Maybe they have mixed this series with Alcoa premiere and again it's a mistake.
Yes, that seems fairly obvious. He obviously didn't do an episode in 1957, for example, before he even got a TV contract. Someone is confusing these with the later ALCOA PREMIERE.
Maybe they have mixed this series with Alcoa premiere and again it's a mistake.
Yes, that seems fairly obvious. He obviously didn't do an episode in 1957, for example, before he even got a TV contract. Someone is confusing these with the later ALCOA PREMIERE.
Curious though about those other 2 (non Alcoa related in the name) imdb entries.
Curious though about those other 2 (non Alcoa related in the name) imdb entries.
Well, there seems to be a connection between two of them: "Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre."
As for that ONE STEP BEYOND thing, I have no idea what that is or how Williams' name got involved. Surely, if he had written a theme for this, we would have known about it by now. Also, if he had written a theme, he would also have written some episode scores. Since it is not credited in the episode, and since the theme we hear doesn't really sound anything like Williams, I suggest just letting that one go.
A lot of these compilation shows were made up of failed pilots for potential series. Some of these had their own theme music/closing credits music that was replaced when gobbled up, so hypotheticallyWilliams could have done a theme that got replaced by the _______ Theatre series theme
The eisode begins around two minutes in and features some good scoring. I haven't checked anything other than that yet. When I saw the compsoer missing from IMDb, I immediately went to the end credits to find it so I could submit the addition to IMDb.
The eisode begins around two minutes in and features some good scoring. I haven't checked anything other than that yet. When I saw the compsoer missing from IMDb, I immediately went to the end credits to find it so I could submit the addition to IMDb.
Williams scored all of the ALCOA episodes (the one and only time he did this in his career), and the episode you mention is listed in the ALCOA thread (whose link is in the first post of this thread):
Good to see that it's out on Youtube. I got this from a private source awhile back. Williams returned to WAGON TRAIN as a freelancer, to do one episode in season 7 and one in 8. He must have had a good time when he did those 4 second season episodes under contract several years earlier.
It was the only one which was longer and orchestral, and also has a long melody with those large leaps in melody which is a Williams characteristic.
Could be, but it sounds a bit skimpy in the orchestration. Plus, as you know, KCET has found no evidence of Williams' involvement in their research on this issue.
Thor, have you got the book on Williams edited by Audissino? On page 44 in an article it has a list of some television work of the composer taken from imdb on Februrary 2018. It lists a "Goodyear Theatre" episode from 1960 (it's still there at the composer's imdb credits) and a "one step beyond" episode from 1961. (this is not there now)
Can we find anything more about these?
It also says in the article that he wrote episodic music for The Carol Burnett Show, 1968.
