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I think I can get "Breakout", so at least I will confirm or not this episode..
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The next box set from La-La Land should be--no kidding--The Gilligan's Island Soundtrack Collection! There's some top-flight scoring in that show! John Williams, Gerald Fried, and I-don't-know-who-else. The swashbuckling "Lord Admiral Gilligan" theme is priceless. Anyone know who wrote it?
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According to FSM volume 3, issue 4, page 40 about Kraft Mystery Theater: The show mostly employed library music, but Williams wrote a title theme and three episode scores in 1963. I have found the 3 episodes that have a credit in the end: Music score Johnny Williams Maybe there are more, and the author in the FSM article, knew only these.. SEASON 3 Episode 4 CATCH FEAR BY THE THROAT aired 07/10/1963 Episode 5 THE FUGITIVE EYE aired 07/17/1963 Episode 10 THE HOUR OF THE BATH aired 08/21/1963 maybe you can update your first post Thor.
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OK, done, thank you. Who wrote the theme for MYSTERY, though? I'm guessing it's not Williams. well, when they say "he wrote a title theme", what do they mean? He didn't write the Mystery theme? edit: oh, now that i saw the TV guide in jwfan too, yes, maybe he wrote the 3rd season theme.. The episodes i saw had a specific theme which played in the opening and end credits of the 3rd season. Other season episodes had something else which definitely didn't sound like Williams. But that 3rd season theme did. Its start reminded me a bit of Diamond Head.
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About Kraft Mystery: Of course we don't know if only those 3 episodes have score by Williams. Maybe the FSM guide has ommissions, as it did with some other series (eg. Alcoa Premiere)
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I'm a bit confused now. I thought KRAFT MYSTERY THEATER only lasted from April-1958 to September-1958 -- a sort of temporary show between KRAFT TELEVISION THEATER and KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER. But now it seems like it's a show that went parallell to KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER, over three whole seasons?!? http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/KraftMysteryTheatre.htm (Another series titled Kraft Mystery Theater aired on NBC from during the Summer of 1958) well, I should spell it THEATRE. THEATER is the spelling for the show you say..
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I'm a bit confused now. I thought KRAFT MYSTERY THEATER only lasted from April-1958 to September-1958 -- a sort of temporary show between KRAFT TELEVISION THEATER and KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER. But now it seems like it's a show that went parallell to KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER, over three whole seasons?!? The IMDB shows Kraft Mystery Theater as running on NBC for the three summers (generally June - September) of 1961 to 1963. But Alex McNeil's book Total Television doesn't even list the series at all. A mystery indeed. McNeil's book shows Kraft Suspense Theatre as running from 10 October 1963 to 9 September 1965 on NBC. The IMDB basically says the same, which would place the Suspense Theatre as beginning shortly after Mystery Theater ended.
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I don't think, it says so in the link i provided.
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well, according to this here too, there is an episode called "Breakout" (season 1, episode 4), but we don't know if it was scored by Williams or not. (I read afterwards the guide that said that he scored only episodes from 1963 [season 3]) http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/KraftMysteryTheatre.htm So, if I got it right, the 3 episodes scored by Williams that are mentioned in FSM guide include "Catch Fear by the Throat" and 2 others, other than the Alcoa premiere repeats? the 3rd season (1963) has 15 episodes. so the john Williams ones are: 3 (incl. "Catch Fear by the throat") + 8 Alcoa premiere repeats (incl. "Fugitive Eye" & "Hour of Bath") =11? (with the possibility of more) (Goldsmith scored the 1st episode so we have 3 more episodes possibly scored by Williams, so as to complete 15: 11 (Williams?) + 1 (Goldsmith) + 3 (?))
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well, according to this here too, there is an episode called "Breakout" (season 1, episode 4), but we don't know if it was scored by Williams or not. (I read afterwards the guide that said that he scored only episodes from 1963 [season 3]) http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/KraftMysteryTheatre.htm As I mentioned above, "Breakout" didn't air during the third season, which was the one season Williams worked on. And, as mentioned in the episode guide at the link you provided, the 1961 episodes were edited down from UK theatrical features, so they (including BREAKOUT, which was released in the UK in March 1959) weren't scored by Williams.
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Ok, thanks, I understood that.. What about the numbers I've given above? We have 11 (out of 15) confirmed Williams scored episodes then? (including the Alcoa repeats)
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What about the numbers I've given above? We have 11 (out of 15) confirmed Williams scored episodes then? (including the Alcoa repeats) There were six original episodes of KRAFT MYSTERY THEATRE in 1963. Jerry Goldsmith scored "Shadow of a Man" and Williams scored "Catch Fear by the Throat." I'm fairly confident Williams scored two other episodes, but haven't personally verified this. The final two I don't know about: Williams could have scored them, they could have been scored by other composers, or they could have been tracked. Of the nine ALCOA PREMIERE repeats, eight have scores by Williams (but it's not fair to count these as KRAFT MYSTERY scores) and the ninth has a score by Pete Rugolo and Morton Stevens.
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Of the nine ALCOA PREMIERE repeats, eight have scores by Williams (but it's not fair to count these as KRAFT MYSTERY scores) and the ninth has a score by Pete Rugolo and Morton Stevens. If I may ask, can you tell us please which episode is this? By the way, in the above link, I counted 8 episodes of 1963 that say that they were original premiered in Alcoa Premiere.. (5-10, 12, 14) I guess they missed one..
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