WEEKLY SCORES, PART TWO
A Discography Of Score Music From Episodic Television
By Scott Bettencourt
DAKTARI (1966-1969)
DAKTARI (CD - Atlantic Masters)
12 themes from the series composed and conducted by Shelly Manne,
and arranged by Richard Hazard
DALLAS (1978-1991)
DALLAS (LP - Kneptune)
John Parker conducts and arranges 10 of his themes from the
series, plus the main title theme by Jerrold Immel. Unfortunately,
the pop arrangements and the 14-piece "orchestra" mean this album is not
recommended for film music fans.
1979/1980 Emmy nominee, Music Composition - Series (Dramatic Underscore):
Bruce Broughton (The Lost Child)
1981/1982 Emmy nominee, Music Composition - Series (Dramatic Underscore):
Bruce Broughton (The Search)
1982/1983 Emmy winner, Music Composition - Series (Dramatic Underscore):
Bruce Broughton (The Ewing Blues)
1983/1984 Emmy winner, Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore):
Bruce Broughton (The Letter)
1986/1987 Emmy nominee, Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic
Underscore): Angela Morley (A Death In The Family)
1987/1988 Emmy nominee, Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic
Underscore): Angela Morley (Hunting)
DARK SHADOWS (1966-1971)
DARK SHADOWS, VOLUME 1 (CD - MPI)
16 themes from the series by Robert Cobert, featuring narration
by Jonathan Frid and David Selby
DARK SHADOWS, VOLUME 2 (CD - MPI)
25 themes from the series by Robert Cobert
DARK SHADOWS, VOLUME 3 (CD - MPI)
26 themes from the series by Robert Cobert
DARK SHADOWS, VOLUME 4 (CD - MPI)
28 themes from the series by Robert Cobert
DARK SHADOWS: THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (CD - Varese Sarabande)
22 themes from the series by Robert Cobert
DARK SHADOWS (1991)
THE NIGHT STALKER AND OTHER CLASSIC THRILLERS (CD - Varese Sarabande)
Features a suite of music (8:43) from the series' short-lived revival
(featuring Ben Cross, Joanna Going, Jim Fyfe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
by Robert Cobert
DAYS OF OUR LIVES (1965-present)
DAYS OF OUR LIVES (CD - RoughRider)
Features 28 themes from the series by Ken Corday and D. Brent
Nelson
DOCTOR WHO (1963-1989)
DOCTOR WHO (CD - composer promo)
Not technically an episode score from the series, but the pilot movie
for an aborted continuation of the series with Paul McGann as The Doctor
and Eric Roberts as his nemesis, The Master; music by John Debney,
John Sponsler and Louis Febre
DOCTOR WHO: THE CURSE OF FENRIC (CD - Silva)
Score for the series The Curse of Fenric by Mark Ayres
DOCTOR WHO: EARTHSHOCK (CD - Silva)
Features themes from several series including Malcolm Clarke's
music for Earthshock and The Sea Devils; Delia
Derbyshire's music for Inferno; Peter Howell's
music for Kinda, The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Snakedance and
Warrior's Gate; Roger Limb's music for Four
to Doomdsay and The Keeper of Traken; and Dudley
Simpon's music for The Mind of Evil
DOCTOR WHO: THE FIVE DOCTORS (CD - Silva)
Features themes from several series including Malcolm Clarke's
music for Enlightenment and Resurrection of the Daleks;
Jonathan Gibbs' music for The King's Demons and Warriors
of the Deep; Peter Howell's music for The Awakening,
The Five Doctors and Planet of Fire; and Roger
Limb's music for The Caves of Androzani
DOCTOR WHO: GHOST LIGHT (CD - Silva)
Score for the series Ghost Light by Mark Ayres
DOCTOR WHO: THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY (CD - Silva)
Score for the series The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
by Mark Ayres
DR. WHO: MUSIC FROM THE TENTH PLANET (CD - Ochre)
Library cues used in the score for The Tenth Planet,
composed by Dennis Farnon, Robert Farnon, Douglas Gamley, Roger Roger,
Martin Slavin, and Walter Stott (aka Angela Morley)
DOCTOR WHO: PYRAMIDS OF MARS (CD - Silva)
Features suites of Dudley Simpson's scores for the series The
Ark in Space, The Brain of Morbius, Genesis of the Daleks, Planet of Evil
and Pyramids of Mars
DOCTOR WHO: TERROR OF THE ZYGONS (CD - BBC)
Features the scores to the series The Seeds of Doom and
Terror of the Zygons by Geoffrey Burgon
DOCTOR WHO, VOLUME 1: THE EARLY YEARS (CD - BBC)
Features cues from Brian Hodgson's scores to the episodes The
Dominators, Fury from the Deep, The Invasion, The Krotons, The Macra Terror,
and The Wheel in Space
THE DOCTOR WHO 25th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM (CD - BBC)
Features themes from the series Delta and the Bannermen, Paradise
Towers, Remembrance of the Daleks, and Time and the Rani
by Keff McCulloch
DYNASTY (1981-1989)
THE FILM & TELEVISION MUSIC OF ANGELA MORLEY (CD - Vocalion)
Features "Blues For Alexis" by Angela Morley
1984/1985 Emmy nominee, Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic
Underscore): Angela Morley (Triangles)
1985/1986 Emmy nominee, Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic
Underscore): Angela Morley (The Subpoenas)
EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT (1997-2001)
GENE RODDENBERRY'S EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT (CD - Sonic Images)
