardo, Chloe Webb and James Cromwell

CHRISTABEL - Stanley Myers
Dennis Potter adapted the memoir of an Englishwoman living in Hitler's Germany; with Elizabeth Hurley in the title role and Stephen Dillane as her husband

DADAH IS DEATH - Fred Karlin
32:42 on the RMDU CD The Fred Karlin Collection Vol. 3: Electronic Chronicle; Hugo Weaving and John Polson as two young Australians sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling; Julie Christie plays Polson's mother, struggling to save his life; co-starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Victor Bannerjee

A DANGEROUS LIFE - Brian May

DAVID - Marvin Hamlisch
Matthew Lawrence as the boy whose father set him on fire; Bernadette Peters and John Glover as the parents

DAVY CROCKETT: RAINBOW IN THE THUNDER - Joel McNeely
Disney movie with Johnny Cash and Samantha Eggar, directed by David Hemmings (who also plays Andrew Jackson)

DEAD MAN OUT - Cliff Eidelman
Capital punishment drama with Danny Glover, Ruben Blades and Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Richard Pearce

DEAD SOLID PERFECT - Tangerine Dream
Score CD on Silva; Golf comedy adapted by Dan Jenkins (Semi-Tough) from his own novel, with Randy Quaid, Kathryn Harrold and Jack Warden

THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE FATAL MISSION - John Cacavas
The third and final of the Dirty Dozen TV movies, with Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Jeff Conaway, Alex Cord, Erik Estrada and Ernie Hudson

DOUBLE STANDARD - Patrick Wiliams
Robert Foxworth as a bigamist judge

DROP-OUT MOTHER - Gerald Fried
Comedy with Valerie Harper giving up her high-powered career for motherhood

EARTH STAR VOYAGER - Lalo Schifrin
Spaceship sci-fi with Duncan Regehr and Brian McNamara, directed by James Goldstone

FATAL JUDGEMENT - Lee Holdridge
Patty Duke as a nurse accused of murdering a patient; directed by Gilbert Cates

FAVORITE SON - John Morris
This inane thriller from a Steve Sohmer novel plays like a lobotomized Manchurian Candidate, yet managed to spawn a weekly spinoff, Mancuso FBI, starring Robert Loggia

14 GOING ON 30 - Lee Holdridge
Teen Gabriel Olds uses an aging syrum to become attractive to teacher Daphne Ashbrook, gets turned into adult Steven Eckholdt. I guess there are just so many ideas and titles.

FREEDOM FIGHTER - Laurence Rosenthal
Tony Danza, Sid Caesar, David McCallum, and the Berlin Wall. Teleplay by Gerald Di Pego (Sharky's Machine), directed by Desmond Davis (Clash of the Titans).

A FRIENDSHIP IN VIENNA - Lee Holdridge
The friendship between two Viennese girls, one Jewish and one Catholic, just before World War II. With Jane Alexander, Ed Asner.

GLI ANGELI DEL POTERE - Ennio Morricone

GLI INDIFFERENTI - Ennio Morricone
Italian miniseries with Laura Antonelli, Cris Campion, Peter Fonda, Liv Ullman and Sophie Ward.

GO TOWARD THE LIGHT - James Newton Howard
Richard Thomas and Linda Hamilton as the parents of a boy with AIDS; co-starring Piper Laurie and Ned Beatty

GOD BLESS THE CHILD - David Shire
Mare Winningham becomes homeless and tries to take care of her daughter

GOING TO THE CHAPEL - Charles Fox
Wedding farce with Michele Greene, Scott Valentine, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman, Dick Van Patten and Barbara Billingsley

GOTHAM - George S. Clinton
Supernatural noir with Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen

HIGHER GROUND - Lee Holdridge
Drama with John Denver

HOSTAGE - Brad Fiedel
Drama with Carol Burnett as a woman kidnapped by a young ex-convict (Carrie Hamilton, Burnett's daughter); co-starring Annette Bening and Clark Johnson

HOT PAINT - Brad Fiedel
Comedy with Gregory Harrison and John Larroquette

I PROMESSI SPOSI - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on Fonit Cetra; Italian miniseries with Burt Lancaster, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, and F. Murray Abraham

IN THE LINE OF DUTY: THE F.B.I. MURDERS - Laurence Rosenthal
Fact based cop thriller written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, with Ronny Cox, Bruce Greenwood and David Soul

