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Jan 25, 2015 - 1:30 PM
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leslie
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To dispel any confusion and vagueness surrounding his work on Wagon Train, Moross did in fact score seven episodes.
In Season 2, he scored a single episode, The Jasper Cato Story ( this is the episode loosely inspired by Les Miserables, with Brian Donlevy as the relentless Javert figure ).
In Season 3, his Wagon Train theme now opened and closed each episode and appeared sparingly in the six scores he provided; each of the six carries the credit, Wagon Train Theme and Score by Jerome Moross. The most ' western ' sounding of all the scores is the opening episode in Season 3, The Stagecoach Story, while the most 'Broadway' of these scores is the one he provided for a Bette Davis segment.
Although John Burlingame credits Moross with only six episodes, this may be due to the fact that the final two scores he composed in Season 3 form one 2-part story which, incidentally, is scored sparsely with minimal orchestration consisting largely of a sole cello rendering of the series theme.
Moross admirers might also like to know that the original telefilm pilot of Lancer, fully scored by Moross is currently available on YouTube, although only in black and white and with less than satisfactory sound and visual quality. ( This pilot was of course edited down for the opening episode of the series, mainly scored by Friedhofer, but with a little of the pilot score intact.)
It's also worth noting that the sigle Have gun will Travel segment scored by Moross is also on YouTube
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IMDb lists nine episodes ofr "Wagon Train"
By the way, one episode of "Gunsmoke" as well ("Stolen Horses"). Some or all of the score was released on CD. One of the rare handful of episode scores that got released. IT was also tracked into an episode of "Rawhide".
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Credited?
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I see now Alex North also did some for it, too.
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Apparently North also worked on a musical with Moross (and somebody else) man years earlier. Chances are they knew each other and maybe he helped out on the pilot.
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Late last year MV said:
We do have a couple of great classic tv shows we are currently working on.
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When I think classic TV shows, I think "Magnum, pi", "M*A*S*H", "The Twilight zone", "Star Trek", "Knight Rider", not "Rat Patrol" and "Planet of the Apes". PotA TV classic?
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I think for MV 'classic' referred to era, not quality or popularity of the show.
I'd certainly buy Mission: Impossible or Andy Griffith Show volumes, personally...or speaking of the great Earle Hagen, I'd be all over more (and bigger) I Spy releases, as like with Andy Griffith every episode had a complete original score! But maybe more I Spy would suffer from all the Sad Bill Cosby news lately?
Yavar
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