Features 25 themes from the series by Micky Erbe and Marybeth
Solomon
1997/1998 Emmy nominee, Outstanding Main Title Theme Music: Micky
Erbe, Maribeth Solomon
ENTERPRISE (2001-2005)
ENTERPRISE (CD - Decca)
Score to the premiere episode Broken Bow by Dennis
McCarthy
2002/2003 Emmy nominee: Outstanding Music Composition For A Series
(Dramatic Underscore): Dennis McCarthy (The Expanse)
2003/2004 Emmy nominee, Outstanding Music Composition For A Series
(Dramatic Underscore): Velton Ray Bunch (Similitude)
ER (1994-present)
ER (CD - Atlantic)
Features cues from Martin Davich's scores to the episodes The
Birthday Party, Everything Old Is New Again, Fever of Unknown Origin, The
Gift, The Healers, Hell and High Water, Love's Labor Lost, and
Make of Two Hearts, plus James Newton Howard's theme
for the series
1994/1995 Emmy nominee, Outstanding Individual Achievement In Main
Title Theme Music: James Newton Howard
FANTASY ISLAND (1998-1999)
THE CABLE GUY/FANTASY ISLAND (CD - composer promo)
Features John Ottman's score to the pilot
1998/1999 Emmy nominee, Outstanding Music Composition For A Series:
John Ottman (Pilot)
FARSCAPE (1999-2003)
FARSCAPE (CD - GNP/Crescendo)
Features cues from SubVision (Chris Neal, Braedy Neal, Toby
Neal)'s scores for the episodes Back and Back and Back to the
Future, DNA Mad Scientist, Family Ties, Farscape, Jeremiah Crichton, PK
Tech Girl, Rhapsody in Blue, Thank God It's Friday Again, and That
Old Black Magic, and Guy Gross' scores to the episodes Beware
of Dog, Home on the Remains, Look at the Princess Part II: I Do I Think,
Look at the Princess Part III: The Maltese Crichton, My Three Crichtons,
and The Way We Weren't
FARSCAPE CLASSICS: VOLUME ONE (CD - La-La Land)
Features the scores to the episodes Eat Me and Revenging
Angel by Guy Gross
FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS (CD - La-La Land)
Score to the miniseries spinoff by Guy Gross
FIREBALL X-L5 (1962-1963)
SUPERCAR & FIREBALL X-L5 (CD-Fanderson)
Features 23 themes from the series by Barry Gray
THE FLINSTSTONES (1960-1966)
HANNA-BARBERA'S PIC-A-NIC BASKET OF CARTOON CLASSICS (CD - Kid Rhino)
Volume Two of this four-disc set, More Hanna-Barbera Classics,
features a suite of underscore from the series, by Hoyt Curtin
FOREVER KNIGHT (1992-1996)
FOREVER KNIGHT (CD - GNP/Crescendo)
Features themes and suites from the episodes Amateur Night, Avenging
Angel, Baby Baby, Be My Valentine, Cherry Blossoms, Curiouser and Curiouser,
Dark Knight, Father Figure, Forward Into the Past, The Hunted, A More Permanent
Hell, Queen of Hearts, and Undue Process, by Fred
Mollin
FOREVER KNIGHT: MORE MUSIC FROM THE ORIGINAL TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK
(CD - GNP/Crescendo)
Features themes and suites from the episodes Ashes to Ashes,
Black Buddha, Blackwing, Faithful Followers, The Fever, Games Vampires
Play, The Human Factor, The Hunter, Knight in Question, Last Knight, Let
No Man Tear Asunder, Love You to Death, and Stranger Than
Fiction, by Fred Mollin
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1987-1990)
FRIDAY THE 13TH (CD - GNP/Crescendo)
Features suites and themes from the episodes Badge of Honor,
Baron's Bride, Bottle of Dreams, Brain Drain, The Electrocutioner, Eye
of Death, The Inheritance, The Playhouse, Symphony in B Sharp, Tails I
Live Heads You Die, Wax Magic, Wedding in Black, and What
a Mother Wouldn't Do, by Fred Mollin
THE FUGITIVE (1963-1967)
THE FUGITIVE (CD - Silva)
Features 24 themes composed for the series by Pete Rugolo
GALACTICA 1980 (1980)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE STU PHILIPS ANTHOLOGY (CD - composer promo)
Features the main theme and prologue music from Galactica Reaches
Earth, by Stu Phillips
GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER (1953-1962)
THEMES FROM THE GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER (LP - Columbia)
Features 13 themes from the series by Elmer Bernstein
THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1966-1967)
THE
MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. VOLUME 3 FEATURING THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (CD
- Film Score Monthly)
Two-disc set features suites from Dave Grusin's scores to the
episodes The Dog-Gone Affair, The Mata Hari Affair, and The
Mother Muffin Affair; Richard Shores' scores for The
Montori Device Affair and The Prisoner of Zalamar Affair;
and Jack Marshall's score for The Horns-of-the-Dilemma Affair
THE GREEN HORNET (1966-1967)
THE GREEN HORNET (CD - Max)
Features 13 themes from the series by Billy May
GUNSMOKE (1955-1975)
BERNARD HERRMANN: THE CBS YEARS; VOL 1: THE WESTERNS (CD - Prometheus)
Features a suite from Bernard Herrmann's score to The
Tall Trapper
MUSIC FROM CBS WESTERNS (CD - Film Music Society)
Features suites from the episode Harriet, by Bernard
Herrmann; The Raid, by Franz Waxman; and Stolen
Horses, by Jerome Moross
1965/1966 Emmy nominee, Individual Achievements In Music - Composition:
Morton Stevens (Seven Hours To Dawn)
1967/1968 Emmy nominee, Musical Composition: Morton Stevens (Major
Glory)
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