INDISCREET - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Remake of the Stanley Donen comedy, with Robert Wagner and Lesley-Anne Down filling the Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman roles

INHERIT THE WIND - Arthur B. Rubinstein
The (fictionalized) Scopes trial again, with Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, Kyle Secor and Jean Simmons

INTERNAL AFFAIRS - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Sequel to Doubletake, with Richard Crenna, Kate Capshaw and Cliff Gorman

JACK THE RIPPER - John Cameron
Michael Caine hunts for the infamous killer; with Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Susan George, and Jane Seymour

JENNY'S SONG - Mason Daring
PBS drama co-starring Ben Vereen and Jessica Walter

JOURNEY'S END - Carl Davis
Remake of the R.C. Sherriff play about British soldiers in World War I, with Jeremy Northam and Timothy Spall

JUSTIN CASE - Henry Mancini
Blake Edwards (!) wrote and directed this Disney movie with George Carlin as the ghost of a private eye

KILLER INSTINCT - Paul Chihara
Melissa Gilbert as a psychiatrist at a mental hospital; co-starring Woody Harrelson

KING OF THE OLYMPICS - Paul Chihara
Score CD on Sonic Atmospheres; David Selby as Avery Brudage, co-starring Renee Soutendijk an Kristoffer Tabori

LA GARCONNE - Claude Bolling

LADY MOBSTER - Fred Karlin
Susan Lucci as the daughter of a mob family

LEAP OF FAITH - Charles Gross
Drama directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, with Anne Archer and Sam Neill

LENIN: THE TRAIN - Nicola Piovani
Score CD on Milan; Ben Kingsley as Lenin; co-starring Leslie Caron, Dominique Sanda, and Jason Connery

LINCOLN - Ernest Gold
Miniseries based on Gore Vidal's biography, with Sam Waterston and Mary Tyler Moore as the Lincolns, co-starring John Houseman, Cleavon Little and Ruby Dee

THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE - Geoffrey Burgon
Suite from The Chronicles of Narnia on the Silva CD Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon; BBC adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic

LITTLE GIRL LOST - Billy Goldenberg
Tess Harper and Frederic Forrest try to keep their foster child from her abusive father

LOVE WITH THE PERFECT STRANGER - John DuPrez
Romance with Marilu Henner and Daniel Massey, directed by Desmond Davis (no relation to the Natalie Wood film)

MAN AGAINST THE MOB - Artie Kane
George Peppard as a 30s cop battling gansters

MAYBE BABY - Patrick Williams
Middle aged couple Dabney Coleman and Jane Curtin cope with pregnancy

THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN - Maurice Jarre
Miniseries drama based on the true story which inspired the fictionalized film Fury and the Broadway musical Parade; Peter Gallagher is the innocent murder suspect Leo Frank, Jack Lemmon is the governor, and the supporting cast includes Dylan Baker, Paul Dooley, Charles Dutton, Richard Jordan, William H. Macy, Cynthia Nixon, Robert Prosky and Kevin Spacey; story by Larry McMurtry

MY FATHER, MY SON - Laurence Rosenthal
Fact-based post-Vietnam drama, with Karl Malden and Keith Carradine

NIGHTMARE AT BITTER CREEK - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Women menaced in the mountains, with Lindsay Wagner, Joanna Cassidy and Tom Skerritt

NOBLE HOUSE - Paul Chihara
Score CD on Varese Sarabande; miniseries from the James Clavell novel, with Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Tia Carrere, Denholm Elliott, John Houseman, Nancy Kwan, Burt Kwouk, and John Rhys-Davies

ONASSIS: THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD - Billy Goldenberg
Raul Julia as the Greek tycoon, Francesca Annis as Jackie O., Jane Seymour as Maria Callas, plus Anthony Quinn and Anthony Zerbe

ONCE UPON A TEXAS TRAIN - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Western caper with Willie Nelson, Richard Widmark, Shaun Cassidy, Chuck Connors, Jack Elam, Kevin McCarthy, Stuart Whitman and Angie Dickinson

OPEN ADMISSIONS - Charles Gross
Drama about a college faculty, with Jane Alexander and Dennis Farina

OUTBACK BOUND - Miles Goodman
Romantic adventure with Donna Mills hunting for a mine in the Australian outback

POLICE STORY: GLADIATOR SCHOOL - Sylvester Levay
Cop drama with Robert Conrad, Ed O'Neill, Anthony La Paglia and Benjamin Bratt, directed by James Darren

PROBE - Sylvester Levay
Sci-fi pilot by Isaac Asimov (!) and William Link, for a short lived starring Parker Stevenson as a genius (we told you it was sci-fi)

PROMISED A MIRACLE - Leonard Rosenman
Rosanna Arquette and Judge Reinhold try to cure their diabetic son Giovanni Ribisi using only faith; directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal

QUIET VICTORY: THE CHARLIE WEDEMEYER STORY - Don Davis
Drama by Rain Man author Barry Morrow, with Pam Dawber and Michael Nouri

THE RED SPIDER - Artie Kane
Sequel to One Police Plaza with James Farentino taking the Robert Conrad role, co-starring Jennifer O'Neill and Kevin J. O'Connor

RED RIVER - Kenneth Wannberg
35:53 on the Prometheus CD The Film Music of Ken Wannberg Vol. 2; remake of the Howard Hawks classic, with James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner and Gregory Harrison

THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on RCA; Adventure miniseries with Michael York, Ben Kingsley, Miguel Bose, James Farentino, Andie MacDowell, David Soul, and Mathilda May

SHAKEDOWN ON THE SUNSET STRIP - Lalo Schifrin
1940s cop Perry King battles prostitution

SHOOTDOWN - Craig Safan
Angela Lansbury as the mother of one of the passengers from the KAL plane shot down in 1983

SHOOTER - Paul Chihara
Drama about combat photographers, with Helen Hunt

SIDE BY SIDE - Charles Gross
Comedy with Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas

THE SILENCE AT BETHANY - Lalo Schifrin
PBS drama directed by Joel Oliansky (The Competition)

SOMETHING IS OUT THERE - Sylvester Levay
Cop Joe Cortese battles aliens, with the help of beautiful alien Maryam d'Abo and creature designs by Rick Baker; became a short-lived series

SPLASH, TOO - Joel McNeely
Sequel to the movie, with Todd Waring, Amy Yasbeck and Donovan Scott in the Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah and John Candy roles

STONES FOR IBARRA - Stanley Myers
From the Harriet Doerr novel, with Glenn Close, Keith Carradine and Alfonso Arau

A STONING IN FULHAM COUNTY - Don Davis
An attack on an Amish family leads to a trial; featuring Brad Pitt in an early role

STREET OF DREAMS - Laurence Rosenthal
5:52 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; thriller with Morgan Fairchild and Ben Masters

THE TAKING OF FLIGHT 847: THE ULI DERICKSON STORY - Gil Melle
Lindsay Wagner as a heroic flight attendant on a hijacked flight

THE TENTH MAN - Lee Holdridge
Adaptation of the terrific Graham Greene novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Derek Jacobi

TIDY ENDINGS - Stanley Myers
Harvey Fierstein adapts his play Safe Sex, starring himself and Stockard Channing

TO HEAL A NATION - Laurence Rosenthal
Eric Roberts as Vietnam vet Jan Scruggs, and Tamlyn Tomita as Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam War memorial

THE TRACKER - Sylvester Levay
John Guillermin directs this Western from a Kevin Jarre script, starring Kris Kristofferson and Scott Wilson

UN COUPABLE - Michel Legrand

UNA CASA A ROMA - Riz Ortolani

WEEKEND WAR - Brad Fiedel
Action drama co-written by Gregory Widen (Highlander, Backdraft)

WHERE THE HELL'S THAT GOLD?!!? - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Comedy Western with Willie Nelson, Delta Burke and Jack Elam

A WHISPER KILLS - Charles Bernstein
Erotic thriller with Loni Anderson, Joe Penny and June Lockhart

1987/1988 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Alf Clausen - Moonlighting (Here's Living With You, Kid)
Don Davis - Beauty and the Beast (To Reign in Hell)
Lee Holdridge - Beauty and the Beast (Pilot)
Angela Morley - Dallas (Hunting)
Patrick Williams - The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (Here's Why You Shouldn't Get Too Attached to Your Cat)

MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)

Dick DeBenedictis - Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Ace
Allyn Ferguson - April Morning
Gerald Fried - Napoloeon and Josephine: A Love Story
Johnny Mandel - Foxfire
Laurence Rosenthal - The Bourne Identity

MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

John Corigliano - Great Performances
Lee Holdridge - Beauty and the Beast
Stewart Levin, W.G. Snuffy Walden - thirtysomething
Richard Markowitz - The Law and Harry McGraw

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